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Out of Buffalo Grove, Illinois comes a unique addition to the online dating space. faCetalk Online allows members of dating sites to meet one another virtually before deciding whether or not they should meet in person.
The application allows dating site members to go beyond chat rooms and posted photographs to get a sense of who someone is. Important elements of the software include users having the ability to actually see a person and know that their online picture is real, find out how they interact and watch body language to learn even more about the person they are interested in.
faCetalk, developed by CAMEyeO, Inc., is just one application developed by the company..
A more recent development involves a unique Facebook application allowing friends to introduce two friends to one another. The introduction is done through video becoming a modern day online blind date. Two single individuals get to view videos of one another and then decide if they want to meet.
This matchmaking application allows two single individuals to have a 30 minute video date that is scheduled and anonymous. All personal information remains confidential between the parties and they decide if they want to meet again – online or off.
The application is great for someone who is convinced that two of their friends are "a perfect match".
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The Bayern coach claimed that Robert Lewandowski would not stay at BVB for much longer but the club's CEO insists the Bavarians have not made an approach.Borussia Dortmund CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke has slammed Bayern Munich boss Jupp Heynckes over comments he made regarding the future of Robert Lewandowski.
The Poland striker has long been touted with a move to the Allianz Arena and the coach claimed after Saturday's Champions League final win that the 25-year-old will be "hanging about too much".
Watzke says that the former Real Madrid trainer should stay out of the saga and claimed that the Bavarians have not approached the club over a move for the player.
"Jupp Heynckes should stay out of this and concentrate on the lineup for next Saturday [for the DFB-Pokal final against Stuttgart]," he told reporters.
"I don't know how close Heynckes is to the management of Bayern. But if they want to have Lewandowski it would be good if we were told about this."
For his part, Lewandowski is remaining tight lipped on his future, adding: "Now I will have a break for four or five days, then I will go to the national squad."
Bayern faces Stuttgart on June 1, hoping to complete the club's first treble.

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Spring can be a wondrous time for a romantic weekend getaway in Vermont, although sometimes the spring weather arrives a little late. It is a very busy time at Middlebury College with all of the spring sports and concerts.
In early spring, we are still sitting by the fireplaces and waiting for the mud to go away. Once the weather gets warm, Vermont explodes with all of the spring growth, and you learn why it is the Green Mountain state. This is a great time to stay and enjoy dinner and the wine list at the bar here at the Swift House. We have tailored some spring holiday special packages to entice you to enjoy the time here in Vermont.
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2007-08 Highlights: Led the team in the triple jump during the indoor and outdoor seasons...won the triple jump title and posted a season-best mark of 11.75m at the University of Chicago Invitational on Feb. 2...placed second in the long jump with a distance of 5.06m at the Redbird Invitational on Jan. 19...won the triple jump crown with a leap of 12.03 meters at the Chicagoland Championships on April 3...finished in fourth-place in the triple jump (11.86m) at the Horizon League Outdoor Championships on May 9...broke the school outdoor triple jump record with a distance of 12.06 meters at the DePaul Relays on May 14.
2006-07 Highlights: Horizon League indoor and outdoor triple jump champion...won the triple jump at the Horizon League Indoor Championships with an 11.81m...set a Horizon League outdoor record with a 12.00m at the league outdoor championships...won the triple jump at the Tadd Metzger Invitational on Feb. 3 with a 11.38m...took second in the triple jump (11.37m) at the Redbird Invitational on Apr. 28.
2005-06 Highlights: Set the UIC indoor and outdoor school records in the triple jump while claiming the Horizon League title in the event during both the indoor and outdoor season...competed in the triple jump at the NCAA Mideast Regional Championships...set the outdoor school record in the triple jump with a leap of 12.05m at the Indy Relays on April 15...was also the Flames' top performer in the long jump during the outdoor season with a personal-best leap of 5.34m at the Chicagoland Championships...broke the UIC indoor record and set a new meet record at the Horizon League Indoor Championships in the triple jump with distance of 12.36m...named the Outstanding Field Performer of the Meet at the league indoor championships...took first in the triple jump at the UWM Tune-Up on Feb. 17th with a leap of 11.89m...set a new personal best in the long jump at the Purdue Invite on Jan. 14th with a distance of 5.00m.
2004-05 Highlights: Named UIC Newcomer of the Year...won the triple jump at the UW-Milwaukee Tune-Up on Feb. 19th with a leap of 10.66 meters, good for second-best on the squad...later added UIC's second-best, indoor long jump of the season with a mark of 4.75 meters...took home a third-place finish in the triple jump (10.45 meters) at the Redbird Invitational on Jan. 29th...captured another third-place mark in the triple jump (10.19 meters) at the Purdue Invitational on Jan. 15th, while also a part of the fourth-place, 4x400 relay team (4:14.52)...ran a leg of the runner-up, 4x400 relay (4:16.62) and finished second in the triple jump (10.51 meters) at the University of Chicago Open...placed third overall in the triple jump with a team-season best leap of 11.13 meters at the Horizon League Outdoor Championships...won the triple jump title at the Butler Twilight with a school-record mark of 11.13 meters...earned a third-place mark in the triple jump (10.33 meters) at the Jerry England Invitational...captured a team-season best leap of 5.04 meters in the long jump at the Butler Twilight.
Prep/Personal: Letterwinner in track & field at Wheaton-Warrenville South...born Jan. 4, 1986...majoring in political science/French.
Career-Best Outdoor Marks 100-Meter: :14.01 (3/29/08) 200-Meter: :28.62 (4/3/08) Long Jump: 5.34m (4/8/06) Triple Jump: 12.06m (5/14/08) **SCHOOL RECORD**


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Cory Bahr, 37, is the chef-owner of Restaurant Cotton, located in his hometown Monroe, La. There he specializes in the cuisine of the North Delta, which he describes simply as "things that I love." More specifically, he characterizes it as "progressive Southern food" which translates to his approach: He begins with the traditional dishes and gives them his own twist, like with his Muscovy duck wraps with honey glaze, "inspired by my grandfather's duck camp cooking," all while paying homage to locally sourced ingredients like squash, onions, and black-eyed peas.
Self-taught from an early age, Bahr began waiting tables as a teenager and transitioned to the kitchen at a restaurant in Georgia. After a few years, Monroe called back to him with a position as chef at a country club, and later, a local couple asked him to open a restaurant. In 2007, he became executive chef at Restaurant Sage and was named "King of Louisiana Seafood" several years later.
