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Charlie Wolverhampton - Capitol [fin] Feb 10, 2012 22:24:28 GMT -5
Post by sock king kasamatsu on Feb 10, 2012 22:24:28 GMT -5
Age 17
Gender Male
District Capitol
Status Runaway
"So how about it? Are you scared?"
Age 17
Gender Male
District Capitol
Status Runaway
"So how about it? Are you scared?"
I'm not anything to rant and rave over, if I do say so myself. My height is six feet even and I weigh about 176 pounds. I haven't weighed myself lately, but that's my guess. So I'm not underweight, nor do I look it. Being brought up in the Capitol, I've never gone without a meal, even when I left home. Unlike the poor District citizens, I have the muscles of a Career and it shows. I love to run, so that's why I figure I'm always in good shape – certainly not fighting-wise, but when am I ever going to need to fight? Anyway, my hair is shades of dark amber, though the darker parts are underneath and the lighter parts are on top. I tend to keep the length so that it comes down just slightly over my eyebrows, but never long enough to cover my eyes. And if I'm out in the sun a lot, my hair becomes more of the light brown. I also keep it long so that the ugly scars on the top of my head from a "surgery" don't show. That's quite painful to remember. My eyes are a light gray-blue, outlined with a ring of black on the outside of the iris; they've always got a light in them so that they never look dull, and trust me, gray-blue can be an ugly color when it's dull. The face as a whole is kinda small, with thin lips, a small mouth, though I consider the cheekbones to be high. The bridge of my nose is a bit curved, but to see the full effect you have to see my face straight-on. I had gotten into a fight when I was smaller and the guy broke my nose, though it never set right, so now it's crooked. Luckily it's not as bad as it could be, but it's still quite noticeable.
My arms and legs, like any Career, are corded with muscle and bear scars. Most of my scars are from being careless with sharp objects, and I'll admit that I'm quite clumsy. My hands and forearms have scattered white burn scars from where I was burned when some idiot decided to be mean and forcibly shove my arms into a fire, and they become more and more obvious the tanner I get. Because I'm outside a lot, my skin usually holds a good tan, so the burns stick out like a sore thumb, like my crooked nose. But it's alright; I don't mind them. The nose, yeah, it embarrasses me sometimes, but I usually forget about it. My chest and stomach are just as fine and dandy as my arms, but my abs aren't very well defined. Oh, they're there, just not rock-hard and outlined with a deep rut, so they're not eye candy like some other guys, but what does that matter?
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Many people say I'm crazy, but I'm not. Even my parents think something's wrong with me. They tell me that I'm hallucinating and seeing people, but they're lying. Everything I see is real – I hear them, feel them, and see them. How can my "hallucinations" not be real then? When I was little, my mother would tell me that my best friend wasn't real. Such bull hockey. I played with him every day and he was the best friend to me. But whenever I would ask my mother if he could come over to our house, she always told me that he didn't exist. She's not the first one to say that. My dad, siblings, and people at school all soon caught on to my "imaginary fabrications," and they teased me. Because of this, I am not a fighter; there's no way I could have taken on all of them at once, so I now always shrink back from people who insult me or poke fun at me. They're all just stupid anyway. I know what's real, I've always known. It's everyone else that's crazy. I'm perfectly sane and my friends are real. Another reason they think I'm crazy is that I sometimes have involuntary jerks, mostly with my head and neck, and they happen more when I'm stressed. I'll get more into that later.
Since I'm not a fighter, I always run away from fights, and I love running. I can run forever and a day – well, not really, but you get the point. It makes me feel better. After a long day of people calling you crazy and stressing you out, what's better than going for a run and leaving everything behind? My friends like to go with me, too. I'll run with them and talk to them all the way. I have pretty good endurance because I'm out jogging so constantly, so I can go for miles. On average I go for three miles, but if I'm really pissed off, I add on an extra two or three miles just to blow off steam. I create my own paths too, and that's pretty fun. I enjoy looking at maps and drawing patterns, figuring out which way would get me the most mileage while making a complete circle and ending back up where I started.
My biggest fears are thunderstorms and chairs with arm rests. The thunderstorm fear mostly pertains to lightning since my mother, desperate to help me, was scammed into giving me electroconvulsive therapy. Ever since then, lightning has terrified me. I know that the natural electricity has nothing to do with anything medical, but it just gives me a terrifying feeling and I get flashbacks and it's not pretty. When storms happen, I usually hide under a table or under a bed, somewhere small that I feel can protect me from the lightning. During school, people would make fun of me for crawling under tables, but I can't help it. It's like a natural instinct to hide from it and keep my eyes covered so I don't see it. And chairs… another reason I love to run. Ever since the electroconvulsive therapy and the scammed surgery, I'm too scared to sit in a chair. They had me tied down, and so I can't sit down in any chair without the constant nagging paranoia that someone's going to strap me down to it. Yet another reason for other school peers to poke fun at me, and at which point I dropped out of school.
But aside from all my fears and hindrances, I try to be a good person to everyone, but I can have a fairly short fuse, especially when someone's picking on someone else for whatever reason. I'm not afraid to attempt to stand up for someone else, but if they give me stern resistance, I'll back down. Runner, not fighter, remember? But my "imaginary friends" always stick up for people; not so imaginary now, eh? Told you. My friends are always there for me, so I try to be there for them, but it doesn't always work out that well.
I don't very much like the Capitol. I mean, have you seen these people? Embedded jewels, crazy hairstyles, nails like claws and faces mutilated to look like something else. How can these people stand themselves? I don't partake in any of this... this... colorful barbaric stuff. And the Games, my goodness, I can't stand that. Why the hell does President Snow do this? I know for a fact that I wouldn't like to be forced to fight to the death, so I resent the Capitol. I resent President Snow, my own birth place, and the poverty I'm always seeing on the television when the Reapings are taking place. And this is all for my amusement? No. Just no. It is awfully inhuman and I do not support any of it at all. I'd much rather live with the "poor, dirty, rotten" District people than with these colorful walking pieces of rotten candy. That's also why I don't change my appearance at all. I'm not like them and I want to be different from them.
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I was born seventh out of the eleven children of Delilah and James Wolverhampton. I got along great with my siblings; we would always play around, wrestle, go explore the streets, pretend to have adventures, and great things like that. We lived in the slum of the city – though "slum" doesn't justify the neighborhood; it was just the lesser rich of the Capitol – right next to the forest, on the outskirt of the city. I lived there my whole life, and when I was about four was when the "delusions" started.
I had a friend named Tom. He went to another school, though, and would frequently come over to my school, peer through the window and play silent games with me from the outside, and distract me from those boring classes they teach to little kids. The teacher must have thought something was up because I would play with Tom during recess, so she probably told my mom that I was talking to people that "weren't there." Of course Tom was there! We wrestled, we built dirt castles, we played on the playground together; how was he not real? Eventually it got to the point that my teacher was really concerned and the other students were making fun of me because of Tom, so my parents had a meeting with her. I was waiting out in the hall on a chair, swinging my legs and playing a sort of peek-a-boo game with Tom, who was hiding behind the corner of a nearby wall. My teacher probably made up a story because when my parents came back out of the room, my mother – who was pregnant at the time – had a really sad look on her face, but my dad just looked confused.
