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Friday August 1st we're back in action with the 358 Sprints, Limited Stocks, Street Stocks and the Central PA Legends. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. and racing begins at 7:30 p.m.
7/18/14: The 305's are coming!! The 305 PASS RaceSaver Sprints have been added to the August 29th racing program! More information will be released soon!
5/21/14: We have added more Street Stock dates to the 2014 racing calendar! June 27th, July 11th and August 8th will now be point races for the Street Stock class. The 2014 racing schedule has been updated to reflect this change!
5/12/14: Click here to view the new 358 Sprint Purse information
5:1/14: Trail-Way Speedway is now on RainedOut.net! To receive a mobile notification the moment we cancel, go to http://www.rainedout.net and search for "Trail-Way Speedway." Follow the directions from there to subscrible to the Trail-Way Speedway cancellation notification list. You can choose to receive the "Fans" or the "Driver/Pit Crew" message. If you have any questions regarding this, email firstname.lastname@example.com!
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The story of a high school math teacher in Silver Spring who makes rap videos to help students learn complicated algebra principles, using the alter ego "2 Pi," has spread far past Montgomery County's borders and well into international waters.
Jacob Scott, who teaches at Montgomery Blair High, gained acclaim for his work with students who aren't native English speakers in 2011, winning the NAACP Excellence in Education Teacher of the Year Award and being featured in local media and even on billboards, according to Silver Chips, Blair's student newspaper.
But when The Washington Post took notice of his rap videos on YouTube last November, the inspiring and unconventional teacher's work went worldwide, including features on national media like NPR and Radar, and even a write-up from Yahoo News UK.
Scott told Patch that the media attention is encouraging for his students.
"There has been so much positive coverage and I really appreciate it because it supports the narrative that I have given my students," Scott wrote in an email. "Every year, in September, I begin preaching to the students about how their lives can be different if they work hard and make sacrifices."
Scott says more students are moving up from remedial math classes, some to honors and more to courses on their level. Scott's summer math program has grown from just two students to 116 last year, he said.
"I am so proud of their accomplishments," Scott wrote.
Here's a list of some of the news organizations that have featured Scott's teaching strategy:
Rap teaching gains popularity at Montgomery Blair (The Gazette)
Rapping math teacher uses rhyme to make sense of cosine (Mother Nature Network)
Math rap engages students (Silver Chips)
Move Over Kanye! Teacher Raps Algebra Equations in His Classroom (Radar Online)
They call him MCSquared: Meet the math teacher who raps to his students (Yahoo News UK)
Teacher's Rapping Alter Ego Brings Rhyme and Reason to the Classroom (EdTech magazine)

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... in 1926, a nasty evening thunderstorm blew through the area, with lightning touching off several barn fires in Angola and Eden, 50-mph gusts knocking down telephone poles and flash floods overwhelming Hertel Avenue.
That's the kind of detail you'll find under Buffalo Weather history at the Web site for the National Weather Service's Buffalo office.
It won't tell you everything that happened on every Aug. 6 in the city's recorded weather history, but you can pick any date, and it will show you a year (sometimes two) when particularly memorable weather occurred on that date.
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Enjoy our recipe for hardy gluten-free stuffed green peppers, made with ground beef, rice and cheddar cheese.
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Easy, delicious, economical and healthy, omega-3 rich gluten-free salmon croquettes are a family favorite.
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My wife, Cherie, challenged me to write this column about what it might look like if I couldn't make it home for Christmas.
Life is so fragile; it is not something to be taken lightly. We are grateful for the time that we do have and we understand it is sometimes like a vapor. Poof! – and it's gone.
Christmas is a special time and for many of us there are those traditions that we enjoy each year. Many of us enjoy trimming our Christmas trees, putting up our Christmas lights, and driving around different neighborhoods enjoying the Christmas cheer.
The question is, what if you don't make it home for Christmas this year? Christmas is for many a time when we get to enjoy family and celebrate the birth of Jesus. Yet for some this year might be different. Maybe this year there might be an empty place around the table when family gathers. Maybe a friend or relative has died, a spouse is gone, or a son or daughter has been deployed overseas with the military.
That void is often particularly felt during the holidays.
Maybe this is why the message of Christmas is so important. The belief that God really is with us throughout this life does provide a certain peace and assurance. "Emmanuel" means "God with us." If God is with us in this life, then we also affirm and believe that God will be with us in the next. Whatever your particular belief system is, it's hard to improve upon that promise.
So as I reflect on Christmas this year, I think about the relationships of which I am part. How am I with the people whom I love? How will I celebrate "home" this year and with whom will I celebrate it? That theme is such a significant part of Christmas. Every relationship that we have is a part of Christmas. Those whom we love, those who have hurt us, and those who are simply part of our daily lives can be placed in perspective as we consider the God who came into the world to be with us. Christmas really is a time to value and appreciate the people in our lives.
If for some reason I could not be home for Christmas this year I would want my family to know they are loved, highly valued, and that nothing bad has happened during the past year that has not been forgiven and forgotten.
We often drive ourselves crazy this time of the year by setting wrong expectations on each other and on ourselves to do Christmas, when in fact Christmas was done for us. As a little boy I remember waking up one Christmas morning and finding a sled underneath the tree. It was an exciting day because I knew that day I would be able to spend with my father climbing the hills and riding that new sled down the slopes laughing all the way.
Christmas really is a time of reflection. It's a time of family, a time for going home.
At the conclusion of this year Cherie and I want all our readers to know what a privilege it has been to share our impressions of Fort Mill with you. We are blessed to be part of this community. We are blessed to have been accepted and loved by each of you. Your comments and feedback have continually been an encouragement to us.
With all sincerity we can say that we truly feel that we are "home" this Christmas as we share the holidays with you in this beautiful and amazing community.
Merry Christmas 2013, and together may we experience a prosperous and blessed New Year!
William Winship and his wife Cheri moved to Fort Mill in the past year. You can reach them at email@example.com.


