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April 2, 2013
The 18th Blast from the Past Car Show, sponsored by the Vintage Auto Club of Delaware, will be held from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, July 23. Admission is free.
More than 700 vintage vehicles will be in downtown Delaware for one of the state's largest car shows.
The show will take place on Sandusky Street, between Harrison Street and Central Avenue. Sandusky will be closed to traffic at 6 a.m. Other street closings will be West Winter Street to the alley next to Bun's Restaurant, East Winter Street to the City Parking lot exit, and Spring Street, to the NAPA store. William Street will not be closed.
Proceeds from the cruise-in benefit Home Reach Hospice at Grady Memorial Hospital. The show has generated more than $165,000 for Hospice at Grady through the years.
The annual Delaware Main Street Farmers' Market will be held at its regular time, but in a different location in front of City Hall.

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(NewsUSA) - When buying a new home or remodeling an existing one, many people get caught up in the selection of hardwood flooring or cabinet colors and can sometimes forget about adding real value to a home -- specifically with the right combination of energy-saving solutions and an optimal heating and cooling (HVAC) system. What's behind the walls and in the attic, basement or utility closet can really impact a home's value and performance and lead to greater energy savings and long-term buyer satisfaction.
The average homeowner spends approximately $1,900 a year on energy bills. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, heating and cooling account for about 56 percent of a typical home's energy usage, making it the largest energy expense for most homes.
A natural first step to achieving an energy-efficient home is to install a high-efficiency heating and cooling system. Many of today's top builders and contractors are turning to experts and energy-efficient solutions to help reduce energy use in homes without pricing buyers out of the market.
Though investing in energy-efficient heating and cooling may have the biggest impact on reducing household energy use, homeowners should approach energy efficiency from a more holistic perspective.
A highly efficient system should work in concert with high-quality insulation, water heater, windows, roofing, light fixtures and energy-efficient appliances to ensure the greatest energy savings. Be sure to talk with a homebuilder or contractor about how these various systems work together to determine the right solution based on the style of home and climate.
So while contemplating what color to paint the master bedroom, think about what's in the utility closet, too. It'll reduce future energy use and contribute to a comfortable home.
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Jerilynn wrote:What is the current Boglehead backup program du jour for PCs?
I'd like something that backs up everything so in the event of a bad hard drive, all I would need to do is buy a new one and restore everything back to it.
Any ideas?
jebmke wrote:I tested Crashplan for about a month. The Windows service randomly stopped working rendering the automated backup unreliable. Further, the service did not automatically start when the computer rebooted despite the fact that the service was set to automatic. Emails traded with their tech support produced the recommendation to make some fairly obscure tweaks to the memory settings in the ini file. I elected not to make these changes and test further. A consumer based product should not rely on the consumer to intervene like this (even though I am perfectly comfortable making these changes).
IMO a good back up system should have bulletproof reliability on backup and restore. Features are nice, speed is nice but if the back up doesn't work reliably and the restore is uncertain, the system is useless for its intended purpose. Once a backup system is deployed, the user should do test restores, frequently at first and then less frequently (but regularly) once the restore is proven and the user is comfortable that he/she knows how to restore the data.
Lacrocious wrote:One BIG thing to do, regardless of what tool you choose to use is:
Periodically restore files to to validate that the backup and restore process works.
A Backup that has never been tested should not be considered a backup. Backup Tools fail on occasion or your Hard Drive fails or something glitches. Test Test Test.
climber2020 wrote:In addition to standard backup procedures, I keep 2 separate 32 gig USB drives containing only my photos and important scanned documents. One stays in a small fireproof safe in my apartment, the other stays in the trunk of my car. Hopefully both don't burn down on the same day
Lacrocious wrote:@dratkinson - ... Crash Plan ... Robocopy ... SyncBackSE ...
lwfitzge wrote:I use cloud back-up Carbonite....$59/yr, unlimited data
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A spiteful fairy. A beautiful princess. An outstretched finger. A spindle. A hundred-year snooze. A charming prince. A kiss. All the familiar ingredients.
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Gail Carson Levine thinks she can write poetry. Forgive her; the doctors say shell be sane again soon. She was born in New York City and shares a birthday with William Carlos Williams. Her first book for children, Ella Enchanted, won a Newbery Honor. Gails other books include A Tale of Two Castles; the New York Times bestsellers Ever and Fairest; Dave at Night, an ALA Notable Book and Best Book for Young Adults; The Wish; The Two Princesses of Bamarre; and the six Princess Tales books. She is also the author of the nonfiction book Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly and the picture books Betsy Who Cried Wolf! and Betsy Red Hoodie, both illustrated by Scott Nash. Gail and her husband, David, live in the Hudson Valley of New York State.


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St. Louis Post Dispatch preview of Festival's features Calyx Piano Trio & MOCM!http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/chamber-music-fans-have-options-this-month/article_a1fecbbf-3763-58e6-9003-0200f91aa
Getting the new piece, "Kiss to the Earth" in a few weeks. This work written by the amazing Amy Beth Kirsten to premiere at June's Missouri Chamber Music Festival (MOCM). Made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program!
Heading to one of our favorite locales: New Bern, NC for the Tenth Anniversary Season of the Carolina Chamber Music Festival. February 17-23, 2013!


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Vol. 18 , No. 03
Global Politics After September 11, 2001: Is It Different?
In 1993 Harvard professor Samuel Huntington rocked the world of policy analysts and policy makers alike by predicting that global conflicts would likely return to old battles rooted in culture. With the end of the Cold War, conflict between competing civilizations would increasingly define the future, he said. Moreover, he named names, stating that western civilization, including America, was in decline and that Islamic and East Asian civilizations were resurgent. Now nearly a decade later, and after the terrorist attack on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, Huntington's thesis may be more relevant than ever.
Samuel P. Huntington is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University, where he is also the director of' the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He was the director of security planning for the National Security Council in the Carter administration, the founder and coeditor of Foreign Policy, and the president of the American Political Science Association. He is the author of many books and scholarly articles, including Political Order In Changing Societies: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996); American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony (1983); and The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (1991). Huntington Iives in Boston, Massachusetts.
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Ferocious yet Manageable
The violent scenes of the Second Palestinian Uprising dominate the screens and focus all attention on the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza. To some observers it resembles an anticolonial struggle, waged by occupied people fighting for freedom from their powerful occupier. To others it is a war of terror aimed at the total destruction of the Jewish State. Both sides feel that they are engaged in an existential conflict, a war of survival. One cannot view the present troubles in isolation and must be aware of the historical burden that both sides carry to this latest encounter in the 100-year conflict between Jews and Arabs over the Holy Land.
Dr. Benvenisti will trace the causes and describe the nature of this intercommunal conflict that involves issues of identity, absolute justice, clash of affinity to the same homeland, and conflicting myths. He will argue that such conflicts are insoluble but manageable, not necessarily because the sides can forgo their emotions but because otherwise they will destroy one another, and in such conflicts there are neither victors nor vanquished.
Meron Benvenisti has enjoyed a distinguished career as a scholar, politician, journalist, and administrator. He has served as Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem and twice as city councilor. Most recently he has been director of the Morning After project at the Truman Institute, Hebrew University. Dr. Benvenisti holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University. He is the author of dozens of books and articles, among which are Conflicts and Contradictions (1986); Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land (I995); Jerusalem, City of Stone (1996); and Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land 1948-1998 (2000).
Dr. Benvenisti's visit to Claremont McKenna College is sponsored by the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, the Dean of the Faculty, and the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum.
Copyright and Academic Tradition: You Can Run but You Can't Hide
While we live in an academic community that values the free expression of ideas, we are surrounded by a world in which information has become a commodity-a piece of property with tangible value. Indeed, every page that you read, every web site that you visit, and every song that you hear is almost certainly protected by copyright, even if you do not find an accompanying copyright notice. More frightening still, the wider world appears to be moving rapidly to a "pay per view" model where each viewing of a protected work carries a fee. How we respond to these changes will determine much of the future of our classes and scholarship.
ln his Athenaeum talk James Hilton will examine some of the rights and responsibilities that copyright law bestows on both authors and users and will explore the forces driving information commodifcation and the implications they have for academic tradition and scholarship.