Things just got worse from there. Tom had to leave because he was moving, and shortly after I met a girl named Abby. She lived in the woods at her parents' cabin, and we often played in the woods together. My siblings had started looking at me weird by then, so I chose to stay away from them. My mother was hell-bent that something was wrong with me. Once I tried to confront her about it and brought Abby along with me, but when my mom told me that Abby wasn't real, I cried. Could you imagine trying to show your own mother your best friend and then she says that your friend isn't even real? I promise you that it's the most frustrating feeling in the world. No one believed me but my dad. I don't know what he thought about it all, but he always believed me. Mom got mad at him once for it, but he said that if no one ever believed anything she said, would she go crazy? So I guess that toned Mom down a bit, but it didn't stop her.
When I was about eleven, my mom couldn't take it anymore. Abby and I had been friends for years now, and even Tom came back to visit every once in a while. Mom took me to some scary looking guy in the shady part of town, telling me that this guy would fix me, but I didn't need fixing. I was perfectly alright. I told her that I didn't want to go with the man when he said to follow him, but my mother grabbed my wrist and dragged me along, fighting and screaming and crying, over to a room that had a bed with belts attached to it. Together they hoisted me up and strapped me down, keeping me from escaping, and put some sticky pads on my head and chest. I begged and pleaded with my mother to get me out of there, and even Abby and Tom were there in the corner, huddling together and looking terrified. I cried for them to help me, but when they didn't, I turned to my mother, who had tears in her eyes. "I'm so sorry, Charlie," she had said, "I'm just doing everything I can to help you." Then came a needle and my whole body felt numb, and time melted together. I don't know how long it took, but at some point I felt myself jerking against the restraints uncontrollably for a while, and then stillness.
I don't know what Mom was trying to accomplish, but she succeeded in scaring the hell out of me. We returned to the guy for nearly five more times, and each time I was dragged kicking and screaming onto the bed, numbed, shook like crazy, and then a horrible feeling when I came to. Abby and Tom were scared for me – they said they'd wait at Abby's house while I was taken to the scary man's place, so each time they left me to fend for myself, but I don't blame them. That guy had some dark aura about him that made you want to run the opposite way as fast as you could. And when the shaking didn't work, the man referred us to his friend: a surgeon who dealt with "special cases" like me. We should have known at that point that this man was scamming us, charging ridiculous prices for something that didn't even work, and now referring us to his friend who was also in the conning business with him. We should've known better, but my mother was so desperate that she took me the very next day to see the man. This man was even scarier and once again I was dragged against my will, but this time I was strapped onto a wooden chair. He shaved my head, stuck a needle into my head, and then that went numb. I heard crazy drilling sounds and felt blood running down the sides of my face, which, being only eleven years old, traumatized me. The guy inserted something into my brain, that much I know, but what it does, I have no idea. My mother couldn't bear to watch whatever was happening, and she was crying, so she just hung out in the corner. I was so wore out from crying by the time the guy was done that I just wanted to sleep. Eventually I did pass out, because the next thing I knew, I was in my own bed with a bowl of warm chicken noodle soup on the night stand beside me. Figuring this had all been a dream, I reached up to rub my face and realized that I didn't feel any hair. Quickly running a hand over my head, I winced when my fingers hit two parallel rows of stitches, and then five or six little tiny spots around the circumference of my head. Needless to say, I cried and was horrified, so I hid under the blankets for the rest of the day.
The weeks passed and I returned to school. My hair started growing back, but it was taking forever. Abby and Tom soon came back and didn't make fun of my shaved head, so I felt a little bit more confident. The school was hosting an end-of-the-year bonfire, so of course I went with my two best friends. I deserved to go just as much as anyone else. When I got there, the teachers were all nice to me, but the students threw taunting glares and insults toward me, but I let them roll off me like water rolls off a goose's feather. The night went well up until after dinner, Abby and Tom having gone off to get something to drink, when the biggest guy in the school came up to me with his buddies and decided to have a bit of fun. They ganged up on me, beating me with their feet and breaking my nose with their fists. Crying and blinded by pain, I couldn't put up a fight when they moved me beside the fire, lying on my stomach with my head by the flames, and stuck my arms in the blazing red element, standing on my upper arms so I couldn't move my arms to safety.
My screams were what alerted the teachers, who came running and saved me. The burns took forever to heal and the pain was excruciating. My mother decided to homeschool me from then on, but I couldn't focus. I began this… this twitchy thing. My head and neck would randomly twitch like I was trying to do a double take but my head wasn't twisting all the way around. My poor mother thought she had done something wrong and often I would pass her bedroom and hear her crying, talking to my dad about how she's failed me. Dad always said the same thing: "It's not your fault. It's no one's fault. Don't be mad at yourself." And that was that.
My poor parents. I stayed with my family until I turned seventeen, still no better than I was before the scammed surgery and shocking, and then I left. I couldn't bear to see my mother look at me with pain-filled eyes anymore, and though it was a lovely thing to see my older siblings go off, get married, and start their own family, I didn't want to be known as the "crazy uncle." I didn't want anyone else to deal with that, so I did what I do best and ran. Ran and ran and ran until I came across a warehouse, where I met a whole group of kids who, though they don't have the same issues as me, had problems of their own that drove them to running away, just like me. So I stayed, and to this day I'm still there. They accept me for who I am, craziness and all, and for that I'll never abandon them.
... by you."
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- Real Madrid's campaign for its first Spanish league title in four seasons faces a tough test at Osasuna on Saturday, while second-place Barcelona hosts Athletic Bilbao in a preview of the Copa del Rey final.
After seeing its once commanding lead over Barcelona cut from 10 points to six, Madrid has since rediscovered its form with a 5-1 rout of Real Sociedad and a 3-0 win at Cypriot side APOEL Nicosia in the Champions League.
With nine games to play, Madrid begins its challenging final stretch with a visit to one of the league's quiet surprises.
Sixth-place Osasuna is undefeated in its last six matches and has only lost twice in 15 home games this season at the raucous Reyno de Navarra stadium, where Barcelona fell 3-2 just last month.
Osasuna's direct, physical style and Madrid's feared counterattack should make for an entertaining clash in Pamplona.
"We fully believe in our possibilities," Osasuna defender Miguel Flano said. "We know that we are going to face a rival that will play well and go out to win the three points that are important for its title chances.
"We are an intense team that fights for each and every ball and that is the only way that we can match up with their talent."
After slipping to consecutive 1-1 draws last week, Madrid imposed a gag rule on its players and staff that was widely criticized in the Spanish media.
Madrid coach Jose Mourinho and his players finally spoke to the press for the game at APOEL, and it appears they will do so again for the game at Osasuna.
"It was a decision taken together by the coaches and players," said Kaka, who came off the bench to spark Madrid's attack in Cyprus. "At that moment we decided it was better not to talk, but little by little things are returning to normal.
"I think this weekend we will speak in Pamplona. That is what we have decided for now."