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Historical Context
The Great Depression
Flagg's novel refers to several historical eras, but primarily to the period after the café's opening, the summer of 1929. "By the way," reports Dot Weems on October 15, 1929, "is it just my imagination or are times getting harder these days? Five new hobos showed up at the café last week." The hard times she refers to are the result of what John Galbraith describes as a "fundamentally unsound" economy. A mere five percent of the American population receives thirty percent of all personal income. The booming economy is the result of an over-productive industrial sector. Two weeks after Dot Weems's report, the stock market crashes on "black Tuesday," October 29. Millions are thrown out of work, and soups made of dandelions and catsup pass for a good meal.
In the 1930s, people clog the highways looking for work, while overhead new airplanes are tested. The railroad business booms from all the travel. The Great Migration is in full swing as blacks move from the rural South to the factories of the North. Many who take to the road stay transient for a long time. Socialism becomes an acceptable ideology among the majority of people who are profoundly affected by poverty. Franklin Roosevelt is voted into office on the basis of his innovative social programs. The economy starts to hum again, but it is World War II and the boom years of Truman and Eisenhower, that brings prosperity to America and the world again....
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My fellowship experience
"The most obvious benefit to working at IJ-beyond gaining amazing real experience-was the size of the office. With only two people working there, I was able to talk with and get to know both of my bosses and not just be 'the intern'."
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Fellowship Overview
Fellowship Name
Riesen Fellowship in Public Affairs
Institute for Justice
Minneapolis, MN
Aims of the Fellowship
I spent my fellowship in Minneapolis, Minnesota working at the Institute for Justice, a public-interest non-profit libertarian law firm.
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Smithers-Oasis Texas3637 N. HWY. 77
Waxahachie, Texas
Ellis County
Population: Urban 1
Industry: Rubber And Misc. Plastics Products
Shackelford Elementary School
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Palmer High School
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Waxahachie Junior High School
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Longbranch Elementary School
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Northside Elementary School
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Second Trinity University Campus
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RLD-KeyesSquare Feet: 837 Bedrooms: 1
Full Bathrooms: 1KEYES GARAGE This is a detached 3 car garage and apartment with a traditional exterior. The elevation is primarily clapboard siding with accents of stone and cedar shake. The first floor garage offers 3 bays, 2 of which are over 24' deep. Additionally, there is a workshop or storage space behind bays 1 and 2. Upstairs, one enters the common living area which is open to a full kitchen and laundry closet that can accommodate a stack-able washer and dryer. The bedroom has access to two closets and a full bath. This is a great addition to any property. Learn More
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A two-story keeps active and quite areas separate in this classic design which features four bedrooms two-and-a-half baths and an attached garage. The formal living and dining rooms flank a spacious central entry while the family areas flow together into an open space at the rear of the house. An island kitchen which features a built-in pantry is centrally located for easy service to both the dining room and the breakfast nook. Upstairs the laundry is conveniently located adjacent to the bedrooms. Three bedrooms share a hall bath and the master suite includes large closets and double vanities in the bath. Learn More
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The Foyer leads straight into a spacious Great Room with a fireplace and optional built-in entertainment center. A compact Kitchen leads directly into the Dining Room or to the cozy Breakfast Nook right across the hall lit by a bay window. A convenient Mud Room and Side Entry link the first floor to a roomy Garage. This home is designed with basement crawlspace and slab foundation options. Learn More
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Full Bathrooms: 2This affordable two-story has a traditional front with a covered front porch and an attached front entry garage. The main level floor plan invites you through the foyer to a large family room with a wall of windows on the back side a see-thru fireplace and is open to the breakfast room. The large kitchen has an island a walk-in pantry and adjoins the keeping room breakfast room and see-thru fireplace. Upstairs is the master suite with 2 walk-in closets a tray ceiling and a master bath with 2 vanities and a separate tub and shower. Additionally you will find 3 bedrooms a full bath and a laundry room. The unfinished basement has the ability to add a game room additional bed and bath a workout room and unfinished storage. Actual plan may vary from photos or renderings. Learn More
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Full Bathrooms: 2Modern Colonial
Classic styling and modern amenities are interwoven in this charming home. A spacious two-story foyer provides a warm welcome. The formal dining and living rooms are located to either side of the foyer. The family room includes a large masonry fireplace and a columned entry. The Country kitchen will please the cook of the family. A built-in pantry a work island and a built-in planning desk insure efficiency. The second-floor master suite is enhanced by a pan vaulted ceiling a compartmented bath and a walk-in closet. Three roomy additional bedrooms share a full bath in the hall. The laundry is conveniently located on the second floor. Learn More
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COLUMBIA, SC An 18-story high-rise fire in downtown Columbia Sunday night resulted in a woman being transported to a local hospital and more than a dozen people being evacuated.
The cause of the fire was "smoking while oxygen was in use," Columbia Fire Department spokesman Brick Lewis said.
The condition of the woman was unknown.
No one else was injured in the fire at 1930 Marion Street, a building on the corner of Marion and Calhoun that is operated by the Columbia Housing Authority.
The 146-unit building, near the busy intersection of Bull and Elmwood streets, houses people 50 and above, according to the buildings Internet site.
More than 40 firefighters on the scene extinguished the blaze in a second-story apartment, Lewis said.
All tenants residing from the first to the third floors were evacuated from the building, and everyone on the fourth floor and above "sheltered in place," Lewis said.
The fire started in an area in the second-floor apartment where the oxygen tank was in use, Lewis said.
Two ladder trucks and multiple fire engines responded to the fire when the call came in around 9:40 p.m., he said.
There was minimal damage to the high rise, even in the unit where the first started, he said.
Sprinkler systems played a large role in keeping damage to a minimum, he said.
Firefighters returned the occupants to the building late Sunday.
Reach Monk at (803) 771-8344.


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Special to the Record-Eagle
TRAVERSE CITY — The intersection of tradition and modernity courses through Arielle Rosenberg's life.
A third-year rabbinical student at Hebrew College near Boston, Rosenberg will serve as Temple Beth-El and Congregation Ahavat Shalom's interim rabbi through May. She visits Traverse City monthly for three days to conduct services and offer adult education programs.
Rosenberg is thrilled with the opportunity. She was hired sight unseen after multiple phone conversations with search committee members. Rosenberg studies in the same six-year program as the outgoing rabbi, Seth Castleman. He's a graduate of the Hebrew College who helped connect the two sides.
"They showed a lot of trust," Rosenberg said. "It's beautiful."
Terry Tarnow, president of Temple Beth-El, said it has proven to be a good gamble.
