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A British royal heir has been born! Kate Middleton has given birth to her and Prince William's first child, a boy.
The 8-pound, 6-ounce boy was born at 4:24 p.m. Monday, or 11:24 a.m. Eastern time, FOX News has learned.
The birth announcement came initially via press release from Kensington Palace. It did not include a name for the future monarch, though one is expected to be announced in the next few days.
An official bulletin was soon posted on an easel in front of Buckingham Palace as many looked on.
"Her royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge was safely delivered of a son at 4:24 p.m. today," the announcement read." Her Royal Highness and her child are both doing well."
Their little one was slated to become third in line to inherit the British throne, after grandfather Prince Charles and dad Prince William, regardless of its gender – a first for the monarchy.
Excitement built Monday outside St. Mary's Hospital in London after Middleton was taken to the hospital early in the morning, evading the media by traveling without a police escort and entering the facility through a side door. She was admitted about 90 minutes after arriving.
The news delighted citizens and royal family fans, some of whom had been camping out for days.
Middleton gave birth after hours of labor in the same private wing where her husband and his brother, Prince Harry, were born.
The happy news was supposed to be posted immediately on Twitter but seemed to lag before appearing on the @BritishMonarchy account. Eventually, several posts from @ClarenceHouse showed there.
After the initial details, subsequent posts stated, "The Duke of Cambridge was present for the birth. The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh, The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Harry & families have been told and are delighted. ... Her Royal Highness and her child are both doing well and will remain in hospital overnight."
A photo of the announcement being placed on the easel by the queen's press secretary and a footman was then posted by the monarchy to Instagram.
And you can even send your congratulations to Their Royal Highnesses by signing the Google+ card.
Prince Charles issued a statement after the birth announcement that read, "Both my wife and I are overjoyed at the arrival of my first grandchild. It is an incredibly special moment for William and Catherine and we are so thrilled for them on the birth of their baby boy."
Charles added, "Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future."
Will and Kate say they did not find out their baby's gender ahead of time, and betting on everything from the future king or queen's weight to its hair color and name boomed as the world waited for the birth.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday's news of a royal birth is an important moment for the entire British nation.
"Well it is, it's wonderful news from St. Mary's Paddington, and I'm sure that right across the country and indeed right across the commonwealth people will be celebrating and wishing the royal couple well. It is an important moment in the life of our nation. But I suppose, above all, it's a wonderful moment for a warm and loving couple who've got a brand new baby boy."
"It's been a remarkable few years for our royal family – a royal wedding that captured people's hearts, that extraordinary, magnificent jubilee – and now this royal birth, all from a family that have given this nation so much incredible service. And they can know that a proud nation is celebrating with a very proud and happy couple tonight."
Meanwhile, on this side of the pond, Americans are celebrating the royal birth as well.
In Philadelphia, The Victorian Free House in Old City is holding a special "royal baby happy hour." The sign outside promises prices drop when Kate pops!
The British Pubs are offering some of England's favorite drinks for the special occasion.
Wednesday (83/62): Sun/Clouds
Refreshing Forecast
Wednesday will feature another comfortable day with below average temperatures and low humidity. Highs in the upper 70s/Low 80s. Expect a mix of sun and clouds.
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UPDATE (Sunday)—Early voting in Maryland was canceled for Monday because "the state of emergency in effect for all counties will interfere with the electoral process," according to an executive order signed by Gov. Martin O'Malley on Sunday.
An announcement regarding the early voting schedule on Tuesday, and the
potential extension of early voting beyond the scheduled end on Thursday, will be made at a later date.
Anne Arundel County voters waited for up to three hours in lines that wrapped around buildings in order to vote early on Saturday ahead of Hurricane Sandy.
"I got here at 7:30 a.m. and there were people lining up outside even though we didn't open until 10 a.m.," said Bob Ray, the chief Democratic judge at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Annapolis & Anne Arundel County. "We've served over 500 people, and it's not even 2 p.m."
In 2010, Annapolis' early voting location served 695 on its first day, according to election reports. Ray expects to "blow that number out of the water" by the time the polls close at 8 p.m.
The wait time in Annapolis peaked at more than two hours, but the wait at the West County Library in Odenton was even longer.
"One lady told me the line was estimated to be three hours," County Councilman Jerry Walker said. "People started lining up at 9 a.m. even though the polls weren't open until 10 a.m."
Walker, who voted early at the Edgewater Library on Saturday morning, said most of the people he chatted with worried about being able to vote after the storm.
"It's pretty much off the charts statewide right now," said Mary Cramer Wagner, the director of voter registration for the State Board of Elections. "I know that Montgomery County reported an hour and a half wait as well as St. Mary's County."
Hurricane Sandy, also known as the Frankenstorm, is expected to hit the Chesapeake Bay area Monday with winds that could reach up to 80 miles per hour.
Anne Arundel County voters could face longer wait times than other Marylanders because the County Council placed 15 charter amendments on the 2012 ballot—making it six pages long.
Election officials in Anne Arundel County are gathering generators to power some voting machines in case Sandy causes a power failure at one or more of its five early voting locations, said Director Joe Torre.
Torre said he was hopeful that the power at one or more locations will survive the Frankenstorm.
Baltimore Gas & Electric has recruited approximately to assist in repairs after the hurricane. After June's derecho storm, some county residents were without power for a week.
Jan Erskine, a Democratic poll worker, was pleasantly surprised by the positive attitudes voters displayed on Saturday in spite of wait times that rivaled those for roller coaster rides.
She saw very few voters walk away because of the wait.
"It's not just the storm itself, it's what you have to deal with afterwards," Erskine said. "You know it's going to consume your time afterwards."
That was part of Annapolis resident Mary McCutchen's reason for sticking it out in the long line.
"I thought there would be one or two people here. I was surprised," McCutchen said. "I planned to vote early and with the storm I thought I really better get out here."
Early voting for the Nov. 6 general election started on Saturday and was set to run through Thursday.


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By Tom Dalton
The Salem News
---- — SALEM, Mass. — A young man was struck by a commuter rail train shortly after 10 last night.
The unidentified pedestrian, believed to be 18 to 20 years of age, suffered serious head injuries and was transported to Salem Hospital, according to police Sgt. Andrew Dacy.
The accident happened off Broadway behind the McDonald's restaurant on Canal Street, police said. The train was headed to Boston.