Marcelo Bielsa's Bilbao team recently won plenty of plaudits when it knocked Manchester United out of the Europa League. But just when a top-four finish in Spain looked like a real possibility, Bilbao has lost three and drawn one to slide into 11th place.
Bilbao striker Fernando Llorente is struggling to return from a left leg injury and the entire team appears worn down by its high-tempo style.
To further complicate things for the Basques, they face a quick turnaround after playing at German side Schalke on Thursday night in the Europa League.
"At this stage of the season everyone wants to win to achieve their goals, but now we have to buckle down and give it our all," Bilbao goalkeeper Gorka Iraizoz said. "We have the extra motivation of knowing that we have played well until now, and that will give us the energy to continue forward because the effort needed will be maximum."
For Bilbao to have a chance, Iraizoz will have to stop Barcelona forward Lionel Messi. Both Messi and Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo have scored 35 times in league play this season. The Portugal forward holds the league record of 40 goals from last season.
Barcelona, which drew 0-0 at AC Milan on Wednesday in the Champions League, will also play Bilbao in the Copa del Rey final on May 25 in Madrid.
On Sunday, Valencia hosts Levante in a city derby that could be key in their fight for a top-four finish and a spot in next season's Champions League. Back-to-back losses have left third-place Valencia just three points ahead of fifth-place Levante.
Fourth-place Malaga is currently level on points with Valencia and can move ahead after playing Real Betis on Saturday.
Round 30 also features two matches with direct implication in the struggle to avoid the drop.
Bottom three Racing Santander, Sporting Gijon and Zaragoza all have 25 points. The revived Zaragoza goes for its third consecutive win at Sporting on Saturday, while Racing hosts Granada, which is clinging to safety just six points in front.
Also on Sunday, it's: Atletico Madrid vs. Getafe, Real Sociedad vs. Rayo Vallecano, and Villarreal vs. Espanyol.
Sevilla looks for its third consecutive victory at Mallorca on Monday.

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Thread: Fractured Fairy Tales
Fractured Fairy Tales
Go Blow Your Horn
Little boy blue, go blow your horn.
Chad 85 of the Cincinnati Bengals threatened to blow the Viking horn when he scored a touchdown against the Vikings this Sunday. Alas, he had the wrong fairy tale dialed up. Perhaps Old Mother Hubbard would have been a more correct choice as the Vikings defeated the Bengals 30-10 caging quarterback Carson Palmer to a paltry 94 yards passing.
The rest is at Viking Thunder at the following link
Vikings Defeat Bengals 30-10
or you can just continue reading below.
Meanwhile, back in reality land, Brett Favre had a typical Brett Favre day. To paraphrase Dennis Green, He was who we thought he was. For eleven weeks, Brett Favre was spectacular, playing at an MVP level. At forty years old, that is not natural. All year fans, foes, and the media were waiting for the hammer to fall. However, the Vikings are 11-2 with a two game lead over the Packers and own the tie breaker. One more win and they are NFC North champs. If this was the hammer falling, it hit the nail on the head. Seriously, Favre was on pace for his best season ever, at age forty, with a new team. That is unheard of.
I feel much more confident now with Antoine Winfield back in the line up. With his all pro run support and cover skills the Vikings defense held Carson to under 100 yards passing and just over 200 yards in total offense. Winfield ended the day with 9 tackles and one forced fumble. This accomplishment is even more astounding because two rookies started on Sunday. Brinkley at linebacker and Sanford at Safety.
It was good to see Adrian Peterson not fumble the ball this week. Come on now, you hold your breath every time he gets the ball just like me. Not just because he can take it to the house, but he can also drop the ball on the carpet at any given play as well. I loved those flat passes to him.
ATTENTION coach Childress: More of those passes to Peterson please.
Percy Harvin was out, due to migraine headaches. He was sorely missed as evidenced of the drop off in passing production. With Harvin floating around, it opens up the lanes for Berrian and Rice.
Switching gears, the Vikings have earned a playoff spot. not home field advantage, not division title, just a playoff spot. The Vikings travel to Carolina next Sunday and I feel this will be one hell of a contest. I realize the Panthers are 5-8, and are out of the playoffs. However, what better way to jump-start the franchise then to put a pasting on the visiting Vikings and Brett Favre on national television. Especially if the Packers lose to the Steelers earlier in the day. Dont bring your Randy Moss game Sunday Vikings, bring your A game.
Speaking of fairy tales, the Vikings are 11-2 and steam rolling to a division title and playoff bye week with a 40-year-old gunslinger from Green Bay, a hated rival, who is having an almost MVP type year, and yet, we only beat 4 good teams this year. One of them twice. That has me worried Viking fans.
Keep in mind we lost to both teams in the Super bowl last year. Our only two losses. But look at who we did beat.
Cleveland, Detroit, and San Francisco, all three teams with losing records. At the time we played them and currently.
Next in week four, Vikings defeated Green Bay, a confrontation of Favres former team, where he was a living legend. That is the first team with a winning percentage.
Next were the Rams. They cant even get a birth in a BCS bowl game. And then Baltimore, on the cusp of a good team, and as of today, still technically in the hunt for a playoff wild card spot, but in reality, for them to achieve this, they must hope for three plane crashes. So that is two good teams we have beaten this year.
Next, we lost to the Steelers, who at this point, are completely out of the playoffs but they were Super Bowl champs last year.
Than back to Green Bay. An emotional return of the prodigal son, Brett Favre, to Lambeau field. Vikings win and that is three good teams they have beaten.
Detroit, Seattle, and Chicago were up next, all three teams with losing records.
Then onto the debacle in the desert where Warner dissected the Vikings defense and held Peterson in check to the tune of 19 yards on 13 carries. And picked off Favre twice.
And just this past Sunday, Vikings defeat the AFC Central leading Bengals. A dominating game holding Palmer to under 100 yards passing. A very good win.
That makes four wins against teams with winning records.
To end this weeks update, I know what is on every Viking fans mind. What happens if the Vikings win the Super Bowl and Nostradamus credited for his clairvoyant abilities. Will Brett Favre retire and ride out-of-town hoisting the Super Bowl trophy laughing at the Packers for letting him go? Or will we be subjected to yet another fairy tale.
The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
Re:Fractured Fairy Tales
Another good post X, (Just going with X-Like Malcom) Some good points although I'm a little tired of the "We haven't played anyone" discussion, we've got 3 wins over 9 win teams, Colts have 0, Saints have 1 (Eagles)
Winfield made a huge difference, If not only for personal stats, But his presence brings out the best in our secondary, Palmer had what-92 yards? Thats crazy!
Completely agree on AP needing more short passes, He's most dangerous once he's in the open, His receptions have increased in all of his 3 years.
If we win the Super Bowl, I'll be in a trans like state with a huge smile stuck on my face for 4-5 months, So I'm not sure who'll be our QB.Even if the Vikings lose, I can still find happiness in Bears, and Packer losses.
