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It could be days before the true scale of the pollution spill affecting sea birds in Dorset is known, wildlife experts said.
Conservationists believe many birds covered in a mystery sticky substance could have been blown out to sea by prevailing winds – leading to yet more fatalities as they are unable to feed and become cold and exhausted.
Hundreds of seabirds have died and hundreds more have been washed up on the coast between West Sussex and Cornwall after being covered in the pollutant.
The RSPB said that just a handful of guillemots were recovered alive yesterday from Chesil beach in Dorset and from Dawlish and Teignmouth in Devon. A similar amount of birds were found washed up dead.
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Grahame Madge, of the RSPB, said: "The number of birds recovered today is very small but we don't think that reflects the absolute position.
"We really think it is a reflection of the prevailing weather conditions rather than the situation affecting sea birds. The winds on Friday were encouraging birds to come into the shore where they could be picked up but the wind since has been pushing birds more out to sea. It is quite likely that there has been many, many more birds affected who have no hope of rescue at the moment."
Mr Madge said that bird watchers on Chesil beach had spotted what they believed were many sea birds covered in the pollutant and in difficulty.
"I think anybody looking at the very small figures and saying 'well that's it – it's all over now', I think would be a very naive interpretation, knowing what we do know about the numbers that were sighted off shore," he said.
"We had bird watchers at Chesil beach reporting a large number of sea birds off shore that appeared to be struggling and never made it, as far as we can tell, to land.
"I think we are due westerly winds which means the birds could be pushed eastwards and that did seem to be what was happening in the last 48 hours with sightings reported in Hampshire and Sussex."
Mr Madge said the scientists were still trying to identify exactly what the pollutant was. On Friday, tests revealed the mystery substance as a refined mineral oil, but not from an animal or vegetable-based oil. They also ruled out palm oil.
One expert said the oil could have been discharged into the sea accidentally or deliberately from a ship.
Mr Madge added: "I don't believe the Maritime and Coastguard Agency helicopter has managed to identify the source of the pollution but we are dealing with a colourless and odourless liquid.
"We do hope that the authorities will be able to identify the exact type of pollution and that might give us a clue to where it has come from.
"We have a major pollution incident affecting hundreds if not thousands of birds and we feel it is important that whoever is responsible for this pollution incident is held to account."
More than 250 birds, mostly guillemots and about 17 razorbills, are now being treated at the RSPCA West Hatch centre near Taunton, Somerset.
Peter Venn, manager of the centre, said: "It is still early days and hard to say how the birds will survive in the long-term. We don't know what this substance is or what it might be doing to the birds, but we can say the margarine does seem to remove it and we are doing all we possibly can to give them the best chance we can of survival."
The society said the vast majority of the sea birds were rescued from Chesil Beach in Dorset but others have come from the Isle of Wight and Cornwall.
West Hatch staff first tried to clean the birds with normal soapy water, which was not successful in removing the sticky substance.
Wildlife assistants then had more success removing the sticky gloop after they cleaned them with Stork margarine.
Take a look at our photos of the RSPCA rescue operation of the seabirds at Portland.


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WILLIAMSON - The Mingo County Commission met on Wednesday, May 15, for their regularly scheduled meeting. The meeting was attended by all three commissioners, President John Mark Hubbard, David Baisden and Greg "Hootie" Smith.
Members of the Delbarton Town Council addressed the commission with a request for assistance in helping purchase a large, covered stage that would be owned by the county, but would be available to each municipality to reserve for use at various fairs and festivals throughout the county.
Steve Cook explained to the commissioners that each year, Delbarton pays approximately $2,000 to rent a stage for their Labor Day Reunion Festival. Other municipalities do the same, such as when Williamson hosts the King Coal Festival and the Hatfield and McCoy Reunion. Each town holds some type of festival, and is each out a substantial amount of money each year for a stage rental.
"The prices we have received from the company we usually deal with is somewhere in the vicinity of $17,000, that includes a cover that is vital to have in cases of inclement weather," stated Cook. "If you look at how much we're all paying out in rental fees, actually purchasing one would create substantial savings and allow that funding to be used for other needs."
Commissioner Smith told Cook that he thought the purchase could be made if all the municipalities, Williamson, Delbarton, Gilbert, Matewan and Kermit, would each give $2,000 toward buying the stage, and the remainder would be provided by the commission, after the new fiscal year begins. The project would have to be put out for bid since it is expected to be over the allowed amount of $15,000.
"It would be a wise investment that would save money down the road for all involved," said Smith. "Putting $2,000 toward the purchase price is the same amount the municipalities would be out for a rental this year anyway, so why not put that one time cost toward alleviating the need to rent again in the future?"
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"This is definitely a win-win situation, and we commend the members of the Delbarton Council for coming up with this money saving plan," stated President Hubbard. "Our office will make contact with the other mayors and council members throughout the county to see if we can get everyone on the same page and in agreement of this joint-venture."
In other business, a $1,000 donation was provided to the Williamson Babe Ruth League, and $3,000 was approved for the City of Williamson for a future project.
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Legal luminary, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, on Thursday said conflict between the colonial and traditional cultures was the main cause of the problems bedeviling the nation.
Nwabueze, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, who acknowledged that there were other "problems and challenges which we created by ourselves", said the colonial culture "tried to wipe out the traditional cultures".
He spoke in Lagos during the public presentation of his two-volume autobiography, His life, Works and Times – An Autobiography.
He said, "The conflict of cultures, that is conflict between the colonial culture and the traditional culture. That is what Nigeria is suffering from today.
"The colonial culture tried to wipe it out as unworthy and we are still fighting to retain today. We have to retain it and not to throw it away, because if we throw it away, African people will be without root."
The 82-year-old former Minister of Education, said rather than throwing away the traditional cultures, Africans, particularly Nigerians, should "recreate and reform" them.
Nwabueze, who said the challenge of the nation was how to "coalesce" its about 385 ethnic groups, questioned the significance of celebrating the 1914 amalgamation of the Southern and Northern protectorates.
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In his keynote address, Chairman of the occasion, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, said Nigeria's education system would have been better off if Nwabueze had stayed longer as the minister of education.
Onu, who is the Chairman of the All Nigerian Peoples Party, blamed the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by universities and polytechnic teachers on the failure of the Federal Government to implement all agreements it entered into with the various unions.


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Steve Romick is a managing partner at FPA Funds and was previously chairman of Crescent Management. I recently sat down with Steve to talk about "deep value investing," his diverse portfolio and what a $9.5 million rock at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has to do with markets. Video and a transcript of our conversation follows.
