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|One-Room Wonders: Area Filmmakers Explore America's Educational History in "Country School: One Room – One Nation," March 6 at the Nighswander Theatre
|Movies - Feature Stories
|Written by Mike Schulz
|Wednesday, 23 February 2011 09:38
"The biggest problem we have, I think, is always getting people in the door," says local filmmaker Kelly Rundle. "Because we find that most people – not everyone, of course – ... do enjoy our films. With this one, though ... . There's just something about one-room schools that doesn't sound very sexy, you know what I mean?"
He may have a point. The latest collaboration between director Kelly Rundle and his wife, co-writer and co-producer Tammy Rundle, is Country School: One Room – One Nation, the third documentary released by the couple's Moline-based production company Fourth Wall Films. And as the movie is an examination of, and tribute to, the one-room schools that flourished throughout the rural United States in the first half of the 20th Century, "sexy" isn't exactly the adjective that springs to mind.
Other descriptions, however – including "fascinating," "insightful," and "really, really entertaining" – are more than appropriate. Like the pair's 2004 true-crime doc Villisca: Living with a Mystery and 2007's Lost Nation: The Ioway, Country School takes an in-depth look at a mostly unknown, or largely forgotten, chapter of American – specifically Midwestern – history. Also like those films, the Rundles' most recent endeavor delivers a history lesson that is anything but a dry lecture.
Running a quick 75 minutes, the film examines the one-room-school phenomenon – in which students in grades one through eight would share both learning materials and a single instructor – through interviews with more than five dozen individuals closely connected to the subject: scholars, teachers, and former students of rural schools in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Kansas. And with these interviewees (most of them in their 70s, 80s, and 90s) enthusiastically expounding on the struggles and joys of their classroom experiences, Country School emerges as a definitive portrait of education in a one-room environment, a work that's every bit as informative, engaging, and impassioned as those telling its tales.
"I think a lot of people think our film is just about the architecture of country schools," says Tammy of the movie, which will be screened at the Annie Wittenmyer Complex's Nighswander Theatre on March 6 and will be available, in DVD format, through the Fourth Wall Films Web site (FourthWallFilms.com). "But it's not. I don't think it's what people are expecting it to be."
The Nostalgia Thing
"It's hard to explain how we find our subjects," says Kelly during my recent interview with the Rundles, "because it's so convoluted and accidental sometimes." And to hear the filmmakers tell it, Country School wasn't in any way planned or expected.
"It was during our [2007] Des Moines premiere of Lost Nation: The Ioway," says Tammy, referencing the Rundles' documentary on the Native American tribe that inspired the state of Iowa's name. "I was heading down to the stage in the elevator, and this man, an older guy, got into the elevator with me. And he goes, 'Wonderful movie. You really ought to think about doing a movie on country schools.' And he handed me a packet of information."
That man turned out to be Bill Sherman, a noted Des Moines preservationist and member of Preservation Iowa's board of directors. ("He's the guy who got the one-room school on the back of the Iowa quarter," says Kelly. "He doesn't take credit for that – it was a decision made by the governor – but he's the one who said, 'That's what should be on there.'") On the night of the Rundles' Lost Nation premiere, though, Sherman was at most an afterthought.
"We were petrified that night," says Kelly. "We had a couple hundred Ioway people there, and we were unsure of how the film was going to be received, and so the last thing we were thinking about was another film."
"I told Bill, though, 'Why don't you e-mail us?,' figuring this probably wasn't going to go anywhere," Tammy recalls. "I mean, country schools? It didn't sound very interesting to me, and I didn't know if it was really up our alley ... .
"But he did e-mail us," she continues, "and we met with him and talked to him about it, and that's when we decided we would develop it and see if there was anything worth pursuing. You know, we thought maybe there might be a story there, even though we weren't seeing it initially."
"We did, though, have a little bit of family connection to the subject," says Kelly, "because both of our fathers went to one-room schools – Tammy's in Iowa, and mine in Wisconsin. So we grew up hearing some of the stories."
The Rundles began their research, says Tammy, "by seeing if there were any other documentaries on country schools or one-room schools. We started looking at what had been done, and there really wasn't anything on the scale of what we'd be doing. They were all very nostalgic, and very positive."
"We told Bill early on," continues Kelly, "that we wanted to do the film, because we'd done some preliminary research and figured this was going to be a good topic. But we also told him, 'We don't want to just do the nostalgia thing.' I mean, that's part of it – you can't avoid it. But if we were gonna do it, we were gonna look at the positive and the negative. And he was okay with that."
Having agreed on their main subject, the Rundles next sought a specific premise for their film. "That's the very first thing we do before filming," says Tammy, "try to get an idea of what it is we're going to want to focus on."
"That has to be done for grants," adds Kelly. "We're reliant on obtaining grants, so you have to develop your idea on paper fairly completely." And within the grander scope of the one-room-school experience, the Rundles eventually found their film's planned subject in the schools' students – children of first-generation immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, some of whom spoke only their parents' native languages. (One of Country School's interviewees – writer Jerry Apps – describes the Wisconsin county of his youth as boasting 50 separate ethnic groups.)
"That part of it was something that we hadn't seen done anywhere else," says Kelly. "The way that those little schools took people from so many different ethnic backgrounds, mixed them together, and turned out these American citizens. And the different ways that they dealt with language issues. Schools were very much under local control, so if they wanted to use immersion techniques – where they just threw kids in a classroom, sink or swim – they had that option. If they wanted to hire a bilingual teacher, then they did that.
"I kept feeling that was a historical story that still spoke to us today," he continues. "Very much so."
With grant funding in place from several Midwestern humanities councils – in addition to funds supplied by individual contributors – the Rundles were able to commence filming in 2008. Yet while the documentarians planned to focus on immigration issues, experience told them that it would be the interviewees themselves who dictated the movie's true course.
"You never know what people are gonna say," says Kelly, "which is what really determines, in the end, what your film is." But as the Rundles began their initial talks with those knowledgeable in country-school history, they had reason to suspect that some might not wish to say anything.
"We had one scholar who warned us about one-room-school people," says Kelly. "He said, 'They don't want to hear anything negative. Be careful. They're easily upset by talk of anything negative about one-room schools.'"
To the Rundles' relief, however, "it wasn't like that," says Kelly. "Everybody we asked questions of – including the scholars, and including the former teachers, and including the former students – had no qualms about talking about it all."