Police said they received a call about the incident at 10:08 p.m. and also were contacted by MBTA police.
Following the accident, the MBTA ceased train service and transported more than 100 passengers by bus from the accident scene. The Fire Department also responded to the accident.
The victim appeared to be a teenager, according to Deputy fire Chief James Lynch. He said there were two youths with the victim at the time of the accident.
Dacy had no further information at press time last night.
According to the MBTA Transit Police, the victim was transported to Salem Hospital where he was pronounced deceased. Transit Police detectives are currently investigating the facts and circumstances surrounding the incident.


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Georgia May Jagger
Since Jagger had just stepped off a plane, makeup artist Linda Jefferyes applied M.A.C.'s Prep + Prime Moisture Infusion ($40) under Kiehl's Ultra Facial Moisturizer SPF 15 ($26) for an "extra kick of moisture." She smoothed Laura Mercier's Foundation Primer ($32) on Jagger's skin, followed by M.A.C.'s Mineralize Foundation ($33). "I use a few different shades of Laura Mercier's Secret Concealer ($22) and go over the skin with a small brush like patchwork," she says. Jefferyes skipped blush, but used Nars' Bronzing Powder ($28) in Laguna. "Apply bronzer under the cheekbones, a touch on the apple of the cheek, on the temples, and under the jawline," she says. "Even if you have a strong jawline it's good to balance out the face."
To score that "slightly '60s vibe," Jefferyes drew a thick line of M.A.C.'s Fluidline Eyeliner ($15) in Blacktrack on Jagger's top lids with a brush, building the thickness slowly and flipping the ends up. To keep the look effortless she skipped eye shadow, but curled Jagger's lashes and coated them with Chanel's Le Volume de Chanel Mascara ($30).
"I focused everything around a really cool and modern mouth," says Jefferyes. She applied Nars' Velvet Matte Lip Pencil ($24) in Dragon Girl on Jagger's pout, set with finishing powder, and then smoothed on one more layer.
Hairstylist Daren Borthwick prepped Jagger's dry locks with volumizing mousse, applied from root to tip. "Divide the hair into horizontal sections and curl large pieces away from the face with a 1-inch curling iron," he says. Once cool, he brushed through the curls with Mason Pearson's Handy Mixture Nylon & Boar Bristle Hair Brush ($120), and set with hairspray. Glamorous? Yes. Difficult? Definitely not.
-Lexy Lebsack
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Release Date: 11/07/2012
IN partnership with Ulster Rugby, the Gaelic Athletic Association, and the Irish Football Association, PeacePlayers International - Northern Ireland (PPI-NI) will host the Belfast Interface Games (BIG), a series of cross-community multi-sport camps for children aged 913 years from North, East and West Belfast in July and August.
This project is supported under the Belfast PEACE III Plan by the European Union's "European Regional Development Fund" through the PEACE III Programme.
The Belfast Interface Games will feature the Game of Three Halves, which incorporates three of the most popular sports in Northern Ireland (rugby, football, and Gaelic football), as well as community relations activities.
The initiative aims to promote respect for diversity in a fun and safe environment during a time of historically heightened tensions in Belfast's interface communities, while introducing young people to the three different sports. In the spirit of the 2012 London Olympic Games, the three camps in North, West, and East Belfast will culminate with a flagship event, which is tentatively planned for Friday, August 10, and will bring together all participants from East, West, and North Belfast.
Irish FA President Jim Shaw said: "With support from EU Peace III, the Irish FA is delighted to be a key partner in the Belfast Interface Games, working with other sports, Belfast City Council, local clubs and local community groups across Belfast. Sport is a great tool for promoting good relations and this work further supports our existing Football For All programme which is making a positive difference in the community across Northern Ireland."
Children interested in attending one of the camps may register online at www.peaceplayersintl.org by following the link to Support Us/ Upcoming Events page.
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LEBANON, Mo. — WORTHINGTON, Minn. — Catherine Louise Scurr was born Oct. 30, 1915, in Burlington, Iowa. Her parents were Robert Boniface Sutter and Henrietta Adams. She grew up in various railroad communities across Illinois and Iowa. She graduated from Galesburg HS, at the age of 16, in 1932, in Galesburg, Ill. Catherine attended one year of college in Galesburg before moving to Creston, where she worked at various positions at Spurgeon's Department store for the next few years. She married Howard T. Scurr, Jr. on Feb. 26, 1940, in Ottumwa. Catherine had a passion for helping people and chose nursing as her profession. She attended nursing school at Passavant Hospital in Jacksonville, Ill., while her husband served as a medical officer (dentist) in the European Theater of World War II. Soon after the end of the war, they began their family and raised four children, Robert, David, Le and Bonnie in Oskaloosa, until 1964, when they moved back to Burlington, where Howard continued practicing dentistry. In Burlington, Catherine began her nursing career in earnest, where she cared for newborn babies in the nursery on the OB/GYN floor at Mercy Hospital.
Catherine loved cooking for family, crocheting and knitting family gifts and socializing with friends and family. Catherine and Howard loved to travel (especially by train) and spent several vacations in Florida, Texas, and California. In 1997, she and Howard moved to The Meadows (a retirement community) in Worthington, Minn. They enjoyed going out for meals with family and friends, spending time at the cabin with daughter, Le, and family and continued to travel to the Black Hills, Seattle and throughout Minnesota. A year after Howard's death in 2004, Catherine moved to Lakeview Assisted Living in Heron Lake, Minn. She loved the staff and residents of Lakeview and always told people, "I have so many good friends surrounding me."
Catherine L. Scurr, age 97, passed away on Nov. 10, 2012, at Lakeview Assisted Living, Heron Lake, Minn. She is survived by son Robert (Louise) Scurr, of Lake Carroll, Ill.; daughter Le (Larry) Lucht, of Worthington, Minn.; daughter Bonnie Smith, of Williamsburg; eight grandchildren: Todd (Rachel) Scurr, Brian (Veronique) Scurr, and Dan (Allison) Scurr; Mark Lucht, Carla (Christopher) Buzzeo and Matt (Michelle) Lucht; Shannon (Matt) Oetken and Samantha (Adam) Cohen; 12 great-grandchildren and 3 step great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Howard, son, David (Julie) and son-in-law, Ray "Jim" Smith.
Catherine's ashes will be interred at Aspen Grove Cemetery, Burlington, Iowa, on May 11.