Steve Forbes: Steve, thank you for joining us. You're in the investment business. But it didn't start out that way. You majored in education.
Steve Romick: I did. Bachelor of Science Education. I made a left turn some place when I probably should have gone right.
Forbes: So how did you go from education to management?
Romick: Well, it's funny, actually. I actually met a gentleman who was a friend of my father's, who asked me to coffee at a hotel in Chicago. He was coming to visit. I went to Northwestern. And he told me that he was tired, and I quote, "of unlearning MBAs." He goes, "I would like to hire somebody else, who I could train from the ground up. And would you be interested in that?"
I said, "I don't know anything about finance." He says, "Neither do the guys with the MBAs." So I said, "Okay, I'm game." He's a very successful gentleman, by the name of Jeff Nathan, who ran an investment partnership. I said, "I'd love the opportunity." So he sat me in his office with a desk abutting his. Every time he picked up the phone to call a company, I'd be on the phone with him.
Within the first couple months of being and working with him, it was really funny. I ended up in a hotel down in Laguna Beach with a guy in his pajamas, pajama bottoms anyway. I had no idea who this was. But as a young kid with no experience whatsoever, I didn't realize I was taking tea with John Templeton.
Forbes: Eventually Sir John.
Romick: Yes. I think he was Sir John then.
Forbes: So how do you describe your investment approach? You used the word "deep value investor."
Romick: Yes, we are deep value investors. Let me start with our goal. Our goal is to generate equity rates of return and to do so without assuming the same risk the stock market does. So we want to avoid permanent impairments of capital. So our strategy is to really invest A) across a company's capital structure — so common stocks, preferred stocks, junior debt, senior debt, bank debt — but as well as in different asset classes.
Forbes: Going short.
Romick: Going short to some degree, as well as farmland we own in our portfolio. We purchased a lot of the subprime whole loans back in 2009 and '10. And we looked for other types of vehicles like that in different asset classes.
Forbes: Hedge fund it sounds like.
Romick: Public version. Hedge fund light, lower fees.
Forbes: So you range everywhere. Now some would say, "How can you do that? How can you get real value added if you're spread all over the place?"
Romick: We're spread all over the place in terms of different asset classes and different market caps and across the capital structure. But at the end of the day, we focus on one thing. We focus on where the bad news is, where there are poor sellers. Wherever the poor sellers are, that's where we're spending our time.
And if you think about looking at a bond versus a stock, what's the difference, really? If it's a building. If you're looking at this building that we're in right now, we want to value it. We're gonna try and figure out what the replacement cost is, how good is it tended, is it an A credit or a C credit, what the vacancy in the building is, what the turnover in the leases are, the terms. Then you take that analysis and look at it from an equity perspective, but think of it as a debt, as a bond, as well, the mortgage on that building. The analysis is not so substantively different. So I would argue that we are in the business of buying assets at discounts, whether they be businesses or some other kind of asset.
Forbes: 2009, for example, after the market turned, for awhile after the sharp rise, you were skeptical. You went into bonds. And you've reversed that since then.
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Mac OS X has been rewritten from the ground up, and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard New Features highlights all of the most important and user-relevant aspects of this release. Experienced instructor and lifelong Mac user Garrick Chow introduces current Mac users to the improvements in the latest OS. While not a complete overhaul of the operating system, this update does address a fair number of internal systems and external user features. Garrick explores all of these updates, including enhancements to the Finder and the Dock and a completely revamped QuickTime player. He shows the wealth of improvements to built-in applications like Safari, Preview, iChat, and Mail, and explains the updated 64-bit support within Snow Leopard.
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I'm sure you've heard of CSI:Miami before? Probably, haha. Now, whether you've ever watched it…. Who knows. And that's not the point.
The point is, more so than the other CSI series Miami has cars, quite a few. Usually Lamborghinis. Which isn't totally surprising, because Miami does have some expensive wheels rolling around… Any city with money like that will. (Even New York, where the parking spaces are stupid expensive. So one time when we were there, we saw an Aston Martin parked on the street…)
Anyhow, one day I caught part of the episode "High Octane" on tv, and what I saw disturbed me more than just a little bit.
Hello, It's Called Research!!!
Now, it's a given that for shows there's some actual research done to make it somewhat credible. And I'd expect with the booming car scene that it wouldn't be so damn hard to come up with some facts….
Apparently, it is.
Mind the poor quality, but just take a look for yourself here. No, please, you'll see my point rather quickly. The first few minutes give you an awful glimpse into what they came up with. (Funny side note: the subtitles are Chinese, and I can actually read some of the characters and phrases… It's freaky lol.)
If you're into a bit more torture, you can watch the whole thing…. It's pretty awful, honestly. Especially when you get to the tire bit and it's all about the "Hoosier slicks." Yeah, Hoosier makes slicks… Slicks are for racing… Used in drifting… BUT NOT ON FREAKIN' ECLIPSES.
I'm sorry, but in NO way, shape or form should you EVER fashion the words "drifting" into a sentence and show an eclipse. UGH!!!!!!!!!
But Then…
And yet, they show actual cars. Real cars. Built cars. Not "tricked-out" cars, REAL cars. Like the RX-7. A few Silvias. And a Levin, right? (I'm pretty sure…?)
So it's like, even worse. You can't go and show these actual cars that people or shops worked really hard on next to your stupid eclipse for the show. It's WRONG.
Why? Because then all the non-car people go and think that, "Oh, that's how it is!" And it's not! It's not even close!
Drifting is NOT a crime. It is NOT a stunt. It IS a real sport. For some, it IS a way of life. It is NOT something to be thrown around lackadaisically on a tv show full of people who are probably really uneducated in the field and now they think they know what those "drifting punks" are like.
It really irks me to the core when things like this go down. It's wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. Period. You should have done more research or, gasp, brought on a consultant to make sure you're at least somewhat accurate.
And that's not even getting to the final gem — the fact that the kid's dad was siphoning off jet fuel and they were putting it in cars….???
For the record: Jet fuel is nothing more than slightly more refined diesel. You don't fill up your car at the diesel pump, do you? No. So you wouldn't put jet fuel in your car. It's not high octane, it's actually low octane.
On the flip side, I'm happy for the people who did get their cars into the show. It's some nice recognition and a great achievement! It doesn't take anything away from the cars, it's the people who did the show that are……..
Kinda Frustrating
It's pretty frustrating because there isn't anything one can do about this. It's there, it's done and it's out there — showing people some glamorized life that doesn't really exist. Huh, I swore that was done before….
Oh yeah, the Fast and the Furious. Figures. That's totally how it is, isn't it?