"That School Means Something"
"We decided that we wanted to go where the funding was," says Tammy of which one-room schools the Rundles would include. "So if we got grant funding in Kansas and Wisconsin and Iowa, those were where we were gonna focus on. And that's what we did."
"There were other states that we attempted to get grant funding from but didn't," adds Kelly. "But those three states each turned out to have their own unique one-room-school experiences, and we were kind of looking at filming in the upper Midwest anyway, so it worked out nicely."
Through research and the aid of Bill Sherman, the Rundles eventually outlined a preliminary list of former one-room schools worth visiting – a roster that included such Scott County sites as Forest Grove near Bettendorf, the Pleasant Hill Schoolhouse near LeClaire, and the District No. 9 Schoolhouse located at Davenport's Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds. (Serendipity also played its part, says Kelly, as some of the one-room edifices seen in the film "were just schools that we found as we were driving to some other destination.")
It was, as Kelly remembers, a somewhat daunting assemblage. "I had this thought that all of the schools were the same," he says. "I think, early on, we thought it was maybe going to be 40 schools or so, and it ended up being over 70 schools. And I thought, you know, 'Is my interest really gonna be sustained over the course of visiting 70 one-room schools?'"
Happily for the Rundles, though, they found their subject rife with points of interest, beginning with the schools' architecture.
"What I like about these schools is that they really reflect where they are, and where they came from," says Kelly. "Up here, in this [Quad Cities] area, we have plenty of lumber, so many times they're made of wood. If there was a brick factory in a nearby community, suddenly you'd have a brick schoolhouse. In Kansas, where timber wasn't really available, you have all these beautiful stone schools. So there's all this diversity. They're built in a way reflective of the resources that were available."
(One of them – Wisconsin's Wyoming Valley Grammar School – was even the work of a famous architect: Frank Lloyd Wright. "I was really excited about that," says Kelly with a laugh. "I've always admired his architecture, and so what fun, you know, to discover that he had designed a country school.")
The Rundles agree, however, that what made their country-school subject so especially fascinating were the reflections and recollections of those they interviewed.
"We went to this little Kansas town called Arvonia," says Kelly. "The town itself doesn't really exist anymore, but they had a church and a one-room school, and we met with these seniors who had been former students of the school. Probably about a dozen of them. They had scrapbooks, and they had photos, and they had the blueprints of the school that had been laminated ... . They had all this stuff out and were just so proud of the school, even though it was really just a shell with a roof."
"They really wanted to talk about their experience," adds Tammy. "And they were so passionate – that school means something. The education they got in that little school meant something to all those people we spoke with."
As viewers will see in Country School, these and dozens of other former one-room-school students spoke to the Rundles eloquently, and in great detail, on memories of daily schedules, schoolwork, recess activities ("Dodgeball ... yeah, that was a vicious game ... ."), and, in one of the more informative passages, the specifics of how a classroom functions when grades one through eight are instructed simultaneously.
"When younger kids were learning lessons up at the recitation bench," says Tammy, "older kids would be working on their own homework, and helping younger students with theirs. But they're also hearing what's being taught up at that recitation bench."
"You'd get your own course work," continues Kelly, "but you'd constantly get a preview of coursework to come, and a review of coursework that you've already gone through. So after eight grades, even if you fell behind at some point, you had the opportunity to catch up."
Yet for all of the happy reminiscences, the former students also shared numerous tales of hardship. Some weren't unique to the one-room-school experience – among them memories of foul weather conditions, bullying, and terrifying instructors. (One interviewee recalls whippings that left a child's back severely bruised.) But Country School also finds interviewees describing burdens that children in city schools likely never endured. Jerry Apps, for instance, rails against the paucity of available learning materials: "The libraries were pathetic ... . In the eight years I attended, I don't remember that they bought a book. Not one new book. Ever." And while many students have had their lunches stolen over the years, it's doubtful that many had them routinely stolen by a horse. (As Alenna Sanders remembers it, "We had a family that rode up with a Shetland pony, and he could open the door and get in our lunch buckets. He was trained, let me tell you.")
In addition to students and scholars, Tammy says that she and Kelly "were really fortunate in speaking with these teachers that were extremely passionate about what they did, and passionate about the country-school experience."
"So many of the ladies we talked to," continues Kelly, "they just have teacher DNA, you know what I mean? They were just wired that way. They loved what they did. And to be able to teach eight grades, and all subjects, every day, and take care of a building ... ." (As former country-school teacher Nona Hansmeier describes her duties, "We were nurses, we were musicians, we were art teachers, we were physical-ed teachers – everything.")
"I don't think I thought about it during the filming," says Tammy, "but I think the film really turned out to be a tribute to teachers. To where it all started."
Overlapping Timelines
With the interviews and exterior and interior one-room-school footage filmed, the Rundles began the three-month process of editing Country School, a task that Tammy says was initially "very difficult, because we had so much footage – over 80 hours of footage that we had to boil down into 75 minutes."
"That was the most we had ever shot for a documentary," says Kelly. "With Villisca, we had about 25 hours, and with Ioway, we had about 50. But once we started working on it ... . I don't know, it felt like it was working as we were putting it together. Sometimes you have a moment in editing where things just seem really right, and we had more moments like that, on this film, than on the other two. It felt like it was going in the right direction.
"What we ended up with," he continues, "were three kind of overlapping timelines, if you will. There's the linear history of the one-room schools. There's the school day itself, from the time the students came to school to the time they were dismissed. And then there's the passing of the seasons – we kind of start in the spring and end in the spring. They're all there, even if it's not obvious."
"That was kind of a complex way to tell the story," says Tammy, "but we don't like to hit the audience over the head with our stories. We didn't want to have to say, you know, 'The school day started at nine, and the students needed these tools every day ... .'"
Voice-over narration, in fact, is entirely absent from the film's presentation. "I never felt that we needed a narrator for this," says Kelly, "and I think it maybe makes the film watchable a second time if everything isn't so laid out.
"We don't make instructional videos," he says with a chuckle. "I mean, there's nothing wrong with somebody making an instructional video, but it's just not what we do, and I think – I hope – that that's a good thing."
Following a nearly two-year filming and editing process, Country School debuted at Des Moines' State Historical Building in November of 2010, a premiere that Tammy says "went very well. It was nowhere near as nerve-racking as the Ioway premiere." (With a grin, she adds, "And we got a standing ovation, which was neat.")