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molineviking wrote:
Another good post X, (Just going with X-Like Malcom) Some good points although I'm a little tired of the "We haven't played anyone" discussion, we've got 3 wins over 9 win teams, Colts have 0, Saints have 1 (Eagles)
About if we win, the great pumpkin doesn't like the word IF,
So, when we win, I as well will be in a daze for months basking in the glory of a super bowl win.
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Re:Fractured Fairy Tales
decent article.
One thingAnd just this past Sunday, Vikings defeat the AFC Central leading Bengals.
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decent article.
One thingAnd just this past Sunday, Vikings defeat the AFC Central leading Bengals.
Jethro Tull was a good band..
AFC North....
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Verry nicely writen
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Sustainable School
Catlin Gabel's clean diesel buses cited in Portland Tribune opinion piece
The Big Green Center of Campus
From the Summer 2012 Caller
By Nadine Fiedler
It's A Whole New World of Food at Catlin Gabel.
A Necessary Diversion: Who's Hen?
Hen's Philosophy
Changing the Status Quo
The Barn's Daily Work
The Sustainability Loop
The Future
A Recipe from Hen
Quinoa, Roasted Beet, and Walnut Salad
"Market" curtain backdrop in photo of Hen Truong was painted by Claire Stewart '07.
Nadine Fiedler is Catlin Gabel's publications and public relations director and the editor of the Caller.
CG named U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon School – read the story and watch TV news clip
Scroll down to watch KGW-TV news story featuring Catlin Gabel
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, together with White House Council on Environmental Quality chair Nancy Sutley and Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson, announced today that Catlin Gabel School, in Portland, Oregon, is among 78 schools named U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools. Oregon is among 29 states and D.C. with schools receiving the first-ever awards.
Four schools in Oregon received the award. In addition to Catlin Gabel, Portland's Sunnyside Environmental School, Willamina Elementary School, and Gladstone High School were honored.
Catlin Gabel's focus on sustainability extends from the classroom to its grounds and facilities. The school has had an aim since 2007 of generating zero waste, and every year has brought new initiatives—including a school garden and extensive composting—that has brought it closer to that goal.
"Science and environmental education play a central role in providing children with a well-rounded education that prepares them for the jobs of the future," said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. "Green Ribbon Schools demonstrate compelling examples of the ways schools can expand their coursework while also helping children build real world skill sets, cut school costs, and provide healthy learning environments."
U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools is a federal recognition program that opened in September 2011. Honored schools exercise a comprehensive approach to creating "green" environments through reducing environmental impact, promoting health, and ensuring a high-quality environmental and outdoor education to prepare students with the 21st-century skills and sustainability concepts needed in the growing global economy.
The 78 awarded schools were named winners of this one-year recognition from among nearly 100 nominees submitted by 30 state education agencies, the District of Columbia and the Bureau of Indian Education. More than 350 schools completed applications to their state education agencies. Among the list of winners are 66 public schools including 8 charters, and 12 private schools composed of 43 elementary, 31 middle and 26 high schools with around 50 percent representing high poverty schools.
What a monumental honor! Congratulations to all who work so hard to lead and support Catlin Gabel´s inspiring efforts to become more sustainable and environmentally minded with each passing year.
Mountain to Mouth!
The inaugural Hood River Watershed Ecology trip, planned collaboratively with the Columbia Gorge Ecology Institute, provided students with the unique opportunity to explore the land surrounding the Hood River, south of the Columbia River Gorge and southeast of Mt. Hood, from multiple perspectives.
In addition to classic outdoor trip highlights such as learning to use an ice axe and crampons for the first time, glissading down snow fields on Mt. Hood, camping in Elk Meadow surrounded by wildflowers and Mt. Hood smiling down, flying down hills on our bikes alongside small tributaries to the Hood River, making s'mores by the campfire, and paddling down Class III rapids in inflatable kayaks, trip participants also learned invaluable lessons about the complexity of the Hood River watershed's ecosystem and the ways in which humans rely upon and interact with it.
Here are some snapshots of each day of the trip:
Day 1: Water Quality at the Source, Eliot Glacier, Climate Change and Mini-Snow School
We drove up to Cloud Cap early Monday morning and met Kelly Nokes from Columbia River Waterkeeper right away at the headwaters of the Tilly Jane Creek. She taught us how to measure pH, temperature, turbidity, and more, all of which indicate the health of the water and its capacity to sustain life.
We then hiked up onto Eliot Glacier with Darrel Lloyd, a glaciologist that has been photographing Eliot and surround glaciers for thirty years. He showed us photos of changes over time, and the shrinking ice astounded us. He also talked at length about the science and ecology of glaciers and their importance to the overall health of a watershed. For example, the more a glacier melts, the more rocks and debris slide down the mountain into rivers, thereby destroying habitat and fish spawning grounds.
Finally, George taught everyone how to safely walk with crampons, how to use ice axes for self-arrest, and how to glissade down the snow fields—a fun change from the serious academics earlier in the day. Many students said they definitely want to try climbing Mt. Hood when the chance arises later this year.
"Until this trip, I always though of Mt. Hood as just a place for snowboarding. That's it. That's all I did there. Now I have a whole new way to look at it…it's where our water comes from, it's a good place to hike, forest fires have come through there…there's just a lot more to think about." –Andrew
Day 2: Backpacking the Timberline Trail, Wildfire, Coniferous Forest, Alpine Wildflowers, Gnarl Ridge, Elk Meadow
On Tuesday we began the first leg of our backpacking trip, heading southeast and traversing the timberline of Mt. Hood's northeast side. We quickly climbed above the timberline and looked down upon it for much of the day, with Mts. Rainier, St. Helens, and Adams behind us to the north.
We crossed countless snowfields and ridges, and eventually came to a good resting spot. Alan Horton, a thirty-year veteran of the US Forest Service, accompanied us on this portion of the backpacking trip so that he could help us to better understand wildfires and forest ecology. Peter and Andrew both read articles about wildfire in preparation for the trip, and they contributed good background information to the discussion.
"We sometimes think that whatever we do to stop forest fires is helping nature, when actually nature has its own way of stopping things and has a plan for how everything works, and we're just interfering and usually making it worse." –Peter
Alan spoke not only of the complexities of managing fires and forests, but also of the challenge of maintaining his conservationist philosophies in a system that often values economics above ecosystems. Four students cited conversation with Alan as the highlight of the day.
"I come away from this very brief, touching experience with you all with a renewed hope in our future, because you are so attentive and you have such great attitudes. I know you've got some great ideas that are going to be good for the earth. Thank you for letting me part of your experience." –Alan
After our discussion and some off-trail navigation due to higher-than-normal snow levels, we descended onto Gnarl Ridge just below Lamberston Butte and felt awed by the sweeping views of grey sediment and rock alternating with snow patches all the way down the gorge below the Newton-Clark Glacier. We ate lunch on top the ridge, and while eating heard what we mistook to be thunder…but without a cloud around! We turned around and saw a dramatic rock fall way up high near the summit of Mt. Hood, as clouds of dust plumed up into the sky.
We then continued to descend into the coniferous forest and eventually made our way to the spectacular Elk Meadow, with all its wildflowers and small creeks. We sketched the mountain, wrote journal entries, napped, feasted on macaroni and cheese, and fell asleep on the edge of the meadow.
