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Everybody has the freedom of speech, according to the 1st Amendment, so everybody has the freedom of saying what they want or how they feel. Hate speech is not right though. It encourages bullying and it makes people feel bad about themselves. Hate speech would be fine, if worded differently. The message would still get across, but it would less likely to hurt someone's feelings. Everybody has the right to say as they feel. If no one was able to say as they feel, nobody would be able to stand up for what they believe in. The 1st Amendment protects the right to say as you wish.
The first amendment very specifically says that Americans will not have their freedom of speech restricted. That's a very good thing - we can say what we want and what we believe in, and we can't get in trouble for it. If people were restricted through their opinions, we would never be allowed to say anything unless EVERYONE agrees with it. That's not going to happen. You can't get millions of Americans to believe in one solid thing. Our religions, traditions, cultures, and way of life are all part of freedom of speech. If we had our freedom restrained, we might as well say that people have no freedom at all. If we did say that hate speech is against the constitution, what would we consider hate speech? Could we get arrested for telling our best friend that they need to brush their teeth? There's no way to put a window on this kind of thing. Everyone would have to have a voice in what is and is not hate speech, and because there are so many people with so many opinions, pretty much everything can be considered offensive or rude. One thing cannot be always considered offensive. The diversity of today's America is not the same that is was back in 1776, and the amount of hate speech has been amazingly increased due to growing social media patterns. You can't just turn off facebook and instagram - that's where people express themselves, and that's where people are saying the wrong things.
The first amendment should protect hate speech for various reasons. Hate speech is giving your opinion rather it is morally good or bad. You may not agree with something someone has said, but they should have the right to express their feelings in that way. If they do not have the right to express their feelings using speech what is the point of the first amendment?
Hate speech should be protected in all ways possible. The 1st amendment protects freedom of speech, which includes hateful talk. Although it's considered rude and can affect others negatively, technically it's still legal because you're just stating your opinion. No laws can stop somebody from thinking the way they think, that's just the way they are. If a law was created to end all hate speech, our society would hardly be able to share opinions or feelings toward each other. For example, if somebody were homophobic, there's no way a law can change the way they think about gays. It's their opinion and you can't change that no matter what you do. Not everybody is going to have the same positive opinions about everything, including races and sexuality.
I believe that the 1st amendment should protect hate speech because you should be able to say what you want, even if it's hate. It would be violating the right; freedom of speech if one was not able to say what they want freely. Hate speech is speech whether it's morally right or wrong. Speech is saying what you think or what you feel and hate speech falls into this category. Therefore, the 1st amendment should protect hate speech.
Hate speech should be protected by the 1st amendment. You're thoughts are you're thoughts and if you're against something then you have the right to say how you feel. Where do you draw the line if its a hate comment or not? The government would be overwhelmed by all the hate comments if they were against the Constitution. Yes, hate comments aren't the right way to go, and there is many other ways to deal with a situation, but people will do what they want whether it's against the law or not. Without hate comments people wouldn't be able to speak out and say what they feel. Therefore, hate comments should be protected by the 1st amendment.
I think that yes the first amendment should protect hate speech. Hate speech may be wrong, immoral, or mean, but you have a right to say what you want. It's just like commenting on something you don't like, the first amendment still allows you to say those thing. So why shouldn't it allow you to say hateful things against something you hate.
The first amendment should not protect hate speech, because hate can seriously affect somebody. Hate is a form of bullying and should not be legal at all. Hate is pointless and only makes situations worse. Bullying is not legal, so why should some forms be more legal than others. Hate is a horrible thing, and should not be covered by the first amendment. The first amendment was created so that the people could share their opinions, not bully others.
People should not be able to say whatever they want because some things are very hurtful. It can cause people to kill themselves or get depressed. You should be able to say a lot of things such as your opinion, but only in a nice way. Hate speeches hurt people. Hate speeches are bullying, and bullying is not acceptable.