The major turning point in Bahr's career came in 2012 when he opened Restaurant Cotton to critical acclaim. Six months later, he was asked to make an appearance on Food Network's "Chopped," where he swept away the competition. Still, despite his success, Bahr remains grounded. "Here in Monroe, we welcome good food, simple as that."
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Latina Voices: Entertaining, Educational, and Inspirational
Colorado Springs, Colo. (September 27, 2011) – Come join Pikes Peak Library District for Latina Voices, a program that will include readings by Latina authors and poets, a panel on Latina issues (from wellness to employment), a short film, and an inspirational keynote address. The program will be presented from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 1 at East Library. It is intended to be entertaining, educational, and inspirational. All activities are free, and lunch is included! The public is encouraged to attend and to participate. This program is a presentation of the Friends of the Pikes Peak Library District in partnership with local individuals and organizations.
Participating Readers:
Bonnie Gonzales, sister of local author Lou Gonzales.
Mimi Wheatwind, poet and professor at Ft. Lewis State College.
Debra Gallegos, actress and musician
Juliana Aragon Fatula, author of Crazy Chicana in Catholic City and other works
Frances Gomeztagle, freelance journalist
The Latina Voices Panel Discussion will offer an opportunity for members of our local Latina community to talk about the paths they have taken to success and challenges that exist in particular segments of our culture. Discussion will cover health and wellness, education, career, community, and family as they apply to the Latina experience.
Mimi Wheatwind, poet and professor at Ft. Lewis College, will field education.
Debra Gallegos, Denver actress and director of The Center for Equal Employment at CDOT
Amparo Rodriguez, Centro de la Familia
Ada Torres, Executive Director of Latino American Health Network
Following the panel discussion, the group will break for lunch provided by The Pikes Peak Library District Foundation and Chipotle, and a film screening. Excerpts of PPLD's ¿De dónde eres? Cultural Origins of the Latino/Hispanic Experience in Southern Colorado will be shown, featuring video portraits of life in Southern Colorado.
Lunch will be followed by the keynote presentation. Mireya Garcia, newscaster at KRDO and Telemundo locally, will talk about the unique journey she has taken to success.
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Ever notice those black or green marks that run down the length of your roof? It's not dirt…it's ALIVE! Algae, Moss, Fungus, Lichen and other plant life take root in your roof and over time, they break down the shingles on your roof. They can cause problems like leaks and moisture penetration of the sub-roof, so it's important to catch these invasive parasites early so that you prevent roof damage BEFORE IT HAPPENS!
Periodically cleaning your roof is a great way to remove the invaders and maintain the longevity of your shingles and roof deck. But instead of using a high-pressure wash that can damage shingles or chlorine bleach treatments that don't loosen plant roots (and can dry out your shingles), try the fast, easy and effective way to remove these invasive growths and restore your roof to its original, stain-free appearance: the P.J. Fitzpatrick's NEW Roof Cleaning Service!
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Though the deadline is just one day away, Tiffany Klapheke has not filed an appeal of her 30-year prison sentence.
The 23-year-old was arrested in August 2012 after her toddler, Tamryn, died at their home on Dyess Air Force Base. According to an autopsy, Tamryn died of malnutrition and dehydration. Klapheke was convicted of first degree felony injury to a child in February and sentenced to 30 years in prison with the possibility for parole after serving half her time.
When Klapheke's lawyers, George Parnham and John Young, filed a motion to withdraw from Klapheke's case at her request, the paperwork showed Saturday, March 15 is the deadline for an appeal request.
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Jerry W. Arnold, 44, of Lodi, went home to be with the Lord after a courageous battle with cancer on Friday, April 4, 2014, in Cleveland. He was born August 21, 1969 in Cleveland, to the late Lloyd A. and Delores A. (Wilczynski) Arnold.
Jerry was a custodian at the Medina County Career Center.
He is survived by his siblings, Ed (Joann) Arnold, Dennis (Susan) Arnold, Doris (Bob) Butvin, Dave Arnold, Beverly Hall, Randy Arnold; stepbrother, Larry (Carmela) Wilczynski; and many nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends at the Waite & Son Funeral Home, 765 N. Court St., Medina, Monday, April 7, 2014, from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 P.M. Services will be held Tuesday, April 8, 2014, at 11 A.M., in the funeral home. Burial will follow at Eastlawn Memory Gardens in Brunswick.
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DUBLIN, Feb 18, 2013 (PR Newswire Europe via COMTEX) -- - Jinny Software to demonstrate its Diameter Router at Mobile World Congress 2013 DUBLIN, Feb. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Jinny Software, a leading global supplier of messaging, call completion and rich communications today announces the launch of it's Diameter Signalling Control solution - Jinny's latest addition to it's broad portfolio of innovative and scalable solutions.
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August is birthday month around here (and it doesn't seem to slow down too much until the end of October). Now that both of my parents and my sister are gluten-free and dairy-free (and feeling fabulous of course), I've been busy baking birthday cakes and cupcakes for my entire family.
One of my go-to gluten-free flours is teff flour. It's an amazing gluten-free grain jam-packed with nutritional goodness. And it pairs perfectly with chocolate, so naturally I grabbed for it when I was asked to bake chocolate cake (plus I was inspired by Amy's cake recipe in her cookbook).
I made this gluten-free, dairy-free, and egg-free chocolate cake for my sister's birthday, my Mom's birthday, and for Callum's 6th birthday (time REALLY does fly). And I'm sure I'll be making it again this weekend for my Dad's birthday.
It's a winner. And it doubles as cupcakes. Callum requested an out of this world birthday party with cake AND cupcakes. Who am I to deny him?
Teff Chocolate Cake (or Cupcakes)
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
½ cup full-fat coconut milk (make sure it's well mixed)
½ cup dairy-free milk (I use organic almond or soy milk)
¼ cup tapioca flour or arrowroot flour
1 cup teff flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
¾ teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon psyllium seed husks
½ teaspoon sea salt
1/3 cup cocoa powder
1 tablespoon vanilla
¾ cup granulated sugar (I use coconut sugar)
½ cup coconut oil, liquefied
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a cheesecake pan with parchment (see this trick for lining cake pans).