Day 3: Backpacking the Cold Spring Creek Trail, Salmon Habitat and Lifecycle, Old Growth Forest
We awoke to a layer of frost on our sleeping bags and tarps on Wednesday morning—a reminder of our relatively high elevation (around 5300 feet) sleeping in the meadow. The Cold Spring Creek Trail, running alongside its namesake through a second-growth forest, proved much easier to navigate than the previous day's Timberline Trail.
At one point we sat down on the side of the trail and learned from Genevieve and Emily about old growth forest, climax forests, the spotted owl debate, and other interesting ecological tidbits. We felt lucky to have such resident experts! We made good time on the eight or so miles to Tamanawas Falls, where we ate lunch under the mist of the waterfall.
"Little things, such as species becoming endangered, are really indicators of a larger problem, and we should look at it from a larger perspective—which can be frustrating for people in their own [non-interdisciplinary] careers sometimes." –Genevieve
We then hiked about two miles down to Cold Spring Creek's confluence with the East Fork of the Hood River, where we talked with Emily about salmon and salmon habitat. Soon we were joined by where we met Jurgen Hess, an alpine ecologist and retired Forest Service employee. We talked more about wildfire, old growth forest, and salmon habitat, and then hiked the rest of the way to the Tamanawas Falls Trailhead. We camped in Nottingham campground that night, alongside the east bank of the raging East Fork of the Hood River.
"I learned a lot about nature in Oregon since I just moved here [two weeks ago], and how it's different from the East Coast. It's bigger." -Lucy
Day 4: Farming, Irrigation, Salmon, Wendell Berry, Biking the Back Roads North of Hood River, Interdisciplinary Innovation
We began our day at Tollbridge Park, where we met our bikes and Jerry Bryan and Jer Camarata from the Farmer's Irrigation District. Jerry's introduction left us a little confused, but undeniably curious. As we rode away from his recitation of Wendell Berry's poem, "A Farmer's Manifesto," we wondered how such an outspoken, almost-retired, theology degree-holding atheist could possibly be doing anything useful for salmon and farmers alike.
"I liked what Wendell Berry said about how everything is connected and some people don't realize that. If something [a fish] dies, people don't realize that the fish are connected to the forest [for nutrients]." –Libby
We kept Jerry and Jer in our minds as we biked through perfectly manicured orchards of cherry, pear, and apple trees, with Mt. Hood looming over us the whole time. We eventually made our way to a fish hatchery operated in cooperation between the Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Warm Springs Confederated Tribe. Albert, the hatchery assistant manager and a tribal member, and Jim, the hatchery manager, gave us a tour of the facility and helped us to understand the role of fish hatcheries in the broader context of managing the watershed and maintaining the health of Columbia River Gorge salmon populations.
Our next stop was Punchbowl Falls, as the confluence of the East, West, and Middle Forks of the Hood River. We ate lunch above the water, and afterward watched several salmon attempt to jump up a smaller nearby waterfall. None made it while we stood nearby.
We hopped back on our bikes and once again met up with Jerry and Jer. We followed them down a little-used gravel road to one of the Irrigation District's innovative horizontal water diversion fish screens. We learned that the Irrigation District, whose job is to provide irrigation water for over 5,000 acres of Hood River farmland, hired Jerry twenty-five years ago because of his experience advocating for fish. Over the course of his tenure with the District, Jerry developed a knack for figuring out ways to satisfy the needs of both fish and farmers. He said, "I'm the guy they [farmers] love to hate!...As soon as we started thinking from the point of view of the fish, we actually figured out ways make the farmers more money than they'd made before, when they were ignoring fish health and habitat." He helped develop an innovative screen that allows water to be diverted for irrigation without harming fish. People have come from all over the world to learn about this invention:
"The Farmers Irrigation District developed a screen technology that keeps fish from entering irrigation and hydroelectric canals. The Farmers Screen is a horizontal, flat-plate diversion screen that harmlessly moves fish over the screen and back to the river while safely diverting water for irrigation and hydroelectric use."
Follow the link to watch live fish screen webcams and read more about it: www.fidhr.org/farmerscreen.htm
"I'm going to take away knowledge about the horizontal fish screen process because…when they showed us the diagram and the movie and then we actually saw it, it brought to life how much thought goes into this whole process, with the physics of it all and it made me realize that you can pull different ideas from different fields to solve one problem, and that makes teamwork sound a lot more important." –Margaret
After our inspiring final meeting with Jerry and Jer, we continued down towards Hood River through the farms. We stopped to buy some cherries and enjoy them under a tree, and then made our way to Tucker County Park—our last campsite of the trip. Students waded in the river and sunned on rocks before a final delicious Pad Thai dinner, marshmallows, an impromptu performance by a fellow nine year-old camper, and sleeping under the stars.
Day 5: Inflatable Kayaks, the Hood and Columbia Rivers, the Former Powerdale Dam Site, Salmon Bake, Putting It All Together
Our final day of the trip proved to be the most refreshing and adrenaline-producing. Ben, Zack, and Sylus taught us how to safely navigate in inflatable kayaks, and we set off down the Hood River just below Tucker Park like a line of baby ducks. Students quickly adapted to paddling and adeptly maneuvered around rocks and rapids like veterans.
About two miles downstream, we pulled out to meet with Jeremy from the Department of Fish and Wildlife and Steve Stampfli, who's helping to manage the habitat restoration process after the local power company decided to tear down the Powerdale Dam last year. We saw photos of the habitat restoration process and learned about the complications of providing power for local residents while also paying attention to fish habitat, air quality, farming needs, forest health, water quality, and cost.
"There are complications behind complications—for example, the decision to let a forest fire burn out or to put it out. Also, taking out the [Powerdale] dam means that more people's energy might come from coal, but if you leave it there the fish can't get through. There are a lot of trade-offs." –Siobhan
We ended our day and trip at the mouth of the Hood River as it meets the Columbia, where we cleaned up and loaded the kayaks, and then enjoyed a delicious meal of grilled salmon caught that morning by a local Native American, local greens, and watermelon. We invited all the stakeholders we met throughout the week, and though most were too busy with work obligations to come out, Alan and his wife, Sharon, joined our group for our final meal.
We spent several minutes reflecting on the week's experiences:
"I learned so much…everything from the meaning of the word turbidity to the best way to get a kayak off a rock. There's so much middle ground we covered…There's a lot to think about." –Walker
"I'll take away how connected everything is—much more so than I'd imagined. Every action has a reaction…If you take some fish out of a stream, that has a big impact." –Alex
Siobhan and Genevieve ended with a closing poem that expressed our gratitude toward the salmon, our guests, and our experience of the week:
Once upon a time,
the sun swept slowly over Timberline.
The glacier slowly melted down in size,
As earth's temperatures began to rise.
Extreme weather events increased
And glacial freezing began to cease.
Boulders and debris came down
Causing salmon to frown.
Thought the rivers' health declined
And many forgot to keep fish in mind
People such as those gathered here
Worked hard to improve the earth's atmosphere.