"After the film was done," adds Kelly, "we knew it was going to be okay, because the scholars were telling us that they liked it, and we were getting good feedback from other people we showed it to.
"But it's interesting, too, that we always seem to have a community that springs up around our films," Kelly continues. "With the Ioway movie, we talked with people who had sort of been involved with the subject separately but didn't really know each other, and now they're all hooked up on Facebook. The same thing is starting to happen, a bit, with the people from these one-room schools. There's a little network growing around the film."
"I didn't know anything about country schools, really, when we started the project," says Tammy. "I think I just had some kind of myth in my head about them, probably from watching Little House on the Prairie or something. But I think that's what I found most interesting about the project – this unique sense of community, and how the country school really was the identity for so many rural communities."
"It isn't so much the fact that these schools are still there," says Kelly of country schools' – and Country School's – significance. "I mean, they're just buildings, really. But the buildings are filled with the memories of what took place there. And so the fact that you can go to a one-room school, and stand in that building, and be in that environment, and get a sense of what it was like – there's a big difference between being able to do that and reading about something in a book.
"It's our history and our heritage. And it's important that we don't forget that these little schools are the foundation for the educational system that we have in this country. You really can't understand where you are now if you don't know where you came from."
Country School: One Room – One Nation will make its Quad Cities debut at Davenport's Nighswander Theatre in the Annie Wittenmyer Complex (2822 Eastern Avenue) on Sunday, March 6, at 2 p.m. The program will feature a post-film Q&A with filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle and live music by Muscatine's Just 4 Fun string band, and tickets are $5 at the door.
For more information on Country School and its March 6 presentation, visit CountrySchoolMovie.com or FourthWallFilms.com.
For a 2007 interview with Kelly & Tammy Rundle, see "Appeal Beyond History: Filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle Document Iowa's Forgotten Past."
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AC3 Season Pass Includes Alt-History Evil George Washington
After 3 years flogging Ezio into minute dust particles, while simultaneously failing to advance the real story of Assassin's Creed substantially1, I went into the Assassin's Creed 3 cycle feeling that the series was approaching terminal creative moribundity. Sure, the assassinations would be satisfying, as always, and the climbing would be fun (except when it isn't), but what could they possibly bring to the increasingly convoluted series mythos that wouldn't overburden it, narratively speaking.
A hell of a lot, as it turns out. I hate saying this about a game made by one of the worst abusers of sequelitus, DLC, and DRM, but every single new reveal about the apparent2 conclusion to the Assassin's Creed story indicates something kind of special. And the latest evidence is the news that the Assassin's Creed 3 season pass will come with an inventive, highly exciting bit of DLC in which George Washington betrays the spirit of the American Revolution.
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The AC3 Season Pass, available at launch, will cost $30 and, like most season pass plans, will give players access to all of of the game's DLC packets at a discount. It will also add a stand-alone single player campaign called "The Tyranny of King Washington", set in an alternate history after the end of the revolution, in which George Washington succumbs to temptation and declares himself king of the newly formed United States. AC3 protagonist Connor Kenway must then work to dethrone Washington, despite having been close friends with him throughout the revolution.
This is an intriguing idea, particularly because it has a basis in real life. After the end of the American Revolutionary War, a considerable constituency wanted Washington to declare himself king, including some of his own officers. Instead, Washington used his personal credibility and immense popularity among both the citizenry and the men who wrote the constitution to promote elective government. Furthermore, had he decided to run for a third term it would have been his without argument, but he stunned nearly everyone by stepping down after his second. Compare similar figures like Simon Bolivar, whose refusal to establish a similar tradition in the wake of independence from Spain doomed Gran Columbia to dissolution. No doubt America would not exist in anything like its present form had Washington established a hereditary monarchy.
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Alas, the season pass isn't quite as good a deal as it sounds. The majority of DLC will be for the game's multiplayer, which is entwined with the main story, taking place in the present after Abstergo Industries has released a commercial version of the Animus. While I think that's a cool frame for the multiplayer (and I'm glad it isn't mandatory for full enjoyment of the single player campaign), multiplayer content is also much cheaper to make, raising the question of whether or not the player is being ripped off.
On the other hand, at least "The Tyranny of King Washington" isn't just content that should have been in the main game. Like the excellent Saint's Row The Third DLC, it will expand the game, but exist separate from the story, which has become the standard by which I think all DLC packets should be judged.
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Rewarding encounters with film scores by George Antheil and Garth Neustadter
Summertime means that orchestras turn all pops-y, with inevitable concerts featuring movie score hits. Of course, 9 times out of 10, that means John Williams. I was reminded of this a moment ago when a press release arrived for the BSO's July 25 all-Williams program at Oregon Ridge. Not that I have anything against Williams, mind you. Or, for that matter, Bernard Herrmann, whose Psycho music the orchestra will play in sync with the film July 9. An all-Herrmann concert would be fine with me any time, especially if it included excerpts from the nearly Wagnerian Vertigo score.
But, lately, I've been thinking about a couple of other film composers, one I had forgotten about, the other new to me. Thanks to TCM, the only cable station that we couldn't live without at our house (we keep a little TV set in the kitchen that has a broken off switch tuned to TCM 24 hours a day -- if we get broken into it, we want the burglars to know we have great taste), I've made two cool discoveries this week. Both of the films we DVRd from TCM have yet to be issued on DVD. One of these is ...
a deliciously dark, the-1950s-weren't-so-great-after-all goody called The Sniper, directed by a just-off-the-black-list Edward Dmytryk. Deranged man shoots innocent women in San Francisco 'cause, well, he's got issues.
The coolest thing for me is the film score by American bad-boy composer George Antheil. This is the guy who shocked the hell out of the musical establishment in the 1920s with such works as Ballet mecanique, which incorporated airplane propellers, eight pianos and heaps of percussion. At some point, Antheil made it to Hollywood, where money was to be made. Interesting friends, too. He teamed up with bombshell Hedy Lamarr to develop a torpedo/radar thing that got patented during WWII. Antheil, who died in 1959, didn't do a lot of musical shocking in his final years, but, judging by The Sniper, he turned out some very decent movie music.
You know a pro is at work in the scene when the sniper's second victim is about to meet her unexpected end while going about mundane business after returning to her apartment. Instead of a lot of spooky music putting the tension into overdrive, just a single chord is quietly sustained, on and on, until the glass-shattering rifle shot. The rest of the score may not be that inspired, but it's effective all the way through. So for that matter is the film. Yeah, the plot is creepy (it has an enlightened-for-its-time ending, though), and I took some grief from my partner Robert for making him sit through it. But it's a taut little souvenir of its time. Great location shooting in San Francisco, too.