Combine the apple cider vinegar with the coconut milk and dairy-free milk in a large bowl (canned coconut milk separates, so make sure to mix it well before using). Let the mixture sit for a few minutes to create a "buttermilk".
In a medium sized bowl, sift together the starch, teff flour, baking powder, baking soda, psyllium seed husks, sea salt, and cocoa powder.
Add vanilla, sugar and coconut oil to your "buttermilk" mixture and stir until well combined. Stir in dry ingredients and mix well.
Spread batter into prepared cake pan and bake for 28-32 minutes, or until a knife inserted comes out clean. Remove cake from oven and let cool for fifteen minutes. Carefully run a knife around the side of the cake pan and remove outer ring (if using cheesecake pan). Let cool completely.
Frost with desired frosting.
Yield: 1 single layer 8 inch round cake or 10-12 regular sized cupcakes
* If baking cupcakes, bake for 20-22 minutes.
* To make a double layer cake you will need to make this recipe twice. I iced mine in between layers too, doesn't everyone? Make sure your cakes cool completely before icing and layering.
* Make sure you tightly wrap any leftovers – they'll keep for a couple of days.


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Sterling Bunnell is, I believe - I'll check with him - a Freudian and Jungian analyst. He's also a scientist. He's the first person I heard the word "ecology" from. He's a junior. When you see the book Surgery of the Hand by Sterling Bunnell, that's his father who, I believe helped that science along considerably. I think he is or has been a Mensa member. He wrote a famous article about the pup fish in Death Valley for the Scientific American. He also wrote an early article on psychedelics for the Scientific American. He's written some articles for the SFZC's Wind Bell on the ecology and geology of Tassajara. I remember once he went with me to get a rattlesnake and when I told him where I saw it go under a big cabinet he just stuck his hand in there and moved it around where he couldn't see. He's read everything. He's lots of fun. There's nothing he can't or won't talk about. He tends to look rather disheveled. He lives near Chez Panisse, the famous neuveau California cuisine restaurant in Berkeley where Renee des Tombe (who was manager of Greens when I was host) has been upstairs host for years and Sterling was eating there and someone told her how wonderful it was that they fed the homeless like that. - DC
SB: I remember during a sesshin at a lecture in San Francisco a woman coming up (Evelyn Lentz) right in the middle of lecture ringing a bell and she got up on the altar and said, "No longer is it necessary for you to sit - Jesus Christ is now Lord and you'll all be saved." And Suzuki said, "Very interesting, but can you survive?" And she got quiet and sat down.
DC: I never heard anything about her bringing Jesus into it. She had several events like that.
DC note: Again, my more lengthy comments cut here to be included elsewhere too distracting.
SB: Another time Suzuki Rosh was giving a lecture and a guy asked, "What is the purpose of marriage?" and Suzuki Rosh said, "Potato." It's like a koan.
He had a lovely sense of metaphore. One time he and I were standing on a street corner in Gilroy waiting for someone and I was saying that you can't walk in someone elses shoes and he said you have to wear those shoes a long time.
The first time I ever saw him was back in the early sixties and my first wife was meditating at Sokoji - Marian Weston. I sat there then with her and I stood in line with her to bow to him and he asked me, "Do you have any questions?" and I had this sudden feeling that I was in a tunnel and he was on the other end and somehow his question shattered me and I went right through my center and I defensively said, "No," and for several hours I wondered why I was set so off course by that. Like there was some kind of direct inquiry which called for me to give an answer from someplace in myself that I hadn't accessed.
Dick told me one time he was with Suzuki in a restaurant in Gilroy or Salinas and Dick was wondering whether he should order something vegetarian and Suzuki ordered steak.
I think he was very psychically perceptive.
I had Trudy Dixon as a client and her mother and grandmother both had died of breast cancer. And the type she had was triggered by having children. She had had one breast removed and had another child and it came back. And for a year she was feeling alright but knew she had disseminated[?] cancer and she was very afraid and I felt very apprehensive about how she would face it because there was a great big monstrous charge of fear in the back of her mind but toward the end of her life she went on a fast to starve the cancer as she put it and she transcended the situation. I went to see her afterwards and she was a different person - she was the most positive, clear minded person that you can imagine and that was only shortly before her death and I remember Suzuki gave a talk at her funeral and he described carrying her ashes and saying goodbye to her and he was fighting back tears and then he gave a howl like a wolf and it was very moving.
Do you remember Dennis Anderson? [Cloud?] He said he was with Okusan and he asked if Suzuki Rosh was a good teacher and she said oh yes but he's a bad husband.
Bill Witherup is a poet who came from Richland [?] Washington and his father worked as a maintenance man at the atomic plant there and Bill had a girlfriend named Miriam, a Mexican girlfriend who was at Tassajara and she was apparently a pretty ferocious number who would have sacrificed people on the stone altar herself and they had a very stormy relationship and he wrote a very beautiful poem called Miriam at Tassajara - I can't remember her last name. People were giving Suzuki Rosh presents - maybe it was his birthday - and she brought one all wrapped up and he said, "What is it, a snake?" Absolutely right on the mark.
DC note: That might have been Marian Ebright (I think) who was with Clark Mason for a while. She had Aztec blood I think. She died some years back. She was intense and beautiful and dark.
SB: One time I was standing with Suzuki Rosh at Carmel Valley Road and Tassajara road and I said, look, it's a golden eagle and he said what kind is that and I said you don't see those very often. I didn't interpret it as a sign but if I did it would be that the sky god had taken notice of you. I frequently have had dreams where an eagle was circling in the sky.
DC - Maybe it was your totem animal letting you know you were in the right place.
At the first I think practice period at Tassajara during the sesshin I went out to Grasshopper flats and stood by an oak tree at the beginning of the flats after dinner so there was a good thirty minute break and as I was standing there a fox walked up to me and curled up at my feet and went to sleep. I stayed there and it did to for about ten minutes and then it got up and walked away. I'm not the sort of person that animals walk up to. Maybe it was my totem.
SB: That is remarkable. I've done it with dear and rabbits and with one dolphin at San Diego Marine World.
I didn't meet Suzuki Rosh often. He seemed very sensitive and lacking in decision and forcefulness. I've developed second sight in the meantime and I survey people and I would rate him as being pretty sensitive. I've heard others say he seemed to know what they were thinking but there would be a tendency to ascribe that. I wouldn't say that about Katagiri.
