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For all the noise they make extolling small town America and Main Street as the epitome of American values and the touchstone of morality, conservatism's world view is much closer to that voiced by Phil Gramm, who once called Wall Street a "holy place" — because of all it has "done for the working people of America." Little more than two years after Gramm uttered those words it seems righteousness of a deregulated financial sector comes not what it has allegedly done "for" working Americans, but what it has done to them.
That is, if you're a conservative — because, then, we are not in the middle of a crisis, but rather a correction.
Crisis v. Correction
Gramm's statement, let alone his reverence for Wall Street, is even more perplexing now than when he said it two years ago, when read with the the understanding that (as Robert Reich most recently pointed out) Wall Street bears some responsibility for both the crisis itself and it's severity. (Yes, there's plenty of blame to go around. But let's not pretend that everyone deserves an equal share.) Take into consideration that millions of Americans have suffered disastrous consequences, caught in a crisis they're not powerful enough to stop, let alone start, and Gramm's veneration of Wall Street seems downright crazy (and more than a little creepy).
It is, however, completely consistent with conservative's response to a disaster of a different sort, and the people who suffered in its wake.
Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, heaping devastation upon New Orleans, and leaving a trail of destruction from Florida to Texas. Nearly as devastating as the storm itself was what happened to those left in New Orleans, unable to get themselves out the way of the storm and its aftermath.
After Katrina's deluge came the rhetorical deluge from the right, as conservatives responded with as much anger and outrage as many others witnessing the footage and hearing the stories from post-hurricane New Orleans. But their comments made it clear that where most people were concerned with the failure of the government to step in and help people who were unable to escape the storm and its aftermath, conservatives seemed to reserve their anger and outrage for Katrina victims.
Barbara Bush's nervous discomfort with the possibility that Katrina refugees might stay in Houston — where she lived, and Tom DeLay's bizarre "Isn't this fun?" question to a group of boys living in a shelter after the hurricane, gave way to remarks like those of Rep. Richard Baker, who declared, "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did." Yet, even Baker's comment seems benign compared to; Glenn Beck calling Katrina victims "scum," as he declared his hatred for them and the families of 9/11 victims; Republican strategist Jack Burkman dismissing Katrina deaths with the familiar conservative refrain, "These things happen"; Newt Gingrich blaming "uneducated and unprepared" Katrina victims for not being able to get themselves out of the way of the hurricane; and then Sen. Rick Santorum going Gingrich one better, and suggesting a "a need to look at tougher penalties on those who decide to ride it out and understand that there are consequences to not leaving."
But, as one of many bloggers posting about Katrina at the time, conservative pundits Bill O'Reilly and George Will offered a clear conservative frame of Katrina and the events that followed.
Let's take a look at two such conservatives who at least came close to saying something like the above in public recently.
There was Bill O'Reilly, for whom disaster and human tragedy is also a "teachable moment."
American middle and high school students everywhere should be required to watch video tape of the poor people stranded by Hurricane Katrina. Teachers should point out that many U.S. citizens without the financial means to get out of New Orleans wound up floating face down in the water or, at the very least, were subject to gross indignities and suffering of all kinds.
The teachers should then tell the students that the local, state and federal government bureaucracies failed to protect those poor people, even though everybody knew the storm was coming days in advance. The lesson should then segue into how the most powerful nation in the world was powerless to stop 9/11, and scores of other natural and man made disasters throughout our history.
After presenting those undeniable facts, the teachers should then present two questions to the students: Do you want to be poor? And do you believe the U.S. government can protect you if you are poor?
…Then there's George Will, who thinks that Barak Obama — who described Bush adminsitration officials as unable concieve of people who couldn't (as O'Reilly says a professor pal of his did) hop in the SUV and head for higher ground — missed the point.
America's always fast-flowing river of race-obsessing has overflowed its banks, and last Sunday on ABC's "This Week," Sen. Barack Obama, Illinois's freshman Democrat, applied to the expression of old banalities a fluency that would be beguiling were it without content. Unfortunately, it included the requisite lament about the president's inadequate "empathy" and an amazing criticism of the government's "historic indifference" and its "passive indifference" that "is as bad as active malice." The senator, 44, is just 30 months older than the "war on poverty" that President Johnson declared in January 1964. Since then the indifference that is as bad as active malice has been expressed in more than $6.6 trillion of anti-poverty spending, strictly defined.
The senator is called a "new kind of Democrat," which often means one with new ways of ignoring evidence discordant with old liberal orthodoxies about using cash — much of it spent through liberalism's "caring professions" — to cope with cultural collapse. He might, however, care to note three not-at-all recondite rules for avoiding poverty: Graduate from high school, don't have a baby until you are married, don't marry while you are a teenager. Among people who obey those rules, poverty is minimal.
Many of us felt anger and frustration over the seemingly endless reports and horrific stories coming out of New Orleans, because on some level we shared a basic value similar to the one expressed by an anti-poverty activist in the previous post in this series.
Other anti-poverty experts say the record caseloads are a necessary response to economic hardship. "We should be there to support people when the economy can't," says LaDonna Pavetti of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-leaning think tank.
Our anger and frustration was a result of the obvious failure of government to come to the aid of those without the resources to get themselves and their families out of harm's way.
The anger and frustration of conservatives was effectively summed up by conservative commentator Neal Boortz, just a couple of years after Katrina:
BOORTZ: I like this: "Edwards' campaign will end the way it began 13 months ago, with the candidate pitching in to rebuild lives in a city still ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. Edwards embraced New Orleans as a glaring symbol of what he described as a Washington that didn't hear the cries of the downtrodden." Cries of the downtrodden, my left butt cheek. That wasn't the cries of the downtrodden; that's the cries of the useless, the worthless. New Orleans was a welfare city, a city of parasites, a city of people who could not and had no desire to fend for themselves. You have a hurricane descending on them and they sit on their fat asses and wait for somebody else to come rescue them. "It's somebody else's job to get me out of here. It's somebody else's job to save my life. Not mine. Send me a bus, send me a limo, send me a boat, send me a helicopter, send me a taxi, send me something. But you certainly don't expect me to actually work to get myself out of this situation, do you? Haven't you been watching me for generations? I've never done anything to improve my own lot in life. I've never done anything to rescue myself. Why do you expect me to do that now, just because a levee broke?"