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EAST KINGSTON —Don't miss "The Norman Magic Experience," one of the country's most exciting magic shows on Thurs., July 18, 11:00 a.m. to the East Kingston Public Library, 47 Maplevale Road, East Kingston. It's a family show most suited for children ages K-12.
This show is full of original magic effects, visual comedy, and audience participation. You will not see a show like this anywhere else; you will laugh the entire time; and you will take center stage during the show. Every routine in the show involves one or more volunteers from the audience. You will see bowling balls appear, money appear, objects travel from one side of the room to the other in the blink of an eye, and much more! You will scream, laugh and freak out! For more information, go to www.normanmagic.com.
Sponsored by the Friends of the East Kingston Public Library, this show is free of charge and open to the public.


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Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
Mr. Douglas G. Quinn, of Appleton, died unexpectedly on Saturday morning, November 16, 2013 in the Town of Newfane, while doing the work he loved.
Mr. Quinn was born in Lockport, October 5, 1955, a son of the late Peter J. and Janice (Budde) Quinn, Jr. A graduate of Barker High School, class of 1973, he married the former Beverly Jean Crawford on January 21, 1989. Doug had a lifelong love of the land and farming. He was employed by Snyder Farms and Voelpel Farms for many years. He was a devoted husband, father, brother, uncle and friend.
Survivors include his wife, Beverly Jean; his son, Francis J.L. (Melissa) Russell III of NC; two daughters, Brittanie N. Quinn and Emily A. Quinn; his sister, Cynthia (Jonathan) Incho of Medina and brother, Jeffrey A. (Janice) Quinn of Appleton; his father-in-law, Lewis (late Freda) Crawford of Medina; two sisters-in-law, Linda (Delbert) Jackson of Knowlesville and Alice (Michael) Barnum of Lyndonville; a brother-in-law, Eric (Linda) Crawford of Rochester; his uncle, Laverne F. Budde of French Creek; several nieces, nephews, cousins and extended family.
Friends may call on Wednesday (3-6) at the Cooper Funeral Home, 215 W. Center St., Medina. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Barker Alumni Assn., POB 266, Barker, NY 14012-0266.
Visit www.cooperfuneralhomemedina.com to share condolences.


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President's Notebook
My View from South Hill
Sunday, June 19, 2011
This post is for members of the Ithaca College class of 2015, our entering freshman class. Others are welcome to read it as guests!
Your high school graduation ceremonies have been completed, along with the rest of the hoopla surrounding the end of your senior year. The beginning of your freshman year in college is about two months away. From now until then, you might be working. I am sure you are also spending quality time with friends, knowing that you will never again be together in quite the same way you were through your high school years.
This is a special moment in your life and you know it. You will always remember these months for your feelings of accomplishment and pride, for a twinge of sadness that your high school years have passed, and for excited anticipation as well as bit of nervousness about the big steps that are ahead of you.
I'd like to suggest that in addition to allowing yourself to fully experience this range of emotions, you might also be deliberate in taking advantage of this special time. This is a moment to reflect on and bring closure to what you have done and who you have been to this point. It is a time to ask yourself who you want to be and what you want to accomplish next. What will you be remembered for as a high school student? What would you like to be remembered for as a student at Ithaca College?
I hope you will take advantage of this summer to put yourself in some settings where deep reflection can take place, both alone and in the company of friends. Why not debate the significance of a poem, literary character or song lyric with friends until at least 2:00 a.m.? (Parental rules on curfew take precedence over this suggestion.) Why not reflect on the beauty and potential that exists in a single day by going to a quiet spot near your home and watching the sun come up?
During my in-between summer, I spent one night in a big old oak tree on public land that I had walked past many times between my home and the junior high school I attended. (My parents will learn about this for the first time if they read this post.) I no longer remember what caused me to think that was a good idea but I do remember some of the thoughts I had as I listened to the night sounds, reflected on what I was hoping for in college, and tried to stay awake for fear of falling out of the tree.
You will all, I hope, read Ransom – our first year reading. My last suggestion to you for this summer is that you underline every passage that seems important to you personally in your life, and write in the margin why. On the inside front cover, write three or four things that describe who you are. Also write down a few things you are proud of from your high school years. On the inside back cover, write down a few things you hope to accomplish as a college student. If you hope to become more empathetic, more open to a wide range of people and experiences, or more self-confident, be sure to write those things down. Find a place somewhere in the book to write one way in which the world seems out of whack to you. Describe specifically what would need to change to fix it.
If you do those things, I promise that you will in future years cherish this book beyond measure. It will become a window into who you are today, a window that will otherwise become cloudy with time. It will help you understand who you are trying to become. When your future self encounters what you have written in this book, you will feel challenged and delighted at the same time.
I hope you embrace this summer as one of those rare moments in life when you stand ready to take a major step into the unknown, into your own future. I know you are ready to join us on campus – and we are so very ready to welcome you.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Last week I went to a retirement party for Cornell University's Sidney Tarrow, one of the world's leading scholars in the study of social movements, a field in which I used to work. The "retirement party" was more of a two day research conference at which leading scholars discussed their recent work while offering comments on how Tarrow has shaped the field and inspired them personally. Academics celebrate the life and work of their colleagues upon retirement really well, which is a bit ironic because we tend not to be terribly kind to each other during our working years.
In this case, participants came from around the country as well as from Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, South Korea, and Australia. They presented research in areas that have been shaped by Tarrow's lifetime of work, particularly on the phenomenon of waves or cycles of protest. Some of the presentations examined why movements accelerate and then decelerate with such rapidity. Others considered the international diffusion of protest, such as the recent and on-going struggles against authoritarian rule in the Middle East and North Africa. One of Sid's contributions to the field was to find commonalities in the dynamics of protest in different parts of the world, under different types of governments and using radically different methods of contention. Accordingly, cases examined at this conference in his honor ranged from armed conflict for regime change to peaceful protest within democracies aimed at changing specific laws.
Though most of the conference was given over to research presentations, one panel at the end of the first day focused on Tarrow himself. The discussants included one of Sid's former professors (Joe LaPalombara of Yale University), one of his former students (Sarah Soule, now at Stanford), one of his research collaborators (David Meyer of the University of California at Irvine), and one of his current colleagues at Cornell (Ken Roberts). Despite their different relationships to Tarrow, and despite the fact that their anecdotes ranged in time from the 1950s to last semester, there emerged a consistent picture of Sid's commitment to collaboration for the advancement of knowledge. Sid's collaborators – and he insisted on viewing first year graduate students and distinguished full professors as his collaborators – were drawn into an informal network that he put great energy into creating and maintaining. Sid befriended everyone working in the field, and being his friend meant sharing ideas and draft papers for review and comment by him and others in the network. The list of people who have been Sid's co-authors is extensive, but several participants noted that his willingness – insistence really – to offer critiques of everything he read made him an unacknowledged co-author of a significant fraction of work in the field.