So hey there smoky salmon!
You have a future that's worth saving.
We're grateful for this meal we'll take.
And thankful for all the fish for heaven's sake.
The Columbia Gorge Ecology Institute plans to take local Hood River County students through a similar exploration next summer, and Catlin Gabel students may be back as well. Thanks to all the students, special guests, and leaders that took a risk and went for it this year--you are true ecological pioneers!
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Catlin Gabel School receives Fleet Forward Award
On July 13 the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality named Catlin Gabel a five-star member of Fleet Forward, DEQ's diesel recognition program. Five Catlin Gabel School buses now carry decals showing this award. Catlin Gabel will be formally recognized during the Fleet Forward launch event at noon on August 24, 2010, in Pioneer Courthouse Square.
In September 2008, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality identified Catlin Gabel as the first fleet in the area to use ultra low sulfur fuel and the first platinum level partcipant in Oregon DEQ's diesel recognition program. This program has evolved from silver, gold, and platinum levels to three, four, and five stars.
Fulbright Japan Visit to Catlin Gabel
On November 3 Catlin Gabel welcomed a group of about 45 Japanese and American K-12 teachers, university professors, and dignitaries to our campus. They were interested in learning about our efforts toward becoming more sustainable. They had been meeting in Portland for several days and were interested in curriculum in various schools that focuses on sustainability. The tour began with a delicious, organic, locally grown lunch created by our own Hen Truong. At the stop at the Beginning School, Sue Henry described the thinking, learning, planning, and model-building that went into designing Little Eagle Creek, which harvests rain water from our roof. Kindergartners sang our guests a welcome song and another about the water cycle. Jordan Heintz, 5th grade teacher, presented a video about the class's sustainability curriculum, and the Upper school environmental class did an impressive job of talking about what they are learning. Last, our guests visited the Middle School garden project, which grows food for our kitchen. Eric Shawn, our facilities director, who has been instrumental in the school's progress toward a greener future, organized the successful half-day tour for our guests. Congratulations, Eric!
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Oregon DEQ profiles Catlin Gabel School on the DEQ web site. The school employee commute options plan and four bus routes have reduced the number of vehicles coming to campus by more than 15,000 vehicles.
Energy Use 2008/2009
Catlin Gabel used less electricity in 2008/2009, the lowest amount in ten years. Although the utility rate increased 3.45%, consumption and costs for 2008/2009 were less than in 2007/2008:
- The school used 9.46% fewer kilowatt hours. Kilowatt hours per square foot dropped 7% below the previous lowest benchmark.
- The school spent $7,469 less, a savings of 6.33%.
- The school avoided costs of $11,708 by reducing consumption.
Natural Gas
Catlin Gabel School used less natural gas in 2008/2009. Although the utility rate increased 13%, consumption and costs for 2008/2009 were less than in 2007/2008:
- The school used 20% fewer therms of natural gas. Therms per square foot dropped 3% below the previous lowest benchmark.
- The school spent $5,823 less, a savings of 10%.
- The school avoided costs of $6,281 by reducing consumption.
Zero Waste: 2008/2009 Report
Our goal is zero waste by 2012.
- Over the past ten years, Catlin Gabel School reduced landfill waste 54% from a peak of 71 tons in 2001/2002 to 32 tons in 2008/2009.
- Landfill rates and hauling fees increased 33.5% during the same period.
Year One: 2007/2008: 2nd lowest amount in ten years
- In 2007/2008 Catlin Gabel School focused on removing recyclables from the landfill waste stream.
- Landfill dropped from 65.22 tons to 46.35 tons, 2.65 tons below the first year goal.
- The school spent 18% less than in 2006/2007, a savings of $1,752 and avoided $3,081 in costs related to the year's 14% rate increase.
Year Two: 2008/2009: lowest amount in ten years
- In 2008/2009 Catlin Gabel School focused on removing food from the landfill waste stream.
- The Grounds staff designed and constructed a hot compost system for the campus. Post-consumer cafeteria food waste is composted using this process. Kitchen trimmings are fed to goats and chickens. Lower School food waste is placed in worm farms or composted at the Lower School Garden.
- Landfill dropped from 46.35 tons to 32.49 tons, 0.51 tons below the second year goal. The school spent 33% less than in 2007/2008, a savings of $2,481.
Year Three: 2009/2010
- The focus for year three is on purchasing with end of use in mind.
- Identify sources that use less packaging and vendors whose packaging is 100% recyclable.
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Today's opener is a bottom-rung claiming sprint for fillies and mares that might be best left alone, but if you're playing rolling exotics you should consider going at least three deep. #1 My Diane drops to the bottom – her lowest level ever – and on that angle alone warrants consideration. Her only lifetime win came over this track last January, another positive factor. #3 Memo to Kathy also has a win over the local main track and could fire fresh after being stopped on in July. The barn is very strong with comebackers and this filly has won off similar layoffs in the past. #7 Filly Power, first off the claim for Keen and removing blinkers, has been first or second in half of her 18 career starts so at least we know she's a trier. We'll toss in her in with the switch to Talamo.
High priced maiden claiming juvenile fillies sprint in the second race; the popular angle with this type of affair is to locate the first-for-a-tag runners. #2 Secret Memo ran off to a long early lead before wilting against straight maidens at a mile at Del Mar; today she drops in class and shortens to an abbreviated sprint. She could get brave in this league and Pedroza will try to hold her together late. #4 Miss Sweet Afleet, seventh of 10 vs. much tougher foes in her only outing (while earning a fairly decent number in the process) seems sure to improve in this softer spot and gets off the rail today while switching to Maldonado, one of O'Neill's go-to riders. Let's give Miss Sweet Afleet a slight nod.
#1 Caribaya Queen, away since June but with plenty of early zip, has a series of fast recent works (typical Headley) and gets Talamo in the third race, a down-the-hill sprint for first level fillies and mares. Her one prior effort over the course wasn't all that much but she could be a better type this time around and looks capable of clearing this field, rail and all. #6 Graser shortens up and returns to turf following a nice runner-up try in the Adoration Stakes at Del Mar. She won here (at a mile) earlier this year and is a consistent sort. #10 Morocco Moon represents stranger danger for Drysdale. The English import had rising Racing Post numbers last spring (she won an 18-runner straightaway dash at York in May, her only start on turf) and should be the type to fire fresh. Let's use these three in our rolling exotics and then press a bit with Morocco Moon on top.
This race is borderline inscrutable. Most of the contenders have changed hands via the claim box in one of their last two races. For rolling exotic players, there's a chance for a nice price by spreading. #1 What's for Dinner earned a figure two races back that is better than par for this level and he's won over this track in the past. #2 Idontrollonshabbos sat out his jail term and returns for new trainer Hollendorfer in his first start on dirt; he has plenty of zip when he's feeling good and with Talamo staying aboard he appears well meant. #10 Tribal Dreams is 2-for-3 lifetime over this track and is now in the barn of Miguel Silva, a 24% trainer who usually cleans up in Phoenix. The Tribal Rule gelding will insure a hot pace. #11 Beau Royale can settle and make a run and as such his outside draw might be quite beneficial. He's lightly raced with rising speed figures. These are the four we'll include in our rolling exotic play with slight preference to Beau Royale.