And then Edwards said, yeah, it was Washington's problem, it was all Washington's problem, it was all George Bush's fault. You had a city of parasites and leeches, and that's George Bush's fault? So, boy, I need to slow down. I'm saying too many of the things I actually believe today.
What Baker, Gingrich and Santorum implied, and what O'Reilly and Will suggested, Boortz said very explicitly: it's not that the government can't help people, especially the poor, who can't get themselves or their families out of harms way; it's that the government shouldn't help them. Their poverty itself marks them as undeserving of help.
In fact, the government must not help, because it would be helping the wrong people. By stepping into a what many of us see as a crisis, government effectively gets in the way of the what conservatives see as a much needed correction.
Moral Hazard
O'Reilly, Will and Boortz aside, I can' t think of anyone who has distilled the conservative world view than George Lackoff, author of Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think. Lakoff's take rings true for conservatives on the current economic crisis.
Competition is necessary for a moral world; without it, people would not have to develop discipline and so would not become moral beings. Worldly success is an indicator of sufficient moral strength; lack of success suggests lack of sufficient discipline. Dependency is immoral. The undisciplined will be weak and poor, and deservedly so.
Strict Father Morality demonstrates a natural Moral Order: Those who are moral should be in power. The Moral Order legitimizes traditional power relations as being natural, determining a hierarchy of Moral Authority: God above Man; Man above Nature; Adults above Children; Western Culture above Non-western Culture; America above other nations. (There are other traditional aspects of the Moral Order that are less accepted than they used to be: Straights above Gays; Christians above non-Christians; Men above Women; White above Non-whites.)
Since to participate in the promotion or preservation of immorality is itself immoral, it is a moral requirement to eradicate immorality—through "tough love" if possible but through punishment if necessary—in every aspect of life, both public and private, domestic and foreign.
In other words, it is not only better to let the poor drown in the stagnant waters left in Katrina's wake, but it is right. After all, they're poverty is solely their own fault. Not only should the government not help them, but as Boortz suggests, individuals have no particular obligation to do so either. If they were better people they would be better off, and better able to pile the family into the SUV with a few cases of bottled water, and head for higher ground. What's happening to them is no more than what they deserve.
It's not a stretch to compare conservative rhetoric around Katrina to the current recession, which has all the makings of an economic Katrina, as Dean Baker described in a column last month:
The middle class is getting whacked by the Great Recession. Fifteen million people are out of work, another 9 million workers can only find part-time jobs, and millions more have given up looking for work altogether. Those lucky enough to be employed are unlikely to see any substantial wage gains for years to come.
Millions of homeowners are facing the loss of their home and more than 10 million are underwater in their mortgage. Most of the huge baby boom cohort is approaching retirement with little other than Social Security to support them, now that the collapse of the housing bubble has destroyed their home equity and much of the rest of their savings.
Like those left behind in Katrina's wake, millions of unemployed and under-employed Americans have been essentially abandoned in the middle of an economic disaster, figuratively standing on the roof tops (of homes with underwater mortgages), waiting for help to arrive — three years into the crisis.
And, as with Katrina, conservatives in Congress and the media reserve the bulk their anger for those Americans suffering the most in this crisis.
When conservatives, after months of blocking unemployment benefits for millions of Americans, started talking about extending tax cuts for the wealthy it seemed counterintuitive. But in the conservative world view it made perfect sense.
Just as it was "a tragedy of the first proportion" for the government to hold BP responsible for the consequences of it's oil leak, spending tax dollars to extend unemployment benefits is "punishing" the wrong people. At least according to Rand Paul, taxes are a "punishment" rather than paying ones fare share for the public infrastructure that we all use, but that the wealthy use to varying degrees to increase their wealth.
Listen carefully to the what conservatives — media spokespersons, office holders and office seekers — have been saying about Americans caught in the unemployment crisis: that helping them with unemployment benefits will make them not want to get jobs; that people are unemployed because they want to be; that they're choosing not to work; that there are jobs available, but the unemployed are too lazy and too busy using drugs to bother applying for the jobs that are out there just waiting for them; that they should just go work at McDonald's; and so on.
It hardly matters that unemployed workers outnumber lob openings, or that unemployment benefits don't discourage job hunting, because the benefits are nowhere near enough to replace a paycheck. And it hardly matters that millions of Americans are struggling to survive on unemployment benefits, living day-to-day, not knowing how they'll survive when benefits run out again.
It makes perfect sense to cut taxes for the wealthy while cutting benefits for the unemployed, as well as the government programs that serve those in the most need, and it's easy to do so without thinking of the consequences those already in desperate need. It just depends on the context in which you view all the realities above.
It should come as no surprise that candidates like Sharron Angle — who opposed extending unemployment benefits and also opposed Katrina relief funds — have become the rising stars of contemporary conservatism. Three years later, Neal Boortz suggestion that he'd said too much seems almost coy. There are, however, a still a few limits. As far as I know, conservatives have not yet embraced NY Gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino's idea to use prisons as dorms for welfare recipients.
Republican candidate for governor Carl Paladino said he would transform some New York prisons into dormitories for welfare recipients, where they could work in state-sponsored jobs, get employment training and take lessons in "personal hygiene."
Paladino, a wealthy Buffalo real estate developer popular with many tea party activists, isn't saying the state should jail poor people: The program would be voluntary.
…Asked at the meeting how he would achieve those savings, Paladino laid out several plans that included converting underused state prisons into centers that would house welfare recipients. There, they would do work for the state — "military service, in some cases park service, in other cases public works service," he said — while prison guards would be retrained to work as counselors.
"Instead of handing out the welfare checks, we'll teach people how to earn their check. We'll teach them personal hygiene … the personal things they don't get when they come from dysfunctional homes," Paladino said.
Paladino's idea would effectively bring the workhouse of the Victorian era into the 21st Century.