I met Tatsugami and he was very interested in rocks and crystals forming in rocks and I explained to him how atoms move around so that crystals can grow within solid rocks by replacing other atoms in the space. Suzuki assembled his favorite rocks in certain places at Tassajara.
DC - How would you interpret Suzuki saying that there are rocks that are alive and rocks that are dead?
SB: I think there are rocks that can pick up a psychic charge - maybe that would mean they are alive. There seem to be power spots on the earth that effect your state of mind and they're quite striking when you're there and I've seen some geological transects of the structure underneath them and generally there's a vein of rhyolite coming up from a granite batholite. Rhyolite is a very fine crystal granite that cools very fast so it has very small crystals and it also has iron crystals in it so it seems to me that it's paizo[?]-electric - it can turn a field of force into a field of electricity like the crystal in a crystal set. There's something about these things that seems to effect the subjective field that your mind is working in.
DC - Have you run any of this past the skeptics society?
SB: Well their minds are closed up tighter than a bulls ass at fly time.
Once Suzuki looked at me in dokusan and said, "It's not necessary to hold yourself in any one position."
Talking of Tassajara he said, "Something will come of this."
He said that Japanese used to be like Americans and not have any shadow but that now they've gradually gotten a shadow and he felt that Zen would take root in America. I suppose he meant by that an awareness of the depth of their own psyche but I don't think that's really true of the Japanese as a group. I don't think they have any more shadow than Americans or awareness of it, but I don't really know what that meant to him.
Another time he was talking about someone who died and was cremated and they went out on a boat - I guess it was one of the Buddhist churches, and they dumped his ashes and they came back and told Suzuki, "We dumped his ashes," and he said, "Oh you mean you dumped some of them," and they said, "No, we dumped all of them. Where are there any left?" and Suzuki said, "In your mind." He said that in a sesshin, the same one where the woman came in banging.
Otohiro, Suzukis youngest offspring, asked Suzuki Rosh about the war and Suzuki said, "Do what you have to do."
DC: You were brought in on the aftermath of the rape at Tassajara, when Barry Eisenberg assaulted the guest?
SB: I'm pretty sure that Dick was there at Zen Center when Barry Eisenberg had that event with the guest.
DC Note: No. Richard Baker was in Japan.
SB: She had gone down to the narrows at Tassajara and he followed her. I met with her and Suzuki Rosh and I thought Dick [Silas and Peter dealt with it] and out on the street on Bush street and she and about three of her friends who had agreed to accompany her - three guys and they were deciding what to do about it and we spent a couple of hours talking about it and they agreed that she wouldn't press charges if Barry went into therapy so I saw him a few times and he was pretty screwed up. He had a problem with his mother and he wanted to get back at her through other women. I don't remember Suzuki Rosh saying much of anything.
DC I thought after that that he was a dangerous guy. Don't you think he should have gone into longer term therapy or something?
SB: Yes, but I wanted to help Zen Center. He probably should have been hospitalized.
DC note here: Extensive comment by me here cut till later.
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DC note: more on this later this year. - 4-18-11
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Dr. Marta Moreno Vega is the author of The Altar of My Soul: The Living Traditions of Santeria (2001) and When the Spirits Dance Mambo (Three Rivers Press, 2004) and coeditor of Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora (2012). She received her Doctorate in Yoruba Philosophy in the Diaspora from Temple University in May 1995. She is the founder of the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute in New York City and former director of El Museo del Barrio and the Association of Hispanic Arts. She is one of the founders of the Association of Hispanic Arts and the Network of Organization of Color. Dr. Vega is presently president of the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) founded in 1976. CCCADI is an international not for profit organization dedicated to researching, documentation and promulgating the reach history and traditions of African descendants in the Americas. CCCADI has organized international conferences in Nigeria, Bahia Brazil, Puerto Rico and New York.


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It's a pretty special day for us given that we've just released our iPhone app. So, I figured I'd celebrate by sharing one of my favorite songs...ever?
At the very least, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix is one of my favorite albums. More than three years have passed since its release, but there's good news on the horizon: the French quartet are slated to release a new album some time in the near future.
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Mitt Romney Wins Big in Illinois [Updated]
Surprise! Mitt Romney wins the Illinois primary.
Romney took the podium at 9:20 p.m. to chants of "Mitt!" "What a night," he said. "Thank you, Illinois. Wow," perhaps himself surprised at his resounding victory. He took direct aim at Barack Obama, whom he called Professor Obama and mocked for teaching Constitutional law at University of Chicago (apparently understanding the Constitution is a bad thing?). "So tonight was a primary," Romney said, "but November is a general election."
Rick Santorum spoke from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania at 9:45 p.m. and declared: "This is the most important election since the election of 1860." Santorum stood behind a banner spelling out "Freedom" acknowledged that Romney was now name-dropping freedom in his stump speech. "Freedom is at stake in this election," he said.
With 99 percent reporting, Romney led Santorum by a margin of 46 percent to 35 percent.
Romney, who faltered last week with third-place finishes in the Deep South, picked up 54 of the state's 69 delegates with tonight's win.
Republicans in Chicago were not quite fired up and ready to go today. Election officials in the Windy City predicted that today will be the lowest turnout in the city's presidential primary history. Langdon Neal, chairman of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, said he was crossing his fingers for a 20 percent turnout. On the POLITICO live-stream, Maggie Haberman relayed a quote from a reluctant Romney supporter in Illinois, who likened Mitt to medicine: "We know he's good for us, but we don't really want to take it."
The demographics of this primary are not just for Nate Silver fangirls. Voting was largely split between Romney support in Chicago and its five surrounding "collar counties" and support for Santorum in the rest of the state, particularly in the south. Santorum couldn't rake in big numbers among tea-party voters; even though a third of Illinois Republicans voting today called themselves strong supporters of the tea party. Ninety-eight percent of the primary voters today were white.
Santorum has spent much of the week pandering to the kindly folks of the heartland and sneering at city slickers. At a campaign stop in Missouri last weekend, Santorum told the crowd:
"I kept saying, you just stick with us, you go out and vote for your values and trust what you know. Because you don't live in New York City. You don't live in Los Angeles. You live like most Americans in between those two cities, and you know the values you believe in."