"We adore her," Tarnow said. "Social action is really up there on her radar."
Rosenberg's job description is more of a cultural or life description, blending political theory with music (she is a trained opera singer who studied opera in Europe), Jewish history, theory and culture with community engagement and pastoral work.
"A lot of the way I understand my role is as a bridge — a translator and a bridge," Rosenberg said. "It's really humbling to come into a new community and feel this sort of welcome and openness."
A native of Portland, Ore., Rosenberg grew up in a small Jewish community and instinctively understands the idea of being a minority in small town life.
"My mom was a cantor and I always grew up watching her involved in services, involved in prayer leading," Rosenberg said.
With a family tradition including two great-grandfathers who founded and served Orthodox temples in the United States, Rosenberg sometimes wonders how they would view her career path. She is a woman in what to them was solely a man's domain until just a generation ago.
"Only in the last 30 years have women been ordained at all," said Rosenberg, who for 10 years was an organizer with indigenous people in Honduras and Seattle. "I'm the first generation to be able to study with female teachers."
During her February visit to Traverse City, Rosenberg will present a program on Jews and the Civil Rights movement. The free talk is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 23, from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. at the Dennos Museum Center.
Rosenberg just finished teaching a 10-week course in Boston on the topic. It relates to the museum's current "THEM: Images of Separation," a traveling exhibition from the Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University.
"I'm thinking about what does it mean when multiple communities stand together," she said. "And really to ask questions about what is it that brings us to the streets or to the table together — what is it that's Jewish and what is it that's universal?"


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When the Waitsburg-Prescott football team lost its offensive coordinator, there was some trepidation about who would take over.
The Cardinals were coming off an unbeaten season, capped by the Class 2B state title. But they were losing T.J. Scott, their longtime coordinator who took a job in Alaska, as well as quarterback Zach Bartlow and a good chunk of the offensive line.
Coach Jeff Bartlow quickly filled the coordinator position, though, by promoting special teams coach Troy Larsen. The move has worked out rather well.
He has done a dynamite job, Bartlow said. Troy knows (the offense) really good. He has a few more things in his arsenal than T.J. had. We have a few more sets.
I think we have grown a little bit offensively.
Those are bold words considering how high-powered the Cardinals offense was in 2011, though the 2012 version is no slouch and will face Lind-Ritzville-Sprague at 2 p.m. Saturday at Lampson Stadium in the Class 2B state semifinals.
When I first said Id do it, I lay in bed at night thinking, You dont have Zach Bartlow, dont have that line, Larsen said. But I did have Billy Brown back and the best wide receiver in the B schools. Of course, look at today: Billy is gone, and Dalton (Estes) is at running back.
No one is where I thought theyd be, but were still clicking pretty good.
The Cardinals are averaging 37.2 points and 383.3 yards per game this season, and they have won eight consecutive games.
Part of the reason Larsen and his offense have been able to overcome the personnel shifts is because of the time he has put into the offense.
Larsen was a part of the switch five years ago from the wing-T to the spread option, and he knows the offense inside and out. He has gone to camps and spent a lot of time working on plays.
He even prepares a sheet with about 160 plays on it for every game, leaving no game situation to chance.
Im more of a patient chess player, Larsen said of his coaching style. (Scott) called (plays) off his gut. Im a little more calculated.
Larsen got his start coaching his son, Talen, in AAU. The Waitsburg native, his wife, Diana, and three kids moved to the tiny town 50 miles east of Pasco from Seattle 12 years ago. He later heard that Bartlow needed an assistant coach on the football staff and was hired.
In his years on the staff, he has juggled his coaching duties with working full time for Takeda Pharmaceuticals as a regional account manager. While he gets to work from home, he also must travel around the country periodically.
He rarely misses practice because of the traveling, though he was in Miami the week of the quarterfinals.
I took discs with me and spent my airplane flight scouting, Larsen said. I emailed Bartlow what I wanted done at practice, and hed email me back with what worked and what didnt. Then Id send him another list.
Larsen rushed home from Miami, arriving at 2 a.m. Thursday morning, just in time to attend practice Thursday and Friday.
The ill-timed trip didnt affect the team, as the offense was sparkling in a 39-12 victory against Reardan.
Larsen and company hope the offense can pull off at least one more spectacular game and earn a repeat trip to the Tacoma Dome and a state championship game. One very few people believed possible at the start of the season.
I knew wed have some wins under our belt, but I didnt know what wed be like, Bartlow said. I thought we would be in business and that wed have a shot at making a nice run, but I know a lot of people didnt think that.
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I chronicle the decline and fall of entitlement democracy
Put this column in a drawer and take it out on the date below. Let me know how many of these predictions I got right.
November 7, 2012 – It may not be morning in America, but be thankful that it's not the dawn of the living dead. With civil war breaking out in Greece, Spain in chaos as it seeks to exit the euro, California preparing to file bankruptcy following the failure of Governor Jerry Brown's budget referendum, and Portland, Oakland, and Seattle busy clearing the rubble from the devastation of their Occupy fires, the American electorate has finally said "Enough!"
The great experiment in "progressive" democracy is over. Convincing a majority of American voters that they can live at someone else's expense proved a bridge too far, as those same voters watched the social democracies of Europe unravel. When presented with a choice between two presidential candidates with diametrically opposed visions of the proper role of government, Americans chose to step back from the abyss.
To no one's surprise, the campaign was ugly. As each successive poll revealed incumbent President Barack Obama slipping further behind, the Obama camp's attacks grew ever shriller. Class, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexuality—no variant of identity politics was left untapped in what turned out to be a futile attempt to divide the electorate into warring camps and shift the debate to anything besides the deteriorating economy and the cataclysmic national debt.
The Supreme Court's evisceration of Obamacare—the president's signature "accomplishment"—set the tone for a long, hot summer. The Occupy movement's escalating campaign of violence, which culminated in major street battles at both national conventions, did little to help Obama's cause. Persistently high unemployment, coupled with an inflationary uptick as the Federal Reserve made a desperate attempt to launch yet another round of "quantitative easing," reminded too many voters of life under Jimmy Carter.