Sid Tarrow lives in Karl Popper's ideal world of how reliable knowledge is developed. Popper believed that science advances by cultivating the widest possible proliferation of ideas and theories, and then ruthlessly testing each one to see whether they adequately account for observed reality. In Popper's philosophy, all untested ideas are equal -- whether they come from an acknowledged expert in the field, someone new to the discipline, or someone completely outside of it. Tarrow shows us how that philosophy can be made to work in practice: network with everyone working in the field, show them your work and ask to see theirs, and then engage in a thoughtful dialog by email when necessary and by grant-supported conferences whenever possible. There is in this approach scant room for professional rivalries or for judging people by the prestige of the university they are associated with. It is instead all about the work.
Listening to Tarrow's colleagues and collaborators, I was reminded of the fundamental nobility of the academic profession when properly pursued. Tarrow created (and though now retired has no intention of ceasing to create) a learning community in its purest form. Scholars in Tarrow's orbit – including Sid himself – work better and faster because they are exposed to a wide range of ideas and research methods and because they can find out more quickly which ideas prove to be dead ends.
Of course there is also competition among those in Tarrow's network. All scholars seek to advance their careers and reputations through the research they do. But embedded in the network is a recognition that collaboration enables everyone to do their best work. What would happen if other segments of society were also structured around a competiveness that is more substantially leavened by collaboration and mutual support?
Thursday, May 26, 2011
It might have been the perfect Commencement.
Not many businesses would celebrate the end of a four year relationship with a loyal customer. But of course higher education is not just another business. Colleges and universities around the country plan with care to create an exciting and memorable commencement for graduates and their families. We do this partly out of respect for what the graduates have accomplished during their time as students. But, as the word "commencement" implies, we do it even more as a celebration of what is to come. Our graduates are ready to lead successful and fulfilled lives. They are ready to make great contributions to the wider society. This truly is cause for celebration!
I have been to 42 commencements at five different colleges and universities over the last 37 years, including two in which I was part of the graduating class. Based on that considerable fund of experience, I think Ithaca College had the perfect commencement last Sunday.
Part of what made our commencement so great is the campus itself. Thanks to our grounds crews who already this spring have planted 6,000 annual flowers, spread 900 cubic yards of mulch and mowed 48 acres of lawn, the campus was perfectly tended. Our fountains and their views of Cayuga Lake were, as always, the perfect backdrop for thousands of family photos. I managed to wangle my way into several hundred of those photos, including the one posted here of Pam and Andy Russell (both IC class of 1980) and their daughter Lisa (IC class of 2011).
Part of what made our commencement memorable was the fact that it was featured on ABC's World News Tonight, as our alumnus and commencement speaker David Muir '95 returned to the studio and told a national audience about his experience on the IC campus.
What made this commencement truly great, though, was the people involved. At the center of attention: 1,440 graduates receiving bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees. They were joined by approximately 11,000 family and friends, and were cheered on as well by several hundred IC faculty and staff.
Our graduates and other guests were treated to several moments they will remember for the rest of their lives. One such moment was Katie Henly's '11 beautiful rendition of The Star Spangled Banner delivered despite an unruly flag that kept flapping close to her face. Never has there been so much meaning in the line "Oh say does that star bangled banner yet wave?" It most certainly did wave while Katie sang!
Senior class president Danielle Giserman '11 roused the audience with her listing of some of the experiences shared by all IC students. The biggest cheer of the day greeted her mention of Dom Barrett's custom omelets prepared every morning in the Campus Center Dining Hall.
Dorothy Cotton, the civil rights educator who part of Dr. Martin Luther King's leadership team, received an honorary doctor of laws degree. She channeled Dr. King in the inspiring cadences of her speech, in which she told our graduates that the work of creating a just world will not be finished until they lend their talents to the greater good.
David Muir '95 was chosen by the senior class committee to be our commencement speaker. He began by recalling vivid experiences from his days as a student at IC, including the time he burned popcorn in a microwave in Rowland Hall and created so much smoke that the fire trucks came out. He then spoke to his experience as a successful professional in television journalism, mentioning the moment when he realized the importance of unwavering commitment to excellence. Mr. Muir recalled doing the overnight news at ABC and thinking that no one would ever notice his 2 a.m. efforts until he learned that Peter Jennings had seen his work and thought highly of him. Suddenly, our graduates could see the straight path that runs from their work as IC students to success at the pinnacle of their future professional paths.
In different ways and coming from different personal experiences, Ms. Cotton, Mr. Muir and I offered variations on the theme that every graduate has the capacity to make a difference, and that the key to doing so is by finding your own voice. All three of us believe there is no tension between pursuing personal success and fulfillment, and trying to make a positive difference in the world. Those two paths are in reality the same.
Our graduates, ranging from 21 years of age to 86 year old Beryl Anderson, told me after the ceremony that they noticed the convergence in message and that it was one they will always keep close to their hearts. I have a feeling we will be hearing much more from the class of 2011 in the future. In the meantime, we can now begin planning the perfect commencement for the class of 2012!
For David Muir's complete commencement address and his story on ABC News about it, go to:http://wildfire.gigya.com/facebook/preview.aspx?fb_sig_api_key=f7667e9ebccf2157d6f15f991a5e3ce9&wid=541909711&p=bHQ9MTMwNjE4OTQ5MzQ3MCZwdD*xMzA2MTg5NDk2NjMwJnA9MTI1ODQxMSZkPUFCQ*5ld3NfU*ZQX*xvY2tlX*VtYmVkXzEzNjYxNjYwX*dyYWR1YXRpb25EYXkmbj1mYWNlYm9vayZnPTImbz1mNWE3ZTM5NzZlZmQ*YzUxYTU4ODQzYWVkODgzMWU1NiZvZj*w&s=1
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Amber, Liam and I welcomed Eliot Dell Rochon to our family today, April 13, 2011. He joined the world with a blink and a cry at 8:15 a.m., weighing 7 pounds 6 ounces and with a head full of rich brown hair. Mother and child are doing splendidly. Liam is delighted to have a brother. I am hyperventilating.