Republican Illinoisans — from Chicago or Downstate — had the rare opportunity today to cast a primary vote that actually mattered. Obama's adoptive home state usually swings blue in presidential elections and in less exceptionally crazy GOP contests, the Republican candidate is usually chosen by the time the Illinois primary comes around. Ann Shea, 64, told the New York Times: "It feels rather strange. I'm used to being ignored. It usually feels like the candidate has already been chosen and we're just superfluous."
Not so, Ann! It's been another whirlwind week on the trail for the GOP presidential hopefuls. Today, Romney bizarrely congratulated a Google employee on the size of their lava lamp. Santorum declared he doesn't care about the unemployment rate but still managed to raise $9 million during February, according to FEC reports released tonight. Mitt Romney also completed a human-action and did his laundry today.
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"The Door in the Mountain" by Caitlin Sweet is another book for the ChiTeen imprint of ChiZine Publications but this one looked like it was going to be something completely different than my first venture into the imprint. With the somewhat sinister minotaur on the cover, this looked like it could be a much darker book than "Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn't Fly" as well as one that is grounded in Greek mythology. As with any ChiZine book, I was eager to dig in.
Ariadne live in the world of ancient Crete in which the legends have come to life. The people are favored by the gods and every member of Ariadne's family has the mark of a god that gives a special power. Everyone has a god mark, that is, except for Ariadne. This turns her into a very bitter person who is always looking for a way in which to get revenge on those around her for receiving a god's blessing when she was left out. Her chance comes when King Minos son is killed and it is only right for him to demand retribution.
Ariadne quickly acts to ensure that she will be in control of the situation. Minos demands a tribute of human sacrifices for his son's death. Ariadne's brother, Asterion, had the ability to turn into a bull but he has no control over the power. Minos decrees that the young sent to be his sacrifice will be put in a maze to be hunted by Asterion, who is now known as the Minotaur. All seems to be going well for Ariadne. She has the king under her thumb and her brother locked away. Things are not always as they seem.
The first thing that I will say about "The Door in the Mountain" is that it is very well written. Sweet goes into lavish detail when describing the characters and setting as well as in correlating the events of the story with their mythological precedents. There is a strong focus on imagery that makes the story almost come alive as the reader can easily imaging being in the fictional world that she creates. Unfortunately, all of this lavish detail is ultimately a detriment to the actual story as there really is very little that happens in the story and the action almost seems like an afterthought. There were times in the story when I just wanted something to happen only but the story continued to amble along at a snail's pace. This book is rich in writing but I thought that it was missing the element of strong storytelling that would have made it a compelling read.
"The Door in the Mountain" is a good book that I think may appeal to others more than it did to me. It is also the first in a series and I have a feeling that the next book may be better than this one. There was definitely too much time spent on trying to form the characters and place them in the mythology and this is something that should not be needed in the next book which will allow it to flow much easier. I also think that this is a strange pick to be printed under the ChiTeen imprint as I really don't see this as a book for younger readers. This is a very dark book full of some very nasty people and filled with dark and brooding themes that I found myself get lost in at times and I would imagine it would be difficult for some younger readers to follow the string of the story. While I did not dislike the book per se, I did not enjoy it as much as I have come to expect from a ChiZine novel. Since the book is so well written, I would expect it to appeal to other readers more than me as just a function of personal preference and would not discourage anyone from giving it a read. I will, in fact, pick up the sequel once it is released to see where the story will lead.
I would like to thank ChiTeen and NetGalley for this advance review copy. "The Door in the Mountain" is scheduled to be released by ChiTeen in October.


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Through employing molecular biology approaches (cloning and altering the virus genome) alongside bioimaging and animal models of infection, he hopes to better understand the basic biology of this - and other - viruses. Just a little bit more than we do now.
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Connor is currently a PhD student at Queen's University, Belfast in Northern Ireland. Him and the group he works with are a part of the recently established Centre for Infection & Immunity in the School of Medicine. Here, he is attempting to understand how certain viruses cause disease in humans, in particular the virus that causes mumps. What this actually means is that he plays around a lot of building big pieces of DNA, makes viruses glow in the dark and puts said viruses onto anything he can find.
In his spare time he likes to think and write about all the ways that viruses interact with their hosts. This is why he set up this blog.
If you want to contact him you can email him at: connorggbamford at gmail dot com
Connor first became interested in science when he was a teenager studying both biology and chemistry. Looking to continue this he went on to complete a degree in Molecular Biology focusing on genetics and microbiology.
During his time in university he got the chance to do some actual research and following his first year he worked with the ecology group Operation Wallacea in the Sinai Desert of Egypt. Here he helped with basic ecological surveying of multitudes of plants and animals, including some rare Egyptian bats and insects. In an attempt to focus more on the molecular side of biology, Connor went on to spend two summers working at Belfast's Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology as a research intern looking at the development of a certain kind of leukaemia in a mouse model. To top off his experience of proper science, for his final year Honours dissertation Connor moved back to ecology and looked at the particular modes of speciation of fish in lakes across Ireland. This would involve sequencing genes from a large number of fish, building very big evolutionary trees and coming up with ideas to explain why they looked the way they did. Turns out it was sympatric.
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Politics School for Women
It's hard to tell whether Mala Thao really eats potato chips with such gusto or if it's just part of her act. The women gathered around her want to run for office, and Thao leads a role-playing exercise, teaching the group to coax campaign contributions from busy, distracted voters. A professional fundraiser, poker player, and actress, Thao is a natural to lead the toughest drill of this three-day training camp for women entering politics. In a small conference room at a suburban Minneapolis hotel, she opens an imaginary door to one would-be politician after another. Each woman makes eye contact, extends a hand, and launches into an earnest exposition of her views. As they drone on about education, health insurance, or criminal justice, Thao barely nods, just crunches more energetically on her chips.
After the first six women strike out, another prospect knocks. This one starts casually, with a question about Thao's family. Thao pushes aside the chips and looks up. A few chatty moments later, the candidate strikes pay dirt: She once taught at the same high school from which Thao graduated. A connection is made! Thao writes out a pretend check.