As Associate Provost for Academic, Information, and Instructional Technology Affairs at the University of Michigan, Hilton is responsible for activities related to instructional technology, academic computing, intellectual property, and copyright and the associated legal issues. "It is ironic," says Hilton, "that we have been calling the recent past the 'information age.' Information is what universities have always been about, creating and transporting it to students."
Hilton has been a member of the faculty at the University of Michigan in the psychology department and at the Institute for Social Research since 1985. He is an award-winning teacher whose classes are consistently in high demand.
Hilton received a B.A. in psychology from the University of Texas in 1981 and a PhD. from the social psychology program at Princeton University in 1985.
James Hilton's Athenaeum lecture is the first in the series Critical Issues in the Academy sponsored by the Teaching Resource Center and the Athenaeum.
Come With Me from Lebanon: An American Family Odyssey
Ann Kerr has spent more than 15 years living, studying, teaching, and traveling in the Middle East, starting as a Junior-Year-Abroad student at the American University of Beirut (AUB) in the mid-fifties and continuing to the present time. Last summer she taught summer school at AUB and once again lived in the women's dorms. Her book Come with Me from Lebanon: An American Family Odyssey (1996) chronicles the years that she and her husband and four children lived in the region. The story is set against the backdrop of the political events that ultimately led to the assassination of her husband in the 1984 when he was president of the American University of Beirut.
Her views on the Middle East reveal the opportunity she has had of personally witnessing the social, religious, and political changes occurring over the past half-century and the complex differences between the various Arab countries. Sabbatical leaves and summer travels have provided the chance to look at American and Middle Eastern culture reflectively and to lament the continuing lack of understanding between them. Ann's forthcoming book, Painting the Middle East (2002), is a collection of her watercolors and photographs done over many years that depict the beauty and peace that exist in a region despite violence and unrest.
A native of Santa Monica, California, Ann Kerr was educated at Occidental College, the American University of Beirut, and the American University of Cairo. She is currently at UCLA where she coordinates the Visiting Fulbright Scholar Enrichment Program for Southern California. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the American University of Beirut, the Council on Foreign Relations, the President's Council of EARTH University in Costa Rica, and the Advisory Board of the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy.
The Hidden Hitler
With more than 120,000 books having been written about Adolf Hitler since the Fuhrer's death, one might feel justified asking why we need another. Advocates of historian Lothar Machtan's controversial study, The Hidden Hitler, answer with the following argument: "What Hitler did in history has been amply documented in the monumental work of historians and biographers such as Alan Bullock, Joachim Fest, and Ian Kershaw. Who Hitler was, however, as a person, what anchored him emotionally, has either eluded or been of little interest to writers who often burden themselves with the search for the origin or his evil as the explanation for his life and its consequences. Drawing from a wealth of archival sources, much of which has been long overlooked by historians. The Hidden Hitler focuses on Hitler the man. Lothar Machtan's controversial thesis is that Adolf Hitler was homosexual, and that one cannot begin to understand him, his entry into politics, and the early Nazi movement without a clear understanding of this aspect of his identity."
Since its publication in 2001, The Hidden Hitler has been a lightning rod of controversy, drawing often vitriolic criticism from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, fellow historians, and legions of lay readers. Even Machtan's severest detractors, however, cannot deny the resourcefulness, originality, and cogency with which he makes his arguments.
Lothar Machtan, associate professor of modern and current history at Bremen University, is also the author of the highly acclaimed Bismarcks Tod und Deutschlands Tranen (Bismarck's Death and Germany's Tears) (1998), as well as numerous publications on 19th- and 20th-century social history. Machtan is the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies' Scholar-In-Residence for Fall 2002.
Royals and the Reich: The Princes of Hesse in Nazi Germany
On the occasion of his installation as the first recipient of the John V. Croul chair in European History at Claremont McKenna College, Professor Jonathan Petropoulos will discuss his forthcoming book, Royals and the Reich: The Princes of Hesse in Nazi Germany (Oxford University Press 2004). This book will be the first-ever scholarly examination of pro-Nazi German aristocrats-members of the twenty-two Furtenhauser (royal houses) that remained after 1918. The post World War I political developments of an attempt at democracy, then fascism, threatened the weakened royal predominance in Germany. Specifically, Petropoulos's talk will focus on the lives of Philip and Christoph, Princes of Hesse. Both of the Princes provided considerable aid to the Nazis-Christoph as a top spy and Philip as a liaison between Hitler and Mussolini-before meeting untimely ends.
Other books by Petropoulos include The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany (1999) and Art as Politics in the Third Reich (1996). A graduate of UCLA and Harvard, he is the director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies and a professor of history at Claremont McKenna College. This past year, Professor Petropoulos was the recipient of the G. David Huntoon Senior Teaching Award at CMC. He has also served as research director for art and cultural property on the Presidential Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States and has helped to organize several art exhibitions, including Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991).
The Athenaeum serves as a gathering place where ideas, inquiry, and fellowship bring students, faculty, staff, other scholars, and nationally prominent speakers together. Attendance at any event may be limited to persons associated with CMC, to the people who signed up for the dinner, or to the maximum number of people allowed by fire regulations. On some occasions the speaker may address the group in another forum or the College may set up a video feed to handle an overflow crowd. All programs at the Athenaeum are filmed. Individuals attending should understand that their image might appear on the videotape. House rules and common courtesy prohibit disruptive actions inside the building during an Athenaeum sponsored program. Time allowing, there will be a period set aside for questions. Students will have priority during this portion of the program. Guests are expected to dress appropriately in all dining rooms. Shorts, jeans, and t-shirts are not acceptable at dinner; more casual attire is acceptable for lunch and tea. No bare feet at any time.
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Make yourself at home in one of the 498 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and LCD televisions. Premium TV channels and MP3 docking stations are provided for your entertainment, with wired and wireless Internet access available for a surcharge. Private bathrooms with separate bathtubs and showers feature designer toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as laptop-compatible safes and desks.
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Enjoy a meal at one of the resort's dining establishments, which include 12 restaurants and a coffee shop/café. From your room, you can also access 24-hour room service. Breakfast is available for a fee.
Featured amenities include a business center, limo/town car service, and express check-in. Planning an event in Orlando? This resort has 150,000 square feet (13935 square meters) of space consisting of conference space and meeting rooms. Self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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Hotel Amenities
Waldorf Astoria Orlando features a full-service spa, a golf course, and 4 outdoor swimming pools. Dining is available at one of the resort's 12 restaurants and guests can grab coffee at the coffee shop/café. The property also has a snack bar/deli. This 5-star property offers access to a business center, limo/town car service, and meeting rooms.
Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. Event facilities measuring 150,000 square feet (13935 square meters) include conference space. This luxury resort also offers a health club, a nightclub, and a spa tub. Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
Waldorf Astoria Orlando has designated areas for smoking.