The bankruptcy of A123, Fisker Automotive, and a half dozen more solar and biofuel ventures that received hundreds of millions in tax dollars rang the death knell for Obama's green energy policies. The final nail into the coffin of the failed Obama presidency came from Europe, as Germany and France finally jettisoned the PIIGS to save the Eurozone core—but not soon enough to avert a deep recession in Europe and a 20% decline in U.S. stock markets.
While the charisma-challenged Mitt Romney never managed to ignite the Republican base—which remains suspicious of his conservative bona fides—the right still managed to close ranks behind their man, largely out of fear of what a second Obama term would mean for America.
Mitt stuck to the economic high ground. Meanwhile, his campaign staff and cloud of well-funded SuperPAC proxies proved adept at throwing counter-punches, responding to every below-the-belt political assault launched Mitt's way with well-prepared counter narratives, widely disseminated across a network of right-leaning bloggers, Facebook activists, and radio talk show personalities.
Wading through the maelstrom, the Romney campaign remained focused on selling the idea that what the nation most needed was a return to economic sanity. Mitt's public persona, never well matched with the vampire capitalist, out-of-touch plutocrat, Mormon underwear-wearing weirdo opponents made him out to be, finally gelled into one of mature competence that reassured voters that he was the man to help fix the mess we've gotten into.
Throughout it all, the mainstream media never found its legs. Always a step behind the Twitter blitzkriegs unleashed by millions of freelance citizen reporters, YouTube videographers, amateur pundits, and independent campaign organizations, professional journalists and the editors that issue their marching orders found that the day's news had already been framed by the time they got out of bed each morning.
What made defeat all the more devastating for yesteryear's media moguls was the decision to throw away the last shred of their purported objectivity by going all-in behind their candidate. Their failure to sway the election made it clear that a handful of White House Correspondents' Dinner elites in New York, Washington, and Hollywood have lost their power to shape public opinion.
As the pending electoral deluge drew near and the liberal commentariat began turning on Obama, the American public was treated to the sorry spectacle of rats deserting a sinking ship as political insiders jockeyed to land the first big advance for a tell-all book dissecting the meltdown. By the time Election Day rolled around, it was all over but the counting.
The path ahead will be long and hard, and the rejuvenated Republican Party and its new president have yet to give a sign as to how they plan to tackle the entitlement tsunami that threatens to drown us all. But with veto proof majorities in both the House and Senate, they now own the problem.
You've just signed up for the hardest job on the planet, Mitt. And this time, if you can't figure out how to turn things around, you can't fire sale the wreckage and hope the rest of your portfolio makes up for the loss. The eyes of the world are upon you. This is democracy's last chance. Don't blow it.
Bill Frezza is a Boston-based writer and venture capitalist. You can find all of his columns, TV, and radio interviews here. If you would like to have his columns delivered to you by email, click here or follow him on Twitter @BillFrezza.
Good luck with those predictions, Nostradamus.
Wow. Great comeback.
Exactly! Obamabots, Disenfranchised Clintonites, and just Amnestified Illegal Aliens want to re-elect a president who:
> Continued 2 Bush Wars, and added a few others in the Middle East and
soon Africa, then a few months before the election rushed to get out of Iraq.
> Continued Bush Bankster Wall Street Multinational Billionaire Bailouts, and
gave out Trillions more to Detroit; Tax Dodging, Job Exporting Immelt's G.E.;
Big Bundler's Solyndra and a bakers dozen other Solar Failures; and soon to
be Trillions to Big Pharma, Multinational Sick Care (as liberals call it).
> Continued Bush's "Unconstitutional" Patriot Act and expanded it with
domestic spying, secret arrest, disappearance, torture, and assassination of
American citizens with 2012 NDAA; while DHS/Justice Run Guns to
Mexican Drug Gangs then starts to buy up 1.5 BILLION Rounds of Hollow
Point Ammunition, long banned from military use by international treaties,
while Big Sis Napolitano and Big Bro Holder won't say why or for who.
Yep, Democrats LOVE a Crony Globalist Dictator and his Police state…
Lol, this article is embarrassing for Forbes. This is neither news nor opinion, just some idiots fantasy. I think I'll write an article for Sports Illustrated about how my college team won the national championship next year. People will love to read that.
You must have missed reading the beginning where he explained the purpose of the article. Also, you are right that this isn't "news" as you said, but it IS "opinion" even though you obviously disagree with it. And that's the beauty of free speech.
Agreed, and what's particularly disturbing about it is that it seems like the country going in a tailspin is part of Frezza's fantasy. He hopes that Occupy will suddenly turn violent and that Obama will become unprecedentedly nasty in his campaigning, because that will delegitimzie ideas he doesn't believe in.
THAT is unamerican.
And Dewey defeats Truman [Yawn]
I do not support Forbes making predictions. This election should be determined by the American people not the news papers, magazines or any other form of the media. I am sick and tired of the Media favoring candidates.
Be it Obama, Romney or anybody else. Just report the news, and keep your personal opinions to yourself. Period.
Uhm… you miss the point of "Freedom of the Press." This is an "opinion" article. It stirs debate. It gets people talking, thinking, sharing more opinions. Open debate is exactly what Americans need.
Sure Mike, until it's "bias from the liberal media elites," right?


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Win or lose, Wellwood was out on Saturday night, hitting any number of downtown clubs where bouncers were more than happy to whisk some Leafs and their friends past the velvet ropes and straight to the VIP areas. "The minute you show up at the club you cut the line, get a table, get a few drinks," he says. "As a young kid it was a lot of fun, I definitely miss it. If Tie [Domi] was bringing you out, you got a lot of attention, but it was nice. It was tough for the guys who were married or had a girlfriend. There's always some one who wants a cell- phone picture taken and next thing you know you're on someone's Facebook page and there's a girl kissing you on the cheek. You have to be careful. But if you wanted attention from the girls, you could definitely get it. I just think it's fun for them to hang out with an NHL player in Toronto. And if they'd had a few drinks it was even more fun."Love how the Kurtenbloggers find the comical goods. This is what Wellwood said in winter of 2008 about his nightlife in Toronto. It's an excerpt from the "Why The Leafs Stink" book
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Matt Yglesias points out that Apple has a patent on this:
Now, this is pretty silly. In the world of software, this is like getting a patent on a doorknob. Sure, a doorknob is a very clever thing. In fact, doorknobs make doors far more useful – without them, we might not even want doors in the first place. There are other ways to open a door, sure, but a doorknob is pretty much the gold standard. If one door manufacturer had a patent on doorknobs, this would lead to a lot of really dumb, annoying alternatives.