As counterintuitive as it seems, just like those Americans who needed help during Katrina and its aftermath, Americans who are in need of help in this economy (help getting back to work, help keeping their homes, help putting food on the table, etc.) are undeserving of help precisely because they need it. If they lack sufficient resources to whether this particular storm, it's because they are "lazy," drug addicted," or just choosing not to work. If they were better people, they'd be better off right now.
Just as mortgage relief that might have kept people in their homes was opposed because it might have helped the "wrong" people, and health care reform was vehemently opposed because it might help the "wrong" people, so have any efforts to alleviate the suffering of millions of unemployed Americans — let alone serious investment in job creation — run into intent opposition from conservative.
It all boils down to the supposed danger of "moral hazard," and the belief that people in need of help might not change their ways if they don't suffer enough for their moral failings — failings which are indicated by their need for help in the first place.
Hazardous Morals
Conservative opposition to keeping people in their homes, expanding access to health care for the uninsured, helping the unemployed, and investing in job creation are at least party based on the belief that it's a "moral hazard" to help the "wrong" people. But in each conflict over the above in the last two years, the line between the "right" people and the "wrong" people seem arbitrarily drawn. It's not a straight line either, but one that winds its way around the familiar territories and battlegrounds of race, gender, class, and a few others. An example of this are the unemployed tea baggers who receive social security and Medicare benefits even as they rage against health care reform, unemployment benefits.
It clear that the "right" people vs. the "wrong" people is simply the same an "us" vs. "them" dichotomy that has run like a motif through this country's history. Most recently it's raised its head in the form of the controversy over the proposed Park51 Islamic cultural center at "Ground Zero."
In his response to the Park 51 controversy, President Obama again gave voice to the opposing progressive value: that Americans are all on the same side; that there is no "us" v. "them," but just "us."
President Obama closed his longest-ever press conference Friday by saying that Muslims who are fighting for America should understand that all Americans are on the same side.
"I've got Muslims who are fighting in Afghanistan in the uniform of the United States armed services," he said. "They're out there putting their lives on the line for us, and we've got to make sure that we are crystal clear, for our sakes and their sakes, they are Americans, and we honor their service."
"And part of honoring their service is making sure that they understand that we don't differentiate between them and us," he added. "It's just us."
That leads to the third and final of the questions that launched this series of posts: What do we mean by "We"?


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See Kan. Stat. Ann. § 59-2203. (West, Westlaw through 2005 Reg. Sess.).
As a representative payee, you should be sending the conserved funds of a deceased beneficiary to the probate division of the district court of which the deceased individual was a resident.
If the deceased individual was not a resident of any county in Kansas, then the conserved funds should be sent to the district court in which the deceased left property subject to administration. The Kansas State Court system has a website which lists the district courts and the counties which they serve.
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§ 59-2204. Commencement of proceeding.
A probate proceeding may be commenced in the district court by filing a petition and causing it to be set for hearing. When a petition is filed, the court shall fix the time and place for the hearing on it. When a petition is filed for the appointment of a personal representative, the court may appoint the proposed personal representative or some other suitable person, with or without bond, to conserve the estate until a hearing is had and a personal representative is appointed.
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POMONA >> Gloria Mata is one dedicated L.A. County Fairgoer.
The La Puente resident hopped on a bus at 5:30 a.m. to make sure she was the first person in line when the gates opened at 3 p.m. Friday.
"I was always an early riser," Mata, 59 said. "My father taught us to be on time, especially to places that are far away."
The hot weather didn't stop hundreds from attending the first day of the 91st annual Fair at Fairplex.
Among the fun on the 487-acre Fairplex lot are 72 rides, 211 vendors to serve up feasts as well as 15 food trucks and more than 400 food and beverage items.
Jacob Merjil of Covina braved the weather just so he could get into the Fair for a buck.
Admission to the Fairplex was only $1 for the first three hours on Friday.
"You can't beat it," said the 17-year-old. "It's better than paying full price."
General admission for adults during the week is $12, and on the weekend it's $19.
Mata, who had her dollar rolled up in her hand, said the first-day deal is "fantastic."
"The price is right and in this economy you have to save a little," she said.
The buck doesn't stop there — admission for only $1 continues from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. today, Sunday and Monday.
Beside rides and food, the shopping areas feature more than 600 vendors.
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"It gets us out here meeting new people from different areas," Hernandez said.
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Fullback Michael Robinson is back with the Seattle Seahawks after suffering a health scare in August that twice forced him to be admitted to the hospital.
Robinson was released by the Seahawks during final cuts at the end of August. The team re-signed him to their roster on Tuesday and placed rookie running back Spencer Ware on injured reserve.
Robinson played in the first two preseason games for Seattle before becoming sick. At first, Robinson just thought he was coming down with the flu. However, his condition continued to get worse and the doctors initially didn't know what was wrong.
Robinson had been taking a prescription anti-inflammatory medication, Indocin, and began to feel like he was coming down with something the morning of their second preseason game against the Denver Broncos. Robinson said he believes a combination of the medication, being dehydrated and actually getting sick led to "a perfect storm" of scenarios to cause real problems.
Robinson said his liver and kidneys nearly failed and he had to spend several days in the hospital. Robinson lost over 30 pounds in the process, dropping from his playing weight of 245 pounds all the way down to 212 pounds.
"I didn't realize how bad it was until I was able to look back and reflect on it," Robinson said.
Robinson said it took a couple of weeks for him to feel back to normal again and an additional few weeks for him to re-gain the weight lost during the illness. Robinson was set to make $2.5 million this year and Seattle couldn't keep that contract on their roster with Robinson unlikely to be in shape to play for several weeks following the illness.
Robinson said he had visits with the Tennessee Titans and New York Giants in the past few weeks. He said conversations were serious with the Titans before the injury to Jake Locker forced Tennessee to alter their roster in other ways.
Derrick Coleman, Robinson's replacement, suffered a hamstring injury last Thursday night against the Arizona Cardinals that head coach Pete Carroll said is expected to keep him out 4-6 weeks. The loss of Coleman prompted Seattle to reach out to Robinson once again.