Amber and I have been asking friends in recent months about the transition from having one child to having two. We've gotten some great advice that is mainly centered on helping Liam adjust to changed circumstances.
My greatest curiosity, though one I was hesitant to voice to others, was how I would adjust. A family that felt whole with three members would now have four. A triad of interactions and relationships that have become well established over the last two years will now shift to accommodate Eliot. Love that felt complete would now be extended to someone new.
These thoughts did not concern me. There are millions of multi-child families after all, including the ones Amber and I each grew up in. My attitude was more one of curiosity – how does this amazing transition occur so instantly, so smoothly, and so completely? I was a caterpillar entering the metamorphosis stage confident in what was about to happen and yet not understanding how it possibly could.
I still don't know how the shift occurs. All I know is that it does. Instantaneously. Our family is now four. My arms have wrapped around all of them at the same time.
Eliot is not named after anyone; his name belongs to him every bit as much as his life from today forward will be his. But we did borrow the spelling of Eliot's name from T. S. Eliot. It was only after we became psychologically committed to this decision that I recalled how the poet once commented that his name is an anagram of toilets. Fortunately Eliot Rochon will not have to contend with that.
However, I do hope our Eliot will contend with some of T.S. Eliot's thoughts on life:
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly know how far one can go.
Such reflections lie in Eliot's future. At the moment he is a squalling bundle of life aware only of his most immediate needs. His deep blue eyes have only just opened but he is already beginning to take in the incredible world into which he was born. Amber and I look at each other and then shift our gazes simultaneously to Eliot lying in her arms, and to Liam standing by the bed.
"What makes life dreary is the want of a motive," T. S. Eliot once wrote. Life around the Rochon home will be anything but dreary.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Last night I ran into the Ithaca College provost, Greg Woodward, in the hallway connecting our offices. Nothing unusual in that except that the time was 6:45 p.m.
I knew that Greg was headed to the monthly Faculty Council meeting that begins at 7:00 p.m., and as usual he had stayed on campus and worked through to that hour. "Why are you here?" Greg asked. "No wait, let me guess."
Greg's first guess was that maybe I was planning to visit the class in the Park School of Communications that was meeting that evening to discuss the fate of traditional media in a time of new technologies. The class was joined (via Skype) by Jill Agostino (an IC alumn who is assistant editor of the New York Times), by Peter King (an IC alum who works at CBS Radio News), by David Muir (an IC alum who is an ABC television news anchor), and by Diane Sawyer (who is not an IC alum but appears to have had a successful career anyway). It was an all-star cast discussing with our students one of the most important topics of our time. But no, that was not where I was headed.
Greg's second guess was that maybe I was planning to attend L'Orfeo, the early 17th century opera written by Monteverdi that recounts the Greek legend of Orpheus descending to Hades to rescue his wife Eurydice. L'Orfeo is the current collaborative production of our Theatre program and the School of Music, being performed on stage in the Dillingham Center. It would have made for a wonderful evening but that was not where I was headed.
Greg's third guess was that I might be on my way to a movie. IC alum Bill Carraro is producer of the soon-to-be-released film The Adjustment Bureau, starring Matt Damon and based on a short story by my personal favorite science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Carraro, a graduate of the class of 1981, has previously produced such films as American History X, The Golden Compass, Frequency, and The Wolfman. As a gesture of support and thanks for his IC education, Bill booked an entire local theater for the evening, rented a bus, and invited all Park School students to see a pre-release screening of The Adjustment Bureau. This would have been a fabulous way to spend my evening, but was not where I was headed.
"Of course!" Greg said. The IC Symphonic Band was performing, in Ford Hall on campus that evening, works by Timothy Mahr, Warren Benson, Martin Ellerby and David Maslanka. That is where Greg would probably have been himself had he not gone to the Faculty Council meeting. But no, that was not where I was going.
Now Greg was really scratching his head. A quick check of the campus events calendar on his cell phone unearthed another possibility. Maybe I was headed to the free evening of stand up and improv comedy being put on by the IC Comedy Club in IC Square? That sounded like fun, but it was not where I was heading.
The Ithaca College provost works really hard and I knew he had a Faculty Council meeting to get to, so I relented and filled him in. I was headed to an Etiquette Dinner sponsored by several student organizations in our School of Business, including the American Marketing Association and the National Association of Black Accountants. That may sound like a dull affair involving the close study of which fork to use for which course, but in fact this annual event is a fun and low-pressure opportunity to practice both table manners and social graces for use in a job interview setting. There was a reserved stiffness among the participants at the beginning of the meal, but by the end students at each table had effectively bonded with the table host who served as a surrogate for a potential employer. That bonding is exactly what is supposed to happen over a meal during an actual job interview.
After the networking-over-coffee event that followed the Etiquette Dinner, I decided to stop by the IC Comedy Club performance. A student was doing some very funny material about how there isn't much to do in Ithaca. I smiled at the irony and headed home after a normal Tuesday evening on the Ithaca College campus.


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Ray has served as English Channel pilots with his brother under the guidance of their father Reg over the course of four decades. Reg started work with his father at the age of 16 in 1967 and Ray also started at the age of 16 years, 3 years later. In 1981, they took over the running of the boat from their father. On average, the brothers take up to 30 swimmers each season across the English Channel, including escorts for several world record swims. Like their father, they remain very involved with the Channel Swimming Association.


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Theresa Lammon is in her final year at The American Academy of Art, graduating in the spring with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Illustration. At school, Theresa is a member of The Society Of Illustrators Student Chapter, also fondly known as Illustration Club, which featured two of her artwork pieces in their first gallery show. Aspiring to be a freelance illustrator for an advertising firm, Theresa is going to be working for Chicago-based company eeShirts.com, and will be responsible for designing advertisements and t-shirts that appeal to electrical engineers.
There is nothing else I enjoy more than taking simple materials and creating beautiful things from them. The details are very tedious and stressful, but the end results get me excited every time.
On Theresa's first pair of Fluevogs:
I've never owned a pair of Fluevogs, but I'm very excited to find a pair that I love now that I have the opportunity to browse the entire collection to find my first pair!