I have to say, though, this irks me in a totally different way than that True Life episode. Because that was actually some dude thinking his life was something it totally wasn't….
So tell me, what do you think when you see something like this? Does it irritate you? Or do you shrug it off?
In a way, I like that people don't understand the lifestyle from the outside… But they have some stupid opinions I get tired of trying to fight.


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Emmanuelle Chriqui pulls her shiny curls to the side for a sexy, side-swept hairstyle.
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I have just had an article published in Crafts Beautiful which features stencilling, so I thought I'd show you this card.
I guess this would qualify as a Less is More card? It uses the Crafter's Workshop Cherry Blossom stencil (12×12)which I have then embellished by drawing flower centres with a Pigma Micron pen. I used Memento dye inks for the stencilling – Pistachio and a mixture of Morroco and Love Letter. I used a lovely stencil brush which has a rounded top rather than the traditional flat top and I use a swirling motion rather than a pouncing or stippling action. It's easier on the hand and gives a lovely soft, even colour.
The sentiment is from Pretty Poppies, stamped with Love Letter, and I trimmed it to a rectangle then used my Zutter wide corner rounder on it. I'm going to have to get some more of that red satin ribbon in – it's perfect for Christmas and I seem to have run out of it!


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That's text slang for "oh my . . . goodness," just in case you're a non-phone-texting reader.
Anyhoo, OMG was my under-the breath reaction after a recent experience in the jewelry department of a regional variety store. The transaction got off to a great start, with smiles exchanged all around when I first stopped by the jewelry counter. I'd come to ask about getting a replacement battery for my old wristwatch, even though I'd love to go out and buy a new one.
The sales associate's "Sure, no problem" response was the kind every consumer wants to hear in a world where we're often ignored.
And her next statement, "I can have your watch ready in about 10 minutes," sounded like a sweet melody to my ears. (I had a bascart filled with grocery bags and some perishable items, and wanted to make just a quick stop before heading home).
"That would be great," I said.
Alas, the meeting turned sour at the cost of the battery and its installation. Oh, the $14 price was quite reasonable for parts and labor. But when the sales associate next offered a free battery and repair if I opened the jewelry store's credit card, I was stunned.
SMH. That's text code for "shaking my head."
Well, before I knew it, the application form and pen were on the counter in front of me.
"Just fill this out while I fix your watch," she said, as if I had no choice.
For a moment, it made sense to me. After all, who would choose to pay $14 for a free service?
But I quickly realized that's how a credit debt -- often carrying interest rates as high as 20 percent -- starts, dear readers. And I had just finished paying off most of my holiday spending and was in no mood to start paying again.
Well, why not?
Still, I thought, I was going to get my watch fixed anyway. Why shouldn't I save $14?
According to investopedia.com, sometimes the discounts attached to credit card openings "can help you offset the cost of the purchase, as long as you don't use the discount as an excuse to buy more stuff."
That's what national retailers hope and think we will do. And my sales associate was doing her company's bidding.
The stores know store-based credit cards instill consumer loyalty and that we're likely to spend more where we have a credit line. In my case, I ended up eyeing the jewelry department's expensive watches, thinking about replacing my old Pulsar watch with its plain white face and silver and gold band. They might have suckered me in if that darned old watch didn't keep such good time.
So, I'll tell you proudly, I resisted the impulse and told the store clerk, "No thanks."
Suddenly, she was the astonished one. I guess that doesn't happen too often.
LOL. That's code for "laugh out loud."
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now my love.......errrr WHAT DID U DO WITH UR HAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!! ......SORRY EH but DAMN....U LOOK LIKE U HAVE HIGHLIGHTS......aren't u suppose to be a boy?....key word 'suppose'
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Frances Jane Mosley, age 71, of Florissant, CO, passed away Thursday, March 28, 2013, in Pikes Peak Hospice at Penrose Hospital in Colorado Springs, CO.
Born Jan. 23, 1942, in Dalton, GA, she was the oldest daughter of the late C.L. and Nellie (Ledford) Godfrey.
Jane lived in Canton most of her childhood, and married Randall Lee Mosley on July 16, 1960. She accompanied Randall, who was in the U. S. Army, to Fort Lewis, WA, Fort Riley, KS, and Fort Carson, CO, before returning to Ohio in 1967. They settled in Dellroy until 1985, when they moved to Colorado and eventually settled in Florissant. With the exception of a brief return to Ohio, Jane lived in Florissant until her death. Jane was a wife, mother and homemaker. She loved everyone and was, in return, loved by the many people she knew. Her family and friends were always the center of her life.
Jane is survived by her husband, Randall, with whom she celebrated their 52nd wedding anniversary last July; her daughter, Shannon Owen, of Cripple Creek, CO; two sons, Mark Mosley, of Dellroy, and Kelvin (Colleen) Mosley, of Leonardtown, MD; her sister, Linda (James) Kestel, of North Canton; two brothers, Chuck (Irene) Godfrey, of North Canton, and Tim (Vicki) Godfrey, of East Sparta; 12 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her oldest son, Jeffrey Scott Mosley, a sister, Judy Ann Godfrey, and two brothers, James Larry Godfrey and Robert Randal Godfrey.
Services will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. in Finefrock-Gordon Funeral Home in Magnolia with Rev. Steven M. Smith officiating. Interment will be in Union Valley Cemetery. Friends may call Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. Condolences may be sent to: www.gordonfuneralhomes.com
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2013 BMW M3 Coupe Frozen Limited Edition launched
Limited to 150 units.
Based on the success of previous limited edition Frozen M3s, BMW has released yet another special variant limited to 150 units.
Available exclusively in the United States, the 2013 M3 Coupe Frozen features 19-inch matte black alloys, -10mm lowered suspension, electronic damper control and sport mapping for EDC and DSC. It will be available in BMW Individual Frozen Red, White or Blue exterior paints with a carbon fiber roof panel.
Other highlights include a six-speed manual transmission, Black Extended Novillo leather with contrasting stitching, carbon leather trim and high-gloss black side gills, kidney grills and exhaust pipe tips. BMW is also offering as optional features the Cold Weather Package, heated front seats, M-DCT transmission, automatic high beams and a moonroof.
The 2013 BMW M3 Coupe Frozen Limited Edition has a starting price of $76,395, including destination and handling.