"I understood that I had two preseason games. I knew they drafted a guy. I knew they were high on Derrick and I knew that I needed to be on the field to keep my job," Robinson said.
"I knew there was a big chance that I would be let go. I was just hoping and praying for an opportunity to be able to come back and go to work."
Healthy once again, Robinson is back leading the way for Marshawn Lynch. Carroll said they're counting on Robinson being ready to play Monday night against the St. Louis Rams.


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Column: Radicals, Fervor and Isms
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has indicated that he and his brother, , acted alone and that they are not affiliated with any terrorist groups. He also told authorities that his brother masterminded the attacks, that they learned how to make bombs on the internet, and that they were motivated by religious fervor. The war on terrorism will never be the same, and that is a good thing.
First, let's get our isms straight. People with precious little understanding of the geography and history of the Caucasus region have been speculating in the comments sections on news sites that the suspected bombers Russian homeland means that they were communists.
The Tsarnaev family is from Chechnya, one of the Muslim areas in Russia that wanted its independence after the Soviet Union crumbled. Chechens were never satisfied with the Soviet Union, specifically because communist teachings sought an end to religion. Chechnya tried to break away in the confusion of the Soviet collapse, but underestimated the Russian resolve to hold onto as much of Caucasus region as possible due to its economic value.
During the conflict in the nineties, the Tsarnaev family fled Chechnya and floated between other Muslim countries in the Caucasus and other Muslim provinces in Russia. Make no mistake, the Tsarnaevs may speak Russian, but they not ethnically Russian. There are some holdover communists in Russia today, but they are senior citizens who thought the pension plans were a lot better under the old system. Being young, Chechen Muslims that chose to seek asylum in the United States, you can take it to the bank that Communism had nothing to do with the suspected bombers motives.
The ism that matters here is Islamic radicalism. Of course, it could turn out to be the case that Dzhokhar is lying and that they weren't acting alone, but if he is telling the truth, we are not going to be able to effectively prosecute the war on terrorism by focusing specifically on groups like the Taliban and Al-Qaida any longer.
Any radical, be they Christian, Muslim or anarchist, can find detailed information on how to build bombs on the internet. There was probably some local significance in the suspected bombers' choice of targeting the marathon on Patriots day, but that kind of attack could have had the same devastating effect on any crowd, anywhere, on any day.
It seems that Tamerlan became much more fervent in his Islamic views in 2010 in part because of his feelings of general alienation and persecution of Muslims in the US. There is no effective way of preventing every angry young man from becoming radicalized and finding an excuse in whatever their belief system may be that they think justifies killing innocents to make a point. We can't stop radicalism from happening.
What can be done is what was done in the aftermath of Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995. Just as the amount of potentially explosive fertilizer someone can buy is now regulated, purchasing the necessary bomb making ingredients as listed on various internet sites can be controlled and put in a database for law enforcement.
If pharmacies need to see your id in order for you to purchase over the counter allergy medications, there is no good reason why you shouldn't have to do the same when buying large amounts of ball bearings, BBs, and gunpowder. After all, who really needs more than one pressure cooker? Or the arsenal of guns and ammo that the brothers amassed, for that matter?
It is remarkable that for the last dozen years politicians who profess to be so concerned about terrorism have been so focused on Islamic radicalism abroad that they forgot about the homegrown Christian terrorists like McVeigh and the abortion clinic bombers.
If in the words of the Tsarnaevs' uncle any "loser" can be radicalized and become a terrorist, then ending terrorism needs to become more than just a military effort in the Middle East. Maybe now that we have had a wholly domestic case of Islamic radicalism in action, we can get more focused on what the anti-terrorist effort should have been all along; a law enforcement effort focused on keeping weapons and weapon making materials out of the hands of radicals of all stripes.


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Earthquake causes deadly landslides in Ecuador
An earthquake hits Ecuador killing 6,000 people and injuring another 20,000 on this day in 1948. The 6.7-magnitude tremor was particularly deadly for its size.
The quake hit high in the Andes Mountains, about 100 miles south of Quito. The worst-affected cities were Ambato, Guano, Pelileo, Patate and Pillaro, though the tremor caused serious damage over an area of 1,500 square miles. Landslides set off by the quake proved to be the most deadly feature of the disaster. Houses fell down hills and others were buried. Approximately 100,000 people lost their homes. The landslides also caused some flooding by changing water-flow patterns. Some of the victims lost their lives to drowning.
In Ambato, the textile mills were hard hit, with hundreds of workers perishing. Only 300 of the 3,500 residents of Pelileo survived and virtually every home in the town was demolished. It was estimated that another 20,000 people suffered serious injuries from the earthquake. Further compounding the tragedy, a Shell Oil plane bringing rescue workers to the area crashed and killed all 34 people onboard.
An interesting side note to this disaster is that it exposed the body of Friar Lazaro, which had been mummified at a church in Guano. According to legend, Lazaro was the first missionary sent to the area after the European conquest of the Incas in the 16th century.


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In which the Grinch gets tagged with a Christmas meme
Jeff B tagged me for a Christmas meme. I find that to be a bit ironical, because I am the original Grinch.
However, I'm sitting up front right now, it's raining and there's nobody signing in. Nobody wants to come out in the rain, so they're all calling 911 for their non-emergencies, and letting the big white taxi bring them in comfortably. Subsequently, triage is dead, and I have nothing to do at the moment. So I figured, what the hell.
I'm not tagging anyone, though. You wanna do it on your own, go for it.
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper. I only get gifts for the brat, and she's 6, so I use wrapping paper and as much tape as I can, in order to impede the whirlwind unwrapping process. I tape boxes shut on all of the seams, too. My parents used to do that to me and it drove me crazy. If I get a gift for anyone else, I rarely wrap it. But I almost never get gifts for anyone else. I'm not a giver. I'm a taker. Giving is for suckers.