- ATM/banking
- Babysitting or childcare
- 24-hour front desk
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Golf course on site
- Business center
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- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Full-service spa
- Arcade/game room
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Hair salon
- Health club
- Free WiFi
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Total number of rooms - 498
- Children's club
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Number of floors - 14
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Meeting rooms
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Local Expert Concierge
- Conference space size (feet) - 150,000
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Conference space size (meters) - 13935
- Shopping on site
- Spa services on site
- Spa tub
- Steam room
- Supervised childcare/activities
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee shop or café
- Wedding services
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Free theme park shuttle
- Designated smoking areas
- Beach/pool umbrellas
- Lazy river
- Waterslide
- Number of outdoor pools - 4
- Nightclub
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Number of meeting rooms - 15
- Year Built 2009
- Number of restaurants - 12
- Snack bar/deli
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pools
- Lazy river
- Waterslide
- Free Wi-Fi
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Theme park shuttle (complimentary)
- Snack bar/deli
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Babysitting or childcare
- Arcade/game room
- Refrigerator
- DVD player
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( 14.95 USD per day ), Wired internet access ( 14.95 USD per day )
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Air conditioning
- Climate control
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- DVD player
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Designer toiletries
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Hair dryer
- In-room massage available
- Slippers
- Separate bathtub and shower
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Free weekday newspaper
- MP3 docking station
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Room service (24 hours)
- Egyptian-cotton sheets
Where to Eat
Oscars - This restaurant serves breakfast and lunch. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Bull and Bear - Overlooking the golf course, this restaurant serves dinner only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Aquamarine - This poolside restaurant serves lunch only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
The Clubhouse Grille - Overlooking the golf course, this restaurant serves lunch only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Peacock Alley - Onsite restaurant. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
24-hour room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
A golf course and a health club are featured at the resort. 4 outdoor swimming pools are on site along with a spa tub. Other recreational amenities include a lazy river, a waterslide, and a steam room.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Windsurfing nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Aerobics on site
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Golf driving range on site
- Golf lessons on site
- Golfing on site
- Hiking/biking trails on site
- Pilates classes on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
Spa Services
Waldorf Astoria Spa has 22 treatment rooms including rooms for couples. Services include massages, facials, body wraps, and body scrubs. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy, hydrotherapy, and thalassotherapy. The spa is equipped with a mud bath, a sauna, and a spa tub.
Children under 18 years old are not allowed in the spa without adult supervision. Guests under 18 years old are not allowed in the spa.
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Thalassotherapy treatments
- Mud bath in spa
- Sauna in spa
- Spa tub in spa
- Couples treatment rooms
- Minimum age to access spa is 18
- Manicures and pedicures
- Number of treatment rooms 22
- Massages
- Hydrotherapy treatments
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible path of travel
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
- Accessibility equipment for the deaf
- Braille or raised signage
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Only service dogs are allowed
- Resort fee: USD 30.00 per accommodation, per night
- Spa access
- Fitness center access
- Sporting facilities or equipment
- Internet access
- Phone calls
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 14.95 per day (rates may vary)
- Fee for in-room high-speed Internet (wired): USD 14.95 per day (rates may vary)
- Self parking fee: USD 18 per day (in/out privileges)
- Valet parking fee: USD 26 per day (in/out privileges)
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 25 per day
We should mention
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Close quarters, liberty ports and training with foreign military are just some of what the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit expects as their deployment began on Thursday.
"The ship has a lot of cramped spaces," said Cpl. Dylan Pierce, 25, of
The 26th MEU will be on-loading Marines and sailors from the command element, 3rd Battalion 2nd Marines, Combat Logistics Battalion 2/6 and VMM 266 from New River for the duration of the weekend. They are scheduled for a six to seven month deployment across the Mediterranean and Middle-East.
"The purpose of a MEU is to be the all-purpose, capable strike force that can go out and do anything," said MEU Sgt. Maj. Todd M. Parisi. "It's the most magnificent composition of military personnel in the world I think. With 2,500 personnel we can go out and self-sustain in theater whether it's ashore or afloat."
The Marines and sailors of the MEU have spent the last eight months training for this day and their commander, Col. Matthew St. Clair couldn't be happier with their performance thus far.
"These Marines and sailors have done a tremendous job across the work-up," St. Clair said. "It's been a very non-standard evolution. We were called to New York City after Hurricane Sandy with no notice and within 24 hours we were deployed. To see the transition from training to a humanitarian operation — just to watch them be ambidextrous was a beautiful success."
In October Hurricane Sandy struck the northeast and the Marines of the 26th MEU were called into action for humanitarian relief.
"It was absolutely amazing to be able to push ashore and have some influence and positively affect those that were affected by the disaster," Parisi said. "To see the true spirit of a New Yorker and watch them rise out of the ashes like a phoenix showed the American will and their spirit to overcome adversity."
Getting called in for important missions isn't something new for the MEU.
In 2011, the 26th MEU provided humanitarian assistance in Pakistan after flooding destroyed more than 722,000 homes and stranded nearly 14.5 million people. The mission lasted 57 days and the MEU delivered more than 3.1 million pounds of supplies.
Also in 2011, an Air Force F-15 fighter jet crashed east of Benghazi, Libya resulting in Marines being deployed from the ship in order to recover the pilot, who was safely returned to the ship within three hours of the crash.
Pierce, who has never deployed before, hopes the MEU gets called into some sort of action again.
"I hope we get to go out and get some training in," said Pierce. "And it's going to be exciting being the world's on-call force."
But all the training and deployments come at a price.
"I'm going to miss my wife the most," Pierce said. "Family is the most important thing to me. There's nothing like being home."
His wife said the feeling is mutual.
"They are leaving so quickly," said Jennifer Pierce, a kindergarten teacher at Johnson Primary aboard Camp Lejeune. "Seeing him go is hard. I'm nervous and I want them to be safe. It's been rough and unpredictable and hard being away from him. It's really going to be like a 12 month deployment since he was gone so much for training."
That training, said Parisi, was intense and demanding of the Marines.
"In general we prepare more of less for a greater mission," Parisi said. "That would be the ability to do non-combat evacuations, air operations, detainee operations, tactical recovery of air personnel and raids where we specifically go in with a certain objective to retrieve a certain item or person. Over the work-up we crawled, walked and now we are running."
All of the training and preparation contains nothing new, said Parisi.
"We aren't creating a footprint at any operational level," Parisi said. "With a MEU you always have to be on your feet and be agile — prepared for whatever can occur. And we are."
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Surely as long as your acts are an attempt to increase well being and as long as your beliefs that your acts do indeed increase well being are reasonable then you can be said to be acting morally even if you are misguided.
For example:
An evil man has issued you with a box that has 2 buttons on it.
If you press button A he says he will do nothing.
If you press button B he says he will kill 100 people.
If you do neither he will kill 200 people.
You have no reason to doubt him so you press button A.
Indeed he does nothing and sends you a video tape of the 100 people going free.
Behind the scenes you are doing all in your power to capture this man and also to gain further verification that he has indeed set the people free.
Now imagine this again in a parallel universe when in fact the tape he sends is fake. He was lying about the outcomes of your button presses and had you pressed B he would have done nothing but as you pressed A he chose to kill the 100.
Now it seems to me that Sam would say your act in the parallel universe is less moral as it had an outcome which decreased global well being. I would argue that the acts are morally equivalent because in both cases there was a sincere and dilligent attempt to increase well being.
Moral relativism in this sense is surely acceptable. That is to say, if people genuinely believe their acts promote well being and their beliefs aren't unreasonable (given their culture/brain/upbringing/access to information) then one might say they are moral acts irrespective of their actual success in bringing about an increase in well being.
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October 22, 2008
Vol. 24 , No. 03
Amateur Hour in Iraq: A Worm's Eye View on the Failure of Nation Building
The problems of the U.S. occupation in Iraq have been documented and debated primarily from a "bird's eye" view of strategy, focusing on failures in planning, troop levels, and whether a nation-building or democratization was even possible. Yet, this view often neglects the crippling lack of capability on the ground at the tactical and operational levels, a "worm's eye" view. Coalition military forces and civilian agencies worked at cross-purposes, in most cases without even the most basic conceptual and organizational frameworks for their well-intentioned initiatives. An understanding of the gaps in our implementing capability is critical to the current efforts to restructure U.S. and international responses to the complete range of peace operations - anything from humanitarian intervention to larger scale reconstruction efforts in failing states. The worm's eye view of our capability in Iraq provides a guide to developing the concepts, resources, staff, equipment, and training necessary to conduct such operations, and warns that current approaches to restructuring peace operations may not be adequate.
Heather Coyne will explain the "worm's eye" view of the American mission in Iraq. She is a senior program officer in the Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution. Coyne was the chief of party for the Institute's activities in Iraq in 2003–2005.
Heather Coyne's visit to Claremont McKenna College is jointly sponsored by the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies and the Athenaeum.