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Woodcliff Lake, NJ – October 26, 2012 … BMW today announced the 2013 BMW M3 Coupe Frozen Limited Edition. For the first time, the M3 Frozen Limited Edition will be available in a choice of frozen exterior finishes. Appropriate to this election season in the US, those choices are Frozen Red, Frozen White and Frozen Blue. The interior will sport black extended Novillo leather with contrasting stitching to match the exterior color. In total,150 examples will be available for US customers with production beginning in January 2013. In addition to the standard equipment included in the base MSRP of $76,395 (including Destination and Handling), customers will be able to tailor their 2013 M3 Coupe Frozen Limited Edition with a selection of optional equipment.
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- Matte black 19" light alloy wheels
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- Black Extended Novillo leather with contrast stitching in exterior color on seats, headrests, door inserts, armrests, middle console, and door pulls.
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Christe is full of crap. Rather than helping out towns like east hanove by signing A2911 he decides to take his boys to visit ball parks across america. What do you expect from a Mets fan!!!!
The 2% cap has been around in one form or another just as long as the loop holes and side steps have. If Governor Christie and the Republican members of the legislature are serious about turning around (as well as our democratic friends on the other side of the isle they must find a way for their hands to move in conjunction with their mouths.)
Recently the State Legislature found the testicular courage to pass Bill A2911. This bill would force "Free Public Libraries" who run a surplus keep only 20% over the operating budget from the amount mandated by the state(1/3rd mil rule). For example in East Hanover (my town) the library is given approximately $350K each year over and above what they need to operate the library (their operating budget). This has led to their holding a surplus of over $1 million. Due to new construction by the Novartis Corporation that yearly surplus will soon rise from the $350K to $1 Million per year if the Governor does not sign the Bill. This predicament is similar to many other towns which have a high industrial to residential ratable ratio.
I have been in touch with Trenton as well as Assemblymen, DeCroce and Webber's office each and every week. All they can tell me is that he (Gov. Christie) has not signed A2911. Added to the fact that I understand he has until the next meeting of the legislature to sign it or it becomes a pocket veto. This becomes very alarming especially when he announces he is going to visit ball parks for the next couple of weeks.
Our town is being forced to put a referendum on the ballot to change our library to an association type which may or may not lead us into a downgrade of some services (which no one on either side of the ballot question really wants.)
I urge that the Governor do what he says in terms of helping municipalities cope and work towards bringing down the tax rate for all of its citizens by signing Assembly Bill A2911.
Mario Accumanno
Albert Einstein once said that insanity is defined as running the same experiment over and over again (with nothing changing) and expecting different results.
The Wall Street Journal had it right. Christie gave up before he even started on this one. The sad thing is that we have to vote in a new set of testicularlly challenged politicians in the hope of things changing when we all know things, no matter who is up there, will most likely remain the same. Come November I will do what I believe the majority of my fellow citizens will do; hold my nose , pull the lever and pray for someone to show some guts in 2011.
When will NJ wake up and see that this experiment has been a failure?
I wonder if building something that deep was just their way of bringing us all a little bit closer to hell?
Only in America, only in NY/NJ.
Oh yeah, almost forgot. Its the people's money isn't it?
What the law states and what happens in the running of the municipality are sometimes two sperate things. Bridgewater I believe pays for snowplowing (for the town) and other things. Cerca Trova - seek and you will find.
The thing that I see here is that all of you are forgeting 2 things. First off the Library is receiving oddles of cash over and above what it needs because of the industrial/retail property values in East Hanover. And for 2011 the library will receive between $200 - $300K over what it received this year because of the completion of the Novartis construction. As far as the loan goes the Library even rejected the idea of giving the pension payment to the town. So go back to your boards and librarian positions and hang tight. Its going to be a bumpy ride.
One other thing you forget JohnI360 is that it is not the library's money. That money belongs to the people of East Hanover.
"The TOWN thanks to the one-third mil law would still continue to receive the extra half a million dollars it is receiving while making the library look like heros. Unfortunately the library refused to do that also. "
Should have read:
"The LIBRARY thanks to the one-third mil law would still continue to receive the extra half a million dollars it is receiving while making the library look like heros. Unfortunately the library refused to do that also. "
The only one lying here is the east hanover library board and I have the proof. First off Ms. Carlson says that the library is exploring the possibility of putting on an addition and is hiring an architect to help do so. That Architect was hired well over a year ago and began presenting concepts back then. If you'd like to see copies of the sketches send me an address and I will gladly send them to you. Second, listen to the actual recording of the library meeting and you will hear in their own words what was actually voted on. This is all a cover up.
The the other open minded person, I am 52 years old, have a mater's degree in design and numerous patents in the data library field. I use computer graphics everyday at my job and understand the need and future of computerized graphics in our society. (Probably a hell of a lot more than you do.) Simple reorganizing of the library by a space planner which was asked for over a year ago by my wife who sits on the board was ignored completely until recently when the library was told that the town would not allow the addition.
In regards to the pension payments the library could have paid for that as many other libraries pay for things that are not really their resposibilty to help out the town's taxpayers. (Something you obviously don't understand or want to do.) The town thanks to the one-third mil law would still continue to receive the extra half a million dollars it is receiving while making the library look like heros. Unfortunately the library refused to do that also. Comments at the last library meeting were made such as "Let's spend the money before they take it away from us". I have multiple board members who have admitted to that.
So call me a knuckle dragger, a kid hater (although I want the majority of the money to go to the schools so our kids can learn to read and write (remember what that is)) or a nasty old man who is ignorant, say whatevr you want. America entitles everyone to their own opinion, but unfortunately for you you are only entitled to one truth!
Let me guess, you either work in a library or are a trustee.
The East Hanovover "not so" Free Public library (EHNSFPL) has tried to add a million dollar addition to it this year to house video games and DVDs.
This year thanks to the idiots in Trenton who refuse to change the funding formula, The EHNSFPL receieved an additional 100K over last year's budget making the amount that it gets in funding a whopping 1.4 million dollars a year. (this is about $500k over what it needs to run the library.) Add this to the 1.2 million dollar surplus that it has and you can see why I get angry, especially when School services are being cut and the municipality is on the brink of layoffs. (School aid was cut by 83% and the town will also lose an approximate 1/2 million dollars that it was receiving previously.)
We've already had to bond the pension payments because the Library was not willing to "loan" the money to the town. This bonding will cost the township an additional $500K which makes the outlay for our pension payment about $1 million.
The distance from the EHNSFPL to the Morris County Library is 5.75 miles. It would be cheaper to provide a bus than to continue funding along these lines.
There is a way around this however and that is thru public referendum changing its status to that of an association library (from a free public library). It is only because your town government doesn't want to make waves, politically that more towns aren't doing this. I have recently pushed our town council between a rock and a hard place over the last 1.5 years and they are currently considering it.
An addition to house video games? I thought the library was supposed to be there to help make our town's children smarter not dumber.