Robert needed a change of cinematic pace after that one, and found it, again thanks to TCM, in The White Sister, a silent epic from 1923 with Lillian Gish and Ronald Colman, about a young woman who becomes a nun when she thinks her lover has been killed. I haven't had a chance to see all of it yet, but Robert (doubtless one of the world's most passionate silent movie buffs) insisted that I see a chunk of it last night and I'm glad he did. It proved compelling visually, dramatically and musically. The freshly composed score is by Garth Neustadter, a Lawrence University student who was one of the winners of TCM's 2007 Young Film Composers Competition. The guy's a natural, as his soaring love theme for The White Sister makes plain (there's a brief video clip of the composer playing it).
Silent films -- the cinematic equivalent of grand opera in many ways -- require so much music, and it can't be easy to avoid a kind of musical doodling in between big scenes. Judging by what I've heard of this effort, Neustadter clearly knows how to keep the score interesting and telling. There have to be dozens of silent films in need of new musical care. I hope he gets a chance to enhance a whole bunch of them.
Which brings me back to orchestral concerts. One of the best events the BSO has done in recent years was showing Chaplin's City Lights with live orchestral soundtrack conducted lovingly by Marin Alsop. That early 2008 presentation should have been followed up with another such attraction by now. The fusion of an artful silent film with a live, rich orchestral score is a fabulous form of entertainment -- perfect summer fare, by the way.
And after we get another silent movie treat, how about a George Antheil celebration? There ought to be some cool propellers around here somewhere.


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Kissinger: Don't set 'red line' for Iran
Yitzhak Benhorin
1. Good post we need this type debate with responsibility
Also taking good practice. Transparency and war games of suprise dont always fit the bill.
Martin ,
2. Kissinger
He should long ago have been retired to an old age home. His patriotic philosophy means that he cannot entertain any Jewish interests whatsoever, as he explicitly expressed in the past- US should not bomd Nazi camps if it is totally in the US interest. Some Jews when they attain a degree of respectability feel this forces them to block out their Jewish identity. Marrying a christian is not enough ! I wonder if he has any interest to be buried in a Jewish cemetery or would rather lie with his "goyish" cronies.
Iletzter ,
TA- Israel
3. with obummer in charge iran will not be stopped...
only Israel alone ,
can act
4. Red Line
Dr Henry Kissinger is not the one to give council and advise to Israel, remember the Yom Kippur War, who prevented arms from reaching Israel? He does not and never will have the interests of the State of Israel at heart, only his own self motivating interests. How truly sad!
Ilon ,
5. Israel listened to Henry the K in 1973 and let the Arabs...
shoot first. That worked well, didn't it?
Scott ,
6. Henry Kissinger -
This product is long past it's expiration date.
Ariel ,
7. Remind me...
Remind me when Kissinger ever took the existence of Israel to heart. This latter day Machiavelli probably never cast a shadow.
Arn ,
Yehud, Israel
8. Dr.Strangelove has already sold Israel out
in 73...now he makes a new try... DESPICABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chris Rettenmoser ,
Bayerisch Gmain Germ
9. 5- No Israel did not listen to kissinger in 71, 72 and 73
He brought a peace offer with Egypt much better than the one Israel had to signed on after the war of 73.Israel rejected it which had cost her close to 3000 lives. They'll be wise to listen for change.
10. Nasty individual of Jewish origins. Disgrace to human kind!
tom ,
tel aviv
11. The Professor
If Kissinger is so brilliant and highly qualified. how come America lost the War in Vietnam. We don't like his face.
Chaim ,
12. nobel peace prize
How can a person talk war and get a nobel peace prize at the same time. Totally undeserving. I am sure many have got this prize without deserving. One should practice in life when one gets an award like this .
john ,
13. Killinger is at the scene again...
jenny ,
14. Where was your redline on Vietnam?
You negotiated the worst peace plan ever with the communist North Vietnamese ,which cost millions of lives and millions put in prison for up to 15 years later,because you had no redline of what would happen if they broke the peace.I think your advice should be kept to yourself and take time to reflect on all the lives you were responsible for ending and the untold suffering of the mostly military lives that were put in prison.
Charlie oakes ,
Goodyear az
15. Neutering Iran
Neutering Iran should be a joint effort between USA, Europe (including ex USSR states), NATO and Arab states. Just like the war on Iraq. All these nations will lose in more ways than one should Iran be allowed to develop the atomic weapon. Israel should be kept out in order to keep the Arab coalition together. All will benefit with Iran neutered.
sk ,
16. Diplomatic Solution?!
Yeah, right! These Muslim savages know only one thing: war and conquest , thus making the, so-called, "diplomatic solution" a delusional lie at best! Kissinger is an old, godless fool who has hated Israel for a long-time; he'd sell Israel down the road the first chance he got! Don't believe anything that comes out of this idiot's mouth. They should embalm him...end his pathetic existence. Other than that, he's probably a great guy (smile)!!!
Jake Stone ,
17. oH, my bb!
Kissinger also said that any decision made in regards to preventing Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons should be made by the US alone.
Sarah B ,
U.S.A. /Israel
18. Iletzer
Now you are attacking American Jews for speaking the truth. That is a heavy load for such a small country.
lightharry ,
New York
19. Worst US politician of all times
Kissinger, first betrayed the vietnamese , then Israel, with the Sinai blackmail. He also betrayed all eastern europeans, when shook hands many times with Leonid Ilich Breshnev , the imperator of the soviet empire.
Istvan ,
20. Wha's the problem
Red or lines?
Ralph ,
21. Kissinger's A Sellout
He's on the Bohemian Grove member list. They do the "Ceremony of Care" there. They burn a bunch of dummy babies to Moloch and/or Lilith, while the announcer is invoking/evoking them in a queerish voice. Its very disturbing (it's on You Tube). The one common thread you'll find in all devil worshippers is betrayal of the innocent and weak, they've made bad deals with bad gods. Obviously BiBi isn't part of their group....Ehud Barak perhaps. Only those that love the tetragrammaton (Yud Heh Vav Heh) will prove to be your friends Israel. Don't be fooled by their devil empowered lies.
