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Thursday, August 9, 2012
Little Girls' Room
Now that the Alameda Point Antique Faire is over, I'm diving head first into redoing Elizabeth and Miranda's room -- two spunky and totally adorable twin girls who will be six this fall.
I was tasked with finding them new beds, and these are the vintage frames I found for $15 each. They were an unsightly shiny electric blue color, so I've been spending my time toning that down a bit to a light aqua. I was really happy to find grey primer because it I think it's a nice mid-tone that bridges the gap between the darker blue and the lighter aqua.
I'm trying out the Gripper brand vs. my standard Zinnser BIN after Lane recommended it. It's perfect for this application because of the spindles. Zinnser is thin and would drip like crazy every time I ran a brush over the spindle, but Gripper is thick enough to stick without excessive dripping. I'm really happy with it so far.
Here are some of the patterns and colors going into their room. Lots of blues -- aquas, turquoise, and navy. And lots of warmer pinks, oranges and corals. Aren't the animal silhouettes cute? My business parnter, Wendy, made them, and I think they're perfect.
My next task will be to attempt to create two floor-to-ceiling bulletin boards which will go behind each bed. They'll be covered with the burlap and trimmed with the navy and aqua ribbon. Ever heard of homasote? That's what I'm using for the bulletin board material. Have you ever made a bulletin board from homasote? Any tips?
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I'm using some gray primer right now myself. Mine is glidden, wish I had known about the Gripper as it sounds great. I'm loving everything for the room! That trim is amazing!! Can't wait to see the whole room.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the tip. I've never heard of that primer. I'm loving the plan for the room so far!ReplyDelete
I used homasote, my only issue is that is doesn't "heal" well like cork, making repinning in the same spot a bit more loose. Does that make sense. But other than that, it works awesome!ReplyDelete
The room is going to be cute! And thanks for the Primer tip!
Oooh - this is going to be fabulous!! I can't wait to see more.ReplyDelete
Thanks for your sweet comment!
PS - so sad I was out of town during the alameda antique faire. Next time you've got a booth, I'm there for sure. That orange sofa was fabulous and so happy it found the perfect home!
Oooh - this is going to be fabulous!! I can't wait to see more.ReplyDelete
Thanks for your sweet comment!
PS - so sad I was out of town during the alameda antique faire. Next time you've got a booth, I'm there for sure. That orange sofa was fabulous and so happy it found the perfect home!
It looks like you've got your ducks in a row. It's going to be so cute. Can't wait to see it finished.ReplyDelete
This is fun! And thanks for the tips on the primer too - I'll have to keep that in mind. And I love the animal silouhettes and everything that you have going on for this room.ReplyDelete
This looks so great Camille! I can't wait to see the finished product. I love the way the blue beds look against that brown burlap--so cute and fresh! Wendy did a fantastic job on those adorable animal silhouettes--so cute. Those girls are going to be thrilled when they see all this...ReplyDelete
I love the color palette and the fabric mix, and in particular, the blue ribbon with the burlap. Looking forward to seeing more!ReplyDelete


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I'm trying to make a simple HELP screen and I would like to make the backgorund none-translusive aka alpha = 0.
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None of them seems to make the background/layer less transparent?
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What shader do you use?
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The images themselves in the default skin are semitransparent. You'll need different images.
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Okay, so DrawTexture or just use a texture as parametre? I've tried using a Texture 128x128 with repeat on, but it still just sits in the middle of my window. Got any links to an example? been trying to find one.
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Invited to a wedding...
I just got a wedding invitation in the mail from a high school acquaitence. I lived in a small town, so I've known her since at least fourth grade or earlier (which means I was in a class with her EVERY year for about seven or eight years). We were not close, I wouldn't even call us "friends" as I didn't have friends in school (I was poor and not very popular). I have not seen ANYONE from my school days since graduation night and have never sought out any of them (or any info about them either).
Not only that, but I do not speak to my parents who still live in my old hometown (haven't spoken to them in two years except for them sending me a few brief emails which I largely ignore). So, if I were to go back home I would have to stay in a hotel (which I have no money for) and they would find out of course (which would be really bad if I didn't go see them) or consent to stay with them (which I do not want to do--and since it nicely coincides with my older bro's 30th birthday I would be forced to endure a whole weekend of my family--that's a whole can of worms I won't go into). And I'd have to buy a nice dress [img]/forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] . And I have no one cute to drag down there with me.
I'm also going to be quite busy with school work...and have no money for bus fare.
Having said all that, it would be interesting to go back and see what people look like and stuff. Who's preggers and who's married and all that. However, I don't really care, just kind of a...ahhhhh, okay...thing.
But, my mom emailed me (one of our few emails) to let me know that she told this girl my address and she mentioned that this girl didn't invite many people. And she invited me? I don't really understand because we NEVER hung out and she was semi-popular so she had plenty of other people to invite (although we were both quite intelligent and at one point she and I and one other girl were the entire second year physics course).