Hate speech, no matter how intolerant it is, is still considered speech. Therefore, the 1st Amendment will protect it. Is the hate speech morally correct? No. But can you just exclude certain things from the 1st Amendment just based on content? Also no. As long as it is just a thought, and not an action, it should be protected by the 1st Amendment.
The western concept of "Free Speech" is a concept created by the bourgeoisies to divided the people freely so there can be an everlasting struggle between the common man while they exploit us all. Free speech does nothing but promote hate, violence, and greed in society and its proven, look at the United States, its filled with racial tension and hate. Then look at the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia where there were some barring of speech and there was no racial tension up until western powers caused it to collapse.
If you poke your stick at an angry lion, it WILL bite your head off if it gets near you. People need to learn their lessons. What many are doing today is that they are abusing people from different faiths, humiliating them, and spreading lies about them, and then defend their case by the first Amendment.
And then people ask questions why some religious extremists killed some folks over a dumb movie? Learn your lessons humanity, because you never do learn from the past. You are responsible for feeding the fire instead of extinguishing it. Act like a civilized human being for once.
If you have no compassion for your fellow brother or sister, you are not a human, you are a homo-sapien as far as it gets.
I believe the first amendment gives that permission and protection. We may agree with the words or not but we all have a right to saw it. Also as shown in our politically correct world, correctness is in the eye of the beholder...Ex. A black person can say ni... Without a problem but a white cannot...Go figure...
Many people who are hateful of a certain subjects for no apparent reason to hate the subject thus adding nothing to the world but unhappy words. While when someone wants to add a reasonable opinion to the subject this is usually represented in a calm manner this helps the subject progress. So in my opinion hate speeches should not be protected by the first Amendment.
It shouldn't protect hate speech because people use it to make fun of people especially teenagers which cause them to harm themselves or possibly kill themselves. By having the right to say anything people could say one wrong thing and cause a person to immediately blow up and that isn't what I want to see our world as. Overall if people don't agree with this I think they should most definitely watch what they are saying.
People should not be able to say whatever they want because some things are very hurtful. It can cause people to kill themselves or get depressed. You should be able to say a lot of things such as your opinion, but only in a nice way. Hate speeches hurt people. Hate speeches are bullying, and bullying is not acceptable.
The first amendment gives us freedom of speech. The first amendment also allows us the freedom of peaceable assemble. This means that anyone should be able to say what they want to say and where they want to say it. If somebody believes something they should be able to express themselves. If people disagree about this then they can debate against it however they please. We as citizens have the right to believe what we want to believe, this lets us have choices and is a main part of freedom.
Hate speeches comes from someone's feelings, or opinion of something. "You should have the right to say, what you want to say", stated from the first amendment. Hate speeches are not hurting our society because the United States is still, and always will be, the most visited and beautiful country. Everyone has something hateful to say about one another, or something wrong in their society, but that's ok because in the end we let it go and we don't care anymore.
Laws and values should be decided by/for all subjects involved and that in justice is to prevent social inconsistency. Law is about maintaining all of us' safety, allowing the vocal hate of something is propaganda and can easily lead to irrational dislike towards something.
If you dislike something or someone, you should campaign it away from others with a rational point for people's safety from spreading hatred and to save them from social-function disabling visceral reaction from being hated. Visceral response is very real and scientifically verified, potentially psychologically and/or physically damage, can lead to anxiety/depression (which can press on companies and medical resources far beyond the available help and expense) and even suicide.
Subjective cases with little data should be ignored as "personal" problems (especially where subjectively measured ambiguous value terms such as "evil" and "disrespectful" are used). The law exists to ensure psychological, property and physical safety for the living and the law enforcer should know better than to think otherwise as that is contrary to the purpose of law and therefore irrational. Just let every sane person to suggest rational, non-biased arguments and their campaigns when it comes to complaining about the ways of others. Hateful abuse is abuse.