2. Real or artificial tree? OK. About the tree. See, I kinda think that Christmas trees are retarded. Well, except other people's. I love other people's Christmas trees. I just don't feel the need to have one myself. It's really not worth the effort. Or the price. I've only had a tree one year out of the last 5. And that was 2 years ago when the 4-year-old said, "Daddy, how come you don't have a tree? Santa can't find where to put my presents without a tree!" So I caved and we got a tree for the kid who wasn't even going to be there for Christmas Day anyway, so Santa took her presents to her mom's and put them under the tree there, but how do you tell a 4-year-old they can't have a Christmas tree? You don't. You just suck it up and get the damn tree. Thankfully, she doesn't need two trees anymore.
3. When do you put up the tree? Never, if I can manage it.
4. When do you take the tree down? Well, since I didn't ever put it up, then it would follow that I don't ever need to take it down, do I?
5. Do you like eggnog? No. Like is not nearly a strong enough word to describe the feeling I have for eggnog. I absolutely adore eggnog. I would almost choose a glass of eggnog over a Bacon Cheeseburger. Almost. I don't like spiked eggnog, though. Just regular, rich, creamy, straight-to-your-hips-and-stay-there-in-the-form-of-a-roll-of-eggnog-colored-fat-until-next-Christmas goodness. And I had never even tasted eggnog until about 2 years ago. Think of all the years I wasted. *sigh*
6. Favorite gift received as a child? I don't remember last week, much less Christmas as a child.
7. Do you have a nativity scene? Nope. My husband tends to display atheistic tendencies when religious items are placed within his line of sight. (I think it comes from those torturous years in Catholic School.) He'd probably feed Baby Jesus to the cat. Come to think of it, the cat might eat Baby Jesus on his own. Maybe if he ate Baby Jesus it would cure his Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Hey, I may be onto something here.
8. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I don't even remember the good ones. Why would I remember the bad ones? I do remember that
my mom Santa always put gummi bears in my stocking. I hate gummi bears.
9. Mail or email Christmas cards? This year I mailed Christmas cards to my 3 siblings, my grandparents, and my parents. Usually I skip that tradition. Not worth the effort. Similar to Christmas trees.
10. Favorite Christmas movie? Die Hard. And Die Hard 2. Yes, mom, they are too Christmas movies.
11. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Since I only buy gifts for the brat, I pick them up whenever I feel like it and stick them in the closet. Then a day or two before Christmas, I send my husband in to get them all so we can wrap them. There's usually a huge pile of kid crap to wrap.
12. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Pistachio Baklava and Pumpkin Ice Cream. Neither of which I can ever find anymore, so I have to make them myself. But that's ok. Because they're better that way.
13. Clear lights or colored? Clear. Not icicles. I hate freakin' icicle lights.
14. Favorite Christmas song? The VeggieTales version of "Feliz Navidad". And anything from The Trans-Siberian Orchestra's first album, "Christmas Eve and Other Stories"
15. Travel at Christmas or stay at home? Work. Always.
16. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? Only if I sing the song. And you don't want me to sing the song.
17. Angel or star on the top of your tree? Jeez! What is the deal with the damn tree?
18. Open your presents Christmas Eve or Christmas morning? I don't get Christmas presents. The brat opens hers on Christmas Eve because her mom has her on Christmas morning.
19. Most annoying thing about this time of year? Muzak Christmas music that starts on October 21st. The rude assholes out shopping are there year-round.
20. What do you leave for Santa? I drink a Guinness and leave him the empty bottle. Maybe that's why I never get any Christmas presents.
21. Least favorite holiday song? Dunno. Prolly that stupid "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer."
22. Do you decorate your tree with any specific theme or color? Oh, for crying out loud! Enough with the damn tree!
23. Favorite ornament? I used to have an Oscar the Grouch and a Wicked Witch of the West ornament, each given to me by people who felt secure enough in our friendship to provide a physical representation of my personality traits. They burned up in the trailer fire, but the traits they represented are still alive and well.
24. Family tradition? The week before Christmas, my mommy gives me her annual "If only you didn't live so far away…" guilt trip.
25. Ever been to Midnight Mass or late-night Christmas Eve services? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I was raised Mormon. There is an invisible force-field in place outside Catholic Churches that prevents Mormons from entering the building. I haven't tested if its power has faded any, but I'll bet it hasn't.
And those are the details of my MonkeyGrinch Christmas joy. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.


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a guy who pwns at paintball and shoots all the noobish 11 year olds who cry when they get hit
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Someone, generally a lesbian, who likes eating out women. Much more affectionate than a carpet muncher.
Dude, Leslie is such a muppet mower. Did you see her all over that girl last night?
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My mother was a Roe. Little did I know that this family was in fact living on an Indian Reservation in 1910. I discovered the family in the 1910 census records living in Otoe Township, Noble County, OK enumerated in the Indian Population. This is where I learned that my great great grandmother was half Chipaway Indian and French Canadian. The family was not complete at that time. There are still three other older siblings I have not found. But in the family unit was my great great grandfather Jerry Roe (47), Rachel (44), and three sons, Piere (12), my great grandfather Frank (9) and the baby Jaybird "Jay" (5).
My favorite photo of my Grandpa, Von Joseph "Rusty" Roe, on the left and his father, Frank Roe on the right. It's Frank's mother who was Half Chipewa Indian.I believe the family migrated from Canada to the Indian Reservations of Oklahoma. Piere was born in MN about 1896, followed by Frank born in MO and then last Jay was born in KS before they end up in OK by 1910. Frank would later marry a woman from MO, May Elizabeth Rollette and live with her family for a time in MO before moving back to OK. Then in about the early 40's he takes the children, leaves May, and moves to CA where he starts a new life. The Roe's faired well in the Industrial world. Jerry was a farmer, but the future generations all went for Industrial work and seemed to be better off then those of our other ancestors during that era.
After I had discovered this I asked my mom if she knew about the Native American in the family, and she didn't. I remember asking her, "well where did Grandpa get his red hair then?" She laughed and asked me where I had gotten that. Mind you most colored pictures I had seen of him were late in life with grey hair. I said, "well I always assumed that his hair was red because his nick name was Rusty." She just laughed and told me she had no idea where he had gotten that name. For all we knew it could have been from his days in WWII, but no matter where it came from it had nothing to do with his hair. He in fact had jet black hair and very olive tone skin. When we discussed that she realized it was very possible and she could see that he was probably 1/8 Indian.