A slide-to-unlock feature for a touch phone is very similar. How else should a phone be unlocked? I imagine I could come up with a number of other ways, but few of them make as much sense as slide-to-unlock. Patenting the iPhone and the iPad is one thing. Nobody should copy an entire product and then resell it as their own design. But patenting all these little ideas and innovations within the product is silly and counterproductive.
My colleague, Tim Lee, follows-up on an earlier post of mine in which I ask if perhaps Apple really is on the right side of the patent wars.
Did Apple's competitors steal that company's ideas?
If we define "steal" narrowly, the answer is almost certainly "no." There haven't been any allegations, for example, that Google obtained a pirated copy of iOS source code and incorporated it into Android. This would have been a reckless and stupid—not to mention unethical—move on Google's part. Similarly, I don't think there's been any allegations that Samsung's hardware was built by slavishly copying the implementation details of Apple hardware.
On the other hand, if we define the term broadly, Google and Samsung clearly did "steal" Apple's technology. A number of key concepts, such as pinch-to-zoom, were first introduced on the iPhone and later incorporated into Android. The iPhone was an innovative product, and obviously Apple's competitors are going to want to match it feature for feature. The important question isn't whether such "stealing" occurred, it's whether we want to live in a world where it's illegal. Do you want to live in a world where only Apple is allowed to make phones with pinch-to-zoom capability (and dozens of other features) until 2027? I sure don't.
Neither do I. Patents should cover the narrow definition of theft, not the broad definition.
I'm a big proponent of copy-and-improve innovation. Let's call it competitive collaboration, if you will. This is good for consumers and entrepreneurs alike. Microsoft and Apple have been doing this for years with their dueling operating systems. Facebook quickly copied some of Google Plus's better features when that service rolled out recently. Intel and AMD have been battling one another in the chip wars for years now, as have Nvidia and ATI. These battles include a lot of copying of ideas, and inevitably lead to better and faster and cheaper chip technology.
The over-use of patents makes this sort of competitive collaboration impossible. Patent trolling is the worst form of this – where a company buys up patents simply to extract fees from actual innovators. But other patents can be just as bad.
The internet itself is a great big form of competitive collaboration. The blogosphere is a great example. People constantly riff off of one another. Video editors create mashups on Youtube. People embed pictures, videos, music, and graphics from all across the internet. Few things are wholly original, and as something goes viral or gets passed around the various social networks and blogs, it changes, grows, expands, sparks other ideas.
In a sense, this is the very purpose of free markets. Copying isn't theft. It's how people innovate productively. Think about scientific advances. It isn't as if scientists go back to the drawing board with every experiment. They build off previous hypotheses. This isn't copying either.
It's one thing to claim that you created something you did not create, or to copy something someone else has written or invented without giving due credit. It's another thing entirely to see a clever idea someone else has created and say "I'm going to use that, and I might even change it in such and such a way to improve it." Each little change and adaptation pushes our tech evolution one step further.
So really, even if Apple is correct that Android and Samsung got some of their ideas by observing Apple designs, that doesn't mean Apple is correct to quash all that innovation. Android is not the same thing as iOS. Samsung's Galaxy devices are similar to Apple's, but unique still in many ways.
This is evolution, and we can stifle it all we like with absurd patent suits, but in the end innovation and adaptation are the natural state of things, and smart people will always find a way around bad rules and regulations.
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Couldn't agree more! I really can't understand how a Forbes specialist completely ignores R&D costs of Apple.
Completely agree! At least somebody's thinking here!
Agree! It's refreshing to listen to somebody actually thinking!
Why don't you write for Forbes instead? You're obviously better prepared.
The slide to unlock, what a true patent. Entry doors have use this technique for thousands of years. Next thing let's patent other basic machines like the hinge.
These patents are creating a barrier to entry for small companies.
Apple did not patent slide to unlock. Apple patented move an icon to unlock. If, as you say, slide to unlock makes so much sense; then why bother stealing move an icon to unlock? Why not use slide to unlock instead?
Maybe, because move an icon IS clever, and the iPhone seems more clever than other phones for having it. Don't think so. Play with the slider for a few minutes and you will change your mind. It is more than a simple gesture.
Oh you Forbes writers – What happened to ya?
"few of them make as much sense as slide-to-unlock"
So? Little things like this make the iOS devices unique. Too bad Apple thought of it, implemented it first. Google didn't, they were clueless until Apple showed them a way. Let's see them innovate and come up with something even better if you want innovation. Apple's method may just make the most sense to you until you see something different.
"patenting all these little ideas and innovations within the product is silly and counterproductive"
Silly? Nota at all, it's all these little things that make it a whole. They make 2+2=5.
"Do you want to live in a world where only Apple is allowed to make phones with pinch-to-zoom capability"
Has nothing to do with what you want. It's the law.
"Patents should cover the narrow definition of theft, not the broad definition."
Bull! It's all the little details that make the whole.
"These battles include a lot of copying of ideas"
You can copy ideas – in this case it's a gesture to unlock a device – You can't copy the implementation.
"Copying isn't theft. It's how people innovate productively"
Bull. I think I'll be really productive, steal a Benz and save all those hours I'd have to spend earning one.
"They build off previous hypotheses"
Hypotheses are theories, somewhat similar to ideas. They are not implementations.
"even if Apple is correct that Android and Samsung got some of their ideas by observing Apple designs, that doesn't mean Apple is correct to quash all that innovation"
What? There was no innovation to squash. Apple's just corralling thieves. You want to squash real innovation, disallow rewards for innovative work. Who's going to spend the time, money, effort if you can't be rewarded?
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Have you ever wondered what is the big deal about the abortion issue? Doesn't it seem insensitive to women to make abortion illegal? And what if a woman was pregnant because of rape or what if her life were at risk because she is pregnant?
There is no doubt that the news of a pregnancy might not be welcomed by some women. Sometimes being pregnant means big life changes, with some of those changes being quite difficult. I don't think anyone argues that point.
In our society, we believe that all of us deserve to have certain rights–simply because we are human beings. No matter how different from each other people may be, we understand that they are people and should be treated with dignity.