I can recall one recent particular case in which a white supremacist couple in the U.S. wanted to name their child Adolf Hitler and the state government intervened. The idea being that this child would have to endure ridicule and hatred which is ironic being that he'd be named after one of the most hate-filled dictators in history. I agree "hate speech" is hard to define, but in that particular case it appeared to me to be clearly hateful in that the parents are evoking a murderous figure with the name as well as subjecting their child to society's disapproval, this being a country of mixed cultures with descendants who died due to or fighting against the original Adolf Hitler. In the interest of society and this child, we collectively agreed, albeit indirectly through our government representatives, that the wellbeing of the child supersedes the 1st Amendment rights of the parents.
The first amendment is the greatest law of the land because without a voice the people are powerless and paralyzed against whatever ruling class/party/dictator is currently is in power. But we do live in a more complicated era which the founders of the law never visualized, just look a little further down the constitution which once defined slaves as 2/5's of a free man. It took years before the 13th amendment barring slavery was passed and centuries later for the 19th amendment before women could vote. Fortunately we do not live in a world of absolutes.
To unequivocally protect all speech regardless of the effects is idealist to the extreme. Let's say a (fill in the race) supremacist writes a pamphlet on the superiority of his/her race. It gains a small following who agree and spread the word to their children and neighbors that all other races are inferior and threaten the purity of their race and must be eradicated, enveloped in the gallantry of national pride it devolves into jingoism. People begin to think we should kick them out or inter them in camps, build giant walls to keep them out or simply wipe them off the face of the earth. It has happened and still happens today.
I do still believe in the spirit of the law. I support people like Edward Snowden and his right to freely publish documents he's discovered even when it's critical to the government, I applaud his bravery. But if a less scrupulous person who is hateful gets their hands on some software which can take over our nuclear arm depots and decides to publish them on the internet. I have little problem stifling that instance of free speech. Diluting the 1st amendment is highly dangerous with many ramifications, but we can and already do make extremely specific exceptions, the only thing I feel is more dangerous is declaring absolutes.


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The Madhapur police on Monday night caught Telugu film actor Ravi Teja's brother Bharat for allegedly misbehaving with the police officials in an inebriated condition.
Bharat stopped his car on the main road near Kavuri Hills in Madhapur and was interacting with a friend when the police accosted him for a routine check. He reportedly lost his cool and misbehaved with the police officers on duty.
The police booked him for drunk driving and also for causing nuisance in public and arrested him. The police had earlier nabbed Bharat for allegedly possessing drugs.
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Jan 7th 2011 10:09AM It's definitely a different angle they're playing it. I'm curious as to how well it will work considering the many changes that may be required. I understood many of the changes they made from Lord of the Rings novels to films because the Tolkein's writing style would likely not transition well to dialogue (very wordy man - even if they are many a gem). The Hobbit, on the other hand, is a more straight forward, traditional, tale in structure and writing. Seems to me they're going to be doing a lot of playing around to add that epic scope.
Shelf Life: The Apartment {Moviefone Blog}
Jan 4th 2011 8:18PM While his morality may be debatable, I truly believe Lemmon makes CC Baxter lovable. Without him in the role it would likely be a more drawling/cynical character.
One movie I think serves rather well in relation to this is Wilder's The Fortune Cookie. It may be best known as the first Lemmon-Matthau, but it's a great example of Wilder's ability to create enjoyable situations through not the most likable characters. Granted, the ending is a bit too 'hollywood' rubbish.
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I love it. It is so airy that it is perfect for any heat. The bright colors are very on due to tanned skin, it must be a big hit. Since the cut goes a bit far, I have also sewn a binding belt of the same fabric. I can also now vary the length of the dress.
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Inspired by the German delicacy federweisser (fermented grape juice), this $10 kit transforms fruity beverages into fizzy booze in 48 hours. Just add a packet of the provided powder — mostly yeast and evaporated cane juice — to half a gallon of juice, seal with the Airlock stopper, and wait two days. Prost!