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The postseason honors continue to roll in for the baseball players at Winder-Barrow and Apalachee High School.
Following a season which ended with a trip to the second round of the Class AAAA playoffs, the WBHS Diamond Doggs had two players earn first team All-Region honors. Junior Taylor Hinshaw was named first team at first base while teammatae Jeremy Donaldson, a senior, was named first team at third base.
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My name is Alberto Pérez. I am an English teacher with honors at the Universidad Experimental Libertador in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. I have ample experience (7 years) teaching hundreds of students the English language with several methods for teaching it. This has been always making learning more suitable and easy for students.
I have worked in universities, high schools and academies so I have a basic experience with adults, young people and adolescents. In addition to a master's degree in "Educational Management", whose thesis on the management of technological tools to carry out a more meaningful, effective and efficient student learning in English.
In addition to this, I have 3 years of experience working as an online English teacher-tutor. I teach through applications such as Skype and other online teaching platforms where student learning is concretized more effectively and actively in comparison to face-to-face classes.
It's important to say that I am also in the capacity and training to teach Spanish which is my native language; I teach it by the same means as English. On the other hand, I teach my English lessons online in a particular way, not only in the teaching methods of English but also taking into account the processes that are given to carry out learning in the human being; thus attacking the most specific needs that each student needs. For this, I use practical and psychological techniques which through have been successful during last years.
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I thought I would just jot down my Top 10 Best & Worst things about being a Paramedic. These lists are not exhaustive and maybe subject to change at a later date!
Top 10 Best Bits:
- On the RRV/RFU I am my own boss out on the road.
- I get to see inside other peoples houses. (Clean and respectable)
- I meet interesting people from all walks of life. (Clean and respectable, hard working)
- The look of relief on peoples faces when I turn up to a scene. (Its what we do)
- Every job I get sent to is different in its own way. (Beats working 9 to 5 any day!)
- I get to use some pretty cool kit/equipment.
- Its still (sometimes) a buzz hitting the "Blues & Twos".
- The money is getting better, at long last!
- I get to see things that ordinary members of the public do not.
- And sometimes I get to save someone.
Top 10 Worst Bits.
- Control (puzzle palace) know where I am all the time.
- I go into some real pigstys and slums. (Wipe your feet on the way out!)
- Some people are only just off the bottom of the evolutionary scale. (One up from pond scum!)
- The look of dismay on peoples faces when I turn up on scene. (They can tell I,m late off!)
- Every job I get sent to involving alcohol has the potential to go "tits up!" (And involves vomit/fights)
- Unless the kit/equipment is Ambulance Proof then it invariably breaks down when needed most!
- Cars/vans/trucks/buses/people/animals still get in the way even when on "Blues & Twos!"
- I dont get paid enough to take some of the abuse/shit that is thrown at me!
- I get to see the darker side of humanity. (Ignorance is sometimes still bliss!)
- I have seen good people die.
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Dylan Farrow's Regret: Why We Need a New System for Rape Testimony
by: Tara Kipnees on February 12th, 2014 | 3 Comments »
The many angles of the Dylan Farrow/Woody Allen sexual assault saga have been dissected relentlessly over the past two weeks. For all the information unearthed, it is increasingly apparent that we will never know what happened between Woody Allen and his adoptive daughter nearly 22 years ago. One thing we do know for certain, though, is that in 1992 the Connecticut state prosecutor Frank Maco found "probable cause" to prosecute Woody Allen, but he did not move forward with filing charges due to "the fragility of the child victim."
In a November 2013 Vanity Fair article, Farrow told author Maureen Orth ""I have never been asked to testify. If I could talk to the seven-year-old Dylan, I would tell her to be brave, to testify." Maco, for his part, told the author that he found Farrow too uncooperative to testify. Either way, someone made a decision that it would be too much for Farrow to testify in court against her alleged assailant, and Farrow today wishes a different decision had been made.
The ordeal shines a spotlight on the multi-layered predicament facing many rape victims. A victim may be told that she must testify, or she never will have the opportunity to testify because charges are dropped. And if a victim is given the choice, does she expose herself, her story, and her credibility to that kind of scrutiny, or does she avoid testifying and risk spending the rest of her life wishing she had spoken up?
It was about this time a year ago that I heard I would not be testifying for a second time against my rapist, fashion designer Anand Jon, this time in his New York trial. While there was a large part of me that wanted to expose Jon's crimes to their fullest extent and see that he is punished adequately (which seems unlikely; in his plea deal 48 charges – including rape, drugging women, and issuing death threats – were dropped), I primarily was relieved that I would not have to undergo a cross-examination and confront my attacker in court for the second time. Frankly, I wish that I could claim to be more indignant about not being able to point Jon out to the jury and proclaim "He is the one who raped me," but after being notified of the plea deal, I felt, above all, liberated.
When I first testified in Jon's 2007 Los Angeles trial, the actuality of sharing a room with my rapist consumed me in the same terror I felt the night of the incident. My apprehension was compounded by the cross-examination, during which a graying man in a well-tailored suit spent over three hours trying to cast me as a liar. He strived to wear me down and elicit some hidden truth he demanded I was withholding. But as soon as I stepped down from the witness stand, I was electrified with a sense of empowerment at having revealed something that felt so shameful for so long to those who could bring my rapist to justice. When the judge handed down a 59-years-to-life sentence, I knew that I had played a part in bringing that about, though I can't deny the memory of the questioning (which entailed, for example, describing to strangers in what hole Jon inserted himself in me) is still rattling nearly seven years later.
In a statement evoking Maco's, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office explained that they offered Jon the plea "to spare the victims from having to testify at multiple proceedings" (and also because the California Supreme Court declined to overturn Jon's 59-year-to-life sentence). But not all prosecutors and judges are as inclined to consider the effect of a trial on victims. Victims of rapes and violent crimes frequently have no choice in the matter of testifying. In 2011, a Kansas mother of three was held in contempt of court after refusing to testify against her stepfather, who was charged with having sexually assaulted her when she was seven. The Nebraska judge presiding over the case presented the victim, who refused to testify for fear of the toll it might take on her family, with a no-win proposition: either take the stand or face 90 days in jail. She chose the latter, and true to his word, the judge had her imprisoned. The Nebraska Supreme Court upheld the ruling, explaining that a state law permitting witnesses decline to testify when they would be shamed or publicly disgraced does not apply to criminal cases.