The fifth race, a maiden turf affair for older fillies and mares, is another wide open event; we'll go two-deep and hope that's sufficient. #2 Eileen's Dream, our top pick, tries two-turns for the first time and clearly is the controlling speed; it may be just a matter of whether she can relax on the front end. Mike Smith takes over and will do his best to switch her off during the early stages. #9 Bromelia has been a money burner during her brief career but in her second start since arriving from New York the daughter of Unbridled's Song could make a forward move for Avila. She'll do her best running from off the pace and will benefit if a legitimate pace materializes.
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BA History, University of Victoria, 1990
MA History, Simon Fraser University, 1995
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My research interests revolve around the social history of the modern Middle East. I explore how ordinary people have experienced the formation of the nation-state subsequent to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. In particular I am interested in understanding the significance of Islam to the modern nation, and in untangling the complicated relationship between religion and secularism in the twentieth century.
My primary focus has been upon the social history of modern Turkey. In a number of publications I have tried to develop an alternative to the elite and centrist secular modernism that has long infused historical accounts of Turkey but which fails to explain adequately the dynamic realities that constitute Turkey today. In my monograph, How Happy to Call Oneself a Turk. Provincial Newspapers and the Negotiation of a Muslim National Identity (University of Texas Press, 2011), I study the earliest years of popular national identity formation in Turkey between 1919 and 1954. I move beyond the long-dominant official nationalist narrative and adopt a peripheral perspective by examining provincial newspapers published across the country. I conclude that through this source we can see that in fact the people played a more active role in the shaping of their country in particular that they were determined to inject popular religious identities into the new Turkish nationalism that the state encouraged. The result was a negotiated Muslim national identity one that is very evident today when we look at social and political debate in Turkey. More information about my book is available at: http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/brohow.html.
As a social historian, I am also interested in Turkish labour history. I am an active member of the Global Collaboratory on International Labour Relations which is sponsored by the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam. My contribution is to collect and analyse data related to labour relations in early republican Turkey. In 2009 I collaborated with Touraj Atabaki to edit Ottoman and Republican Turkish Labour History. (http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item3779796/?site_locale=en_GB). Published by Cambridge this originally appeared as a Supplement to the International Review of Social History.
My work contributes to a slowly emerging body of literature now being produced by a new generation of scholars committed to applying a socio-historical perspective to the well-established narrative of modern Turkey. Many of us collaborate to present related papers at workshops and conferences. Most recently, in 2011, I edited a volume that represents a selection of this scholarship: Towards a Social History of Modern Turkey: Essays in Theory and Practice. This book is available from Libra Kitap in Istanbul, at: http://www.librakitap.com.tr/content/view/342/219/.
More recently, I have broadened my focus to consider the place of religion in the Middle East in the years immediately after World War II. I began this work during a sabbatical in 2010-11 at the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de lHomme in Aix-en-Provence, France. It has been supported by grants from both the Gerda Henkel Stiftung in Germany and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Canada. In 2012 I received an Insight Development Grant from SSHRC to develop this research with regards international Islam in Pakistan, Turkey and Egypt. My research concentrates on the role of the World Muslim Congress in establishing trans-national connections between Muslims in the early Cold War world. At a time normally associated with secular nationalism and decolonization, in fact there was an active movement to cultivate a shared Muslim identity within the nation-state framework. This produced an expression of Muslim unity distinct from both early Pan-Islam and the Islamism with which we are more familiar today. To appreciate its significance it is necessary to explore not only the centrality of Pakistan to the movement, but also the currents of international Islam as they were manifest in many different countries in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
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At a time when the value of a university education is under scrutiny, my concern is to equip students with a useful knowledge of an unfamiliar part of the world. My goal is to make students more aware of the contemporary Middle East and to understand the historical background to current developments and conflicts. I am also committed to helping students refine their skills related to analysis, research and writing. As such I try to incorporate a variety of active learning techniques into my classes.
I teach both undergraduate and graduate students. At present I have two doctoral students and six MA students. For further information about the graduate program please see the Tri-University Graduate Program in History webpage at: www.triuhistory.ca.
In the 2012-13 academic year I am teaching a graduate seminar, The Making of the Modern Middle East (Hi 696 R&S). I am also teaching a first year seminar, 1948: A War to End All Peace (AF 101b); a second year introduction to the Middle East, Ten Moments that Made the Middle East (Hi 265); a third year introduction to the Ottoman Empire (Hi 368).


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Next month, same-sex couples in six different states will get their day in court at the federal appellate level when the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 6th Circuit and the 7th Circuit hold oral arguments in a wide range of legal cases seeking the freedom to marry or respect for marriages between same-sex couples legally performed in other states.
Federal Judge Strikes Down Wisconsin Marriage Ban
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A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled today in favor the freedom to marry and against the state's marriage ban.
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It's hard to keep up with the flurry of activity around marriage, particularly in more conservative states. Here's what's going on and what you may have missed.
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In the six months since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down DOMA, dozens of same-sex couples in states across the country have joined together to file lawsuits seeking the freedom to marry. Check out updates from 5 of the 22 states with pending litigation:
Guest Post: Without my two moms, I would not be the man I am today
Postedon Dec 03, 2013 at 05:30 pm
Dan Pologe writes a moving essay about growing up with two mothers in Wisconsin. "It is true my upbringing might be different from the 'norm,' but the love I received and strong values that have helped to define who I am today was not," he writes.
Photos: 7 couples from Wisconsin share why marriage matters
Postedon Nov 18, 2013 at 07:00 pm
Here, Freedom to Marry catches up with seven of the couples who participated in the Shall Not Be Recognized portrait exhibit. They share how life in Wisconsin has progressed in six years and discuss the impact of this year's Supreme Court ruling striking down the so-called Defense of Marriage Act.
U.S. Reps. Ron Kind (D-WI) and Pete Visclosky (D-IN) support the freedom to marry
Postedon Apr 12, 2013 at 09:00 am
This week, two members of the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-IN) and Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) announced their support for the freedom to marry for same-sex couples.
Four new state Democratic Party platforms endorse the freedom to marry
Postedon Jun 11, 2012 at 09:35 am
In the past week, the state Democratic Party organizations in Pennsylvania, Montana, Texas and Wisconsin have modified their official platforms to include a plank calling for the freedom to marry.
11 State Democratic Party Chairs endorse freedom to marry plank
Postedon May 03, 2012 at 11:01 am
Today 11 State Democratic Party chairs from across the country joined in support of a freedom to marry plank in the party's national platform. The chairs include John Burton (CA), Jay Jacobs (NY), John Walsh (MA), Ken Martin (MN), Meredith Wood Smith (OR), Boyd Richie (TX), Jake Perkinson (VT), Mike Tate (WI), Dwight Pelz (WA), Jon Wisniewski (NJ), and Joan Wagnon (KS).