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Firefighters in Bronwsville have turned their blue uniform tops to pink as they promote a huge cause.
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Political intrigue, betrayal, peril and forbidden romance play out in this lavish, critically acclaimed historical epic set in the royal palace of Korea's ancient Joseon Dynasty, when a lowly peasant is forced to masquerade as the tyrannical king, who has fallen ill.
Having lost his parents at a young age, Min-woo takes care of his younger brother Jin-woo much like a father would. He harbors a secret crush on Shin-ae, a nurse he meets at a church gathering, and persuades her to go on a date with him to the movies. Not long after the film begins, however, they hear the sound of sirens and are rushed out of the theater. Outside they find chaos in the streets: tear gas dances wildly and soldiers mobilized for crowd control have taken to violent beatings. Bewildered and enraged, the citizens form a militia, determined to protect the ones they love.
When Min-Ah discovers a shared diary she is soon fascinated to discover that two girls she assumed were little more than close friends were engaged in a much closer, forbidden relationship. As she reads on she is unable to tear her eyes away from the literally page-turning high drama of her classmates' lives, and the allure of the secret diary begins to take over.
Hae-guk (Park Hae-il, War of the Arrows) receives word that his estranged father has passed away, so he travels to the remote village where the older man lived to attend the funeral. However, when Hae-guk starts asking questions about his father's life - and unexplained death - the residents and their charismatic Chief (Jung Jae-young, The Divine Weapon) exchange mysterious looks and seem anxious to rush him out of their village. Something isn't right, and Hae-guk is determined to uncover the truth... at any cost!
Mother is a devoted single parent to her simple-minded twenty-seven-year-old son, Do-joon. One night, while walking home drunk, he encounters a school girl whom he follows for a while before she disappears into a dark alley. The next morning, she is found dead in an abandoned building and Do-joon is accused of her murder. His mother refuses to believe her beloved son is guilty and immediately undertakes her own investigation to find the girl's killer.
A woman is killed in a hotel room. The ensuing police investigation is conducted in front of TV cameras for the entire country to watch as it unfolds.
At an all-girls school for troubled teens, four roommates must get along or deal with the consequences. One girl doesn't know if she's going crazy or having visions of the school burning to the ground. Her roommates are scared of her but want to help her. When these visions get out of control, the girls no longer care about exams, discipline or detention... they're just concerned for their lives.
Lee Gang Sik is serving a life sentence for murder. For the last 15 years, he has been on his best behavior, and now his wish has finally come true. Gang Sik has been granted a one-day leave to visit his family, and as the day draws closer and closer, he is overcome with both excitement and nervousness. There is so much he wants to say to his teenage son, whom he hasn't seen since incarceration, but the feeling isn't exactly reciprocated.
Junko, a half-Japanese, half-Korean girl, travels to Seoul as an exchange student in hopes of finding a Korean student whom she had fallen in love with in Japan. When she arrives, she finds out that her love-to-be is in the army. On top of that, the boarding house she's staying at is full of rowdy young guys, including the owner's abrasive son Jongman. Junko plans to leave, but agrees to stay in exchange for Korean lessons from Jongman. This disagreeable tutor, however, is a lot more interested in teaching her inappropriate words than conjugation.
Jun Shik works for Tatsuo's grandfather's farm while Korea is colonized by Japan, but he has a dream to participate in Tokyo Olympics as a marathon runner. Tatsuo also aims to become a marathon runner, making them rivals, but war breaks out and they both are forced to enlist in the army. Tatsuo becomes the head of defense in Jun Shik's unit and the two are captured by the Soviets.


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Jean Schauer and I have one thing in common: We both have journalism degrees.
The thing is, Schauer parlayed her J-school sheepskin into a business that brings in more than a million dollars a year. Me, I'm still working on matching that total for my career.
Schauer is the founder and chief executive cheerleader for Schauer Global Health Inc. (SGH), a Burnsville consulting firm that helps corporate clients and their employees fight their way through the growing complexities of health care benefits.