So...should I feel guilty about not really wanting to go? About not going at all? If I don't go, I thought I should at least send her a card, but I haven't talked to her for five years so I'm not sure what to say beyond (from XXXX). Do I send her a gift? There was no info on where she might have registered. If I send her a card, do you think she's going to write back? I don't want to "keep in touch" with anyone from high school, not really. I have problems enough keeping in touch college friends that have moved away and I really like those guys.
Just not sure what to do. If she just invited me to be polite then I don't feel bad about merely sending a card with a small good luck message. If she invited me because she remembered me and wanted to catch up...then I'd feel kind of guilty (but I don't think I'd feel guilty enough to go).
Re: Invited to a wedding...
Well,here's my opinion...
My time (not to mention money) is very, very precious to me and I cannot waste it. I am "protective" of my time. Also, when I invite someone to something, if there is any chance of it being difficult (person is busy, just had a baby, or lives far away, etc) I make it clear that it is OPTIONAL and in no way OBLIGATORY. It seems that your main reason for going is to participate in a type of reunion, which would be great if she were inviting lots of people. Since she is not inviting many people, if you go with the intent to re-connect with old friends, you might be disappointed. Who knows, maybe she ran into your mom and maybe your mom hinted that you should be invited and maybe she felt obligated to invite you but did not intend on it. Small town living can be tough.
If you do not go, and especially do not plan on becoming friends, I would not send a gift. Sending a card of aknowledgement is probably more than enough. Say very little except for how happy you are for her and leave it at that. Don't even give an excuse. This isn't school and you do not need a note or any form of permission.
You are better off spending time with your real friends. Of course if you do go, then relax and have fun!
Re: Invited to a wedding...
I agree with Debbie. If she wanted to connect for old times sake she could write you a letter -email and add a few pics etc. Maybe mom is behind the invite.......
If it was me, I would send a card saying what a lovely surprise it was and that I cannot possibly make the wedding because I was otherwise engaged with school and other activities. When there is a reunion, you can go and check everybody out, who ever turns up that is!
Re: Invited to a wedding...
Actually, I seriously doubt my mother is behind the invite. My mom doesn't run in the same circles as this family etc etc and its not her M.O.. My mom's quite sneaky but wrangling an invite to a wedding on my behalf just on the off chance I'd come down isn't something she would do. She knows how I feel about my classmates (at best: mild curiousity, but mostly just apathy) so she would know it would be pointless and it would make her look "desperate" or something to this crowd and she's a lot more worried about her own rep than anything else (even seeing me after a couple of years). That's small town politics. Especially as played by mom.
I think I may be one of those "class mysteries" right now...you know, she left and dropped of the face of the earth kind of things. Also I saw a few old teachers of mine (who I'm pretty sure do run in the same circles as this girl's family) last time I was home (a few years ago) at a time when I was ana and weighed about 105. Everyone commented on how "grown-up" and "gorgeous" I looked, and how great it was that I "slimmed down"...so I might have been invited as more of a curiousity (since I was chubby and never known for my looks in high school--I never even had a boyfriend or went out on a date). Or she may just be inviting more people and my mom is just saying she's not inviting many to try to guilt me into coming. That's more my mom's speed.
Regardless though, I don't think I'm going to go. I was feeling more guilty about not going before so thanks for that. [img]/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] If I had $100-$200 bucks for a nice dress, $ for a hair-cut, and bus fare right now I'd think about it...but I don't and that's the most important hurtle. Also, I think it may be rude to go just for seeing old faces from school instead of seeing someone make a life-long commitment to another. I would feel tacky, but who really "wants" to go to weddings anyway unless its a family member. [img]/forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
Also I'd need a cute boy to go down there with me, and I'd rather be further along in my cut. [img]/forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
And seeing old faces from school is NOT worth entering into the whole ball of wax that is my family. I'll probably have to go visit them before I move to Japan in May or August of next year, and even that seems too early.
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Don't feel guilty for not attending the wedding. Sending a nice card is mannerly enough.
Me wonders if she invited people to add to her list of wedding presents? [img]/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] hee
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Check out Miss Manners at the library, shes the bomb when it comes to social affairs.
Listen I have a huge extended family, and still live in the town I grew up in, I know what its like when you wish to avoid certain people. So dont beat yourself up about it.
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.-- William Shakespeare
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I would (just) send a card. A high school friend invited me 2 years ago to her wedding and I haven't heard from her for more than 11 years. I just sent her a card.
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Yea, don't waste your time unless you feel that you really WANT to go. Time is too precious to waste. I would, however, send a nice card to the girl and say hello [img]/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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I'm just going to send a card. One of my roommates had some great suggestions like starting out with "I was surprised to hear from you..." or something like that. She suggested I keep it short and I told her I was going to make her help me write it!