Mario Accumanno
East Hanover
I don't know how good the powerline issue is for him. I am a republican who admittedly held my nose and pulled the lever for Christe. I am not a tree hugger, am pro nuke and realize that the power line may be needed but the arrogance of Izzo and PSE&G is amazing and as usual it comes down to a few misely scheckles. PSE&G could have avoided all the controversy by working with the towns to direct the lines along major highways and public lands. Instead they use their muscle and refuse to work within safety guidelines for height of tower vs. width of right of way etc.. They are even insisting on placing a major substation over gas lines that run in a residential neighborhood.
Our mayor, Joesph Pannullo submitted proposals which would have put us in favor with the project but instead we have rejected the corporate payoffs and have vowed to fight. In this case no one wins.
And all this time I thought those guys following McGreedy around were the village people.......
I've been totally engaged in the fighting spending at many levels from Federal down to Municipal and it digusts me so much to see what is happening that this year I am urging all of my colleagues to join me in making a difference on election day by considering not voting and working in a homeless shelter kitchen or soup kitchen. This is about the only way left for someone to actually make a difference. I live in Morris County and I am starting to realize that what my Dad told me years ago was true, they are all the same - Republican, Democrat and in between.
We have a situation in our town where by a fluke our town is giving our Library approximately $400,000 a year over their operating budget of approximately $800,000. (1.2 million total.) The library is saving up for an addition which was estimated at 1.5 to 2.1 million of which it already has about $1 million in reserve. (Our town only carries 1 -2 million in reserve in a good year.) The funny thing is that our library just had an addition 6 years ago after a public referendum for doing so was defeated. (I'm not making this up!)
The assembly and the senate both had bills to correct this fluke but instead decided to instead to pass a toothless piece of legislation that will be next to impossible to give the municipalities any tax relief. But that's okay because when I investigated it and told the town council all they had to do was to place a referendum on the ballot and give the people a chance to correct the problem by changing the library's status to an Association Library (from a "Free Public Library" - which as I'm finding out is not free) they all ran and hid from the issue.
To quote Yogi Berra, "the silence was deafenning". To sum up my feelings at the moment I'd like to use the line from the character Sherona from the TV show Monk, "I never Vote - it only encourages them". That's where I am headed.


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""Plaintiff and other Hourly Employees were and are required to wait in line for security checks for at least 10-15 minutes each day before leaving for their meal breaks and at the end of their shift after they had already clocked out. This daily 10-15 minute uncompensated waiting time during security checks was done in order to undergo searches for possible contraband and/or pilferage of inventory."
Besides being subjected to off-the-clock searches, the lawsuit also noted that employees often have to spend 15 minutes or more waiting in line each time they clock in. On launch days, this waiting period could last over 30 minutes."
Sad that in this economy people with good paying jobs still complain.
I get the 10-15 min of your own lunch, that should be on the clock time as federal law requires a 1 hour break. At the end of the day should not be paid. How is this different than if you work in a skyscraper and have to wait 10 min for the elevator to get to the ground floor? How about metal detectors going in the building? Should you be paid for that too? That's absurd.
Also lines to clock in are not paid time. You get there early to be ready to work AT the minute the shift starts. Waiting to clock in is not working that should be paid.
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All forms of casino gaming involve elements of luck, and this is true no matter how good of a player you are. However, the amount of chance involved varies greatly based on the specific game and your level of skill. For example, blackjack entails lots of skill, so a totally new player wouldn't want to jump right into this game without knowing any strategy. Keeping this in mind, let's take a closer look at games that are based on both chance and skill.
Casino Games based on Skill
With games that are mostly based on skill, it's extremely important that players spend some time learning tips and strategy. By doing so, people can drastically reduce the house edge and better their chances of making profits; with some games, players can even gain a long-term advantage through strategy. Here are some of the most popular skill games in casinos:
Blackjack – This is one of the best skill games because players can lower the house edge to 0.5% with blackjack strategy. The good news is that players will do well in this game simply by searching for favorable house rules and using a blackjack strategy card. Those who are really good at card counting can actually gain an edge over the casino.
Caribbean Stud – Most people don't recommend Caribbean Stud because, even with good strategy, the house edge sits at over 5%. But despite this fact, there is still plenty of skill involved with Caribbean Stud because of all the raising and folding that players can do when facing the dealer. Just watch out for the side jackpot bets because the house edge climbs over 25% with these.
Poker – Poker offers players the best chance to make long-term money in the casino. After all, players aren't competing against the house because the casino only takes rake from cash game hands and tournament fees. Instead, the goal is to beat your fellow opponents, which means there is no ceiling on long-term profits for the sharks. On the other hand, there's no limit to the amount of poker strategy players need to learn to be successful.
Video Poker – Just like the regular version of poker, video poker also gives players a very good opportunity to make money. And depending on the specific game you're playing, the payback percentage can be over 100% when perfect video poker strategy is used. Even if you don't find the best games, some video poker variations give players the opportunity to get around 99.5% payback.
Casino Games based on Chance
The bad thing about casino games that are based almost entirely on chance is that you can't lower the house edge much. But on the bright side, beginning players don't have to worry about learning a bunch of complicated strategy, and they can just sit back and have fun with the games. If this interests you, here are some luck-based casino games:
Bingo – As long as you don't miss any of the called numbers, bingo is a game based entirely on chance. Of course, you can increase your opportunities to win big money by playing more cards, but the house edge remains the same in bingo no matter what strategy you use.
Keno – Those who enjoy playing the lottery should strongly consider playing keno. With this game, you pick numbers on a ticket(s) in hopes of having them selected so that you earn big money. There really isn't much keno strategy to remember, which is kind of unfortunate since the house edge is around 25% with this game.
Slots – Slots is about as close to pure chance as one can get because players simply spin the reels and hope for big payouts. Sure there are plenty of bankroll management elements to consider with online slots, but for the most part, it's just spin and hope to win. Of course, you should still look for slots games with good payout percentages, and hunt for the big jackpots if you have the money.
Games in Between Skill and Chance
Not all casino games are so easily defined because some are a mixture of skill and chance – although they involve more chance than skill. Baccarat, craps and roulette are good examples of these games and here is why:
Baccarat – The main skill to baccarat is making the correct bets over the long-run. This means betting on the banker hand to win because doing so lowers the house edge to 1.06%. Wagering on the player hand can still drop the house advantage down to 1.24%, which is also pretty low. Other than this, the majority of baccarat is about wishing for good luck.