Their lives matter. They have great value. Even though animals are valued and property is valued, we hold on to the truth that we as human beings are not in the same category as these.
We are different. The life a person is precious and that life is worth protecting.
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If a person is a person when he is born, or when he can viably live outside the womb, then some kinds of abortion would be no big deal.
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The person who lives outside the womb is bigger than the person inside the womb. But is it alright for us to say that someone who is smaller does not have the same rights as someone who is bigger? Does a person who is over six feet tall have more value as a person than someone who is barely four feet tall?
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There are many stages of human life-infant, toddler, preschooler, schoolager, teen, adult, elderly-to name a few. Does a person who is in a later stage of life have more value as a person than someone who is in a much earlier stage? Does a teen's life have more value than a toddlers? No. Neither does the person who has already been born have more rights than the person who is waiting to be born. Before birth, there are stages of human life, too-like embryo and fetus for instance.
Do people who live in Florida "count" more than people who live in Michigan? We would laugh as such an idea as obsurd. Still, there is question about whether an unborn person is actually a person because where he resides is inside a womb.
Degree of Dependency:
Some people require assisstance in their daily lives. A person who is blind might depend on others in many ways. Certainly a person who is a baby is very dependant on his mother for shelter, food, clothing, and hygiene. Would we ever say that that baby has less value or has fewer rights than an adult who lives with a high degree of independance? Of course not. That is why we should consider than the preborn infant, though completely dependant on mother, still has incredible value and should be givien the same kind of rights and protection as the child who is already born. [Read more...]


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WISN-TV off Time Warner Cable "until further notice"
There will be no "Good Morning, America" for Time Warner Cable subscribers in Milwaukee starting Friday. Or "The Bachelorette." Or "Modern Family."
Because ABC affiliate WISN-TV (Channel 12) has been removed from the cable service by the station's owners, Hearst Television Inc.
All other Hearst stations had been removed from Time Warner earlier this week in a contractual dispute over fees paid to Hearst by Time Warner to carry its 29 stations.
But WISN-TV was granted an exception because of a technicality requiring Time Warner to provide the station's signal to Charter Communications.
Charter confirmed it has made other arrangements for Hearst to provide it with the signal.
As a result WISN-TV will be removed from the lineup at midnight Thursday.
The station confirmed this on their 10 p.m. newscast.
The story said they would be "temporarily" off the cable service "until further notice."
The station will staff a hotline to answer questions about the blackout and put its local newscasts on its website starting at 6 a.m. Friday.
According to a statement from Time Warner: "Hearst Television has informed us that they will black out the WISN signals from Time Warner Cable customers tonight at midnight. In spite of Hearst's blackout, we stand ready to continue negotiations and are hopeful that the channel will be returned to the lineup shortly. We think it's wrong to put viewers in the middle of business negotiations."
WISN-TV is still available free over the air, on DirecTV and Dish and from other cable operators.
In an earlier statement, WISN-TV rebutted Time Warner's assertion that Hearst asked for a 300% increase in fees to carry its stations. WISN-TV president and general manager Jan Wade called that figure "inaccurate. We have sought a reasonable increase consistent with the increased costs we have to pay for our highly valued programs."
Meanwhile Viacom channels like Comedy Central and Nickelodeon remain off DirecTV in a similar dispute. When DirecTV advised its subscribers to watch Viacom shows on the Internet, Viacom responded by taking some of its shows off line.
And finally AMC, which was dropped by Dish Network in a similar dispute, will stream Sunday's premiere of "Breaking Bad" for Dish customers who register at AMCtv.Com.
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Such a monopoly on what we the "people" want to watch, read, utilities..you name it. Direct TV is in a dispute with Viacom that means that I have to find something else to make me laugh - not Comedy Central for a while. Guess I will go and keep reading the paper.
Yeah. We have an antenna in our attic. Unfortunately my husband says he installed it upside down, so it does not work.
We can't get U-Verse in our neighborhood, husband does not want dish attatched to the house, so TWC it is.
I don't watch TV, The husband is a football fanatic. Sat it is College Ball, Sun NFL, Monday Night Football. I thought the world was going to end when we were on vacation and the husband couldn't tune in the Packer's game.
If Hurst forces all of us to get our antenna's working Cable could lose a lot of business. My kids already have Netflix and my daughter has an Amazon Prime account too.
Sooner or later their greed will do them in.Hide replies
Upside down antenna? lol That sounds a lot like husband-code for: "I don't want to go into a 150 degree attic and fix the antenna"
I am addicted to Breaking Bad ;). Season 5 starts Sunday, our resident IT professional (trans: underemployed son) has us hooked up to AMC and any other desirable programming sans cable and its relentless shopping shows and re-booting cable box.
À la carte television is going to happen sooner or later. Just as the music industry had to deal with people buying individual songs instead of whole albums, the television industry is going to go through much of the same. Caving to the demands of a content provider because of one or two good channels in a 30 channel package is going to drive the industry in a direction that the content providers are not going to like. I don't blame the cable companies for not wanting to cave to the constant price hikes.Hide replies
smijus.... Ala carte TV was talked about 10 years ago and the idea crumbled like feta cheese on a Greek salad. The lobby for these networks is too strong. Also, many of the content providers run several networks. The Food Network runs several individual stations, NBC runs their own network plus CNBC, MSNBC and probably others as do ABC and CBS. Trouble is, most of the programming stinks and would die if they weren't mandated to be carried by cable or satellite providers. I happen to think most of it is junk as they wouldn't get enough funding to continue if they had to live off the end users choice. The few popular networks like ESPN, USA, History and a couple others would survive. Because I don't watch a lot of the others like BET, Home Shopping, MTV, Logo and many others, most would bite the dust (and that would be a good thing). Most of it is all crap. All of the providers sell themselves as 125, 200, 250 or more channels, but if you start at one end and go thru them all, it seems like half of them are trying to sell you their junk.
Bottom line.... Ala Carte programming will never happen. Their lobbies are too strong.
Personally I think its good that time warner stands up to these stations, they do it to keep the prices down. But for those of you looking to get channel 12 for the time being you should think of investing in an HD antenna. Go to target and for $25 you can have all the local channels in perfect HD for no monthly charge at all.