An Evening with the Author
Ed McClanahan describes his new book, O the Clear Moment (Counterpoint, 2008), as a collection of nine "marginally autobiographical" pieces that "incorporate a submerged or buried chronology, and add up to what I like to call an 'implied autobiography.'" If indeed they ever were "submerged or buried," the events, encounters, personages, and passions of McClanahan's life have undergone a most remarkable — and hilarious — disinterment and reanimation in O the Clear Moment. From high school high jinks and adolescent infatuations in small - town Kentucky, to Merry Pranksterdom in the California enclave that included, besides McClanahan's close friend Ken Kesey, counterculture icons Neal Cassady, Paul Krassner, and Sandy Lehman-Haupt, the peripatetic picaro crisscrosses the country in a medley of madcap peregrinations plotted only by what the author calls the "autobiographical imperative … asserting its self-important self." Along the way, he moves from "coming of age," to "coming of old age." As the author put it in the chorus of the song he likes to call his Greatest Hit ("All the Roads [A Kentucky Derby Lullaby]"; his other song would have to runner-up),
All the roads in the world lead to home, sweet home;
They all lead the other way, too.
Some have to go, and some have to stay;
And some are just passin' through.
Born in Brooksville, Kentucky and educated at Miami (Ohio) University and the University of Kentucky, Ed McClanahan has taught English and creative writing at Oregon State University, Stanford University, and the Universities of Kentucky and Northern Kentucky. His books include a novel, The Natural Man (1983); a memoir, Famous People I Have Known (1985); A Congress of Wonders (three novellas; 1996); and My Vita, If You Will (a miscellany of fiction, non-fiction, reviews, and commentary; 1996).
Ed McClanahan's visit to Claremont McKenna College is sponsored by the Family of Benjamin Z. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies and CMC's Department of Literature.
"Kremlin, Inc.": How Vladimir Putin Runs Russia
Although the Russian economy has faltered very recently, it has risen in a major way since the 1998 financial crisis in no small part due to massive oil and gas supplies. Although Vladimir Putin left the Presidency last March to become Prime Minister, observers note that he still directs policy in the Kremlin despite being constitutionally second-in-command to Dimitriy Medvedev.
Clifford Gaddy, an economist specializing in Russia, will discuss these changes. He is Senior Fellow in foreign policy, global economy and development at the Brookings Institution. He is the co-author of The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold (2003) and The Price of the Past: Russia's Struggle with the Legacy of a Militarized Economy (1998). In addition to teaching positions at Duke, Georgetown and Johns Hopkins, he has been a guest scholar at various research institutes in Russia, including the Kostroma Agricultural Institute, and the Perm Technology Research Center. He is in the process of co-writing two books: Russia's Addiction: The Political Economy of Resource Dependence and Bear Traps: Pitfalls on Russia's Road to Sustainable Economic Growth.
Dr. Gaddy's visit is jointly sponsored by the Lowe Institute for Political Economy and the Athenaeum.
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A Poet Reads from His Work
LUNCH 11:30 a.m. LECTURE 12:00 p.m.
Described by The Times Literary Supplement as "the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War," Paul Muldoon has distinguished himself as a literary giant. The 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winner for his collection of works Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), this acclaimed poet is known for his ever present innovation and wit. He deftly handles themes that are profoundly personal by giving them a universal relevance and creating; a strong sense of place within the poem. Bridging the Atlantic, Muldoon works "a rich vein that extends from the rivery, apple-heavy County Armagh of the 1950s, in which he was brought up, to suburban New Jersey, on the banks of a canal dug by Irish navies, where he now lives."
Born in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, in 1951, Paul Muldoon studied at Queen's University, Belfast, and has worked for BBC Belfast as a radio and television producer. His major works include Mules (1977), Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Meeting the British (1987), Madoc: A Mystery (1990), The Annals of Chile (1994), Hay (1998), and Poems 1968-1998 (2001).
In addition to the Pulitzer, Muldoon was awarded the T. S. Eliot Award for The Annals of Chile in 1994, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature in 1996, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry, and the 2004 Shakespeare Prize. Paul Muldoon is currently Howard G.B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University and Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford.
Please join us for a very special luncheon as poet Paul Muldoon reads his work at the Athenaeum. Paul Muldoon's visit to Claremont McKenna College is sponsored by the Family of Benjamin Z. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies.
National Security and the 2008 Elections
Even though the economy has become arguably the dominant issue for the 2008 Presidential Elections, foreign policy and national security still remain important as the United States fights two wars.
Discussing these issues in the election is Matthew Yglesias, Senior Editor at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a progressive think-tank.
His first book, Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats, was published in May 2008. Mr. Yglesias has previously worked as an Associate Editor at The Atlantic, a staff writer at The American Prospect, and an Associate Editor at Talking Points Memo. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Guardian, Slate, The Washington Monthly, and other publications. He holds a B.A. in philosophy from Harvard University. He has appeared on Fox News and MSNBC, and been a guest on many radio shows.
The Financial Crisis of 2008
Over the past few weeks as the domestic stock markets have fallen even more, and Congress passed a $700 billion bailout plan, the economic crisis has spread overseas.
Countries throughout Europe and the rest of the world have had to deal with the same financial issues the United States faces. Professor Alan Taylor will discuss the current economic crisis and the international ramifications of this disaster. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of globalization. He has answered many of these important questions by exploring the relationship between economic outcomes and the economic environment.
Professor Alan M. Taylor is a professor of economics and director of the Center for the Evolution of the Global Economy at the University of California, Davis. In addition, Professor Taylor is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research. He has served as a consultant or visitor with the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Professor Taylor is the author of nine books including his 2003 award winning book, Global Capital Markets: Integration, Crisis and Growth. Professor Taylor received the 1997 Sanwa Prize in International Economics and Financial Markets for his work with Maurice Obstfeld. Professor Taylor received his B.A. from King's College at Cambridge and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
The Lowe Institute of Political Economy is sponsoring Professor Taylor's visit.
Robert Day School Distinguished Speaker Series
Lunch with a Leader: The Private Equity Industry
LUNCH 12:00 p.m. LECTURE 12:30 p.m.
James A. Quella is a Senior Managing Director and Senior Operating Partner in the Corporate Private Equity practice at The Blackstone Group. During his Athenaeum presentation, Mr. Quella will discuss the private equity industry while explaining the role of Blackstone within the industry. He will also share some of his strategies for success.
Mr. Quella is responsible for monitoring the strategy and operational performance of Blackstone portfolio companies and providing direct assistance in the oversight of large investments. He is also a member of the firm's Private Equity Investment Committee.
Prior to joining Blackstone in 2004, Mr. Quella was a Managing Director and Senior Operating Partner with DLJ Merchant Banking Partners-CSFB Private Equity. Prior to that, Mr. Quella worked at Mercer Management Consulting and Strategic Planning Associates, its predecessor firm, where he served as a senior consultant to CEOs and senior management teams, and was Co-Vice Chairman with shared responsibility for overall management of the firm.
Mr. Quella received a B.A. in International Studies from the University of Chicago/University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MBA with dean's honors from the University of Chicago. He is also the co-author of Profit Patterns: 30 Ways to Anticipate and Profit from the Strategic Forces Reshaping Your Business (1999). Mr. Quella has been a member of various private equity company boards and currently serves as a director of Allied Waste, Intelenet Global Services, Graham Packaging, Michaels Stores, Inc., The Nielsen Group, and Vanguard Health Systems.
Microfinance, NGO's, and the Emergency in Haiti
Claude Alexandre is a member of the board of Fonkoze, one of Haiti's largest and most influential micro-finance NGOs and a consultant and business adviser to non-profit organizations and NGOs. He will discuss the world of micro-finanace through the prism of Haiti and its attempts to recover from severe damage suffered in a hurricane this summer. More than 18,000 of Fonkoze's clients lost their businesses entirely.
CMC's Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights has begun a Haiti Initiative to aid Fonkoze and its clients in recovery and reconstruction.
Election Night at the Athenaeum
After months of waiting, tonight is the night that matters. Election night is upon us!
As is the tradition, the Athenaeum will serve a special election night dinner while the returns come in on the big screen. During and after dinner, Professor Andrew Busch and Professor Ken Miller will answer questions and provide real time commentary.