On entering the FluevogCreative contest:
When my instructor announced we would be submitting designs for FluevogCreative, and that the name of the shoe was The Swordfish, I instantly knew what I wanted to do. Influenced by an artist named Alphonse Mucha, I took the idea of making a circular design in the background to center the viewer's focus on the shoe, which was very lovely and a huge joy to paint. I kept the composition very round to draw the eye in, like the bulls-eye on a target.
On how long Theresa's creative took:
Once I had the idea down in my sketchbook for what I wanted to do exactly, I set to work. I started drawing in the morning and finished the final painting later that evening. I believe that it took a total of 8 solid hours of work. I barely stepped away from my painting during that time. At school, I scanned it and made some very minor touches to clean bits of it up in Adobe Photoshop.
My favorite part during the process was painting the shoes; I wanted to make them as perfect and as close to the reference as possible. It was very important to me that the shoes looked really good. I was so pleased when they turned out the way I wanted, that I started singing about how awesome they were compared to the photograph I had.
On the inspiration behind her winning ad Nouveau Swordfish:
The inspiration for my work generally involves things that amuse me. Everything that I see has the potential to become fodder for my creative mind-machine. In the case of my Fluevog entry, one of my classmates was working on creating her own font using fish. I filed away the idea to utilize fish in my painting for later use.
Theresa also runs a crocheting business with a friend, selling their goods on etsy (yarnbombin.etsy.com) and at craft shows. They used the money they earned to visit a friend in Germany for a month, creating Yarnbombs in the places they visited. Yarnbombing is a type of street art in which the yarnbomber strategically puts yarn on things in public places like statues or poles. Theresa and her friend had a total blast exploring Germany, seeing the sites, and climbing around ruined fortresses in the countryside.
On what the dreams and future hold for Theresa Lammon:
My dream is to continue doing my art and other things that are close and dear to my heart.
I want to thank everyone who supported me in this contest - all of my friends and family who rallied for me to help me win. Without their support, I wouldn't have gotten anywhere and I wouldn't have been encouraged to try and pursue a career in the arts. My family helped me to get through art school and for that I will be forever grateful. I am very lucky to have such a solid support system in my life, and to be encouraged to do the things that make me happy.
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Remote Debugging of Loadable Kernel Modules with kgdb: a Knowledge-based Article for Getting Started
As many kernel developers and hackers have known for years, loadable/unloadable kernel modules (like user-space applications) are almost never bug-free. With the continuing use and development of loadable modules growing, due in fact to the obvious benefits of the mechanism (lean kernels, reduction of kernel recompiles/reboots, etc.), developers are in an increasing need for robust debugging tools capable of aiding in the identification of problem code. Traditionally, module developers have used various debugging techniques to help identify problematic code. These techniques have included:
printk statements around suspected areas of failure (probably the most useful)
Oops analysis (also quite useful)
Magic Key combinations (for recovery of system hangs, displaying register contents, etc.)
kgdb is a kernel patch that, once applied, allows for the use of the familiar gdb interface for source-level debugging of a running Linux kernel. The process requires the use of two machines. One machine runs the kernel being debugged while the other runs the gdb session. Communication between the running kernel and gdb transpires via a serial cable connecting the two machines.
The kgdb patch supplies the kernel with a debugging stub. This stub uses the gdb remote serial protocol to communicate with gdb through a serial driver interface (also supplied by the patch). This patch is applied to the kernel on the machine that will run the gdb session (the development machine) where it is recompiled. The newly compiled boot image is then copied to the other machine (the target machine) where it is configured as the bootable kernel. When a reboot into the transferred kernel is complete, the target machine can then be configured to halt and await a remote connection from a gdb session on the development machine. When this connection is established, the target machine's kernel can then be debugged (single-stepping, issuing of breakpoints, data examination, etc.) through gdb on the development machine as if it were a user-space application.
The first step is to download the kgdb patch for your kernel version. A patch can be obtained at http://kgdb.sourceforge.net/. As of this writing, patches only exist for the following kernels:
2.4.0-test4 (kernel used for this article)
Once you have obtained the patch, copy the patch to the kernel source directory on the development machine, and apply.
patch -p1 < patchfile(remember, this is the kernel that will eventually turn on the target machine)
The patched kernel must now be recompiled. It is assumed here that /usr/src/linux/.config exists and accurately reflects your current kernel configuration. Navigate to the source directory (if you aren't there already), and do a make menuconfig. From the main menu navigate to and select kernel hacking. You should now see an option for Remote (serial) debugging with gdb. Make sure this option is selected and then exit, saving your configuration. Next, do a make clean followed by a make bzImage (or whatever image you usually make).
The recompile adds a documentation file called gdb-serial.txt to your system. This file can be found in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/i386 and includes a step-by-step description of what needs to transpire next. Basically, here are the highlights.
The newly compiled kernel image (e.g., bzImage) is copied to the target machine where it is configured for boot. For example, the image may be copied to /boot/vmlinuz-target (or whatever you want to call it) followed by an added entry in lilo.conf:
image= /boot/vmlinuz-target label=target_kernel read-only root=/dev/hda1
Next, run LILO at the command line, and reboot into the new kernel.
On the development machine, navigate to /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel. Here you will find an executable called gdbstart. Copy this program to the target machine. gdbstart is responsible for configuring the target machine's serial port (from user space) for communication with gdb on the development machine. The program then calls a process ioctl that activates the serial driver interface to the debugging stub. This driver effectively halts the target system until gdb on the development machine issues a continuance to resume execution.
Next, decide which serial port (i.e., ttyS0 or ttyS1) is to be used as well as a baud rate for communication (e.g., /dev/ttyS0 with a baud rate of 38,400).
Connect the two machines with a null modem serial cable. Be sure to connect the cable to the serial ports you have designated in the above step.
Run the gdbstart program on the target machine with the following parameters (or whatever port and data rate you decide upon):
gdbstart - s 38400 - t /dev/ttyS0The program will execute and pause, awaiting a remote connection from the development machine.
Alternatively, the documentation suggests creating a script on the target machine to deliberately call gdbstart with user-defined parameters.
The documentation next instructs you to create a .gdbinit file in /usr/src/linux on the development machine. Included in this file is a macro (called rmt) that is used to supply gdb with the information it needs to initiate the remote protocol. Edit this information to reflect the com port and data rate you have designated for communication between gdb and the target machine.
Now, navigate to /usr/src/linux on the development machine, and run gdb vmlinux. Once you receive a gdb prompt enter rmt, which informs gdb that it is connecting to a remote target (via the serial port and data rate specified in the .gdbinit file).