In the process, the company also creates communications programs to encourage employees to think of health more as prevention than treatment and cuts overlapping publications and programs that can cost large employers millions of dollars.
It all adds up to a business that is headed for $1.2 million in 2008 revenue. That's $100,000 below the 2007 total, which actually is an impressive feat given that the company spent almost that entire year on a big project that contributed 80 percent of the year's revenue.
So how do you replace $1 million of income in one year?
"Once that big project was over, I had time to start working my network," said Schauer, 48, who spent more than 20 years creating communications programs for UnitedHealthcare and for Watson Wyatt Worldwide, an international employee benefits company. "I could spend less time in the business and more time on the business."
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Founded in 2003, SGH has grown at an average of 65 percent a year even with the 8 percent decline this year.
There's good reason: As employers seek to contain rising health care costs and promote healthier employee lifestyles, the trend toward consumer-directed health plans has accelerated, leaving both employers and their workers facing what Schauer called "a maze of options and decisions."
Consider: In a typical program, employer and employees pay a specific amount into a health savings account, which workers then use to pay for all medical costs. The burden is on workers to make the best possible health care choices.
Adding to the puzzle is a growing array of preventive programs -- exercise, nutrition, weight management, regular checkups -- offered by employers and insurers.
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Employees are not the only ones who need help: Even large companies are having trouble explaining health plans and preventive programs to their employees.
That's why SGH has won a blue-chip client roster: insurance giants Cigna and Aetna; Consortium Health Plans, a Blue Cross Blue Shield marketing and consulting coalition, and prominent locals such as UnitedHealthcare, St. Jude Medical and the Hazelden Foundation.
It appears the company is earning its keep: For example, SGH saved one of its largest clients -- the company would not allow its name to be used -- nearly $4 million by consolidating a number of overlapping health communications programs scattered in offices around the country.
Or listen to a manager at a Florida insurer talk about the online health care enrollment form SGH developed that provides a complex variety of prompts designed to capture all necessary information, all in an easy-to-use format: "I was nervous about a new process, but SGH made it so easy for us I can't believe we ever did enrollment any other way."
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I've known for more than 25 years that Schauer is one smart lady, having given her one of the A's I rarely -- and grudgingly -- handed out in a newswriting class I once taught at the University of St. Thomas.
After graduation from St. Thomas, Schauer worked her way up to communications director at UnitedHealthcare. Later she labored as a communications consultant at Watson Wyatt, where the entrepreneurial opportunity offered by consumer-directed health plans first presented itself.
She started in her home office and in little more than a year had been nudged out to her dining-room table by the three employees she hired to handle the company's growth. She now has eight employee working in a 3,600-square-foot office.
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Schauer is confident that Healthy Revolutions can make a contribution: "We did a series of focus groups, and it was apparent that smaller employers are desperate for this kind of help," she said.
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SOLVANG, Calif. - Michael Jackson was taken to an emergency room Sunday for treatment of a back problem that has plagued him throughout his molestation trial, a spokeswoman said.
Jackson, accompanied by a bodyguard, arrived at the Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital about five miles from his Neverland ranch at about 2:30 p.m., spokeswoman Raymone K. Bain said.
"Mr. Jackson's back has spurred up on him again," Bain said. "It's pretty serious. It was serious enough for him to come over here."
Bain said stress contributed to the entertainer's back problem.
"He's under a tremendous amount of stress right now," she said at an impromptu news conference outside the hospital. "Other than his back, he is doing fine."
Jackson's health has been an issue throughout the trial. The 46-year-old pop star appeared gaunt in recent days, and officials at the hospital disclosed Friday that he had visited the emergency room overnight.
Jackson's case was twice previously interrupted by hospital visits, once for treatment of flu symptoms. He first reported a back problem in early March, when he went to an emergency room on one of the days his accuser took the stand. Jackson arrived late, dressed in pajama bottoms, after the judge ordered him to come to court.