Re: Invited to a wedding...
the card is a nice gesture and is sufficient.
I honestly wouldn't expect (or invite) someone to come to my wedding if I hadn't talked to them since high school. it's kind of strange but nice in a way that she thought of you.
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Diaghilev's Ballets Russes was the premier ballet company of
The year of Diaghilev's death was the beginning of the Great Depression. The Depression was worldwide. Regardless, ballet companies sprung up all over the western world. Many of the companies took the name Ballet Russe: Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, The Original Ballet Russe, Rene Blum's Ballet Russe.
Two men who joined forces to continue the Diaghilev tradition were René Blum, director of the Monte Carlo Opera Ballet, and Colonel Vassili de Basil, associated with L'Opera Russe à
The repertoire consisted of works from Diaghilev's company and new works by Balanchine and Massine. Balanchine was fired in the first year, because the audiences preferred Diaghilev's repertoire and Massine's ballets.
René Blum and
Because of difficulties between Rene Blum and Colonel de Basil, Blum gave up his share of the partnership, leaving Massine and Col. de Basil to run the company. According to many reports, it was impossible to work with de Basil. Massine left after his contract was fulfilled and returned to
When Massine discovered his ballets belonged to Colonel de Basil, he brought a law suit in
Meanwhile, Col. W. de Basil's (photo below) company called themselves Covent Garden Ballet Russe, and finally Original Ballet Russe. In 1938, the two companies were performing in
Through an all-night session, the management of the two companies got together and ironed out their differences. But at the last moment Colonel W. de Basil said no to the offer. Once Hurok was managing both companies at the same time, and he booked the Ballet Russe to play four weeks at the Hollywood Theatre (now called the Mark Hellinger), immediately followed by the Original Ballet Russe. It was the longest ballet season to hit
Eventually Serge Denham took over the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo as director and artistic advisor. When World War II started, the companies made
He was born Vassily Grigorievich Voskresensky in Kaunas, Lithuania. He is said to have been a colonel in the Cossack army although his claim to the title "Colonel" is disputed. De Basil was demobilised from the army in 1919 and worked as an entrepreneur in Paris.
Following the death of Sergei Diaghilev in 1929, the members of his Ballets Russes went in many directions. De Basil and René Blum, ballet director at the Monte Carlo Opera, founded the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo in 1931. The ballet gave its first performance in Monte Carlo in 1932. Blum and de Basil did not agree artistically, leading to a split, after which Col. Basil renamed his company initially Ballets Russes de Colonel W. de Basil; in 1938 he renamed his company again, as the Covent Garden Russian Ballet; finally, in 1939, he gave the company its final title, the Original Ballet Russe.
Serge Grigoriev was born in Tikhvin, Russia. Grigoriev was trained at the Imperial Theatre School in St. Petersburg, from where he graduated in 1900. He was appointed regisseur for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1909 and remained in that position until the company disbanded on Diaghilev's death in 1929. With the Diaghilev company he also created the roles of Shah Shariar in Scheherazade, Guidone in Le Coq d'or and the Russian Merchant in La Boutique Fantasque.
After Diaghilev's death Grigoriev worked with Colonel de Basil and his various companies from 1929 to 1951. For de Basil he drew on his earlier experiences to stage ballets from the Diaghilev repertoire. He came to Australia as regisseur-general on the Covent Garden Russian Ballet tour of 1938 to 1939 and the Original Ballet Russe tour of 1939 to 1940. He was accompanied on the Original Ballet Russe tour by his wife, the ballerina Lubov Tchernicheva. Later, with Tchernicheva he was responsible for mounting revivals in the 1950s and 1960s of ballets by Fokine and overseeing rehearsals of works by Leonide Massine. Grigoriev's memoirs were published as The Diaghilev Ballet 1909-1929 and were translated into English in 1953.
Rene Blum was a former art critic, publisher, theatre director, choreographer and the founder of the Ballet de l'Opéra at Monte Carlo. In 1931, Blum was hired to form the Ballet of the Opera of Monte-Carlo by Prince Louis II of Monaco. Also in 1931, Blum joined forces with Colonel de Basil to found the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo. Blum contributed the artistic vision and de Basil the business acumen. Balanchine and Massine were hired, Diaghilev's old ballets were restaged. In 1935, after quarrelling with Colonel W. de Basil, Blum left the company to form his own group. The company was called the René Blum Ballets de Monte-Carlo. Mikhail Fokine was ballet master. It eventually became the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, that was co-directed by Leonide Massine.
René Blum was arrested on December 12, 1941 in his Parisian home. He wasamong the first Jews to be arrested in Paris by the French Police. He was held in the Beaune-la-Rolande camp, then in the Drancy internment camp. On September 23, 1942, Blum was shipped to the Auschwitz concentration camp. where he was later killed by the Nazis.