Craps – Just like baccarat, craps is another game where the bets you make have a heavy influence on the house edge. The best craps bets in terms of a low house edge include the pass line, don't pass line, come and don't come wagers. Also make sure to avoid the craps myths that exist in the game because they'll cause you to lose quite a bit of money.
Roulette – With roulette, the main thing players need to do to lower the house advantage involves playing the right variation. American roulette is the worst game to play because the bets all carry a 5.26% house edge. European roulette is a much better game to play because the casino's advantage drops down to 2.70%. Even better is if you can find French roulette because the lowest possible house edge is 1.35%.
Whenever you're thinking of playing a casino game, always consider your experience and how much skill the game involves. Also, make sure you do whatever it takes to lower the house edge because this increase your chances of making profits.


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Below is a brief overview of the services the library offers to SEAS graduate students. Please contact Doug McGee, Engineering Librarian, for a more in-depth introduction to the materials and services available to you.
Penn's Electronic Library
Electronic Information Resources Explore our digital databases, e-journals, e-books, e-reference works, and more. Click here for an overview of electronic scitech holdings at Penn, or peruse E-Resources in specific subject areas. Most resources, with the exception of the Cambridge Engineering Selector, are also available off-campus via the Library's Proxy Server. For information on using specific resources from off-campus such as SciFinder Scholar, Beilstein or Gmelin CrossFire, please refer to http://www.library.upenn.edu/proxy/remoteuse.html or contact Assistant Director for Engineering & Physical Sciences Libraries Doug McGee at (215) 898-8170 or firstname.lastname@example.com
RefWorks is a library-supported citation management program used to import citations from databases, search a personal library of citations, and insert citations into a journal article or document in the style of your choice.
New Books Plus allows you to virtually peruse new books received, either by subject area or by campus library.
InstructionWorkshops covering a variety of databases and other electronic products are offered each semester by the Science & Engineering Libraries. They are targeted specifically to Penn's sci-tech researchers and are excellent introductions for new users, as well as being great refreshers for familiar resources.
Opportuni-Tea Seminar Series task-focused information retrieval seminars covering topics such as: researching employment opportunities, managing references and citations, and keeping current in your field. Tea and other light refreshments are served at each of these Friday afternoon seminars.
Obtaining Material Not Held at Penn Libraries
Even if the Engineering Collection does not have the information that you need, we can get it for you from another campus location or another university's library. Visit https://dla.library.upenn.edu/ils/resourcesharing/ for a list of delivery and access services available to graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania.
Penn Library Delivers items from other campus libraries to the Engineering
Library for your convenience.
BorrowDirect+ is an "expedited interlibrary loan" comprising two reciprocal borrowing services, E-Z Borrow and BorrowDirect. Both services let you search the combined catalog of member libraries and directly request books not currently available at Penn; most books arrive within 4 working days.
Interlibrary Loan If you need a book or journal article that neither Penn nor any of its
Borrow Direct+ partners owns, the Library's Interlibrary Loan department will be happy to help you obtain it in a timely fashion.
Purchase Requests If the Engineering Library lacks a critical text or
reference item in your area of research, we will consider purchasing it for our collection. Contact Doug McGee (215) 898-8170, email@example.com with purchase requests.
- Drexel University Libraries Free courtesy borrowing is available to Penn graduate students and faculty at Drexel University Libraries. Penn graduate students must obtain a Reciprocal Borrower's letter from the Van Pelt Library Circulation Desk, and present it, along with their current PennCard, to Drexel Library Circulation staff. Faculty must present their current PennCard to Drexel Library Circulation staff to be registered for borrowing at Drexel.
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Course Reserves
- To have course materials, readings, problem set solutions, etc. scanned and uploaded to a course web site or Canvas site, contact Doug McGee at (215) 898-8170 or email@example.com
- To have books and other materials placed on reserve for your students in the library, contact Revathy Iyer, Library Service Assistant, at (215) 898-7266 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Need Further Assistance?
One-on-one personalized research consultations/orientations are available to you in your office, at the library, or over the phone or by e-mail. Contact Doug McGee, Engineering Librarian, at (215) 898-8170, firstname.lastname@example.com to set up an appointment.
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JU student Marshalluna Hudson, Prof. Rose Borkowski take part in dolphin rescue
Marshalluna Hudson, a first-year Masters of Science student at the Jacksonville University Marine Science Research Institute and a volunteer with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, recently took part rescuing and disentangling a dolphin calf swimming with a Frisbee-like object around its head.
Hudson assisted with searching for the calf and mom in the upper St. Johns River Feb. 20 and setting the net for both from the "catch boat."
Meanwhile, Dr. Rose Borkowski, an associate professor and veterinarian in JU's Department of Biology and Marine Science, served on the veterinary team that assessed and treated the calf's injury, and provided medical support for the mother dolphin and calf during the capture process.
The object, called an aerobie, was cutting into the dolphin near the dorsal fin and could have created a life-threatening wound. It was removed, the calf's wound was treated with antibiotics, and the pair was released to rejoin their pod.
JU students and faculty are involved with supporting the Southeast Region Stranding Network, which provides assistance to ill or injured dolphins and whales," Borkowski said. "JU also participates in population surveys and other research involving bottlenose dolphins that inhabit the St. Johns River.
The young dolphin was initially spotted by collaborating scientists from the University of North Florida.
"Because of the potentially serious nature of the constricting object around the calf's neck, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration organized an intervention effort, requested my help as a veterinarian, and FFWC requested Marshalluna's assistance as well," Borkowski said.
"It is extremely important for people to realize that bottlenose dolphins, as well as manatees and other wildlife, can suffer serious, even fatal injuries when fishing line, rope, trash bags and other types of debris are discarded in the water," she said. "The animals may become entangled, preventing them from swimming freely. Sometimes entanglements cause deep lacerations, infections and even drowning of marine mammals. These animals may also ingest foreign objects left in the water, potentially leading to gastrointestinal obstruction."
Participating agencies included the U.S. Navy, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Jacksonville Zoo, NOAA Fisheries, Volusia County, Jacksonville University, University of North Florida, Hubbs SeaWorld Research Institute, and the Georgia Aquarium Dolphin Conservation Field Station.
To report a sick, injured or dead marine mammal, call the Southeast Region Stranding Network 24-hour hotline at 1-877-942-5343.


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Molly has always had a passion for helping others and for the way film affects people and can inspire them to action, so when Lauren approached her to collaborate on a documentary about middle school bullying between girls, Molly agreed. While working together on Finding Kind, Lauren and Molly saw how open women and girls were about sharing their experiences. They realized that this is an issue that affects females of all ages, and they were inspired to launch a movement to spread the word of kindness. Kind Campaign is the result of that moment of inspiration.