You should now see something that resembles Listing 1.
Listing 1. gdb Connecting to a Remote Target
You can now issue step commands, set breakpoints, etc. Issuing a continue to gdb will return the target kernel to a running state. The kernel will continue to run until it encounters a defined breakpoint, an interrupt, a signal, a segment violation, etc., at which point control is returned to gdb on the development machine.
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WASHINGTON — The nation's top regulator of oil trading announced Tuesday the creation of a special federal task force to study the role of speculators and the investment practices of large institutions that critics think are running up oil prices.
The announcement came as a special advisory committee went before the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to discuss ways to make the oil markets more transparent. Increasing reporting requirements and other transparency measures would reduce concerns that oil traders are manipulating the trading of contracts for future delivery of oil, called futures, in ways that drive up oil prices. The CFTC announced in late May that it was investigating whether there has been price manipulation during this year's steep run-up in global oil prices.
With the average price of gasoline nationwide now above $4 a gallon, Congress is studying a number of measures to quash what many think is speculative behavior that is pushing up oil prices. The CFTC, which regulates the futures markets, has said it doesn't believe that speculation causes today's high oil prices but has promised that the task force will take a deep look.
"It is intended to bring together the best and brightest minds in government to aid public and regulatory understanding of the forces that are affecting the functioning of these markets and it will strive to complete its work quickly and make public its results," CFTC Chairman Walter Lukken said.
Critics dismissed the task force as a public relations move that won't lower prices.
"That's a great way to appear to be doing something when you are not," said Michael Greenberger, a University of Maryland law professor who was the CFTC's director of trading during the Clinton administration.
The new task force will include representatives from the Federal Reserve, the Treasury Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Departments of Energy and Agriculture. The task force will examine investor practices, fundamental supply and demand factors and the role of speculators and index traders in commodity markets.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson suggested Tuesday that supply and demand forces alone are to blame for today's record prices.
Bart Chilton, a CFTC commissioner, said that Paulson spoke too soon.
"Perhaps the secretary has a crystal ball, but I don't, and given what I'm seeing and hearing in the markets and from market users, that seems to be a premature determination, at best," Chilton said in prepared remarks. "At worst, I think it would be a dereliction of our duties for us, the overseers of these markets, to ignore other possible reasons for price run-ups, and continue to fall back on reliance on 'fundamentals.' "
The leaders of Saudi Arabia have said that today's high prices aren't justified by market fundamentals "and I think the Saudis know a little bit about the oil markets," Chilton noted.


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BRUNSWICK — A photographer tries to take Andrew Ian Dodge's picture, but the man who has become one of the leading national spokesmen for the tea party is having difficulty sitting still.
Dodge, 42, shifts on his bar stool, as if subconsciously seeking the shadows made elusive by the midday sun. He obsesses over the dark circles under his eyes; he'd been out late picking up a friend at the airport.
His hangdog appearance, as he describes it, is why he prefers to meet people in dark bars.
"I think you have enough to make me look like a hound of hell," he says as the photographer leaves.
Dodge has staked out a quiet corner of Byrnes Irish Pub, a new establishment in Brunswick's Maine Street Station, a taxpayer subsidized development project. Dodge, a libertarian and assailant of government intervention, acknowledges the irony of his temporary haven.
Per usual, he is dressed entirely in black, save for a white scarf with a pattern of skulls and crossbones. For the next two hours, Dodge, a Harpswell resident, freelance science fiction writer, musician, blogger, cancer survivor and state coordinator for the Maine Tea Party Patriots, discusses his increased national profile.
And, of course, there's the rampant speculation that Dodge is the mystery primary challenger to tea party pariah, U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine.
Dodge's oft-speculated run in 2012 has generated buzz locally and nationally. A recent story in the D.C.-based publication Roll Call stopped just short of announcing his candidacy. Dodge, for his part, has done nothing to discourage the rumors, appearing on local radio shows to whip up the intrigue.
During last week's interview in Brunswick, he coyly deflected a question about a potential run.
"I couldn't possibly comment," he said, bowing his head to disguise a wry smile.
While it might seem inevitable that Dodge will declare his candidacy, one can never be sure. As a recent report in the publication Mother Jones noted, the tea party appears to be influencing policy-making even when its candidates lose. The mere threat of a challenger has establishment politicians on edge, which, some say, is the point.
Dave Weigel, a D.C.-based reporter for Slate Magazine and a former reporter for Reason, a libertarian magazine, has been immersed in the movement from jump street. Weigel said the tea party doesn't care as much about running candidates as it does getting politicians to do what it wants.
"There's been a couple of instances when somebody crosses them, or doesn't live up to a promise," Weigel said. "They don't forgive them because they want to get a meeting. They call it out."
"This isn't normal politics," he added.
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Dodge, whose blunt, colorful quotes have made him one of the national media's go-to spokesmen for the movement, is keenly aware of the new dynamic.
It was Dodge, after all, who co-authored a letter by GOProud, signed by 14 tea party activists, warning Republican congressmen against running "down any social issue rabbit holes." The sharply worded missive came on the heels of comments by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., who told religious groups, "You can't be a fiscal conservative and not a social conservative."
To some, the letter signaled a potential fissure in the GOP. But Dodge later told Weigel that it was designed to "stiffen" Republican backbones.
"I don't see the Republicans being dumb enough to chase social issues," Dodge said.
It remains to be seen whether Dodge's hints about running against Snowe are a red herring. Weigel, who has known about Dodge since 2002, said he never considered Dodge to be a politician.
"I don't even think of Andrew as somebody who needs to acquire political power," Weigel said. "He's just this blunt activist who demands accountability. He's really not impressed by power."
One thing is certain: Dodge has taken great pleasure in tormenting Snowe with innuendo. Dodge claims to have had "extensive conversations" with the candidate who will run against Snowe. Dodge describes him as a wealthy man from southern Maine.
"Whoever gets the national money behind him, it's going to be a bloodbath," Dodge predicted. "It's going to be a nasty, nasty campaign."
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Dodge lives in the High Head section of Harpswell, a thin peninsula jutting into Harpswell sound. With homestead exemptions, the property, which is owned by his mother, is valued at around $740,000, according to the town assessor's office.