Andrew E. Busch is professor of government and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Claremont McKenna College. He has authored or co-authored ten books on American government and politics, including most recently The Constitution on the Campaign Trail: The Surprising Political Career of America's Founding Document (2007), Reagan's Victory: The 1980 Elections and the Rise of the Right (2005), and Red Over Blue: The 2004 Elections and American Politics (with James W. Ceaser) (2005). He is currently at work with James W. Ceaser and John J. Pitney on a book on the 2008 elections. Professor Busch received his B.A. from the University of Colorado and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
Ken Miller is an assistant professor of government at Claremont McKenna College. Professor Miller received his B.A.from Pomona College and his JD from Harvard Law School. He practiced law at Morrison & Forester, LLP before receiving his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He most recently co-authored The New Political Geography of California (2008). He is currently completing a book entitled Direct Democracy and the Courts (2009). His other publications include "Constraining Populism: The Real Agenda of Initiative Reform" (2001) and "The Davis Recall and the Courts" (2004). Miller has served recently as a regular commentator on the presidential election for BBC World Service Radio. He has also provided political commentary for NPR, CBC, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
An Evening with Madame F
An Evening with Madame F (1990) is the internationally acclaimed musical drama created by Claudia Stevens for her performance as pianist, singer, and actor. Adopting the persona of an elderly concentration camp musician who had performed at Auschwitz, Stevens uses music actually played and sung by women inmates there. She draws on first-hand accounts to depict the struggle and moral dilemma of women who survived through performance. And, as a daughter of Holocaust survivors, she also meditates on the ethical problem of treating the Holocaust as the subject for artistic expression. One of the most honored Holocaust-related performances before the public, An Evening with Madame F was produced for television by PBS affiliate WCVE.
Claudia Stevens holds degrees in music from Vassar College, in musicology from the University of California at Berkeley, and the Doctor of Music in piano from Boston University. She has held academic and conducting positions at Williams College and the College of William and Mary, where she will return as Visiting Scholar in Music in 2008-9. As pianist and composer, she has been presented at Carnegie Recital Hall by the New York Composers' Forum and was the featured artist on several "Performance Today" on NPR broadcasts.
Claudia Stevens visit is jointly sponsored by the Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights and the Athenaeum.
Israel at 60: Nation, Identity, and Literature
Thursday, November 6, 2008
"I am totally secular," remarked David Grossman, one of Israel's preeminent novelists, in a speech delivered at the Yitzhak Rabin memorial in 2006, "and yet in my eyes the establishment and the very existence of the State of Israel is a miracle of sorts … a political, national, human miracle." Grossman then gave over the balance of his discourse to addressing the complexity of his homeland's existential crises, and the hard choices Israel must make for its very survival. Voicing his personal grief, though without naming its cause — the death, a few months earlier, of his 20-year-old son Uri, who fell to a Hezbollah missile during a ground offensive in the village of Hirbat Kasif, Lebanon — Grossman continued: "The death of young people is a horrible, ghastly waste. But no less dreadful is the sense that for man years, the State of Israel has been squandering not only the lives of its sons, but also its miracle — that grand and rare opportunity that history bestowed upon it, the opportunity to establish here a state that is efficient, democratic, which abides by Jewish and universal values; a state that would be a national home and haven, but not only a haven, but a place that would offer a new meaning to Jewish existence; a state that holds as an integral and essential part of its Jewish ethos the observance of full equality and respect for its non-Jewish citizens."
The author of numerous novels, short stories, essays, plays, and non-fiction and children's books, David Grossman has, since the publication of his first story, Donkeys, in 1979, garnered many awards and honors for his masterfully wrought and singularly compelling prose. These include the Prime Minister's Prize for Creative Work (1984); the Chavalier de l'Ordre des Artes et des Lettres (France); the Valumbrosa Prize, Premio Mondelo, and Vittorio de Sica Prize (Italy); the Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation (United Kingdom), and the Har Zion Prize, Sapir Prize, and Emet Prize for Arts, Science and Culture (Israel; at the presentation of the latter in the Jerusalem Theatre in 2007, Grossman refused to shake hands with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert or Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch).
From his early works, Grossman has acknowledged a love for Yiddish literature and the works of Franz Kafka and Heinrich Böll. His novels and non-fiction have dealt with all manner of themes: the Holocaust, Arab/Jewish relations, life on the West Bank (e.g., The Smile of the Lamb, 1983 — later made into a film directed by Shimon Dotan; and his non-fiction The Yellow Wind, 1987) — even, as in his 2000 novel, Someone to Run With, Jerusalem's vagrants, drug addicts, and runaways.
David Grossman's visit to Claremont McKenna College is sponsored by the Family of Benjamin Z. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies.
Robert Day School Distinguished Speaker Series
Lunch with a Leader: The Media Industry
LUNCH 12:00 p.m. LECTURE 12:30 p.m.
Jeffrey Klein is a seasoned and highly regarded media CEO, a successful writer, and a popular lecturer. Trained as both a lawyer and a journalist, he has more than 20 years of experience operating newspaper, television, magazine, and internet businesses.
From 2001 to 2006, he was president and CEO of 101communications, a B2B publisher serving the Information Technology market, a company Klein co-founded with the backing of a Chicago-based private equity firm, The Frontenac Company. In April 2006, Klein and Frontenac sold 101 to 1105 Media, a holding company where Klein remained as Chairman of the Board.
Klein spent 15 years with the Los Angeles Times and Times Mirror in senior management positions, including Senior Vice President and General Manager, News and Senior Vice President, Consumer Marketing. He also served as president of two large regional editions of the newspaper. For several years, Klein was CEO of California Community Newspapers, Inc, a Times Mirror company.
Klein is one of the few traditional media executives who has successfully transitioned to the internet publishing model. In 2006, he was named to the "Folio Forty," the list in Folio: of the 40 most influential people in the magazine industry. In 2004, he was selected as one of the three most innovative CEOs in trade publishing by B2B's Media Business magazine.
Klein began his career as a lawyer, first in the entertainment industry and later on behalf of the Los Angeles Times as a specialist in First Amendment issues. He has taught media law and media business classes at the University of Southern California for many years. For ten years, he also wrote a weekly consumer law column for the Los Angeles Times. He writes a regular column called Executive Perspective for Folio:, the magazine of magazine management.
Klein is active in the community, having served on various non-profit boards, including the United Way, Foundation for American Communications, and the Alliance for the Arts. He recently finished his two year term as president of the board of directors of MEND, Meet Each Need with Dignity, the largest privately funded antipoverty agency in the San Fernando Valley, where he led its recent $8.5 million capital campaign.
Klein received his master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, his law degree from Stanford University, and his bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, from Claremont McKenna College. He is married and has three daughters. During his presentation, Mr. Klein will discuss his previous experience and will also share some of his strategies for success.
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Minnesota Voter Identification Amendment, Amendment 2 (2012)
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The proposal would require that all voters in the state show photo identification before voting. Legislation to enact similar laws without a constitutional amendment passed both chambers of the Minnesota Legislature, but were vetoed by Governor of Minnesota Mark Dayton.[1][2]
Election results
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|Minnesota Amendment 2
- These results are from the Minnesota Secretary of State as of November 7, 2012, at 11:20 a.m. CST with 4097 of 4102 precincts reporting. This results section will be updated daily until the final results have been certified in about three weeks.
In late February, 2012, Minnesota lawmakers reportedly began considering an alternative to the voter ID amendment. The alternative is a so-called "electronic poll book" and is currently circulating the legislature as a bill. Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie has touted the poll book as a less expensive option that would allow election officials to look up existing drivers' license photos or take new ones of voters at polling places. Secretary Ritchie spoke to a House committee on the suggestion saying that it would be an easier system for many voters, his examples included those who no longer drive, or those who have changed addresses whiteout updating their ID. Some in the legislature see the bill as a diversionary tactic or as a law to merely augment the amendment, such as, state Rep. Mary Kiffmeyer who said, "We see it as complementary, maybe, but not a substitute." Others, such as, Republican Senator John Howe see it as an alternative to using the amendment process, saying, "I can't speak to whether this does anything on the constitutional amendment for photo ID. But I can tell you that I personally, along with many of my colleagues, want to see things done as much as we can legislatively."[3]
Text of measure
The question to be presented to the voters is as follows:[4]
Photo Identification Required for Voting.
"Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to require all voters to present valid photo identification to vote and to require the state to provide free identification to eligible voters, effective July 1, 2013?"
Constitutional Changes
The proposed amendment would amend Article VII, Section 1 of the Minnesota Constitution. [5]
- The campaign to pass the amendment is led by the Protect My Vote ballot committee.
- Senator Scott Newman
- Former Senator Norm Coleman[6]
- Dan McGrath, chairman of Protect My Vote and executive director of Minnesota Majority[7]
- Sen. Scott Newman, the bill author, calls the proposal an "additional measure of integrity." According to reports, Newman said his proposal is to add "photo ID mandate to age, residency and citizenship voting requirements already in the state Constitution."[8]
- Some supporters argue that the perception of voter fraud and the resultant damage in public trust is just as damaging as actual voter fraud. They argue that a voter ID system would not only help to curtail fraud, but also restore confidence in the election system.[9]
- American Association of Retired Persons[10]
- League of Women Voters of Minnesota[11]
- Minnesota Common Cause
- American Civil Liberties Union[12]
- Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie[13]
- Former Vice President Walter Mondale
- Former Gov. Arne Carlson[14]
- Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie[15]
- Minnesota Council of Churches[16]
- "A new voter ID would disproportionately affect older voters because we know they're less likely to have the required identification," said Amy McDonough, a spokesperson with AARP. The AARP, or American Association of Retired Persons, is against the proposed measure.[10]
- In an article printed by MinnPost.com, Secretary Ritchie argued that the amendment would effectively end same day registration and voting. According to Secretary Ritchie, because the amendment stipulates that identity and eligibility must be verified before a ballot can be cast, the ballots of voters who registered at the polling place would not be counted until some time after election day.[15]
Tactics and strategies
- In February the ACLU of Minnesota offered a $1,000 reward to anyone who could find a convicted case of voter impersonation, a kind of voter fraud that would be prevented by the voter-ID law. In March, Dan McGrath, of Minnesota Majority, claimed the prize showing court records of 2008 case in which a woman voted twice, once in her own name, and once in her daughter's name through an absentee ballot. Chuck Samuelson, executive director of ACLU-Minnesota, said he would review the case and award the prize if everything checked out, however, he did add that the fact that prosecutors found the case means that the current system is working without voter ID.[17]
- The Willmar Area League of Women Voters has planned program on the amendment to be held at 7 p.m. on May 14 at the Bethel Lutheran Church in Willmar.[11]
- On Sunday, August 26, 2012, 200 individuals marched through Minneapolis in protest of the amendment.[18]
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Initiative process
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed with the Minnesota Supreme Court challenging the wording of the ballot question itself. Charles Samuelson, executive director of the ACLU-MN, said, "This ballot proposal is incredibly troubling because it asks voters to put an amendment in the Constitution in a manner that is misleading, confusing and unclear."[19]
The court scheduled oral arguments for July 17. Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie has asked the court to decide the case by August 27 so that there will be enough time for ballots to be designed and printed for voters to access absentee ballots.[20]
- See also: Polls, 2012 ballot measures
- According to a KSTP/SurveyUSA poll, conducted October 12 through 14, 53 percent of people surveyed said they would vote for the amendment, 40 percent said they would not and 7 percent remain undecided. The survey was conducted with a pool of 550 likely voters and has a margin of error is +/- 4.3 percent.[21]
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Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the Minnesota Constitution
Proposed amendments must be agreed to by a majority of the members of each chamber of the Minnesota State Legislature.
In Minnesota, the only type of ballot measures permitted are legislatively-referred constitutional amendments. Pursuing a ballot amendment instead of normal legislation would allow lawmakers to circumvent a veto by Gov. Mark Dayton (D). One of the chief proponents of a voter identification requirement is Rep. Mary Kiffmeyer (R). Before attempting to take the issue to the ballot, she pursued two bills which would mandate voter identification via traditional legislation. These bills are as follows:
House File 210's companion Senate bill, SF 509, has since been passed by the Senate and the House. However, Governor Dayton vetoed the bill on May 26, 2011.[22][23] Prepared for the veto, Kiffmeyer and others proposed the following ballot amendment: Minnesota House File 1597.[24]
On February 22, 2012, the Senate State Government Innovation and Veterans Committee approved the amendment 8-5 along party lines.[25]
On March 19, the Minnesota Rules and Legislative Administration Committee approved the amendment, thereby passing it on to the full House, where it was approved.[26]
On Friday, March 23, 2012, the Minnesota Senate passed the amendment on a 36-30 vote. This action passed the amendment to the November ballot.[27]
However, the measure was held off the ballot. Another version of the bill was being considered in legislature, therefore a conference committee drafted a compromise bill, one that would be placed on the ballot should the state legislature approve it. According to reports, the compromise bill was passed unanimously by the committee, sending it one more time to the lawmaking body for ballot approval.[28]
This compromise version of the bill was ten passed by the House on April 3, 2012, with a 72-57 vote. The next day it was passed by the Senate on a vote of 35-29.[29]
See also
- 2012 ballot measures
- Minnesota 2012 ballot measures
- News: Minnesota Voter ID Amendment heads to the ballot
External links
Additional reading
- Minnesota Public Radio,"Amendment proposals include voter ID, tax laws," January 16, 2012
- Star Tribune,"GOP proposing amendments to avert possible veto on legislation," April 27, 2011
- The Minnesota Independent, "Kiffmeyer wants voter ID on the ballot in 2012," April 15, 2011
- Minnesota Public Radio "PoliGraph: Higgins' voter ID claim accurate," March 28, 2012
- Post Bulletin "Answer Man: Voter ID law would affect absentees, too," March 28, 2012
- Alexandria Echo Press "Column - Voters should nix proposed amendments," April 13, 2012
- Newsmax," Fight Over Minnesota Voter ID Amendment Heats Up," October 17, 2012
- ↑ MPR News, "Kiffmeyer says photo ID requirement could be placed on the ballot", April 14, 2011
- ↑ The Minnesota Independent,"Republicans introduce voter ID constitutional amendment," April 28, 2011
- ↑ Albert Lea Tribune "Lawmakers mull a substitute voter ID plan," February 29, 2012
- ↑ Minnesota Legislature "House File 2738 (2012)" (Lines 2.8 to 2.10)
- ↑ Minnesota Legislature "House File 131 (2011)" (Lines 1.6 to 1.9)
- ↑ Minnpost.com,"Voter ID: With no evidence of either a current problem or a credible solution, it's a waste of money," October 17, 2012
- ↑ Minnesota Public Radio,"Minnesota Majority's Dan McGrath on group's support for voter ID amendment," October 18, 2012
- ↑ Grand Forks Herald,"Proposed voter photo ID amendment receives first examination at Minnesota Legislature," February 1, 2012
- ↑ Minnesota Public Radio,"Even the perception of fraud makes voter ID measure a good idea," September 6, 2012
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 KARE 11,"Voter ID amendment gets first debate," February 2, 2012
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 West Central Tribune "Program on voter ID is tonight at Bethel in Willmar, Minn.," ay 14, 2012
- ↑ MinnPost "Could Photo ID be scuttled even if Minnesota voters approve constitutional amendment?" May 22, 2012
- ↑ KEYC "New Website Addresses Proposed Amendments To The State Constitution," May 23, 2012
- ↑ Minnesota Public Radio "Mondale, Carlson to lead voter ID opposition," June 26, 2012
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 MinnPost.com,"Minnesota voting amendment would change much more than you might think," September 6, 2012
- ↑ Newsmax.com," Fight Over Minnesota Voter ID Amendment Heats Up," October 17, 2012
- ↑ Star Tribune "Group claims $1,000 ACLU prize for finding voting fraud," March 6, 2012
- ↑ OpEdNews.com "Marching Against Voter Suppression in Minnesota," August 27, 2012
- ↑ Alexandria Echo Press "Voter ID amendment: Minnesota's version of 'Papers, please'?" June 22, 2012
- ↑ Winona Daily News "Minn. lawmakers defend voter ID measure validity," June 27, 2012
- ↑ SurveyUSA,"3 Weeks Till Votes Are Counted, 'Yes' on Minnesota Marriage Amendment Now in Jeopardy; Obama Steady Atop Romney; Klobuchar Re-Elected:," October 15, 2012
- ↑ The Minnesota Daily, "Voter ID passes House, headed to Senate," May 6, 2011
- ↑ Minneapolis Star Tribune, "Voter ID-card bill clears House," May 6, 2011
- ↑ Star Tribune, "Photo ID for voting is on a fast track," April 30, 2011
- ↑ Associated Press "Minnesota Committee Advances Voter ID Ballot Measure," February 23, 2012
- ↑ Minnesota Public Radio "Full Minn. House to take up voter ID amendment," March 19, 2012
- ↑ Associated Press "Senate passes photo ID, but critics vow litigation," March 24, 2012
- ↑ Star Tribune, "An all-GOP conference panel sent the proposed constitutional amendment to full Legislature", April 2, 2012
- ↑ Star Tribune "Voter ID amendment is now up to Minnesota's voters," April 4, 2012
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Lame (mostly) Indie Band Names – You Have Been DismissedPosted: July 30th, 2009 By: Oedipus Red | Under: dismissed | Tags: Celebrity, cute is what we aim for, Douche, douchebags, emo, hipsters, indie music, lame bands, limp bizkit, Music, stupid assholes
Okay, so as a metal-leaning person I'm only writing about (mostly) more recent indie-ish band names that have left me wondering why most of the guys in these bands have larger fallopian tubes than I do. I'm not even touching the metal genre, really, because we all know that metal is kind of the origin of some of the most ridiculous band names ever (hello….Anal Cunt? Cannibal Corpse? Cattle Decapitaiton? Yeah, it's been covered already).