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The jury received Jackson's case Friday afternoon and deliberated for about two hours before adjourning for the weekend. They will resume discussions Monday. Bain said Jackson planned to return to his family at Neverland when he is released from the hospital to wait for the verdict.
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Consumers interact with brands across various mediums — their smartphones, computers, call center, in-store — just to name a few. Their interactions with brands — from viewing a TV ad to re-tweeting a promotion — are creating such a rich trove of data that marketers are left wondering: How do I glean relevant insights to optimize my marketing and media? Which channels should I optimize? How can I meet my growth goals while expanding into new, unfamiliar markets and channels? These questions keep marketers up at night; they are looking for best-in-class examples of measurement and analytics success. Well, look no further.
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CASPER, Wyo. — Republican campaign signs have been stolen and vandalized in Natrona and Park counties and, in one case, replaced with a challenger's sign, campaign officials and insiders said.
Signs for Gov. Matt Mead, secretary of state candidate Clark Stith, Park County sheriff candidate Bruce Olson and several lawmakers have been stolen or defaced in recent weeks.
Of the past eight campaign cycles in which Bonnie Foster, current chairwoman of the Natrona County GOP, has been involved, she's heard the most complaints this year, she said.
Foster has received complaints that state Sen. Bill Landen's signs are disappearing and state Rep. Tom Lockhart's signs are being removed and replaced with the signs for Chuck Gray, who is challenging Lockhart in Casper's House District 57. The people who have complained are property owners who didn't want people on their property touching the signs, she said.
Foster doesn't believe Gray or Kara Rae Linn, who is challenging Landen in Senate District 27, are removing the signs. But some of their supporters may be, she said.
"Some of these people are still upset over SF 104, even though it's dead, done and over," Foster said, referring to the law that temporarily removed Superintendent of Public Instruction Cindy Hill as head of the Wyoming Department of Education. The Wyoming Supreme Court has since ruled the law unconstitutional.
"We need to move on," Foster said. "There seems to be a lot of hostility toward anybody who voted for SF 104, without ever asking them why or getting them to explain. They're just assuming, and we all know when you assume what that means."
Linn did not respond to a message seeking comment. In an email to the Star-Tribune, Gray denied any involvement.
"To suggest that either me or my campaign would be involved with such pettiness is ridiculous," he said. "Signs of mine have been stolen as well, but I'm focused on giving my neighbors the more limited government they expect."
Landen didn't point fingers at anyone. The Wyoming winds could be blowing his signs away, he said.
Lockhart saw one of his signs on the ground. A Gray sign was in its place. He's heard of other instances of his signs being replaced, he said.
"My experience has been it could be anybody," he said. "It could be the opposition. It could also be some kids pulling up signs because they think it's a fun idea."
Signs are expensive for candidates, Foster said. She encouraged the public to be civil.
"It's great for the incumbents to be challenged because it puts them on their toes," she said. "But we don't have to be nasty and vindictive. That's not Wyoming's style."
It is tough for cops to resolve campaign sign issues, said Lance Mathess, public affairs officer for the Park County Sheriff's Office.
"It's almost the point where it's unsolvable," he said. "We'll take the information. Certainly we encourage people if you see someone taking a campaign sign down before an election that is suspicious activity."
The primary election is Aug. 19.
County clerks can monitor signs placed on government property or on private property on which campaigns do not have permission. The county sheriff can take the signs and return them to the candidate, said Natrona County Clerk Renea Vitto.
On election day, county clerks make sure campaign signs are not within 100 yards of polling places, she said.
"People do steal them," she said. "They try to do dirty campaigns. Maybe kids steal them. They think they're fun to have. But it is strictly up to the candidate to monitor his own signs — the candidate or the committee. They can (write) a letter to the editor, asking people to not bother their signs."
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In Cody, Mead signs have been slashed, she said.
Other Mead signs in Park County have been trampled on or removed, said Geri Hockhalter, a Cody supporter of Mead.