Sol Hurok, Solomon Isiaevich Hurok, was born Solomon Izrailevich Gurkov, on April 9, 1888, in Ukraine. Sol was a world famous 20th century American impresario,who managed many major performing artists including singer Marian Anderson. Hurok moved to the United States in 1906 and became a naturalized citizen in 1914.
In 1959, after 35 years of effort, Sol Hurok brought the historic Russian Bolshoi Ballet to the United States for an 8 week performance tour. In 1961, he brought Russia's Kirov Academy of Ballet and the Igor Moiseyev Ballet Company to the U.S. In 1962, he achieved the extraordinary by again bringing the Bolshoi to the U.S. for a tour at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
In 1974, en route to a meeting with David Rockefeller to discuss a Rudolf Nureyev project, Sol Hurok died of a heart attack. More than two thousand people nearly filled Carnegie Hall for his funeral, where Marian Anderson delivered the final eulogy.
Sergei Ivanovich Denham was born Sergei Ivanovich Dokouchaiev on October 22, 1896 in Russia. Sergei was one of eight children, and when his banker father died, a French governess was hired to help care for the children. It was his governess that Denham gave credit for nurturing his early love of ballet. She once made him a play theater out of an orange carton and cut out paper ballerina dolls for him to play with.
The family moved from Samara on the Volga to Moscow, and Sergei was sent to boarding school near St. Petersburg. Eventually he finished his schooling at The Moscow Commercial Institute. Sergei had a particular talent for the piano. In May of 1915, Serge Denham married Valentine Nikolaevna Yershova, the daughter of a wealthy merchant. The couple had two daughters of their own, Irina, Valentine.
Denham's professional career was extremely diversified. When World War I began he worked for the Red Cross. After the 1917, Revolution he took his family east, first to the home of relatives in Uralsk, then to Vladivostok, where he became director of dormitories at the university. Next he served as representative of Admiral A. V. Kolchak's anti-Bolshevik government. His job entailed procuring funds to support Kolchak's troops -- work that would later prove quite useful in raising money for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. After the revolution, he and his family immigrated to the United States.
In 1921, they arrived in the United States and the first job he found was in an antique store on West 59th Street. A newly acquired friend introduced Denham to the banking world, and he soon found himself vice-president at Bankers Trust. He was put in charge of establishing and overseeing branches in Eastern Europe and eventually London, Paris, and Vienna. Denham was an outgoing, social man and through his travels was able to meet many people who would help precipitate his ultimate career choice. One was Serge Diaghilev whom Denham said first planted the seed of the idea that America could and should be the next great center of ballet; another was a group of Colonel de Basil's dancers on tour whom he found enchanting; and yet another was Watson Washburn, an attorney and balletomane whom Denham first met on the boat from Shanghai. Washburn, in turn, introduced Denham to several wealthy ballet lovers, setting the final stage for what was to come.
By the mid-thirties the Blum/de Basil Company was having problems. Seizing the moment, Denham called together his new friends and formed World Art Inc., a stock corporation which then purchased Blum's company. Denham was appointed president of this new ballet organization -- a post he was to hold throughout the entire length of the company's existence.
Along with the classics, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, under Denham's direction, produced several quite novel works, including Bacchanale, Labyrinth, Rodeo, Frankie and Johnny, and Billy Sunday, as well as a number of works by women ballet choreographers including Agnes de Mille, Bronislava Nijinska, and Ruth Page.
Sergei Denham died in New York City on January 30, 1970, after being struck by a bus as he was leaving the Ballets Russes offices. His wife died several months later. He is survived by his two daughters.


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KINGSTON, R.I. -- November 20, 2003 -- The University of Rhode Islands Department of African and African-American Studies invites high school and college students to participate in its first annual essay contest. The essay topic is: "Fifty Years After the Brown vs. Board of Education Decision: Racial Progress or Stagnation?" Submission deadline is Jan. 12, 2004.
In May of 1954, the United States Supreme Court handed down the famous Brown decision on the illegality of segregated schools in America with the following words: "We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of separate but equal has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Therefore, we hold that the plaintiffs and others similarly situated for whom the actions have been
brought are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment . . . We have now announced that such segregation is a denial of the equal protection of the laws."
With this decision, American race relations were altered dramatically. The court provided the nation with the most significant legal decision of the 20th century. Its consequences had an immediate impact on interracial interaction, especially in the Deep South.
Americans in the 21st century have lived with the Brown decision as the law of the land for 50 years. Yet, the debate about its role and purpose in American life remains a vital part of the nations discourse. Issues such as affirmative action, busing, charter schools, and school vouchers have become potent discussion points regarding quality and fairness in American educational institutions.