Hindhoovesof Goat ,
22. Kissinger
Yes oversite but we need some serious balance. Where are these politicians with firm realistic balanced viewswhose opinion would gain the respect of worl?. Is it possble K can re-connect with his Jewish neshomela and finally have the courage to give our rightful place in this equasion
23. The post at No. 17 is not mine.
Sarah B ,
U.S.A. / Israel
24. Oh, for heaven's sake!
Can someone take this doddering old fool home to stay? His diaper needs changing.
Sarah B ,
U.S.A. / Israel
25. Wasn't it Kissenger who,
immediately after the heavy Israeli losses of tanks and planes during the opening days of the 1973 war, delayed resupply to squeeze the Israeli government? Yeah, the same Kissenger. Kissenger was always seeking approval from the Europeans.
Stephen in New York
26. Sell-Out to his people
Kissinger is a son of Israel who has consistently sold out his own nation and people ever since anyone in Washington listened to this man. I am heartily tired of our own people working against us in the Diaspora. If they prefer not to accept their national and spiritual identity, fine, but at least they should not work against their own people. Kissinger is the brilliant fool who got it all wrong any times.
David N. ,
Haifa, ISRAEL
27. Neat
Henry has again pulled the rug from under Israel. Comes with age, wisdom and experience.
Yosef ,
28. Mapping Time
All this talk of red lines, deadlines, lines in the sand etc. is interesting. Time does have specific points that can be mapped. I repeat...There are many calenders in the world. Some well known by many like these - Jewish 5773; Christian/Gregorian 2012; Muslim 1433; or some lesser known and little used these days such as the French Republic Calender 13 Vendémiaire 221. A special calender that is coming out of G-d's drawer now is the Divine Calender. Mark my words...It will trump all others. Shabbat Shalom !
Adam Neira ,
Paris, France
29. The loser of Vietnam
How many American G.I.'s died because of this genius ? How many of our soldiers died because of this fellow ?
Yaron ,
30. So tell us what to do in Vietnam too Herr Kissinger.
Should we keep feeding the body factory? Or is it winnable?
Li ,
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OK, so I stole this idea from Eric Asimov, who writes on wine for The New York Times. But I did it for you. It's just too cool an idea not to steal: a list of 20 wines, each of which sells for $20 dollars or less.
White wines first, then reds, younger ahead of older. In the U.S., the wines sell for $20 or less a bottle; however, prices do vary by state. Each wine note suggests a delicious something to eat. And if you can't think of anything to get Mom, here's a start:
1. 2013 Kevin Judd Greywacke Sauvignon Blanc. Marlborough, New Zealand. What's nicest about this Kiwi sauvignon is a creamy texture, plus all the goods: citrus, punchy aroma, zest. Food ideas: oysters, shellfish, goat cheese. $17-$20
2. 2012 Argiolas Vermentino di Sardegna "Costamolino." Sardinia, Italy. The honeyed lemon of vermentino calls to mind its origins in this white. Pasta with creamy sauces. $11-$13
3. 2012 Simonnet-Febvre Sauvignon Blanc Saint-Bris. Burgundy, France. A cool-climate French sauvignon from this, Burgundy's sole district growing it. Fresh chevre, any fish. $15
4. 2012 Vinos del Vero La Miranda de Secastilla Garnacha Blanca. Somontano, Spain. From old-vine, high-altitude vineyards in northeastern Spain; "fat," juicy white peach fruit tied together, as if by baling wire, with tangy acidity. A meal in a glass. $13
5. 2012 Saint Glinglin Bordeaux Blanc Entre Deux, Mers, Bordeaux, France. "Glinglin" French for "when pigs fly"; a $17 white Bordeaux? That's when. Delish, crisp, citrusy. Sellfish, salad topped with feta. $17
6. 2012 Elena Walch Pinot Bianco. Alto Adige, Italy. Walch rarely misses. Smoked fish, patés, marinated olives. $13
7. 2012 Quinta do Passadouro Branco "Passa." Douro, Portugal. Rough weather in 2012 makes for smooth white today. Blend of native grapes for lemon curd, herbed fruit and mineral notes. Grilled chicken thighs. $13-$15
8. 2011 Orliac Bergerie de l'Hortus Blanc "Classique." Vin de Pays du Val de Montferrand, France. Blend of five white grapes, rich with Southern French sun, clean with modern winemaking. Fowl, fish, farfalle. $15-$18
9. 2011 Rene Mure Riesling "Signature." Alsace, France. Green apple and stone fruit scents edged with citrusy acidity; mineral note whispers at finish. Choucroute, fish, chicken salad. $18
10. 2012 Mayu Carmenere-Syrah. Elqui Valley, Chile. Earthy carmenere; deep and brooding but super smooth. Grilled meat, pizza. $15
11. 2012 Bodega Domingo Molina Malbec-Tannat "Hermanos." Salta, Argentina. Into that tarry, earthy, tannin-laden heft of tannat? Here you go, swaddled a bit with malbec's baby fat. Rich, fatty meat dishes. $15
12. 2012 Viticoltori Alto Adige Lagrein "San Pietro." Alto Adige, Italy. Wafting aromas of dark cherries and forest-picked raspberry, with soft texture and lively finish. Sandwiches, pork or veal. $15
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The Denver Post's Colorado Table food blog covers all things edible.
13. 2011 Lavradores de Feitoria Tinto. Douro, Portugal. Buckets of juicy, aromatic black-red fruit in this blend of indigenous Portuguese red grapes. Casual eats all the way to expensive roasts. $10-$12
14. 2011 Bodegas Martinez Corta "Cepasantiguas," Rioja, Spain. Spot-on Rioja, all vanilla, dark cherry and spice, with fine acidity and moderate tannin; vines older than 40 years. Lamb in any way. $12
15. 2012 Jim Barry Wines Shiraz "The Lodge Hill." Clare Valley, Australia. A cool vintage brightens the fruit aromas, snaps-to the finish and retains the acidity in this Northern Rhone-like syrah; grilled mushroom, beef stew. $14 and up.
16. 2011 Dry Creek Vineyards 17 Zinfandel "Heritage," Sonoma County, California. Stands out in a sea of zins for its come-hither perfumes, lively but many-layered character and low alcohol. Crisp-skinned roasted chicken."$15.