Molly is thrilled to shed light on this serious issue and unite women and girls together under an umbrella of kindness. She considers herself very lucky to be working with such a close friend on a project she loves, evidence of the power of female friendship.
I have been extremely touched and inspired by the reaction to Kind Campaign and Finding Kind. It is a testament to the serious effects of this Issue and the need for change in the way we as females treat each other.
Being ostracized, criticized, or ridiculed should not be considered a rite of passage, and it doesn't have to be this way.


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It's a little like Alcoholics Anonymous. It's the kind of dirty little secret that everyone who knows you already knows about you.
It's so obvious, you with your little notebook always in your pocket, the way you forget appointments (or sometimes entire days) because your head is in a whole different space, the way your eyes sometimes light up in the middle of an unrelated conversation and whoever you're talking to sighs and stops talking because they know you're no longer listening.
You're a writer.
You have friends warning people you've just met not to say anything interesting in front of you because they'll end up in your book. Places you've visited when you were twelve, or twenty one, or thirty five, or yesterday, suddenly pop up in intricate detail on a blank page and sit up and beg for a story to be written about them.
It's an addiction. Worse, it's an infection. My own mother calls it my "writing virus". It'll take over your life if you let it. It will take over your life if you don't. If you're a writer… you're toast.
The writing life has stages, though, and they can be mapped almost exactly on the better known five stages of grief, except that in the case of the writing stages, they throw up a plot twist and end up circular, dumping you more or less where you began. It goes something like this:
1. Denial and Isolation
Well, perhaps not so much denial in the literal sense because there's that primal self-definition thing – I WRITE, THEREFORE I AM – that is engraved somewhere in the air above your head and you walk around with the weight of it pressing down on the top of your skull. You may want this or you may not, but you're stuck with it. It is what defines you, so you do it.
The salient part of this stage is pretty much focused on that other thing – the 'isolation'.
This is the ultimate thing that you do alone, in the early stages of the life you've chosen (or the life that's chosen you, depending on how you look at it). Before you have readers, plural, people who pick up your words and give them the gift of life by passing them through the filters of their own eyes and mind and life experience and giving your words the kind of breathless vitality you could only have dreamed of when you put them down… before all that… you write for only one reader. Yourself.
Nobody else has seen those words. Some of them, nobody ever will, with very good reason. Those that you do plan to share, you hoard, and you hover over like a Helicopter Parent over a precious child, you arrange and rearrange them to show them off to the best advantage, you polish them, you examine them for imagined minute flaws. You write, and you rewrite, and you edit. And all of this you do alone. It's you and the words against the world.
And still there's that insistent little voice. I WRITE, THEREFORE I AM. And so you keep doing it. With a pencil in a notebook. With a keyboard on a tablet. In crowded coffee shops where you sit in your own bubble of isolation, your own carefully crafted world. In the light of a small study lamp, hunched over a desk in the corner of your bedroom ,or folded over the kitchen table at two in the morning, falling asleep with your head pillowed by your pages, you write.
Denial – no, I am not letting this take over my life! – and isolation – you're on your own, baby – and here we go. Down the slippery slope.
2. Anger
In the end., it isn't enough to write. You write, and then you finish writing, and your story needs SOMETHING ELSE NOW. So you pick it up, put it in an envelope and stick it in the mail, or put it into an email as an attachment, and you send it out. For others to see, and to judge.
And it is here that you encounter the four-letter word of the writing life.
The word is WAIT.
You wait for judgment. You wait for response. You wait for acceptance or rejection. If you play by the rules of submitting one thing at a time to one top market at a time you end up waiting a lot – and in the meantime you keep on reading (because that's what writers do) and you read other people's stuff, the stuff that got published, the stories and the novels that are being bought, read, talked about. And some of them make you angry beyond belief.
Because, no, the world doesn't owe anyone anything, not even a living, let alone fame and fortune and such. And yet some people get it. And sometimes it is very much like unto the will of God, because the reason why they get it passeth all understanding.
You know a dozen writers of your own acquaintance (let's leave out yourself) who can do better – who HAVE done better – than the latest thing hanging around the bestseller lists right now and you have no clue why that thing is there and not the much better stuff that is languishing around it, dying for the lack of a gentle eye upon it. You see something arbitrary get picked up by Hollywood and then a movie gets made and more people hear about the movie than knew about the story that inspired it and the story is reissued with a new cover which shows a scene from the movie and people buy it because they recognize the movie and everything takes off at a breakneck speed and whooo, it's in the whirlwind.
And meanwhile that story you put in the envelope and sent out… well, you're still waiting.
Yeah, there's anger. It's human. It's human to pick up a book in a store, read the first five limping paragraphs and want to throw it against the wall in the righteous fury of the knowledge that you know you can do better than that. That in fact you HAVE DONE better than that. But that the stars weren't aligned for your story, but they were for this other one. And there's nothing you can do about it.
Well, there's two things you can do. You can give up. Or you use that fury to light a fuse under something different, something new. You'll make the stars align, dammit. They will dance for you or you will die in trying to find the tune which they are seeking…
3. Bargaining
….and that's when you start to bargain with the Universe.
"If I write THIS kind of thing instead of THAT one, will you let me through?"… "If I write faster/slower/longer/shorter will you let me through?"… "If I do THIS instead of THAT maybe my life will change and it's my name that everyone will know, it's my stories that will get referenced in all the articles on the Internet rather than J K Rowling, or Neil Gaiman or Haruki Murakami or…?"
It doesn't work. It doesn't work that way. You have to be you, or you're nobody.
Being a pale copy of someone else… even if it happens exactly the way you want it to, and brings you all the fame you want and the comfortable old age you've been dreaming of, with a writer's cottage by the ocean and tea on the beach at sunset bidding farewell to every day, it'll be empty. It'll be someone else's fame and fortune. It'll be an imitation of life.
At a mass signing I was in attendance at once it so happened, as it often does, that the star writer, at the top of the hall had a queue that stretched all the way down the room and out of the door. Most of the rest of us had one or two fans hovering by, or were "between" fans, watching everyone else's queues while fiddling with our pens. One of the organisers of the event happened to hurry by, intent on some errand, and one of the other writers, the queueless hoi-polloi ones, said something about how they wished they had the star writer's queues. The staff member heard, and, in passing, tossed back this comment: "Then write his stories!"
But that isn't what we signed up for. We don't want to write HIS stories. Or anyone's stories. We want an audience for our OWN stories.
And at some point we all enter that bargaining stage.
What, what, *what* do we have to do to get that queue… for OUR OWN STORIES…?