Next to the vandalized Mead sign, someone later slashed a Stith campaign sign. The signs were on U.S. Highways 14-16-20, the route to Yellowstone National Park that is busy in the summertime with traffic, said Hockhalter, who is also supporting Stith.
Stith called it an isolated incident. He's not blaming his opponents, who he said have been civil throughout the campaign.
"I had a campaign staffer from one of the other candidates alert me last night that one of my signs had fallen down," he said. "I was able to do sign maintenance on that."
Larry French, chairman of the Park County GOP, said someone took a sign in support of Olson from his yard.
"I put three more up and called the police and filed a complaint," he said.
Rep. Gerald Gay, R-Casper, loses about a third of his signs a week, one of the reasons why he posts only five or six at a time, he said. This year is about normal, compared with other election years.
"My signs say 'Gay' in big white letters," he said.
People tear up or vandalize his signs, such as writing "Politicians are all gay," he said.
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ARCATA, Calif. (AP) - Sixteen years ago, Kevin L. Hoover chanced across a newspaper item about someone stuffing cheese into the ears and nose of a statue of William McKinley in the Arcata town square.
Hoover was intrigued on two counts: that a small town with a square and a statue actually existed outside of TV, and that someone would feel moved to cheddar it.
With three days to kill, he came up for a visit and "just totally fell in love" with Arcata, an old logging town of about 16,000 set in coastal redwoods of Northern California.
He quit his job near San Francisco, where he had been working in "let's just say retail," and took a job at the Arcata Union newspaper. There, he worked as a production assistant until the day a harried editor made a fateful decision. She asked Hoover to do the police log for the day.
Hoover looked at a police account of a car full of drunks (toasted) which crashed (coasted) and a poem suggested itself. Shrugging off the straitjacket of conventional journalism, he wrote it.
"I started kind of chiseling away at the seriousness of it. I mean, how can you not? This town is so wacky," says Hoover of Arcata, a nuclear-free zone that for a while had the distinction of a Green Party majority on its city council.
Sixteen years later, Hoover is Arcata's master of rhymes and misdemeanors, the writer of a newspaper police blotter so good it's criminal.
Like other crime reporters, Hoover gets his raw material from the daily bulletins filed by police in stern, telegraphic prose. The difference is what he does with it.
A report of a stolen bike becomes wistful: "That nice green 21-speed on Austin Way is just a memory now."
An out-of-towner's drunken-driving arrest gets the folksy treatment: "Possession of marijuana, possession of alcohol, possession of a driving-impairing liquor buzz. These are things that make an Arcata Police officer grow a big ol' frown. Being from Visalia is somewhat excusable."
A case of shoplifted steak becomes a sizzling slice of life: "Equipped with opposing thumb and forefinger, an ingrained hunter-gatherer species tradition and a crazy dream, a man entered a 24-hour supermarket and, say police, stuffed some animal parts under his jacket and fled the store."
Some police business isn't remotely amusing, of course, and Hoover knows it. "If there's a family problem or ... any kind of real violence obviously that's not very funny."
On the other hand, the fellows who decided to trick-or-treat sans costumes - any costumes - last Halloween were simply begging to be limericked:
"A half-dozen near-naked dudes
Were out trick-or-treating all nude.
A cop found the lads
Somewhat scantily clad
And sent them away freshly clued."
In 1995, the Union went under. So Hoover, working with not much more than his desktop computer, started the Eye, which today is up to 3.5 employees.
It police log is a devious delight, not only for Arcatans but also for the many out-of-towners who follow it by Internet.
"Every once in a while there's that jewel in there. You go, `Wow! This is great!"' says local businessman Bruce Hamilton.
Names are withheld to protect the presumed innocent, but occasionally the Eye gets an angry letter from someone who has recognized his or her most embarrassing moment. Hoover figures some people don't like seeing their pratfalls in print, with or without laughs, so, "I might as well bring out the humor."