This is just the victory scene envisioned by the organizers behind the session, a national nonpartisan group called the White House Project, which devotes much of its energy to getting more women into the political pipeline. There are dozens of similar groups, some nonpartisan, some Democratic or Republican, some working with candidates who come from the business world, or candidates of a particular ethnicity or those running in a single state. One lesson: how to convert a wish to "change things" or "get involved'' into campaign skills — and money. The Minneapolis hotel scene is the kind that will play out across the country between now and November 4, 2008, when, organizers hope, the best and the brightest women will sweep to victory.
Aren't We There Yet?
You'd think that such concerted efforts would be obsolete by now. With Hillary Rodham Clinton and Nancy Pelosi flexing political muscle in Washington and governors such as Alaska Republican Sarah Palin and Kansas Democrat Kathleen Sebelius making national headlines, women seem to have arrived at their political moment. Many more, most notably Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, are in top policy and appointed positions.
Still, some 40 years after a new wave of feminism spurred women to stake their claim to office, only nine of the nation's 50 governors are women, and women occupy little more than 16 percent of Congressional seats: 16 of 100 in the Senate and 73 of 433 seats in the House (with two seats temporarily vacant). Clinton and Pelosi are making history, but their high profile throws into relief the small number of women who've actually made it. In 2001, the number of women elected to state and local offices (the best national launching pad) actually dropped.
Stanford law professor Deborah Rhode has dubbed it the no-problem problem: If everyone believes that women have power equal to men, no one will try to change the fact that they don't. "The minute you say we've arrived, you start going backward,'' says Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, 49, a Democrat. "We're still traveling.''
Certainly, some women find their way into office without intervention. Pelosi, 67, and Sebelius, 59, grew up in political households. "I always thought that was what families did in the fall — they went door-to-door and put up yard signs," Sebelius says. Some governors and senators entered politics as prosecutors, running for county or state attorney. Republican Martha Rainville, 49, who ran for Congress in Vermont in 2006, is a retired air force major general. She lost her race and took a high-level post at FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Supporters hope she'll run again in 2008.
Still, the trickle-up approach — waiting for women to show up, run, and win — won't get us to critical mass. Marie C. Wilson, founder and president of the White House Project says, "We realized that we had to take action to get more women into the political pipeline. We needed to turn the drip into a stream.'' And that means attacking a reality that many strategists hadn't wanted to acknowledge: Even women with the talent, drive, and moxie to clear every hurdle in other fields aren't as likely as men to picture themselves as political candidates, let alone victors.
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, 48, now in her second term, hates the shrinking violet image. "I don't mean to be stereotypical,'' she says, "but it's not often our first instinct to say, 'I'm going to run for this office; I'm going to talk about myself; I'm going to put myself out there.' "
Even as a high-profile prosecutor, Granholm needed lots of encouragement to make her first run, for state attorney general on the Democratic ticket, in 1998. She laughs now, but she says she couldn't shake the sound of her mother's voice in her head, saying things like: " 'Don't talk about yourself, don't ask for money from strangers, don't wear good clothes every day' — all of which you have to do on a daily basis as a political official."
Sebelius, too, needed coaxing, despite her childhood among politicians and a master's degree in public policy. And she sees women in their 20s and 30s today repeating the pattern. Ask for volunteers for an exciting new project, she says, and "guys who are as dumb as a desk will have their hands in the air, saying, 'Take me, I'm ready.' Women think, 'When I take the next three accounting courses, then I'll be ready.'"
Uncovering Political Candidates
So if not enough women nominate themselves, women's groups have to rout them out. They keep their eyes peeled for likely candidates at grassroots events and pore over lists of volunteers and donors. The WISH List, a group for pro-choice Republican women, recruits members through direct mail campaigns and fund-raising events and scouts for likely candidates at all levels of government.
In June, the Women's Campaign Forum, a nonpartisan pro-choice group, launched a Web-based recruiting drive inspired by the idea that every woman has at some point said of a friend or acquaintance, "That woman should be running this town'' — or state or country. Anyone who wants to nominate a woman she knows — or herself — can go to the WCF Web site, sheshouldrun.org, and post the name. The WCF contacts nominees, vets them, and tries to get the best prospects started on a political career. In the campaign's first six weeks, the WCF got 500 nominations.
"There's no one resume'' for a first-time political candidate, says Ilana Goldman, president of the WCF. Historically, most Americans elected to high office have started young and won a first race by 35. But midlife women turn out to be great candidates: They have rich skills and experience, comfort in their own skin and good stories to tell. Still, women "do need someone to say to them, 'Hey, I really see you as a leader,'" Goldman says. "The third-party validation means so much."
Judy Solano, a member of the Colorado legislature and acting chair of its education committee, was a particularly hard sell. When Solano retired from teaching four years ago at 54, her friends and family knew her as someone with strong opinions about education and years of experience volunteering in the Adams County Democratic Party.
Her husband, Manuel Solano, planted the idea that she should run for state office, but she demurred. He even brought it up at a Halloween party in front of three women already in the state legislature. "I could have killed him,'' she says.
But a few days later, one of the women, then-Representative (and now Senator) Lois Tochtrop, called Solano to push the issue. "I'm really not the one," Solano recalls protesting. "I'm just not." Tochtrop wouldn't relent. "Just let me have breakfast with you." After that meal, Solano says, she realized that ordinary people have to step forward, because they bring ordinary life experience into politics. Three months later, she launched her winning campaign.
Getting Ready to Run
Solano was reelected in 2006 and is now a regular at White House Project sessions, where she tells her story and coaches newbies. Many workshops use freshly minted politicians to help break down what seems a daunting process into doable chunks. "Meeting other women who have done it really demystifies it," says Ellen Moran, executive director of EMILY's List, a pioneering women's political group founded in 1985.
Turning raw recruits into campaign-ready pros starts with the basics. There's "the pivot," for instance. Caught off guard or faced with a hostile question, a candidate learns to steer conversation quickly back to the theme she wants to talk about. Some of the tricks come from what was once called assertiveness training: At a WISH List session in Arizona, trainers pushed participants to project authority by not letting the inflection in their voices go up or trail off at the end of a sentence.
Some techniques are particularly relevant for women. Strategists say that voters still need help seeing women as authorities. So they recommend that women wear tailored suits — even if a male politician can campaign in khakis — and use settings such as state capitol buildings for press conferences and campaign ads.