4. Depression
"This is NEVER going to work."
It's the stage that you hit after the hundred and first time someone sends back a story you love, a story you believe in, a story you KNOW would have an audience… if only if you could get it to one.
It's the stage you hit after you reach the point where your rejections begin to read "I loved this but it just failed to completely get me for reasons I can't explain." – so close, but no cigar.
It's the stage where you might send out a serious query to a publisher or an agent… and you NEVER hear back, as though you were some gnat which they just brushed off their arm and then forgot about immediately afterwards.
It's the stage where you watch someone whom you've thought of as being in your own group, your own cohort, your own "class of [insert year here]", but you suddenly see them start to stride ahead, win some huge award, garner enormous praise from someone you both admire, hit a bestseller list. And you don't. It's been said that you are always comparing the outtakes of your own life to the highlight reels of everyone else's but while that's a comforting metaphor, it doesn't help when the depression stage hits and you become weepy and glum and resigned. And not even the work you used to love, the writing, the making of story, seems to be enough anymore. After all, why do it if nobody wants it, if nobody cares…
5. Acceptance
…and then you get there in the end, and complete the circle.
This is my life. This is what I want to do. This is what I know how to do. This is what makes me, me. I am a well, and the well is full of words, and the words will come out one way or another. So – you keep on writing. You sit down and stare at the empty page or screen, and there are days when it terrifies you, and there are days when it's a field of virgin snow just waiting for you to make tracks or snow angels on it. Either way, it's yours. It's your privilege to be here, your right, your responsibility.
You're on the wheel, and it keeps turning, and you know that somewhere along the line you'll end up at one of these stages again. But after a while you understand them, you learn to recognize them, you begin to be armored against them and you begin to be able to not just survive them but to expect them as part of an everyday existence and just the way the world is made.
You do what you have to do. And what you have to do… is write.
Writers have said they can stop any time. Some HAVE stopped, to prove a point, or because at some point they really were just that burned out. But if it's real, if it's you, sooner or later the silence inside of you begins to drive you crazy, and then you start to hear the voices again, the ones you thought had fallen silent and abandoned you. Because once you've heard them and listened to them they never… QUITE… let go of you.
It's a life. It's the writing life. And it's the only one you have, you're ever going to have, or you want.
Let's go. Stage one, once more, with feeling. Into isolation. WRITE.


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Tikvah Scholar
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Jeremy Kessler
Jeremy K. Kessler is a Ph.D. candidate in legal history at Yale University. In 2013, he received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was a Legal History Fellow and Executive Editor of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities. Kessler has also received an M.Phil. in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge, and a B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale College. Before coming to the Tikvah Center, Kessler was a Graduate Fellow at Cardozo School of Law and a Middleton Fellow in Presidential Studies at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library. His article, "The Invention of a Human Right: Conscientious Objection at the United Nations, 1947-2011," has recently appeared in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. Kessler has also written for The New Republic, The New Atlantis, n+1, and Bookforum.
My dissertation tracks two generations of American lawyers whose interactions with conscientious objectors led them to reconstruct the relationship between religious practice, political speech, and the secular state. Conscientious objection stands at the intersection of two dominant trends in twentieth-century American law: the growth of the administrative state and the proliferation of civil liberties. At first blush, these two trends seem contradictory, both expanding and contracting state power. My dissertation tells a different story, one in which a group of largely Jewish state-builders created modern civil liberties law to manage the tension between majoritarian decision-making and a pluralistic polity, and thereby extend and re-enforce, rather than restrain, state power. As a Tikvah Scholar-in-Residence, I plan to focus on the relationship between Felix Frankfurter's controversial campaign for peacetime conscription in the 1930s and his ongoing defense of the rights of conscience. I will consider how competing strands of Jewish legal and political thought in this period complicated Frankfurter's effort to harmonize conscience and conscription.


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I'm an artist that likes to try all mediums in all areas, if I can. I mostly work with graphite, but I've done oil portraits, landscapes, collages. etc. My favorite is black and white, always has been since I was a kid, but I enjoy the challenges of colors in oils. Always pushing to best myself, which is a never ending process as is the learning experience of being an artist. Education to your craft is key. I know I won't conquer all areas of art, but I'll have the best time trying.
I started my first class in 5th grade and throughout 12th, after graduation attended art classes with Northwestern Community College,Lansing Community College where I studied many art courses, art history, advanced drawing, as well as graphic design courses with Adobe products, Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign . Attended Figure drawing with local studios. Over the years I've done commissions for friends and family, neighbors and try to stay involved in the art world as much as time allows. There are so many great artists to see and in this digital age it's an amazing opportunity to connect with others and learn.
Currently working toward having a solo art show locally in 2012.
Recent Activity
* "C. W. King" - Self Portrait, graphite drawing made it into the finalist category for the Self Portrait competition for Drawing Magazine, will be published May 15th, 2012. - http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1938223513749&set=a.1274316276483.33103.1787232243&type=1&theater
* Art Prize Entry "I WAS HERE" 2011" hosted by Purple East, Sept 21st - Oct 9th., - http://www.artprize.org/artists/public-profile/91636
* Graphite Drawing "Darth Haul" was chosen as the winner Aug 19th, 2011 in the "Resistance Is Futile" Drawing contest by Pencil Wars, the artwork was featured in the Resistance Is Futile Sci Fi Art Show and Festival August 25th, 2011. in Atlanta Georgia. - http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150345410725110&set=a.434171045109.227481.293487535109&type=1&theater
* Graphite Drawing of Mother Teresa was chosen as Portrait of the Day Aug 26th 2010 at Star Portraits.com - http://www.stars-portraits.com/en/portrait-131474.html
I'm very honored to have made into the finalist category for The Drawing Magazine "Self Portrait" Competition 2012. The magazine will be published May 15th. Congrats to the winner of the cover feature, Benat Lopez. Thank you to Drawing Magazine jurors for choosing my entry to be in with the Finalists.
I was in Art Prize 2011, Art Prize is a huge art contest in Grand Rapids Michigan that covers a 3 mile area with 164 venues and business showing the selected artists and allows the public to vote the Top Ten winners. My artwork was hosted by the venue Purple East. There were 1.582 artists from 39 countries around the world competing.The competition was 19 days, Sept. 21st - Oct. 9th.,With an estimated 200,000 people visiting and registering to cast votes. Just being in the contest is an great experience. My entry, "I WAS HERE" 8 ft X 6.5 ft, a sticker collage covering 40 years of history from 1970's - 2011, telling the story through stickers. popular music, movies, events, trends, history and technology.
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