And by the way: when I say 'gay' or 'faggy' it does not mean homosexual. I would never insult the gay community – as a culture that can appreciate a nice, big penis (on the boy's side, at least) they would whole heartedly agree, I believe…
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
It's just…gay. What the fuck does this mean? I'm so totally NOT scared, nor do I think this belongs in rock n' roll. Anything with 'kids' in the band name is generally not something that your parents are going to ban you listening to. Which means it's worthless.
Actually, maybe this is brilliant. It does describe the sound of the band fairly well. And MAN is it stanky.
Cute Is What We Aim For
You have now succeeded in your 'aim' to not only be the faggiest band name ever, but you've also pronounced yourself as the band least likely to have big dicks and scare mommies. And dudes: you all have the most awful haircuts in emo. And stop whining, for Christ's sake: we already know how horrible it is to be a young, white, skinny, well dressed, suburban, vanilla, middle-class douche, okay?
Limp Bizkit
I probably do not need to even explain by now, but at least the band was honest enough when they looked down their collective saggy, urine-soaked pants and decided upon a band name that fit both their music and their impotent talent. Except for that one guitar player who wore the weird makeup and tried to be kinda cool. Kinda, yeah.
It just sounds like something that comes out of your ass after eating 2 double chili cheeseburgers with jalapenos and drinking five 40's of Olde English. Phheeuuww.
The Devil Wears Prada
Seriously…you're supposed to be this bad-ass band, and you name yourselves (ironically, you might say?) after a reality-based book on the high fashion industry written by a trendy, romantically inclined completely mainstream chick who loves Jimmy Choos (these guys know what this means) and that was also made into a movie starring Meryl Streep that mothers and grandmothers and girls who wear tons of lip gloss went in droves to see a million times over? Gay, gay gay.
Every Time I Die, For The Fallen Dream, Here I Come Falling, Shadows Fall, Bless The Fall, Every Bridged Burned, From Autumn To Ashes, All That Remains, etc etc etc.
In the age of the internet, it's astounding to me that someone in any of these bands didn't do a quick Google search to see if their name sounded like or was similar to any other popular band that was out there. How many times can a band use 'Fall' in their name and be on the same tour with another band with 'Fall' in their name? Or have to have the same number of syllables as every other band does in their little scene? However, I do think the singer from Shadows Fall has bitchin' dreadlocks.
Panic! At The Disco
What does that mean? And why are they in rock magazines? Did the band form because they wanted to shock everyone at discotheques with their absolutely bland music that didn't even have enough rhythm or style for a goddamn disco? If gold lamé and hairless, ball-less music had a name…
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Band meeting: "Hey, let's come up with the catchiest band name ever…for people who suffer from that disease that Rainman had". "AWESOME!!!"
Minus The Bear
Band meeting: "Let's have a band name that really showcases how absolutely cool and weird we really think we are so that everyone really knows how absolutely indie and cool and fucking smart we really are". "Nah, I'm too high. Let's just go to that gay club that you always hang out at". "But, I'm really in the mood for a Bear guy tonight, that club doesn't attract those types". "Well, maybe tonight you'll just have to have a minus-the-bear night, for once". "Oh shit, wait a minute……"
Jimmy Eat World
I like some of this band's songs, but what the hell were they thinking? Not Jimmy EatS World, but EAT world. Huh?
The Academy Is…
Is what? And what is the Academy? And what does this have anything remotely to do with rock n' roll, dudes? Pop another Ritalin and get back to me when you're working at Kinko's.
VHS Or Beta
Really now, this whole 80's revival thing has gone WAY too far.
Billy Talent
Sounds like a name that some kid wanting to be famous makes up for himself in the 1960's. He has freckles, wears checkered high-water pants, a bow-tie and gets his salad tossed by fake directors wearing handlebar mustaches in seedy Hollywood motel rooms. Poor Billy, he's now living in an attic in Watts earning his living as Mr. T's secret, white-boy gimp.


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Minerals And Garcinia Cambogia Are A Must In Todays World
There has been an increasing debate as to whether vitamin and mineral supplements are actually needed if we are also taking a balanced diet. Many seem to think it is not necessary, but research findings beg to differ. According to a study commissioned by the American Medical Association, the rise in chronic diseases and conditions (cancer, osteoporosis, coronary heart failure, etc.) has been, to some extent, contributed by the inadequate intake of the known vitamins and minerals. This thus makes it necessary for us to regularly intake the necessary nutrients.
What does this mean for the people of places such as Australia, where the soil is not especially known to be the most fertile? It means that getting Garcinia Cambogia Extract (let us call them that) requires a consistent intake of vitamin supplements. This fact is necessitated more so by the fact that most agricultural efforts to make up for the soils lack of fertility have resorted to pesticides, fertilizers and other chemicals that have exposed people to high pollution levels. Getting Australian vitamins just go harder, but nothing that cannot be solved with supplements.
Change in dietary trends has also made the need for nutritional supplements, with the regular intake of refined sugars, unhealthy fats, and other unhealthy foods increasing among Australians. Smoking, excessive drinking, living sedentary lifestyles, and regular intake of caffeinated drinks (coffee, tea, alcohol) do not help matters either. The only way, then, to ensure that the needed dose of Australian vitamins is met is through intake of nutrient pills and supplements.
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Club competitions
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Giovan Oniangue's lay-up 14 seconds from time kept Paris Levallois top of Group E in the EuroChallenge despite a 90-81 loss to Okapi Aalstar in their final group game.
In a battle of two teams already assured of their place in the last 16 but scrapping over top spot in the group, Okapi needed to win by 11 points or more to dislodge their French hosts, and had a 90-79 lead after Larry Anderson's lay-up with 21 seconds left.
But Oniangue came through for the Parisians at the close with the all-important basket.
It was perhaps tough on Okapi who had led virtually the entire game but could never get a double-digit advantage to stick after the first quarter.
They had taken control with 15-0 run early in the contest, going 17-4 up on two free throws from Jason Clark.
Clark hit three more from the stripe early in the second as the lead grew to 30-16.