At the same time, experienced politicians urge new candidates or officeholders to get comfortable with the idea that they are seeking power, or actually have it and can use it. "Be ambitious, think big,'' says Kamala Harris, 42, the first woman to be San Francisco DA. She learned to speak out, she has said, from her feminist mother and from her grandmother, who, in the 1940s, drove through villages in her homeland, India, with a bullhorn, urging women to use birth control. Harris, a Democrat, has just announced her run for reelection, and some supporters hope her next run will be for state attorney general.
Family also remains an issue for women on the campaign trail. In trainings, women rehearse how to handle questions about whether they're neglecting husbands or children. But Republican Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito, 54, reelected in her West Virginia district four times, tells women to use their "natural advantage'' over men in this area. "We can make a more instant connection with the heart and soul issues of a family."
Candidates' Challenges
Concerned that women are more likely than men to drop out of politics after a loss, strategists and trainers make a point of supporting women who've lost races and helping them retool.
In 2004, Dianne Primavera lost her first race for the Colorado statehouse. Looking back at the campaign, she says, she was just making it up as she went along, relying mostly on her resume. She had worked her way up in state government, survived breast cancer and divorce, and was raising two children on her own.
But last year, during a three-day White House Project training course, Primavera was struck by just how much her campaign had been missing: a clear strategy, eye-catching campaign literature, and the right way to frame her personal experience.
In the first race, she had talked about breast cancer but wasn't sure how to handle it. This time, Primavera, 57, brought the topic front and center, pushing her own strength in battling the disease and spelling out how her professional experience — she had managed state medical programs — made her an ideal healthcare candidate. A Democrat in a Republican district, she won her second race by 858 votes, about 51 to 49 percent.
The network of money, people, and support that helped her win reminds Primavera of how her father used to talk about the Democratic "machine" that kept the party in power in Chicago. "I could never picture that machine," she says. "Now I know. It's a machine that got me elected."
A year from now, women's groups will be able to gauge their success by counting how many women are on ballots throughout the country. But if terrorism and war remain high on the national agenda, candidates will face what may be their biggest challenge: a persistent voter confidence gap.
Research by the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, a nonpartisan group that supports women in politics, showed that both men and women find male candidates more credible on topics like terrorism or war. But women can't simply match what men do. For example, voters might recoil if women use hawkish language. They'll be more receptive, strategists say, if women translate security concerns into messages about public health and infrastructure.
The White House Project's Real Security Initiative is trying to help women candidates find their voice on this issue. It teaches basic security topics such as the defense budget and helps women tailor their national security message to their own constituency. Republican Susan Collins, 54, is an outspoken member of the Senate's Armed Services and Homeland Security committees. She urges women to seek out such assignments.
As governors, Arizona's Janet Napolitano and Kansas's Kathleen Sebelius are commanders in chief of their states' National Guard. That has given the women, both Democrats, unusual opportunities to literally show the flag. Sebelius won reelection in 2006 with the help of media footage showing her in a Black Hawk helicopter, on the ground in Iraq and at a welcome-home ceremony, kissing a baby held up to the camera by the child's father, a soldier in uniform.
Visibility on hard-core issues other than the military also helps candidates counter stereotypes and build authority. Arizona's Napolitano has been aggressive on border security, for example. Education may be her top priority as governor, she says, "but if all I did was talk about education, I would be superintendent of public education."
Republican Sarah Palin, the youngest person (at 42) and first woman to be elected governor of Alaska, has long been building a battle-tough image. She ran against "the old boys' network" in the 1996 contest for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, and later served as the chair of Alaska's powerful Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. The press picked up on her nickname from her high school basketball days, "Sarah Barracuda.'' Palin is a favorite with some conservative bloggers who would like to see her on the 2008 presidential ticket.
The Maine Effect
How will we know when women reach critical mass? The obvious answer: when they hold 50 percent of political offices. But big change can happen short of that. The more women there are in office, the more mentors there are available to coach and inspire newcomers, and the more voters can get comfortable with the image of a woman in charge. It's no coincidence that states like Maine and Kansas have women in prominent positions now — they were among the first to elect women.
When she was 18, Maine's Collins, on a youth trip to Washington, D.C., met Senator Margaret Chase Smith. Like many pioneering women in Congress, Smith succeeded her late husband, filling his seat in 1940. But the former schoolteacher went on to serve four terms in the House and become the first woman elected to the Senate in her own right.
The day young Collins visited, Smith invited the student into her private office for a two-hour chat. Collins remembers that Smith talked about standing tall for your beliefs and gave her a copy of her famous "Declaration of Conscience" speech against McCarthyism. When Collins emerged, she remembered thinking, women can do anything.
One on one, women in politics inspire other women every day. The activist and support groups just want to accelerate and build on that natural process. Primavera, one of the White House Project's success stories, recently brought to work with her a dozen Colorado women who were curious to see her in action. They sat in on a policy meeting and watched Primavera present a bill on the floor.
In her first year in office, she sponsored 13 measures, not the usual three bills recommended for freshmen. Eleven passed, including one that requires health insurance companies to pay for the vaccine that helps prevent cervical cancer.
"When I'm in my house with the kids, walking around in my fuzzy slippers," Primavera says, "I just feel like me, Joe-Ann Citizen." But these women saw Primavera in her new element: striding through the marble halls of the gold-domed statehouse. That's the kind of image that should inspire dreams, ambitions — and candidacies.
Resources for Women in Politics
Ready to run or know someone who should? Start here.
The Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University
Nonpartisan. Sponsors Ready to Run workshops and sessions tailored for Latina, African-American, and Asian women. (732-932-9384)
Emily's List
Democratic, pro-choice. Runs Political Opportunity Program for aspiring women candidates or campaign operatives. Offers financial and tactical support for endorsed candidates. (202-326-1400)
The White House Project
Nonpartisan. Promotes women in politics and other fields. Trains candidates; offers national security workshops. (212-261-4400)
The WISH List
Republican, pro-choice. Offers financial support to endorsed candidates. Recruits and trains women at all levels of government. (800-756-9474)
Women's Campaign Forum
Nonpartisan, pro-choice. Sponsors sheshouldrun.org recruiting drive. Offers conference-call and one-on-one briefings with experienced politicians. Funds endorsed candidates early in their careers. (202-393-8164)
Susan B. Anthony List
Nonpartisan, anti-abortion. Supports female anti-abortion candidates for Congress. (703-875-3370)
Originally published in MORE magazine, October 2007.