WISN is not acting smart in this situation. They have been slowly but continually working to beat in news ratings WTMJ and recently have. They are promoting their top weather area and now for some money will send probally 70% of thier viewers to other stations. The majority of TW users are not going to disconnect a cable ready set for WISN and back for ESPN. Maybe Kevin W can tell the President no one watched the interview because our station will not work with cable companies.
Businesses close for a short time periods for street work etc and never ever recover and WISN will find this has happen to them.
I thought the public airwaves were ours, THE PUBLIC and they just rent it.Hide replies
Yes the airwaves are yours and if you switch to antenna on your tv you can still get the channel 12 signal. Problem is as a cable subscriber you are renting their equipment.
Good, get rid of all the one sided TV news shows! All of them!
Well...years ago the FCC basically told the world that TV should be free for everyone. Then, in walked those looking to make a buck and lo and behold cable tv was born. Now what do we have? Time Warner, DirectTV, DISH, everyone in their own little greedy dust-ups to get more and more money. What do they think of all of us as viewers? Not much. They think a lot of you when they want you to sign up for their cable service, but once you're in the door - you'll never hear a "real" voice on the phone again to answer any concerns. Does it surprise anyone that Time Warner always seems to make it onto the lists of the worst cable tv customer service nationally? Now, they've basically caused WISN TV 12 to go dormant in the midst of a ratings period, which will hurt the station's employees and Milwaukee's leading newscast (note- nielsen cannot measure what we cannot see). Does Time Warner care? About as much as they do in telling you they are going to raise your cable bill with wild abandon from the moment you get cable. These guys make Al Capone look like Winnie the Pooh. Ahh...those rabbit ears are looking more and more realistic now eh? Better yet, send a message to all the Time Warner types and grab your kids and head out to a local park this weekend for a picnic. Rediscover what it's like to be away from the tube and what really matters in life.Hide replies
Why I like living between Milwaukee and Green Bay in the summer. No good tv reception with the rabitt ears whatsover. All GB stations with the rabbit ears and very fuzzy. Spend all the time outside, listening to Bob Uecker trying to do a brewer game telecast.
Packer-Bear game Sept. 13th---no channel 12 or NFL Network....nice job Time-Warner...man your switchboards when there is no college football OR Packer-Bear game!!Hide replies
How much do you want to bet that this will be fixed within the week. I'd also bet the 300% increase per subscriber went from like 1 cent to 3 cents.
What is the justification by Viacom and others for this price increase to TW, Direct, and Dish?
Was there a break through in station programming? Does an executive need an increase in pay?
Without a reason TW, Direct and Dish have all the reasons in the world to not want to pay an increase. They will just pass it on to we the consumer right? We the consumer already pay enough and TW, Direct and Dish are looking out for us in this case.


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Parallel Lines, and Pairs of Angles
Parallel Lines
Lines are parallel if they are always the same distance apart (called "equidistant"), and will never meet. Just remember:
Always the same distance apart and never touching.
The red line is parallel to the blue line in both these cases:
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Example 2
Parallel lines also point in the same direction.
Pairs of Angles
When parallel lines get crossed by another line (which is called a Transversal), you can see that many angles are the same, as in this example:
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|These lines are parallel, because a pair of Corresponding Angles are equal.
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We've been revisiting a series on entrepreneurship this week on Lake Effect. WUWM Environmental Reporter Susan Bence wasn't setting out to do a story on entrepreneurship when she left for the north woods in April – she was planning to do a story on the debate over a proposed iron ore mine. But while she was in Ashland, she found herself introduced to the creator of a company that fills a unique niche in – of all things - the feminine hygiene realm.
Hundreds of people jammed a community Tuesday night in the town of Jackson.Its residents want to know how the pipeline company is going to handle the well water and health concerns that have erupted after a gasoline line ruptured in the community northwest of Milwaukee.
Last spring, Governor Walker signed a new wetlands bill into law.Supporters consider it a "job creator" because it allows developers to build on wetlands, as long as they create a substitute somewhere else.Although the law took effect on July 1, the DNR is gradually implementing the provisions.Tuesday, the agency will hold an informational hearing on the new "general" permit, designed to accommodate small projects.In the past, Wisconsin asked developers to minimize harm to wetlands and mitigate any damaged caused.
UW-Milwaukee has taken another step towards increasing the region's prominence as a center for freshwater research. Jenny Kehl started work earlier this month as the new Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair in Water Policy and the director of the Center for Water Policy in the School of Freshwater Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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The Milwaukee County Board could advance talks Thursday about replacing the downtown transit center with a 44-story hotel and apartment complex.The property is located just steps from Discovery World and Lake Michigan.A local developer is interested in building a high rise there and a number of local leaders are onboard.However, a parks and public land preservation group questions whether the plot is off-limits to private development because of a clause in Wisconsin's Constitution.
A new report from the government watchdog organization, Wisconsin Democracy Campaign says 15 recall races in 2011 and this year cost $137 million. More than $80 million was spent on the effort to recall Governor Scott Walker. Money spent on the governor's race was more than twice as much as the $37.4 million spent in Waker's 2010 campaign.Walker won a recall election versus Tom Barrett. Three Republican senators were removed from office, giving Democrats a 17-16 majority.
Workers at the Caterpillar factory in South Milwaukee are closely watching a labor dispute at the company plant in Illinois. Caterpillar employees in Joliet have been on strike for three months. The company is seeking steep wage and pension concessions, and the union representing nearly 800 workers refuses to accept the demands. WUWM's Erin Toner reports on speculation that the outcome of the dispute could be a bellwether for labor relations across the country.
A group of historic preservationists and environmentalists will gather tonight at the Wauwatosa Public Library for what organizers hope will be a lively discussion. The central theme is the fate of the Eschweiler Buildings – four magnificent but crumbling structures that reside on the Milwaukee County Grounds. They occupy a large sweep of open space northeast of what is an otherwise congested Hwy 45 and Watertown Plank Road intersection.
In this concluding segment of our series, WUWM's Bob Bach and Marge Pitrof chat about the visions people shared with our reporters about future plans for the Milwaukee River, as well as its ongoing challenges.


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Winning warming-hut designs once again push the envelope
Pool noodles wouldn't normally be considered a building material, but the designers of a unique warming hut used 2,700 of the colourful foam sticks to show it can be done.