A nearly identical scenario played out in 2012when a Sacramento judge ordered that a 17-year-old alleged rape victim, who early on in the case failed to show for two appearances, be jailed to ensure she would take the stand against her rapist. The judge cited his fear that the girl, who had a history of running away, would flee rather than testify. Only following a public uproar was the victim finally released.
In the Nebraska and Sacramento cases, the judicial system made little attempt to strike a balance between the interests of the victims and the constitutional right of the accused to face his accuser. The Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment, however, makes no requirement that the confrontation must be in person. Several states have already enacted laws allowing child rape victims to testify via videoconference technology, but states rarely embrace this as a systemic option for adult victims. And in the few circumstances in which it is employed, it is only done on a sparing, ad hoc basis (e.g., largely when the victim is physically incapacitated or too far away). As the United States Supreme Court held in the 1990 opinion Maryland v. Craig, indirect confrontation such as video testimony is permitted "only where denial of such confrontation is necessary to further an important public policy and only where the reliability of the testimony is otherwise assured." That standard, however, sets a very high bar, making it easy for courts to deny the option of video testimony in all but the most exceptional circumstances. In practice, courts are extremely wary of condoning live video testimony. As one federal appellate court found in a 2006 opinion, "[t]he Sixth Amendment's guarantee of the right to confront one's accuser is most certainly compromised when the confrontation occurs through an electronic medium. Indeed, no court that has considered the question has found otherwise."
But if the electronic medium used during testimony presents a live feed, allowing a jury to watch a victim being cross-examined by a defendant's lawyer, why are courts so adamant that the integrity of the Confrontation Clause would be jeopardized? Indeed, several empirical studies conducted by William and Mary professor and court technology expert Fredric Lederer have concluded that presenting testimony via remote video does not have a statistically significant impact on jury verdicts.
It is understandable that prosecutors and judges want to do everything in their power to bring rapists to justice, but a rape victim's suffering during testimony should not be tolerated as collateral damage. Efforts to accommodate victims' varying degrees of psychological distress may also encourage victims who remain silent about their rapes to come forward. In 2010, a U.S Department of Justice National Crime Victimization Survey found that 50% of rapes go unreported. Reasons cited for that reluctance include self-blame, shame, fear of being accused of lying, and lack of faith in the criminal justice system. Having experienced this gamut of emotions myself, I can attest that the deterrent effect of these factors is exceptionally powerful.
For rape victims to feel more supported in coming forward, the justice system's attitude towards rape victims needs to change, and video testimony should be a more broadly endorsed practice not only for victims who are too young, but for victims who are too shaken to sit mere feet away from their alleged assailant. There is nothing that can be done to erase the psychological wounds inflicted by rape, but the justice system should take pains not to exacerbate them. There are great benefits that come from aiding in the conviction of one's abuser, but those benefits should not have to come at the cost of the victim, especially when a near and effective substitute for in-person testimony is so readily at hand.
Tara Kipnees is a writer living in New Jersey with her husband and two-year-old daughter. She received a B.A. in English from Tufts University in 2007, and worked for Sotheby's and the Worldwide Orphans Foundation before becoming founding editor of the online literary forum Voices in Space.


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13 days / 12 nights Day 1 / Cairo Alexandria - Alfyum - Amiya - Apydos - dindra - Luxor - Aswan - Abu Simble - Cairo
Cairo Arrival Day over night Cairo
Arrive Cairo airport where will be met and assisted by our staff- then transfer to your hotel- free Time - over night Cairo.
Day 2
Cairo pyramids and sphinx, Egyptian Museum overnight in Cairo
After breakfast- start your day tours by transfer to Giza pyramids to visit the three pyramids and sphinx Then visiting the Egyptian museum- Take your lunch (at local restaurant ) then back to hotel- overnight Cairo.
Day 3
Alexandria over day trip ,overnight in Cairo
Early morning start your full day trip to Alexandria the second large city in Egypt and located on Mediterranean sea to visit famous library- Montazah park- Greek and komon theatre- sea food lunch- end tours by visiting Qaitbay fortess- travel back to Cairo – over night Cairo.
Day 4
Cairo – Citadel of Salah Al Din – Coptic church, overnight in Cairo
After breakfast- start your day tours by visiting citadel of Salah Aldine, Mohamed Ali pasha mosque, - visiting old Coptic Cairo then lunch then free time in Kan El Khalili bazaar- over night Cairo.
Day 5
Cairo to El Fayoum Sightseeing, over night in El Fayoum
After breakfast – Transfer To el Fayoum city – Arrive El fayoum – Start your Tour el Fayoum Sightseeing then to your Hotel check in Dinner at the hotel evening – over night Hotel.
Day 6
El Fayoum to Al Minya - Beni Hassan, over night in Al Minya
Breakfat at your hotel then drive to Al Minya visit the village of Beni Hassan is an Ancient Egyptian cemetery site located in the region known as Middle Egypt 39 tombs from the Middle Kingdom, lunch dinner -overnight in the hotel in Al Minya .
Day 7
Al Minya to sohag via Tell El-Amarna & Tounah al-Gabal – over night in sohag Breakfast then drive to Tell El-Amarna the Tell el-Amarna the ancient capital of Akhenaten Visit Great Temple of Aten - Tomb of Huya - Tomb of Mery-Re 1 - Tomb of Ahmose - Great Temple of Aten - tomb of Ay.Visit Tounah al-Gabal the catacombs of Tuna el-Gebel and most of the site consists of tombs shrines of the Greco-Roman Period famous tombs like Tomb of Petosirisand and Tomb and Chapel of Isadora then drive to sohag arrive sohag to your hotel overnight.