Longtime Arcata policeman Bob Murphy calls Hoover's column "cool."
Murphy, the hero of a recent item, "Stoned souls harvested by the Grim Ranger," doesn't mind a bit if people are laughing as they're learning about the doings of the ranger program, a relatively new police park clean-up initiative.
"It's neat to see it publicized," says Murphy.
The log has its own lexicon.
The county jail in nearby Eureka is painted pink, meaning miscreants go to the Pink House or simply get Pinked. Skipping out on a restaurant bill is a scarf-n-scram; doing something similar at the gas station is a fill-n-flee.
Arcata isn't exactly a crime capital. There were no murders and only one attempted homicide last year. But there was plenty of log fodder.
"I try to let the items tell themselves," says Hoover. "My favorite ones are just the anecdotes where there was some little interaction between people, people with all their mixed up ideas about the way things should work."
Thumbing through a stack of recent reports in the tidy lobby of Arcata's police station, he pauses at an item about a woman reporting that magnetic forces from space are controlling her mind - "Do I make this stuff up or what?" - and then skims on.
At some point before his 7 a.m. Monday deadline, Hoover sits down at his computer with a mission to inform and entertain.
Sometimes, he gently scolds:
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Sometimes only a haiku will do.
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Most readers catch on, he hopes.
"I am," says Hoover, "celebrating the ridiculous."
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Aspirin-loaded electrospun poly(ε-caprolactone) tubular scaffolds: potential small-diameter vascular grafts for thrombosis prevention
- Costantino Del Gaudio,
- Enrico Ercolani,
- Pierluca Galloni,
- Federico Santilli,
- Silvia Baiguera,
- Leonardo Polizzi,
- Alessandra Bianco
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Thrombosis is the main cause of failure of small-diameter synthetic vascular grafts when used for by-pass procedures. The development of bioresorbable vascular scaffolds with localized and sustained intra-luminal antithrombotic drug release could be considered a desirable improvement towards a valuable solution for this relevant clinical need. For this aim, we present the fabrication and characterization of aspirin-loaded electrospun poly(ε-caprolactone) tubular scaffolds as a vascular drug-delivery graft. Three different drug concentrations were considered (i.e., 1, 5 or 10 % w/w). Although a fibrous structure was clearly observed for all the collected scaffolds, aspirin content was directly implied in the final microstructure leading to a bimodal fiber diameter distribution and fused fibers at crossing-points (5 or 10 % w/w). Mechanical response highlighted a direct relationship for modulus and stress at break with the aspirin content, while the elongation at break was not remarkably different for the investigated cases. The temporal drug release was strongly dependent from the amount of loaded aspirin, reaching a steady state release after about 50 h. Finally, the adhesion assay confirmed the capability of the electrospun scaffolds to reduce platelet adhesion/aggregation onto aspirin loaded polymeric fibers. Aspirin-loaded electrospun tubular scaffold could represent a feasible candidate to develop a novel bioresorbable drug-releasing graft for small-diameter vessel replacements.
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- Title
- Aspirin-loaded electrospun poly(ε-caprolactone) tubular scaffolds: potential small-diameter vascular grafts for thrombosis prevention
- Journal
Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine
Volume 24, Issue 2 , pp 523-532
- Cover Date
- 2013-02-01
- 10.1007/s10856-012-4803-3
- Print ISSN
- 0957-4530
- Online ISSN
- 1573-4838
- Publisher
- Springer US
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- Authors
- Costantino Del Gaudio (1)
- Enrico Ercolani (1)
- Pierluca Galloni (2)
- Federico Santilli (2)
- Silvia Baiguera (3)
- Leonardo Polizzi (3)
- Alessandra Bianco (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", INSTM Research Unit Roma Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133, Rome, Italy
- 2. Department of Chemical Science and Technology, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133, Rome, Italy
- 3. BIOAIRLab, European Center of Thoracic Research (CERT), University Hospital Careggi, Florence, Italy