Dodge says he scratches out a living with his freelance writing. However, his father, Arthur Dodge, who last year succumbed to pancreatic cancer, was a chemical engineer for Texaco oil company, and Dodge is in line to receive a significant inheritance.
Dodge's upbringing has made him both well-traveled and well-educated. He's lived in England, Honduras and Miami. He graduated from Colby College and has a post-graduate degree in legislative politics from the University of Hull in the U.K.
He describes himself as a 19th-century Gladstonian liberal, the British free-market, limited-government doctrine embraced by Winston Churchill.
"I have that coastal Maine attitude," he said. "I call it, 'don't ask, don't give a damn.' It's just, 'leave me alone.' People want to be left alone. Let them get on with it."
Dodge's time in England appears to have shaped him the most. His wife, Kim Dodge, is English. His speech is sprinkled with British vernacular.
He is also steeped in British politics. He claims as a friend Daniel Hannan, the conservative member of European Parliament and tea party hero who wrote the book "The New Road to Serfdom."
Dodge draws English and European examples of the perils of socialism, a doctrine he claims is being advanced in the United States by President Barack Obama.
"The bizarre thing is that European countries are moving away from socialism," he said. "America is adopting it, but the rest of the world is cutting it back. ... It's because this country never went through the grinding socialism that European countries did."
Dodge described the endgame for libertarianism as a restoring of "all the usurped powers of the federal government back to the state level," or even the municipal level.
He called it "constitutionally mandated localism."
"We take all the powers that are demonstrably suited to the lowest level of local government because it's closest to the people," he said.
In addition to opposing government intervention in bailing out the banking and car industries, Dodge would support legalizing marijuana and lowering the drinking age to 18.
Dodge's limited-government belief system appears unshakable, particularly when it comes to a government-run health-care system. Dodge himself barely survived colon cancer, having "died twice" because of a hospital-administered morphine overdose following a surgical procedure.
He speaks compassionately about the patients he met during chemotherapy.
But Dodge bristles when it's suggested that cancer survivors might benefit from a federal health care law that prohibits insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.
"I know of car insurance companies that will give you insurance even though you're a (expletive) idiot driver," he said.
Sharp tongue
Weigel, of Slate, described Dodge as blunt. That might be an understatement.
His trenchant speech isn't always directed at his ideological opponents, either.
During the gubernatorial campaign, Dodge openly seethed after Republican Paul LePage suggested during a Portland forum that the tea party had courted him, not vice versa.
In a story in Mother Jones, Dodge lashed out at LePage and his apologists in the tea party.
"(LePage) expects the tea party to be his bitches and I'm not," Dodge said. "... (The tea party) seems to think the more thuggish he is, the better he does. They don't understand there's a difference between running and governing."
Dodge, an admitted skeptic of LePage, is still annoyed by the governor-elect's comments about not seeking tea party support.
"It was so insulting," Dodge said. "I mean, I was at the first (tea party) event (LePage) was at, and he was sucking up like you wouldn't believe."
Dodge also believes LePage is being "scrubbed" by his handlers.
"The spinning to defend him gets funnier and funnier," he said.
Dodge's comments about LePage have sometimes put him at odds with local members of the tea party.
His GOProud letter attracted national attention, but it also drew fire from social conservatives who called Dodge "a pig" and "a liberal" suffering from "flashbacks."
But he keeps firing back.
Last week, when LePage told the National Review that he'd back Snowe for re-election in 2012, Dodge could barely contain his mockery of those who didn't see it coming. Posters on the tea party site for the Maine Refounders, which is separate from Dodge's group, shot back, claiming he didn't speak for Maine tea partiers.
Others accused him of practicing witchcraft.
Dodge, who typically dresses in black and admits that there are Halloween party photos of him wearing an eye patch, a leather kilt and similarly themed costumes, laughs it off. But he can't resist needling his detractors on the religious right.
"If you really want to wind them up, just let them know that the Puritans were socialists," Dodge said.
A self-proclaimed deist, Dodge likened his tiffs with the more religious elements of the party to the political arguments he had with his father, the ideological inspiration for his activism.
"We would get into absolute barneys over (politics)," he said. "But we were on the same side. ... I think it's one of the things the tea party movement is realizing now. ... That's the point where the tea party is, and people come to that point via completely different routes."
To run, or not to run
On the surface, whether or not Dodge joins Lisbon Falls Republican Scott D'Amboise in challenging Snowe might seem irrelevant. Although some polls have suggested that Maine Republicans want a more conservative candidate in 2012, other surveys have shown the three-time senator to be popular with a wider cross-section of voters.
Add the fact that Snowe has never lost an election in Maine, and it would seem that any challenger's quest would be quixotic at best.
But the tea party has changed the traditional dynamic. It has already succeeded in sacking moderate Republicans, and although some wonder – or hope – that the movement will dissipate, it has proven deft at wielding its newfound power.
Dodge, who has toured the country to speak at national rallies, has seen the influence firsthand. He believes that strict free-market conservatives like himself can coalesce with the social conservatives in the GOP establishment.
"We have a formula that works," he said. "We just can't screw it up like we did in the '90s."
The question remains locally, however: If Dodge runs, will he get backing from members of the Maine movement?
"I think there's a chance that more of these people will begrudgingly like me," he said. "I admit, I've been an arrogant so-and-so at times."
"There are some people in some groups that adore me and there are others that think I'm demon spawn," he added.


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Jenica Miller, a 5th-grader and Junior Level Girl Scout from Floyds Knobs, has Type II Spinal Muscular Atrophy and uses a power wheelchair for mobility. She is dependent on adults to care for her as her ability to lift and reach is limited, has a nurse who cares for her each day from the time her mother leaves for work until she gets on the school bus.
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While waiting for help to arrive, Jenica knew she had to the door unlocked. It was hard as she had to drive herself to the front door, and turn the deadbolt which required reaching up in the air, a task that is extremely difficult for her. She also had to turn around to get back to the kitchen, unsupervised near an open staircase.
Jenica, who has been a member of Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana (GSK) since 2009, is at high risk of falling because of her condition. If she falls over, even from a sitting position, she is stuck until an adult can put her upright. Had she fallen or gotten stuck while working on the lock or returning to the kitchen with the nurse, there would have been no one to physically assist her.
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Jenica checked to see where her nurse's cell phone was in case she needed to call 911. She kept calm, and kept both herself and the nurse safe until help soon arrived. A substitute nurse took over Jenica's care until it was time for her to get on her school bus.
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