But Paris came to life with Oniangue and Sean May taking it in turns in a 9-0 spurt.
Paris would enjoy only a fleeting lead of their own, coming back to edge in front 51-49 on May's jump-shot early in the third, but even though they let Okapi go back in front, they made sure they could not get away.
Ryan Thompson and Ioana Tofi led Okapi with 23 points each, while Clark had 17 and Derek Raivio 14.
May poured in 30 for Paris with Jawad Williams adding 17 and Oniangue 13.
Paris Levallois player Sean May
"We wanted to come out and play well, but it is really hard mentally, as players, when you are already qualified, when there is nothing behind it."
"The young players were the only bright spots of the game. They were really good. Louis [Labeyrie] is getting better and better, Giovan [Oniangue] is on a two game streak where he's really good and Alexandre [Jallier] did a really good job too."
"The individual awards I get, I really take them as collective awards. My performances I owe them to my teammates. It is easy to score a lot when you have Jawad, Antoine or Andrew passing you the ball."
Paris Levallois head coach Christophe Denis
"We had decided to come out and play to win the game. We didn't want to make any calculations for the group ranking. We had three games at home this round, and we had only won one before tonight, so even if we didn't win, we owed it to our public to play seriously and give them a good game."
"This game really was for the young players. It was the occasion for them to come out and show me things, to win minutes on the court not only for the European competition, but for the French championship as well."
Okapi Aalstar player Ryan Thompson
"Paris and us are moving on to the next round. They have a really good team, they will be tough competitors."
"We tried to keep Sean May away from the basket. We knew he was going to score anyway so we tried to at least stop him from getting easy shots in the paint."
Okapi Aalstar head coach Bradley Scott Dean
"We had a lot of ups and downs with the team this season, but the guys have shown that they can bounce back quickly which is good, especially because it is a bit unusual for young players. We had a really bad game last weekend, tonight we played well, hopefully we can keep the momentum for the upcoming game this weekend."
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Faith of our Fathers Lutheran Colloquium
September 2007 8 episodes
More than 50 Lutheran and Orthodox Christian clergy and laity from the Eastern and Midwestern United States, some from as far away as Iowa, Missouri and New York, attended Faith of Our Fathers: A Colloquium on Orthodoxy for Lutherans Sept. 10-11, 2007 sponsored by St. Andrew House Center for Orthodox Christian Studies. Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon from All Saints Orthodox Church in Chicago was the Master of Ceremonies.
The colloquium was designed to explain Orthodox Christianity to Lutheran clergy and laity, according to the Most Rev. Nathaniel, Archbishop of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), and founder and president of St. Andrew House. Ancient Faith Radio recorded the sessons and is happy to make them available for download. Please do not make copies or sell the material without the consent of the St. Andrews House Center for Orthodox Christian Studies.
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The Rev. Basil Aden, 25 years with the ELCA, now a priest at Christ the Savior Orthodox Church in Rockford, IL
|Sep 11, 2007
Orthodox Confessions of Faith
The Rev. John W. Fenton, Holy Incarnation Orthodox Mission (Western Rite), Taylor, MI
|Sep 11, 2007
Will No One Rid Me Of This Troublesome Priest?
"'Will No One Rid Me Of This Troublesome Priest?' The Church, Augustinian Anxieties and Lutheran Conclusions" - a talk by Deacon A. Gregory Roeber,
|Sep 11, 2007
The Virgin Mary and the Saints
The Rev. Gregory Hogg - Formerly with Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, Fr. Gregory is now the priest at Holy Cross Antiochian Orthodox Mission in Dorr, MI
|Sep 11, 2007
The Church in Orthodoxy: Scratching the Surface
The Rev. Gabriel Rochelle - Formerly in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Fr. Gabriel taught most recently at St. Sophia Orthodox Theological Seminary
|Sep 11, 2007
Trinitarian Theology
A talk by The Rev. Dr. Hiermonk Calinic Berger, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, NY and Holy Cross Orthodox Church, Hermitage, PA
|Sep 10, 2007
The Authority of Scripture
A talk by Reader Christopher Orr, born and raised Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran and received into Orthodoxy in 2001. He is an associate at Heidrick and Struggles, an executive search and leadership consulting firm.
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Welcome and Keynote Address
A talk by Archbishop Nathaniel, Archbishop of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate. Founder and President of St. Andrews House Center For Orthodox Studies


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Last year in Texas, a scared little white pup named Diamond arrived at the City of Abilene's municipal shelter. She was dirty, painfully matted and very scared. No one knew it at the time, but she was also deaf.
If Diamond had arrived at the shelter a year earlier, she may never have found her happy ending. But the folks who work at the City of Abilene shelter are especially dedicated and strongly committed to saving animals' lives. Naturally, they jumped at the chance to take part in the ASPCA's Carroll Petrie Foundation Dog Rescue Project, unveiled in September.
Part of the ASPCA Animal Relocation Initiative, the Carroll Petrie Foundation Dog Rescue Project helps cash-strapped municipal shelters like Abilene's relocate dogs to off-site adoption programs, rescues or private shelters by providing municipal shelters $50 per dog placed. That money can be spent on vet care for an animal, transportation of the pet, or on anything else that will help move the animal out of the shelter.
For Diamond, this program was a godsend. Abilene was able to use the Petrie subsidy to move her to The Pawed Squad rescue. After a desperately needed grooming, Diamond revealed herself to be an adorable little Bichon Frise! She also came out of her shell and showed she would make a wonderful companion.
Soon after rescuing Diamond, the Pawed Squad was able to place her in a loving home that cherishes her every day. Her deafness was never an issue for these awesome adopters.
Congratulations to Abilene, The Pawed Squad rescue and Diamond's happy family. We're so glad the Carroll Petrie Foundation Dog Rescue Project is changing lives like hers and thousands of others.
Want to help support our efforts to find homes for thousands of homeless pets like Diamond? Please consider becoming an ASPCA Guardian today.
That looks like a very good program, as it appears Diamond is smiling. She is adorable. Congratulations to the furry happy family, and all of the furry happy families. Feathered families too, if that applies.
thats so cool well nice both.
cool-how she came to them.
nice-is she got adopted
I to adopted or should I say acquired a bishon while living in Scottsdale AZ I named him Reggie he was found on Christmas morning he was dirty & matted a dog rescue helped pay the bills for neutering & gromming , he did not come with out problems they were miner .. I fostered him for three months.. A family with a farm & two kid's adopted him I never found out what happened to him that was 12Yrs ago ...I believe I was a small part in GODS plan..
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I love the story of Diamond but I agree with the others about keeping Politics out of it.
I thank all a spca Friends I would like to think if that had been my boy that they would have
come to his add and all but my baby boy is a Bichon and I and My Family love him so much.....
Love to hear such wonderful stories about animal rescue
I loved this story, it is so heart-warming! Hats off to all these magnificent people who do so much for animals!
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I am surprised no one has disscussed dog adoption as opposed to puppy mills. If Obamma had adopted a dog instead of buying from a puppy mill it would have given much support to that idea. Yes! and all the presidents back to the start. I work with Petsmart when they have a big adoption day and we have adopted out up to 300 in one day, as well as many cats and kittens. Please support pet adoption. If you know some one who wants a pet encourage them to go to a shelter or Petsmart. You can find wonderful pure breed pets if that is what you want. I like the mixed up ones myself. my part schnauser is so cute and sweet as well as my Airedale. Volunteer to work in the shelters. It is a very gratifying work.
Darling Diamond, I'm so THRILLED you're now a valued member of a wonderful family who truly love. God bless you sweetheart! xo xo xo xo xo xo
AMEN! Vistied our ASPCA shelter yesterday, to join Volunteer program! We rescued our little POLLY, a Therapy dog now, who LOVES attention and all people from the ASPC ain Fresno, CA five years ago. Poll was almost dead weighing 11 puonds, full of worms, bloodied etc. The blessed folks there (foster Mum Whitney in particular, worked to save her. She was my "birthday present" five weeks later. Thank you, ASPCA's everywhere!!


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