It was one of five huts unveiled Friday as part of the kickoff to Warming Huts: An Art and Architecture Competition on Ice at The Forks. The new huts will join 12 other huts from previous years.
The winning designs required a combination of an art and architectural component, and they have to push the envelope design-wise, explained Clare MacKay, vice-president of marketing and communications at The Forks.
"How can we take what is a basic structure of a warming hut and elevate it to something that's pretty spectacular?" said MacKay.
This year, the open competition that invites innovative designs received nearly 200 submissions from countries including Russia, Norway and Sweden. It is the first time the jury, which judged the submissions "blindly" without knowing the identity of the designers, chose all three winning designs from Canadian teams, with two coming from Toronto and one from Vancouver. A fourth hut was chosen from student submissions at the University of Manitoba. A fifth hut was designed by invitation to renowned Manitoba artist and architect Étienne Gaboury.
"Its nice to have a competition that's small-scale, but that doesn't just stay as a conceptual idea," said David Colussi, a member of the so-called Red Blanket team from WorkShop Architecture in Toronto.
Their design is composed of red, felted wool panels, held in place by a rod at the top and hung in two parallel lines from a bridge. Cold skaters are invited to wrap themselves in these immense blankets, huddle in groups, play and be social.
The only western Canadians in the competition are Kate Busby and Bella Totino, a mother-daughter duo who are called the Windshield team. Their structure is a yellow, five-metre-tall wind vane placed on a circular, rotating steel base. The light frame shields skaters from the wind by rotating according to the wind pattern. The centre column serves as both a handhold and a source of heat and light. The design is based on the tectonics of the early birch-bark canoes.
"It's a very monochromatic world in the winter and so we thought, 'let's use the inspiration of the canoe, use the inspiration of the birch-bark pattern and then zap it up with some great colours,' " said designer Totino.
The other winning design is Skybox, chosen from a separate University of Manitoba competition. It was designed by third-year U of M architecture students Matt Hagen, Ryan Lewis and Evan Taylor. The students explained they wanted to create a piece that was photogenic and would embrace social media.
Their warming hut creates the illusion skaters are sitting among the winter skies through the use of purposefully placed reflective material in its interior. Each time a visitor uploads an image with the tagline #SKYBOX, the Internet is used as a platform to promote the Red River Mutual Trail.
Designed by Gaboury, the Voyageur Hut is inverted pants and sash, suspended by two helium-filled balloons; the lower one, a voyageur carrying a canoe, and the upper one, a floral form that can be seen from afar.
"We invite all Manitobans to skate the trails this winter, but to also stop, pause and appreciate the innovation, creativity and artistry," said Lee McCormick, the vice-president of the Manitoba Association of Architects.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition January 25, 2014 A15
Updated on Saturday, January 25, 2014 at 12:48 PM CST: Corrects spelling of Étienne
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As the only constant member of Paul and Linda McCartney's Wings save the McCartneys, Denny Laine is a bit of an unsung legend. Unquestionably, his influence -- already honed, by the time he teamed up with the cute Beatle, through years with the Moody Blues and Ginger Baker's Air Force -- is a contributing factor to the artistic and commercial success of Wings efforts like "At the Spped Of Sound," "Venus and Mars" and "Wings Over America."
And yet, following the demise of Wings in 1981, Laine has maintained a very low profile -- despite the fact that, in January 1990, he was living and working in Western New York, cutting tracks at Mark Studios in Clarence for an album planned to represent a comeback.
That comeback never materialized for Laine, but he has continued to worked, if less than prolifically, ever since. Laine will make a rare area appearance at 8 tonight (Feb. 24) in the Sportsmen's Tavern (326 Amherst St.). He'll be joined by former Hollies singer and guitarist Terry Sylvester. The Willie Schoellkopf Band will open the show, and then back both Laine and Sylvester for their sets.
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In recognition of the fact that the law has a profound effect our everyday experiences as members of a democratic society, the Legal Studies program at Roger Williams University is designed to provide students with education in the law and the American justice system. The undergraduate study of law provides students with the foundation necessary to engage in the democratic process and political debate, to understand and appreciate the significance of our liberties, and to engage in civil discourse about the changing circumstances and challenges that face our society and our world.
The academic focus in this program is on the development of a student's capacity for critical thought, analytical reasoning, and scholarly writing. The Legal Studies degree prepares students who are interested in entering the legal field immediately upon graduation with the skills and knowledge that would be of benefit to any number of employers in the public and private sector. The Legal Studies program also provides students with the kind of analytical skills, writing proficiency, and academic discipline necessary to future success in law school or in pursuing a graduate degree.
The goals of the program include:
The Legal Studies Program incorporates a secondary major requirement within the Bachelor of Arts program, which ensures an interdisciplinary approach to the study of law at the undergraduate level. Undergraduates who wish to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Legal Studies must complete the University Core Curriculum, the Legal Studies course sequence, and the course sequence for a second major of their choice within the College of Arts and Sciences. Students who are planning to pursue law school are strongly advised to discuss their choice of second major with their advisor. Students currently earning an undergraduate degree may enroll in the program as a Legal Studies major at the discretion of the appropriate deans.
The Legal Studies Program offers many innovative approaches to legal education, including:
Students pursuing the Bachelor of Science degree in Legal Studies must satisfy the University Core Curriculum requirements, 11 required major courses, three required courses from other departments and the requisite courses for a second major in the Feinstein College of Arts and Sciences.
Requirements in the Major
|The American Legal System
|Constitutional Law
|Legal Methods I
|Legal Methods II
|Crim./Civ. Proc. In U.S. Courts
|Senior Thesis in Legal Studies
Elective Requirements
Any three additional Legal Studies courses
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Requirements in Other Departments
|American Government and Politics
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Requisite Courses for Second Major in the Feinstein College of Arts and Sciences.
Note: The Legal Studies Major is not approved by the American Bar Association and is not intended to prepare students to work as Paralegals.
Note: The Legal Studies Program is not affiliated with the Paralegal Studies Program offered through the University's School of Continuing Studies. Continuing Studies students in the Paralegal Studies Major cannot satisfy Program degree requirements by taking Legal Studies Program courses in the day division.