17. 2011 Losada Vinos de Finca "El Pajaro Rojo" Bierzo, Spain. 2014. Red fruits in spades, with electric energy on the tongue. Pizza, pizza, pizza. $17
18. 2010 Prats & Symington Douro Tinto "Prazo do Roriz." Douro, Portugal. Does the soft-shoe with Douro red grapes,gently delivering depth of fruit. Stews and braises. $17
19. 2010 Rabasse-Charvin Cotes du Rhone "Laure." Rhone, France. Anything this mother-daughter winemaking team turns out is half the price of similar depth of fruit from more prestigious producers. Perfect for taking communion. $11
20. Austin Hope Red Blend "The Troublemaker." Central Coast, California. A blend of vintages, a blend of grapes and classic California: deep dark fruit, puffy tannins, length to die for (or during), beautiful bottle. Dark meat or grilled vegetable preparations. $12-$20
Bill St. John has been writing and teaching about wine for more than 40 years. E-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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1/2 gallon milk
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
8 eggs, beaten
2-3 quarts cubed white bread
1 cup golden raisins
1 tablespoon cinnamon
Whisk sugar into milk until dissolved. Add eggs and vanilla and stir. Soak bread into mix for several hours or overnight. Pour into Pyrex dish or stainless pan. Sprinkle with raisins and cinnamon and "push" into mix. Bake at 250 degrees for approximately 1 1/2 hours or until firm. SERVES 10-12 PEOPLE.
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Hey ladies, this may be TMI. But I gotta ask. This morning I got up to use the washroom everything was normal. I seen my boyfriend off to work, and sat down at the computer and felt something just leaking out. slowly, so I figured ok this is discharge, normal. But when i went to the bathroom my underwear was wet completely in the front, a patch about the size of the top of a glass. It didn't smell like pee? Could my water be leaking? I will be 29 weeks in two days.
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WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- WMC-TV in Memphis reports that B.B. Cunningham, a member of Jerry Lee Lewis' band, was shot and killed on Sunday. He was found dead with a 16-year-old boy.
Witnesses heard shots at the Cherry Crest Apartments in East Memphis. Police later found 70-year-old Cunningham and the teen, who was also a musician.
A woman at the scene told WMC that she was the daughter-in-law of Cunningham and confirmed that he had been shot. She told news crews Cunningham was working as a security guard at night.
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The Associated Press and The Commercial Appeal report that 22-year-old Dock Britt has been charged with first degree murder and criminal attempted first-degree murder (http://bit.ly/OBrwAe).
Cunningham was a member of The Hombres in the 1960s. He co- wrote the group's song "Let It Out, Let it All Hang Out."


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The Lotus man missed out on a top five finish in the principality after contact with Sergio Perez caused a puncture, although he stormed back to secure a point on the final lap after passing Nico Hulkenberg for tenth spot.
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that he felt the McLaren man 'needed to be punched' having been involved in a number of aggressive overtaking moves over the course of the race.
However, Raikkonen said he was now seeking to put the Monaco event behind him, with his focus on trying to close the gap to Vettel when the action gets underway in Montreal.
"We had a bad result on Sunday in Monaco; that was clear for anyone to see," he said. "It could have been even worse, but it could have been much better as well. We came out with one point so at least we got something back after losing the solid fifth place, but that's not much consolation.
"No-one wants to lose so many points thanks to the actions of another driver, but that race is over. Monaco is just a distant memory and I'm all ready for Canada. I have won there which was pretty good, but I have experienced some setbacks there as well. Many times the race has been quite a lottery as there seem to be different things that affect it. The weather can change a lot, sometimes the tyres or the track aren't working very well, sometimes there are a lot of safety cars, or sometimes another driver runs into the back of you when you're waiting at a red light…"
Admitting that a good set-up would be key to his chances of success, Raikkonen also insisted that Lotus needed to try and secure a return to the kind of form it displayed prior to Monaco to give him the best chance of success.
"Like at every circuit you need to get the set-up exactly right," he said. "You need a well-balanced chassis in the medium downforce configuration and you don't want to be too hard on brakes as there's a lot of aggressive braking there. It's something I quite enjoy, the stop and go style of the circuit.
"For sure we lost ground on the lead in Monaco, but it's not over yet. It's still early in the season and twenty-one points behind is not too much to catch up; especially if Sebastian has a bad weekend too at some point. The most important thing is that we return to our race level before Monaco to get things going our way as soon as possible."


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Professor Everard was one of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry's most celebrated Heads.
His portrait hangs in the Headmaster's Office and in the Ministry of Magic's Headquarters.[2]
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Everard was made Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in an unknown time period. After his death, he was remembered as one of the most celebrated Heads of Hogwarts.[2]
Attack on Arthur Weasley
When Arthur Weasley was attacked by Nagini in the Department of Mysteries in late 1995, Albus Dumbledore, then Headmaster, asked Everard to go to his portrait at the Ministry of Magic's Headquarters in order to warn others that Mr. Weasley's was injured at the Department.[2]
The name "Everard" means "brave boar", derived from the Germanic elements eber, "wild boar" and hard, "brave", "hardy". The Normans introduced it to England, where it joined the Old English cognate Eoforheard. It has only been rarely used since the Middle Ages. Modern use of the name may be inspired by the surname Everard, itself derived from the medieval name.
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- The style of clothing in his portrait suggests that he possibly lived in the 18th or 19th century.
- Everard was portrayed by Sam Beazley in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
- Everard is described as having short, black bangs in the novel, but Beazley portrays him as having greying hair.
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I just bought this great lil guy/gal yesterday. It happened to be the day where I feed my fish frozen bloodworms and he did not seem all that interested however I am guessing due to the fact the fish was literally in my new tank for 4 hours and the fact my local petshop literally got these guys in the same day. Do these fish take a few days to adjust to a new tank? My mollies and swordtails took little to no time but I guess it depends on the species.
This is my first experience with a silver gar and was also wondering how long they may take to adapt and when I should be worried if it not eating. Also, aside from blood-worms what else do they prefer to eat?
Glad to report he/she just ate some blood worms i threw in the tank =). Any other food that silver gars like?
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Intel Mobile Penryn Benchmarked: Battery Life Improves Againby Anand Lal Shimpi on January 7, 2008 12:00 AM EST
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We've been through this before. Every year we get an update to Centrino, and every year the outcome is pretty much the same: equal or better performance, coupled with longer battery life. It's Moore's Law in action, transistors switch faster, they get smaller and thus Intel's engineers can do more with them to not only improve performance but reduce power as well. The end result is that each year we have to evaluate whether or not buying a new laptop makes sense.