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Essays should be sent to ESSAY CONTEST, Department of African and African-American Studies, University of Rhode Island, Roosevelt Hall, Kingston, R.I. 02881.
A panel of scholars will judge the essays for originality, style, and grammar. Winners in each division will be awarded the following cash prizes: First Place, $100, Second Place, $75, Third Place, $50.
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The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is pleased to present an exhibition of photographs resulting from Martin Koenig's travels. Entitled Voices & Images From Bulgaria: 1966-1979, the exhibit was presented in Sofia by the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture in 2007. The show is about the fortuitous capturing of a moment in time at the end of Balkan traditional society - the transition to a modern society was just beginning, and he captured what no one realized at the time would be the final moments of that millenia-old society and way of life.
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A third case of rabies has recently been confirmed, which totals up to three cases in just over two week's time.
The first incident occurred on April 30th in the Rock Branch road area.
Elbert County Animal Control Officer Jeff Simpson says it was another rabid skunk.
"First case was in the Rock Branch area, and it was a skunk around 7:30/8 o'clock in the morning chasing around a larger dog and actually had killed a cat, and the owners of the residence there actually put this skunk down," says Simpson.
The skunk was sent off for testing after the incident and it did indeed come back positive for rabies.
A second case was reported on April 30th as well in the Bowman Area where another skunk got into a kennel with two dogs overnight.
All three animals that received exposure in the first two cases were up to date on their rabies vaccinations.
The third incident involved similar circumstances as a skunk got into a cage with four dogs, but unfortunately a couple of the dogs were not up to date on their vaccinations.
Simpson says they are still trying working with the owner of the animals on this case.
"A skunk got into a pen with four dogs and unfortunately some of those were not vaccinated so we're working with the owner right now trying to figure out what we're going to do with this case," says Simpson.
He says that rabies is very prevalent in our area, since over in Madison County there have been a handful of confirmed rabies cases as well.
Simpson recommends that if you want to prevent your pets being exposed to rabid animals, be sure to not overfeed them.
"Give the animals only enough for them to eat at that time. Try not to leave any excess food, and the best thing you can do preventing it wise having your animals updated on their rabies vaccine," says Simpson.
Be sure to report any incidence of bites from any animal to the Elbert County Animal Control Service by calling (706) 283-5054.
So far in 2013 there have been five confirmed cases of the rabies virus.


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12:00 AM, Oct 20, 2006 • By BILL WHALEN
But is that a smart way to campaign in California? While the "yes" side has gone Hollywood, the "no" campaign has hammered home a simple message of higher taxes and more reliance on imported oil by discouraging in-state drilling--with not a celebrity to be seen. That simple message may be working: the Field Poll has Prop. 87 sliding from a 52 percent to 31 percent advantage to a margin of only 44 percent to 41 percent, in favor. Traditionally, initiatives that slip below 50 percent tend not to recover on Election Day.
Should Prop. 87 lose, proponents will blame bad timing. Since July, gasoline prices in California are down roughly 20 percent. But a better explanation would be that California voters are outright hostile to ballot measures that raise taxes or add bureaucracy, no matter how politically correct or beautifully packaged they are. While Proposition 87 struggles, Prop. 86 has 53 percent support (down 10 points since the summer). Meanwhile, Prop. 89 is dead in the water, with only 25 percent support. Another tax measure--Proposition 88, which is a $50 parcel tax on homeowners to raise money for class-size reduction and school-safety programs--is now an officially "orphaned" initiative, since its backers have abandoned its campaign.
Perhaps the slick Clinton-Gore ads will turn the tide and rescue Prop. 87 from defeat. But this past June, Californians were asked to raise taxes on the wealthy to finance a universal preschool program. That initiative, Proposition 82, received a scant 39 percent in an election driven by a Democratic gubernatorial.
No wonder Prop. 87 supporters won't stop thinking about tomorrow. For these kinds of initiatives, the past hasn't been very kind.
Bill Whalen is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he follows California and national politics.


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"Dick Cheney watches television": The four previously unseen 9/11 photos that will make you hate the evil VP all over again
When Bill Neel learned that President George W. Bush was making a Labor Day campaign visit to Pittsburgh last year to support local congressional candidates, the retired Pittsburgh steelworker decided that he would be on hand to protest the president's economic policies. Neel and his sister made a hand-lettered sign reading "The Bushes must love the poor — they've made so many of us," and headed for a road where the motorcade would pass on the way from the airport to a Carpenters' Union training center.
He never got to display his sign for President Bush to see, though. As he stood among milling groups of Bush supporters, he was approached by a local police detective, who told him and his sister that because they were protesting, they had to move to a "free speech area," on orders of the U.S. Secret Service.