UPDATE: Russ Feingold supports freedom to marry plank
Postedon Feb 28, 2012 at 04:07 pm
Former Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold is the second Co-Chair of Barack Obama's reelection campaign to endorse a freedom to marry plank in the 2012 Democratic Party Platform today.


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But the information filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is sealed because Twitter is taking advantage of federal legislation passed last year that allows companies with less than $1 billion in revenue in its last fiscal year to avoid submitting public IPO documents.
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The 7-year-old company posted on its official Twitter account that it has "confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO." A subsequent tweet said simply: "Now, back to work." It's accompanied by a blurry photo people working in the company's San Francisco headquarters.
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Officer Ed "Bam Bam" Bamberger was on Good Day today. Besides being a Montgomery County corrections officer, he's also the strongest man in Pennsylvania. He won the power lifting competition this year. Watch him effortlessly lift dumbbells, rocks (Mike Jerrick claims it's a gallstone) and even people.
Officer Bamberger, 26, is originally from the Pottstown area. He tells FOX 29 that he has wanted to be a power lifter since he was teenager. He did his first "Strong Man" competition last year and placed fifth. This year, after more training and discipline, Bam Bam has won. He placed not only first in the heavyweight category (300+ lbs). He's also was rated strongest overall in the. Bamberger hopes to join the professional circuit next year. If he makes it, he'll be one of those guys you see on ESPN.
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A band of thieves ransacked a Dearborn pharmacy, but these bad guys were caught on camera. Police hope the images will help put the robbers behind bars.Surveillance video shows four suspect outside the West Village Pharmacy in Dearborn on March 26. It took over a minute, but eventually the lock on a back door was busted. Once inside, it only took 45 seconds to fill a bag with prescription drugs. In all, $15,000 worth of drugs were stolen.Police have few leads, but are hoping that someone will recognize one of the suspects by the way they walk, their fancy clothes or even their car.Watch Maurielle Lue's video report to see the surveillance video.Meanwhile, the pharmacy says the drugs will now be better secured.
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Simple jQuery toggle question.
Hi all
I have a simple toggle working fairly good.
My main problem lies with the read more and read less.
Code HTML4Strict:

Read More

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$(".toggle-title").click(function () { $(this).next(".toggle-details").slideToggle("fast"); $(this).text($(this).text() == 'Read More' ? 'Read Less' : 'Read More'); return false; });
Three questions:
- How do I position 'read more' below the content so it moves down the page and not stay at the top?
- How do I replace the read more / read less text with a image?
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Here is you code so that it actually functions:
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$(".toggle-title").click(function () { var thistitle=$(this); $(this).next(".toggle-details").slideToggle("fast", function(){ var titletext=($(this).is(":visible")) ? "Read Less" : "Read More"; $(thistitle).html(titletext); }); });
1) Do you mean move the title below the content only after a toggle, or always? If always, just move the title div below the content, and in the Javascript, use prev() instead of next().
2) inside the div, put an image tag. Then in your javascript, select the image, and change the src attribute.
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1.) Perfect! prev() is what I was looking for.
2.) Thanks
3.) Just what I thought but not sure how to add it with javascript, I'll see if I can find examples online cheers.
So, got me wondering now Force Flow. If it works how I need it to by using .prev() why did you change the code?
Whats the benefits?
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Americus, Ga. - March 25, 1998 - A growing majority of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives have pledged to help build a home with a neighbor from their home district who needs a better place to live. Enrollment in "The Houses that Congress Built" program this week reached 255 representatives. The ultimate goal of this historic project is for U.S. lawmakers to build a simple, affordable home with a low-income family in all 435 congressional districts during 1998.
"The Houses that Congress Built" involves Habitat for Humanity International, the U.S. House of Representatives and the National Partners in Homeownership. June 6 is the focus day when many of the lawmakers will become volunteers by picking up a hammer and pounding nails building a Habitat house.
The response from his Capitol Hill colleagues has impressed House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
"In just a few months, a clear majority of House members have agreed with our blueprint to build a Habitat house in every congressional district," says Speaker Gingrich. "This milestone is a testament to the power of what we, as members of Congress and community leaders, can accomplish by working side by side with families to fulfill the American dream."
Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.), who conceived "The Houses that Congress Built" program, points with pride to what will be accomplished.
"With these men and women in Congress committed to the effort, we will literally transform hundreds of neighborhoods and communities across the United States," Rep. Lewis says.
"The Houses that Congress Built" is a project coordinated by Habitat for Humanity International and supported by the National Partners in Homeownership, a 65-member coalition representing nonprofit housing providers, home builders, real estate professionals, financial institutions, and others. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, National Association of Home Builders and the National Association of Realtors are very active supporters of the coalition. The goal of the National Partners is to achieve an all-time high rate of homeownership of 67 percent of all American households by the end of the year 2000.
Habitat For Humanity International is a non-profit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing from the world. Habitat works in partnership with people in need to build simple, decent shelter that is sold at no profit through interest-free loans. Since its founding in 1976, Habitat has built some 70,000 houses, working in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and 59 foreign countries.


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Cornelius Collins was wanted for capital murder after two people were shot and killed on Colorado Street. He was arrested Sunday morning.
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'Tis the season for holiday cheer and holiday crime. One local business is feeling the effects of a crook taking off with some of their merchandise last week. It's something they said hurts their pockets and their bottom line.
Last Thursday the cameras at Keller's Tackle and Grocery caught a thief in action.
"He was stuffing his pockets and his jacket pockets and his back pockets while looking around seeing where everybody was," said Keller's owner, Darrell Newman. "We have 16 cameras in here and we can pretty much see every place you go."
The man got away with about 125 packets of Gamakatsu fishing hooks. That set Newman back more than $330. He said in the nearly eight years the business has been open, they've never been had for this many hooks.
"Being a small store, a small 'mom and pop' operation that goes directly to their bottom line and it hurts, especially right here at our slow time of year," he said.
It's the time of year when police say there is usually a spike in crime. They said it's typical to see more burglaries, robberies and shoplifting from around Black Friday until the New Year.
Newman has experienced that spike in crime firsthand. Newman said he would advise the man not steal from any other tackle shops in the Valley because he's made sure that his picture has been passed around. When people steal hooks in large amounts like that, Newman said they usually take them to a flea market to try and sell them.
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CATEGORIES Movies2011 was the best of times and worst of times for Natalie Portman. The actress won an Oscar for her portrayal of Nina in 'Black Swan' and also gave birth to her first child. Hooray! Unfortunately, her onscreen work was not nearly as successful -- at least creatively: she appeared in the derided 'No Strings Attached' and 'Your Highness,' and her performance in 'Thor' was thought of as a film low-point. Well, it appears Portman might get back on track in 2012: per the Los Angeles Times, she's wanted by Lana and Andy Wachowski for 'Jupiter Ascending.' The film would be her first since giving birth.
Little is known about 'Jupiter' beyond the basics: the Wachowskis will direct, following their work on the film 'Cloud Atlas,' and production will begin later this year. Portman previously worked with the siblings on their production of 'V for Vendetta,' a role for which she famously shaved her head.
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