The last Centrino update brought faster FSB speeds courtesy of the Mobile 965 Express chipset, slightly faster CPU speeds, some additional power saving technology, and Intel's controversial Turbo Memory. Despite what was looking like a potentially major improvement in the Centrino platform (mostly because of Turbo Memory), the end result was a fairly lackluster update to Centrino. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't much to get excited about.
The one thing we did say would happen however was that at some point, Santa Rosa (the current Centrino platform) would be updated to support Penryn. That update happens today.
As a simple CPU change, this year's update is far simpler - it's all in the processor. Starting this month, Intel will begin shipping its first 45nm mobile processors based on the Penryn core. On the desktop you'll remember that Penryn offered mild performance improvements over Conroe, but in the mobile space the reduction in power consumption should translate directly into longer battery life and cooler running notebooks.
There are five mobile Penryn cores being introduced today, they are listed below:
All of the chips run at frequencies we've already had from current Merom based Core 2 Duo designs. They are all dual core with either 3MB or 6MB of L2 cache shared between the cores. We only have a 6MB L2 part to play with, so it's tough to say how the 3MB cores will compete at this point.
The new Core 2 Duo T9000 and T8000 series work in modified Santa Rosa platforms, using the same mobile 965 chipset. As long as there is motherboard support, you can use a mobile Penryn (similar to the situation on the desktop).
There should be an obvious performance increase from these new mobile Penryn chips, but the more interesting impact should be on battery life. Mobile Penryn offers two technologies that don't exist on the desktop chips, one of which is targeted specifically at increasing battery life.
Mobile Penryn supports a deeper sleep state when a core is idle, allowing the chip to go into a near-reset state with only the absolute minimal circuitry powered. The other mobile-specific feature is Intel's Dynamic Acceleration Technology, which we will discuss and test later in today's article.
Increasing Battery Life: It's the Centrino Way
Intel sent us two Dell Latitude D630 notebooks, identically configured, with one variable: the CPU. In one D630, we had a Core 2 Duo T7800, which is a Merom based chip running at 2.6GHz with an 800MHz FSB and a 4MB L2 cache. The other D630 came equipped with a new 45nm Core 2 Duo T9500, also running at 2.6GHz/800MHz but with a larger 6MB L2 cache.
The CPU-Z shots will show that our T9500 CPU ran at 1.15V instead of the 1.225V of the T7800; a reduction in voltage translates directly into a reduction in power consumption of course, meaning longer battery life in a notebook. The question we had was: how much?
While the CPU is one of the single most power hungry components in a notebook, there are other power hogs as well. The display being one of the most obvious, but other components like the memory, hard drive, chipset and integrated graphics all contribute to the generally mediocre battery life you find in modern day notebooks. All of these power hungry components eat away at that stored energy, so how much could an evolutionary reduction in power actually bring?
To find out if we turned to MobileMark 2007, the latest battery life measurement tool from BAPCo. The MobileMark 2007 suite consists of three individual benchmarks: the Productivity 2007 test, the Reader 2007 test and the DVD playback test.
The Productivity 2007 test mimics what happens in the SYSMark 2007 Productivity test, the only difference being that MobileMark focuses on how long the battery will last, not how fast the system can perform.
We configured both systems identically, LCD brightness was set at three levels down from the maximum and Vista power management settings were set to balanced. To no one's surprise, the Core 2 Duo T9500 managed to outlast the T7800; it was the margin of victory however that was most surprising.
The T9500 lasted an extra 55 minutes, or an increase of almost 16.5% in battery life. We were concerned that the Productivity test over emphasized the impact of Penryn on battery life, so we turned to the other tests in MobileMark.
The Reader 2007 test is mostly idle time, simulating a user reading through documents on a notebook. Despite the very light load, battery life went up 5.6% or a total of 23 minutes on the Penryn system compared to the older Merom based T7800. While not nearly as dramatic as the Productivity 2007 test, the Reader benchmark shows significant improvement especially when you take into account that the only change here is the processor.
The DVD playback benchmark measures battery life while, you guessed it, playing back a DVD. While we don't even want to begin to think of what battery life would be like playing back a HD-DVD or Blu-ray movie, regular DVDs are still quite manageable. The move to 45nm gave us an extra 18 minutes of battery life when playing back a DVD, an increase of 7%.
While the Productivity results may be a bit extreme, we believe it would be safe to say that the mobile version of Penryn can easily improve battery life on the order of 5 - 10% over an identically configured Merom/Santa Rosa system. Under very specific cases, especially if you're looking at applications where Penryn is significantly faster than Merom (e.g. SSE4 optimized apps), battery life can improve even more dramatically
Herein lies the strength of these yearly Centrino updates; these increases in battery life will come at no additional cost to the end user. Dell will begin shipping its D630 notebooks with these Core 2 Duo T9500 processors starting in February, at no price premium compared to its current D630 lineup. The T9500 will simply replace the T7800 as the 2.6GHz processor option.
Mobile Penryn vs. Merom: Performance
What about raw performance? MobileMark 2007 does measure performance during the course of running the Productivity 2007 suite:
With a 6.4% increase in performance, the mobile Penryn saw a 16% increase in battery life. Remember that when you're talking about running on battery power, being able to complete tasks faster can mean better overall battery life. The quicker a system can finish its work and move down to an idle state, the better.
Looking at our usual metrics, the Penryn based Core 2 Duo T9500 is still marginally faster than its Merom based predecessor across the board. SYSMark 2007 shows an overall increase of around 4.5%, with individual benchmarks showing an improvement in the 1 - 8% range.
Media encoding performance is slightly better on the T9500, with our DivX and x264 tests completing 4.7% and 2.8% faster, respectively. Again, we don't see an earth shattering improvement, but when you keep in mind that we can even talk about a performance improvement in the same breath as an improvement in battery life, we can't really complain.
We ran a quick spotcheck on 3D rendering performance using Cinebench R10:
The single core tests show Penryn with a 6.8% performance advantage, while the multi-threaded benchmark grows that to 9.1%. Since Penryn has a 50% larger L2 cache, sharing data between the cores becomes a little easier and thus we see a small boost in the multi-threaded scaling factor.
Gaming benchmarks were out of the question given that our D630s shipped with Intel integrated graphics, but even armed with discrete graphics we'd expect Penryn to just slightly edge out Merom.
Testing Intel's Dynamic Acceleration Technology
When Penryn was announced Intel promised a feature that sounded kind of interesting. The idea was that when running single threaded applications, a mobile Penryn would use the extra thermal headroom created by having a completely idle second core and increase the clock speed of the working core.