"He pointed out a relatively remote baseball diamond that was enclosed in a chain-link fence," Neel recalled in an interview with Salon. "I could see these people behind the fence, with their faces up against it, and their hands on the wire." (The ACLU posted photos of the demonstrators and supporters at that event on its Web site.) "It looked more like a concentration camp than a free speech area to me, so I said, 'I'm not going in there. I thought the whole country was a free speech area.'" The detective asked Neel, 66, to go to the area six or eight times, and when he politely refused, he handcuffed and arrested the retired steelworker on a charge of disorderly conduct. When Neel's sister argued against his arrest, she was cuffed and hauled off as well. The two spent the president's visit in a firehouse that was serving as Secret Service and police headquarters for the event.
It appears that the Neels' experience is not unique. Late last month, on Sept. 23, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in a federal court in Philadelphia against the Secret Service, alleging that the agency, a unit of the new Homeland Security Department charged with protecting the president, vice president and other key government officials, instituted a policy in the months even before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks of instructing local police to cordon off protesters from the president and Vice President Dick Cheney. Plaintiffs include the National Organization for Women, ACORN, USA Action and United for Justice, and groups and individuals who have been penned up during presidential visits, or arrested for refusing to go into a "free speech area," in places ranging from California to New Mexico, Missouri, Connecticut, New Jersey, South Carolina and elsewhere in Pennsylvania.
The ACLU, which began investigating Secret Service practices following Neel's arrest, has identified 17 separate incidents where protesters were segregated or removed during presidential or vice-presidential events, and Pittsburgh ACLU legal director Witold Walczak says, "I wouldn't be surprised if this is just the tip of the iceberg. We don't have the resources to follow Bush and Cheney everywhere they go." The suit also comes at a time of mounting charges by many civil libertarians on both the left and the right that the Bush Administration and Attorney General John Ashcroft's Justice Department are trampling on civil liberties.
"There is some history supporting the notion that all presidents dislike people who don't like them," says Stefan Presser, head of the ACLU of Philadelphia ACLU chapter and another lead attorney in the suit the Secret Service. "But this approach of fencing protesters in and removing them from view is unprecedented, and it's gotten worse over the past two years."
Well, maybe not exactly unprecedented. Pittsburgh's Walczak notes that during Nixon administration, especially during his second term, police "made quite a practice" of tearing up protest signs and confining protesters, and at least in one case that went to court, the Secret Service admitted being behind the actions. He says there were some isolated instances of interference with protesters during the Reagan administration, and even at President Clinton's inauguration, an attempt was made (unsuccessfully, thanks to ACLU intervention) to bar anti-abortion protesters from the inaugural march.
In its complaint, the ACLU cites nine cases since March 2001 in which protesters were quarantined. And it alleges that the Secret Service, with the assistance of state and local police, is systematically violating protesters' First Amendment rights via two methods. "Under the first form," the suit says, " the protesters are moved further away from the location of the official and/or the event, allowing people who express views that support the government to remain closer. Under the second form, everyone expressing a view — either critical or supportive of the government — is moved further away, leaving people who merely observe, but publicly express no view, to remain closer."
In either case, the complaint adds, "protesters are typically segregated into what are commonly referred to as 'protest zones.'"
In the ACLU's view, the strategy, besides violating a fundamental right of free speech and assembly, is damaging in two ways. "It insulates the government officials from seeing or hearing the protesters and vice-versa, and it gives to the media and the American public the appearance that there exists less dissent than there really is."
Certainly, as television cameras follow a presidential motorcade lined with cheering supporters, the image on the tube will be distorted if protesters have all been spirited away around a corner somewhere fenced in for the duration.
Contacted by Salon, the Secret Service denied that it discriminates against protesters. "The Secret Service is message-neutral," said spokesman John Gill. "We make no distinction on the basis of the purposes or intent of any group or the content of signs."
Further, Gill insisted that the establishment and oversight of local viewing areas during a presidential or vice presidential visit "is the responsibility of state and local law enforcement." In practice, it's apparently not that simple, though. Nor is the Secret Service's carefully worded denial of responsibility as definitive as it might appear. The "establishment of viewing areas" is indeed a local law enforcement responsibility, but local law enforcement officials say that the Secret Service has in some cases all but ordered them to pen in protesters. And it appears that the Secret Service is making recommendations about how that should be done.
Paul Wolf is an assistant supervisor in charge of operations at the Allegheny County Police Department and was involved in planning for the presidential visit to Pittsburgh last fall. He told Salon that the decision to pen in Bush critics like Neel originated with the Secret Service. "Generally, we don't put protesters inside enclosures," he said. "The only time I remember us doing that was a Ku Klux Klan rally, where there was an opposing rally, and we had to put up a fence to separate them.
"What the Secret Service does," he explained, "is they come in and do a site survey, and say, 'Here's a place where the people can be, and we'd like to have any protesters be put in a place that is able to be secured.' Someone, say our police chief, may have suggested the place, but the request to fence them in comes from the Secret Service. They run the show."