Day 8
Sohag To Luxor Via Abydos Temple & Dendera Temple ( Nile Cruise Day 01 – Karnak & Luxor Temple )
Early morning Breakfast Then drive to Abydos Temple Abydos the entrance to the underworld For the ancient Egyptians and the first Egyptian civilizations, after drive to Dendera Temple visit the Temple of Hathor The temple at Dendera, dedicated to Hathor, belongs to the Ptolemaic era of Egypt then drive to Luxor arrive Luxor to your cruise boat for embarkation lunch aboard this afternoon visit Karnak & Luxor Temples, the temples of karnak one of the most overwhelming monuments of the Pharaonic with Hypostyle Hall of 134 columns, line of Aram-headed Sphinxes and sacred Lake, visit Luxor Temple was built for the worship of Amun-Re, Mut, and Khonsu, in the temple were constructed by two kings, Amenhotep the Third and Ramesses the Second. Back to your boat, a buffet dinner will be served overnight on board Luxor
Day 9
Luxor ( Nile Cruise Day 02 )- Valley of the Kings – Hatshepsut temple - Colossi of Memnon – at non time sail to Esna)
An early morning start crossing over to the West Bank of the Nile to visit The Valley of the Kings The most famous attraction, Your Egyptologist will be on hand to recommend and advise you as to which tomb to visit. Later, visit the impressive mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Temple and the Colossi of Memnon back at the boat, a buffet lunch will be served and the boat will sail for Esna. The afternoon can spent relaxing on the sundeck while watching the varied local life on the river and its banks. Afternoon tea will be served on the sun deck. During the evening the boat will pass through the lock at Esna dinner overnight on board
Day 10
(Nile Cruise Day 03) visit Edfu & Kom ombo Temple, Late that night the boats will sail to Aswan
Breakfast Sail to Edfu Visit to the temple of Edfu, which is dedicated to the God Horus, the falcon-headed God. Back on board the boat lunch will be served as the boat sails to to Kom Ombo. This wonderful journey gives you chance to take a swim in the swimming pool, enjoy the view, and visit the temple of Kom Ombo the temple dedicated to the crocodile God Sobek, back on board the boat In the evening there will be a Galabeya party, where everyone dresses up in traditional Egyptian costumes for dinner and the party games. Late that night the boats will sail to Aswan
Day 11
Aswan (Nile Cruise Day 04) Temple of Philae – high dam – unfinished obelisk overnight onboard in Aswan
This Morning visit visit the Temple of Philae (the ancient temple dedicated to Isis the goddess of magic and beauty) unfinished Obelisk the High Dam (which keeps Egypt safe from the annual flood) we end our tour by visiting the unfinished obelisk back to your boat lunch free afternoon overnight on board
Day 12
Aswan – Abu Simbel – Cairo (Nile Cruise Day 05) over day to Abu Simbel - at thend of the day take your flight to Cairo
Pick you up from your Hotel in Aswan early morning to enjoy Abu Simbel by a private air-conditioned vehicle The two Temples of Abu Simbel with their unique style are considerer to be the masterpieces of ancient Egypt. They reflect the glory and grandeur of the new Kingdom. The Egyptian government and UNESCO decided to co-operate in order to save these temples from the flood. The Temple of Ramsses II was dedicated to the four universal gods Ptah, Re-Her-Akhtey, Amun-Re, and to Ramsses II himself. The great Abu Simbel temple is also called The Sun Temple of Ramssess II.The Temple of Queen Nefertari is also Called Temple of Hathor who was the wife of the Sun God so in a symbolic way, the two Temples, that of Ramsses II and that of Nefertari, bring Ramesses II, Nefertari, Hathor and the Sun God together as one.
At the end of the day transfers back to your Domestic Flight To Cairo.
Arrive Cairo Transfer Hotel – over night Cairo.
Day 13
Cairo departure day
After breakfast – Free time till Transfer to your international flight Back to Home.
- 5 Nights Cairo in Grand pyramids Hotel (4* Deluxe) Hotel B.B
- 4 nights Nile cruise in 5* Deluxe Nile cruise ( Miss Egypt-king of tiba - Nile Story or any other similar ) .
- 1 Night Oberge Helnan Fayoum 4* Deluxe Hotel H.B .
- 1 Night El Minia in 3* Hotel B.B
- 1 Night Sohage in 3* Hotel B.B
-in and out airports meet. Assist and transfers.
-f/d tours pyramids. Sphinx and Egyptian museum with lunch.
- Over Day Tour visiting Alexandria .
-f/d tours citadel of Salah Al Dine, Islamic Cairo and khan el Khalili with lunch.
--f/d tours Coptic Cairo with lunch.
- full day tour El Fayoum .
- Full Day Tour El Minia – Sohag – Dendara & Abydos .
- Domestic flights Aswan -Cairo
-04 nights/ 05 days daily sightseeing during Nile cruise sailing trip.
- visiting Abou Simble by private couch & guidance.
-High modern buses- entrance fees and professional Spanish speaking guide.
-lunches meals during daily tours in Cairo will be served at luxury restaurants.
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Articulation Agreements
Ithaca College has a number of articulation agreements with area community colleges and other two-year colleges. These agreements make it possible for students to plan a program of study that begins with an associate degree at a two-year college and leads to a four-year degree from Ithaca College. These agreements are designed to maximize the number of credits students will be able to transfer to Ithaca. Areas of concern such as admission to Ithaca College, financial aid, and campus housing are clearly discussed.
Articulation agreements are made with specific programs at the two-year colleges and require students to complete one of these degree programs with a cumulative GPA of 2.75 or higher. Each agreement specifies how coursework in the associate degree program applies to the Ithaca College baccalaureate degree program and recommends appropriate courses to complete at the two-year college. Articulation agreements also specify courses that must be taken at Ithaca College to maximize the likelihood of completing the baccalaureate degree in two years of additional study.
Students interested in admission to Ithaca College through an articulation agreement are encouraged to contact the Office of Admission during the first of their associate degree programs.
For more information and/or copies of the agreements, contact the Office of Admission, 800-429-4274 or 607-274-3124.
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