The performance boost would amount to nothing more than a single speedgrade (2.8GHz on our 2.6GHz chip), but the impact would be that you wouldn't sacrifice any single threaded performance even on a multi-core CPU. One of the tradeoffs of building a dual-core CPU over a single-core is that you can't generally hit clock frequencies that are as high, this technology gets around that.
We were skeptical about how the technology would work when we first heard about it. OSes like Windows Vista bounce threads from one core to the next, so a single core is never allowed to be completely idle for too long. Regardless, we wanted to try Intel's "Dynamic Acceleration Technology" to see if: 1) we could get it to work and 2) if it made a difference.
Just as we suspected, getting it to work even while running a single threaded application was virtually impossible. We used CPU-Z to monitor clock speed while running single threaded applications, and our clock frequency never jumped above 2.6GHz. It wasn't until we forced the processor affinity of an application to a single CPU core that we could actually see Intel's DAT in action.
Even when enabled however, the impact was far less dramatic than you'd think. The working core will only increase its operating frequency as long as it has the thermal headroom to do so, which at times may only be for a matter of a second or two. When running the single-threaded Cinebench test our T9500 would increase its clock speed to 2.8GHz but only for very short periods of time. The result was a 2.6GHz CPU that every now and then ran at 2.8GHz, and the increase in performance reflected this.
With a 1.2% increase in performance due to Intel's DAT, we can't really get excited about this technology. It's very rare that it will be working, and when it is the 7.7% increase in clock speed just isn't enough to increase performance significantly at all. It looks like Intel's DAT is more of a gimmick rather than something to get excited about.
SSE4 on the Go
Obviously one of the strengths of the Penryn architecture is its SSE4 support. We ran Intel's TMPEGEnc benchmark, which does take advantage of SSE4 during a movie transcode, and the performance gap widened:
The mobile Penryn based system, because of its SSE4 support, can complete the encoding test in 31% less time than the Merom system. The impact of SSE4 is even more pronounced on the mobile side because of the fact that the mobile chips are already so starved for bandwidth.
The performance gap widened when running a SSE4 optimized VirtualDub 1.7.2 DivX encode, here Penryn would offer a greater than 40% increase in performance.
These SSE4-optimized situations are far more rare than the 1 - 8% increases we saw elsewhere, the point being that should application support develop, Penryn could do much better. Honestly though, we don't expect a critical mass of SSE4 applications anytime soon, these sorts of things take a long time to materialize.
Final Words
Another day, another dollar, another year, another Centrino. This processor-only update to Santa Rosa actually interests us more than what we saw last year with the introduction of the Santa Rosa platform.
This year's Centrino update is much more back to the basics: performance goes up, as does battery life, and Intel does it all at no additional cost to the end user.
Possibly because it was a ultra-high-end only launch, but Penryn on the desktop just didn't seem nearly as exciting as mobile Penryn. Here the benefits are even more tangible; by keeping clock speeds the same and using the improvements of Intel's 45nm transistors to lower the voltage, Intel is able to reduce power consumption to a measurable degree in a notebook using mobile Penryn.
Current Santa Rosa owners don't really have any burning need to go out and upgrade their systems, but if you were thinking about buying a new laptop you might as well hold off for another month so that these Penryn based systems can hit the streets.
If you have an aging Centrino notebook, now would be a good time to upgrade. We suspect that the timing of Intel's mobile Penryn announcement may have something to do with the fact that Apple will be holding its MacWorld conference next week.


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SEOUL – Ford Sales Service Korea organized an Eco Workshop to announce the winners of Ford Motor Company Conservation and Environmental Grants. During the workshop, this year's winners and the 2012 winners could exchange ideas on environmental projection.
The grants program provided US$50,000 to individuals or organizations active in the protection of the environment and natural resources. Since 2002, Ford Grants has served as a strong foundation for 71 projects in Korea, providing about US$400,000 in sponsorship for individuals and groups involved in environmental protection activities. The program both promotes coexistence with local communities and focuses on the actual protection of the environment and natural resources.
This year, Ford Korea announced 10 projects were selected to receive grants – the largest number of projects since the program began in Korea. Among the winners was Saeng-tae-san-chon, an environmental organization that proposed a project promoting an environmentally sustainable camping culture.
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One of the judges, Hyo-Hyun Sung, a professor at Ehwa Womans University, said she was impressed by the diversity of the applicants' ages and proposed activities. "Numerous creative ideas furthered the environmental activities from local communities to global stages such as in Africa," she said. "It was a pleasure to have the opportunity to see creative projects that promote voluntary participations that lead to the environmental protection. I expect more environmental initiations through creative approaches and ardent willingness in the near future."
Jae Jung, president of Ford Korea, noted that Ford Grants have become the company's major global corporate social responsibility program, and that Ford Korea has continuously supported grass-root level initiatives of environmental protection and promoting preservation. "This grants program particularly means a lot since it is not a one-time event, but an ongoing, consistently carried out event which has been continuing for over a decade. Besides the Ford Grants Night event held last year, Ford Korea organized the Eco Workshop to allow environmentally passionate people to communicate and share their ideas for further co-existence."
Jung said Ford Korea will continue its focus on environmental issues and sponsor people and organizations striving to create a better society by protecting the environment.
Additional information on Ford Motor Company Conservation and Environmental Grants can be found on the Ford Korea Facebook page under the Ford Motor Company Conservation and Environmental Grants tab.
This year's recipients were:• Il-woon Elementary School's Blue Ocean: Geoje marine conservation project• Green Growth Environment Education Association: Youth Environment Campaign on preventing water pollution and protecting the Han River• Sunflower: Running Environment Energy Class to preserve the ecosystem of DMZ Civilian Control Line area• Jin-Joo Min: Local Environment Art program including painting murals in rural area• Saeng-tae-san-chon: Project on dissemination of environment-friendly camping culture• Eco-Travel Network Ee-Roh-Eum: Promotion of Eco-travel, environment-friendly travel• SaengSaeng Talk: Encourage using a tumbler and inform seriousness of water pollution• Korea Environment Association Incheon Branch: Contribution to prevent environment pollution in rural area• Korea Association of Ocean and Environment Monitoring, Busan Branch: Filming and distribution of UCC about the ocean environment• HoE: Contribution to promote awareness on global environmental problems including desertification areas
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