The statement by Wolf, who ranks just below the Allegheny County police chief, is backed up by the sworn testimony of the detective who arrested Neel. At a hearing in county court, Det. John Ianachione, testifying under oath, said that the Secret Service had instructed local police to herd into the enclosed so-called free-speech area "people that were there making a statement pretty much against the president and his views." Explaining further, he added: "If they were exhibiting themselves as a protester, they were to go in that area."
Asked to respond to the accounts of Wolf and Ianachione about the Secret Service's role in handling of protesters, spokesman Gill said only, "No comment." Asked pointedly whether Wolf's account was incorrect, Gill again said, "No comment."
Wolf also raises the possibility that White House operatives may be behind the moves to isolate and remove protesters from presidential events. He says that while he cannot recall specifically whether they were present with the Secret Service advance team before last year's presidential Labor Day visit, "I think they are sometimes part of" the planning process. The Secret Service declined to comment on this assertion, saying it would not discuss "security arrangements." The White House declined to comment on what role the White House staff plays in deciding how protesters at presidential events should be handled, referring all calls to the Secret Service.
Asked specifically whether White House officials have been behind requests to have protesters segregated and removed from the vicinity of presidential events, White House spokesman Allen Abney said, "No comment." But he added, "The White House staff and the Secret Service work together on a lot of things." While the Secret Service won't confirm that it is behind the pattern of tight constraints placed on protesters at public appearances by Bush and Cheney, the ACLU claims that mounting evidence suggests that this is exactly what is going on.
But the ACLU's lawsuit claims that the Secret Service is responsible for the tight constraints. A number of individual plaintiffs in the suit say that when they were directed into remote "free-speech areas," or arrested for refusing to go to such sites, they were informed that the local police were acting "on orders from the Secret Service."
That's the story Bill Ramsey got when he was arrested last Nov. 4 by police in St. Charles, Mo., while attempting to unfurl an antiwar banner amid a group of pro-Bush people during a presidential visit to a local airport. "The police told us if we wanted to show the banner, we'd have to go to a parking lot four-tenths of a mile away and out of sight of the president's motorcade," says Ramsey. When we attempted to put it up anyway, they arrested us, and said they'd been ordered to by the Secret Service."
But Ramsey says that when his organization, the Instead of War Coalition, has sought to obtain permission to hold its demonstrations during presidential visits, they are told by the Secret Service that such matters are the responsibility of local police. "When we go to the local police, though, they say it's up to the Secret Service."
Efforts to obtain a comment from the St. Charles Police Department were unsuccessful.
Andrew Wimmer, another member of the Instead of War Coalition, says he was offered a similar explanation last January in St. Louis when he attempted to unfurl a sign reading "Instead of War, Invest in People" on a street full of Bush supporters. According to Wimmer, St. Louis police officers told him he'd have to leave a street full of Bush supporters and go to a protest area two blocks from the presidential motorcade route because of his protest sign. He recalls that as crowds of people walked down a thoroughfare toward the trading company that President Bush was slated to visit, "local police were pulling out people carrying protest signs and directing them to the protest area." The 48-year-old IT worker says, "When they got to me, I said no, I'd just as soon stand with the people here. But they said the Secret Service wanted protesters in the protest area."
In the end, Wimmer, like Ramsey and others who have refused to be caged during protests, was arrested. "They charged me with obstructing passage with my sign, which was a 2.5-foot-by-2-foot lawn sign," he says, noting that a woman standing nearby with a similar-size sign saying "We love you Mr. President," was left alone.
"The Secret Service keeps saying that the decision to separate protesters and remove them from view is a local police matter," says Denise Lieberman, legal director of the ACLU of Eastern Missouri, who is representing both Ramsey and Wimmer in their arrest cases. "But these kinds of things only happen when the Secret Service is involved. We've had many visits to St. Louis — by the pope, by candidates, by dignitaries — and it's only when the president or the vice president come to town that this kind of thing happens."
"We expect to see a lot more of this heading into a campaign season," says Chris Hansen, senior staff attorney at the ACLU and one of the lead attorneys handling the suit against the Secret Service.
Presser, the Philadelphia ACLU attorney, traces the tactic to the last Republican National Convention, which nominated Bush for the presidency in August 2000. "The GOP tried to reserve every possible space where a protest group might rally," Presser recalls. "Part of the party's contract with the city of Philadelphia for the convention was that they were given an omnibus permit to use 'all available space' for the two weeks of the convention. They basically privatized the city to block all legal protest."
During that convention, the city attempted to require all groups seeking to protest during the convention to apply for permits to get a 15-minute protest time slot, during which they would be allowed to assemble and make their statement in a sunken "protest pit," remote from the Convention Center. Many groups refused, and the result was a series of conflicts with local police and many arrests, most of which were later tossed out by the courts.
Since then, Presser charges, the Bush administration has continued the strategy of using the Secret Service and cooperative local police departments to keep protesters at bay, and not incidentally, out of easy range of the media. "People used to say that Ronald Reagan's was the most scripted administration we ever had," the attorney says, "but this Bush administration has gone way beyond that." Presser adds that he was told by William Fisher, a senior Philadelphia police captain and head of the department's Civil Affairs Unit, that the tight restrictions and decision to cordon off protesters during presidential visits have come "at the Secret Service's direction." Fisher declined to be interviewed for this article, but when asked, did not deny Presser's account of their conversation.
Presser and the ACLU don't question the Secret Service's responsibility to protect the president and other key government officials. Even plaintiffs in the case agree that the president must be protected. But "putting protesters behind a fence isn't going to help," says Neel, the former Pittsburgh steelworker. "I mean, somebody who was going to attempt an assassination wouldn't be carrying a protest sign. He'd be carrying a sign saying 'I love George!'"
The ACLU's Presser agrees. "Just as the terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center were careful to blend in and stayed away from mosques," he says, "anyone who had ill will towards the president could just put on a pro-Bush T-shirt and, under this policy, he'd be allowed to move closer to the president by the Secret Service."
He adds, "It seems that these 'security zones' for protesters have very little to do with the president's physical security, and a whole lot to do with his political security." Asked how many times in history an attack had been made on a president or other official under Secret Service protection by someone clearly identifiable as a protester, agency spokesman Gill said, "I'm not going to comment on that." Interestingly, Gill at no point claimed that protesters posed a special threat to the president or vice president.
Whatever the real motives behind it, the Secret Service policy of fencing off protests and protesters during presidential events may be in for a tough challenge. The judge assigned to the case, John Fullam, is an appointee of former President Lyndon B. Johnson, and back in the late 1980s issued a permanent injunction in Philadelphia — still in effect — that bars both the city of Philadelphia and the National Parks Department (the agency in charge of the city's many federal monuments), from treating protesters or people wearing protest paraphernalia any differently from other citizens.
The ACLU, which is seeking an injunction barring the Secret Service and local police from treating protesters differently from other spectators at administration events, is hopeful that the court will act "before the presidential campaign gets into full swing next summer," says Walczak. Meanwhile, Presser says he is optimistic that the lawsuit, simply by being filed, could make things easier for protesters during the coming campaign season."I suspect that this suit may give the Secret Service and local police some pause in how they treat protests," he says.
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Pretty Little Liars Season 3, Episode 5: "That Girl is Poison" gave the Liars tons of new clues to follow up on. Based on this preview, it looks like they will make the most of their new situation by trying to set a trap for "A" on Season 3, Episode 6: "The Remains of the 'A'" (airing July 17).
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The segment, which debuts on Monday, October 15, gave Jill her long-overdue opportunity to confront Andy on why exactly it was that she was removed after Season 4. As seen in the previews, a tearful Jill outright asked Andy why she was fired and said that it felt like "a death" and her "funeral," while Andy did a little inquisition of his own about whether Jill bought Twitter followers or not.
Jill wrote on Twitter today that she's "nervous" because the interview will be edited now.
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Vt. Senate backs bill to expand home-grown energyThe Associated Press | March 15,2014MONTPELIER The amount of power that utilities could buy from customers with solar or other renewable energy systems would nearly quadruple under a measure given preliminary approval by the Vermont Senate.
Vermont caps the amount of power utilities can take through whats called net metering, when the owners of rooftop solar installations or similar projects put excess power onto the grid.
The current cap says each utility can take up to 4 percent of the peak load on its system from net-metering projects. The bill increases that to 15 percent.
Net metering projects are very popular in the state, and theyre popular because of the programs we have to encourage this kind of development, Sen. Virginia Lyons, D-Chittenden, said in explaining the proposed expansion to her colleagues Thursday.
Utility customers who participate in net-metering get paid at above retail rates for the power. While typical retail rates among Vermont utilities run less than 15 cents per kilowatt hour, net-metered customers are paid 20 cents per kwh for their power.
The bill would change that to 19 cents for projects with a capacity more than 15 kilowatts. After 10 years, participants in the program would be paid the retail rate for their power.
Critics have complained that net metering is too expensive and drives up electric rates; its defenders say renewable energy development is important to the battle against climate change and needs to be encouraged. They also argue that net metering actually lowers costs in many instances because it enables utilities to avoid building capacity for larger peak loads.
The Senate rejected an amendment offered by Sen. Kevin Mullin, R-Rutland, to have net metering participants paid the same rate that utilities pay to other sources at wholesale, prices that usually average well below 10 cents per kwh.
A kilowatt is a volume of power delivered at an instant; a kilowatt-hour is that volume of power delivered continuously during the course of an hour.
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