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Release Date: 2001-01-19 (Sundance '01)
Genre: Drama,
Rating: NR
Duration: 1hr 44min
Our tale begins in the dusty, timeless provinces of Brazil's picturesque northeast. Dolores, not the most youthful or beauteous flower in God's garden but a willful and ebullient spirit, is abandoned at the altar. Barefoot and pregnant, she storms off in search of a husband only to return solo three years later, son in tow, for her mother's burial. When a crusty old neighbor, Osias, offers to take her hand, she accepts in a gesture of pure pragmatism. But within a short while, she finds herself miserable, pregnant, and enslaved to the unaffectionate brute. Slowly, Dolores discovers the resolve to seize life on her own terms and, through an intricate series of partnerings and hammock hoppings, manages to satisfy her every whim and fancy and successfully meld the perfect man.
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Regina Case, Stenio Garcia, Lima Duarte, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Nilda Spencer
- Directed by Andrucha Waddington
- Produced by Leonardo M de Barros, Pedro B de Hollanda, Andrucha Waddington
- Written by Elena Soarez
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Evelyn Sanguinetti is the nominee for lieutenant governor of Illinois, running on the Republican ticket with Bruce Rauner, and the hope is that she lead a "Latino coalition" for Rauner, as reported today by the Chicago Sun Times. The coalition could unravel quicker than it started, because Sanguinetti leads the "Latino coalition". The Chicago Elections Examiner has learned that that the Facebook profile account of Sanguinetti has been deleted. A search for the former Facebook page results in this message: "Sorry, this page isn't available. The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed."
In a Google cache of her former Facebook page, we may have some hints to what Sanguinetti is hiding, and why Rauner would not want this loose cannon on his team giving her opinions on political matters or leading "Latino coalitions."
What could Evelyn Sanguinetti be hiding from the voting public by deleting her Facebook? Is Bruce Rauner behind the deletion of the Facebook page? The answer to that question can only be, "Of course he is."
There may signs that Bruce Rauner and his team may be growing weary of Evelyn Sanguinetti as the running mate, as this recent incident showed. Evelyn Sanguinetti was interviewed by Hola America TV and asked about the role of the Illinois lieutenant governor. It was clear from her response that she misunderstands that role.
The response caught the attention of Capitol Fax's Rich Miller, who posted a couple of weeks ago that Bruce Rauner's running mate is "Truly unclear on the concept" on what her role might be in the office of lieutenant governor, should she and Rauner get elected this November.
Evelyn Sanguinetti said about the role, "Depends on the governor. It's up to the governor to give us a role. And so with Bruce Rauner we're going to work as a team. I will be his partner. And wherever he's not, I will be able to make decisions in his stead. And it's a great deal for the taxpayer because we'll both be working hand in hand with one another."
Rich Miller commented that "If she's gonna have gubernatorial powers, perhaps the Rauner campaign ought to explain what those would be."
The campaign was forced to back pedal and the fact that the campaign had to comment, is a clear sign of problems with her. Rauner spokesman Mike Schrimpf interpreted the remarks made by Evelyn Sanguinetti as to the role of the lieutenant governor, according to a report by Natasha Korecki of the Chicago Sun Times. "What Evelyn meant is that she and Bruce will be totally in sync that she could walk into any meeting and clearly represent his views on any given issue," Schrimpf said.
Why did Sanguinetti delete her facebook page?
One possible reason, for example, is that Sanguinetti "liked" a page, the movie "2016: Obama's America". Dinesh D'souza, a felon who was convicted of violating federal campaign finance laws, produced this movie. The movie is an extremist, highly charged racist attack on President Obama, and strongly suggested that the President of the United States is anti-American, who wants to weaken America. It also rehashes the Fox News-inspired, racist attempts to tie him to Reverend Jeremiah Wright, similar to the shots taken at Obama in 2008 by another failed running mate, Sarah Palin.
Evelyn Sanguinetti also "liked" a fan page titled "I will NOT vote for Obama in 2012". There is nothing wrong with opposing a candidate, but this page is another an extremist, right wing and clearly racist page. More despicable than the Obama movie, most articles are racist in nature and are about African-Americans committing crimes, and users leaving racist comments that are left undeleted by the page administrators.
One disgusting racist photo is of President Obama, which includes a picture that puts Obama's face on a urinal cake. Another photo is of Obama burning the United States Constitution. Yet a couple of other pages are bumper stickers that call Obama an "Ass" and a "Moron".
Worst of all, the page even disrespected women, promulgating the Republican "War on Women." The page takes it out on First Lady Michelle Obama. This raises the question: Would the women involved in the so-called "Latino coalition" really want their names attached to Sanguinetti?
So basically, we have the woman that Bruce Rauner picked to be his running mate, and who wants to be the Lieutenant Governor of President Obama's home state. A woman who could end up becoming the governor one day, with racist and extremist "likes."
Also "likes" a movie that attacks the President as un-American, and a nauseating, racist page that insults the President and First Lady in the most subhuman ways possible, making Ted Nugent "subhuman mongrel cracks" seems tame.
That seems like a pretty good explanation for why the Rauner campaign may have asked Evelyn Sanguinetti to delete her Facebook page. It is just as much about what has been posted, as it is about what might be posted going forward, since she seems a loose cannon.
There is one more possibility and that is trying to hide the relationship between Evelyn Sanguinetti, and the tea party extremist, Canadian-born Texas Senator, Ted Cruz, as reported by the Wheaton Patch. It was Cruz that led the federal government shutdown last October, in an attempt to "repeal" President Obama's highly successful Affordable Care Act, in which 8 million plus Americans signed up on the insurance marketplaces and ACAsignups.net estimates that up to 16 million signing up for the Individual Qualified Health Plans (QHPs).
Add to that total, another nearly 9 million poor low-income and underprivileged Americans, who are now covered under the Affordable Care Act's "Medicaid cash expansion."
It was Cruz who wanted to roll back this law and use the federal government shutdown as leverage. Presumably, Evelyn Sanguinetti supports Cruz in those efforts. The Wheaton Patch article also quotes Sanguinetti saying about Cruz, "To have a fellow Hispanic Republican of such national significance speak with us and communicate a vision of hope and opportunity is a big deal"
"Hope and opportunity is a big deal" is a stunning description of Cruz that simply doesn't hold water. In fact, Cruz is an anti-immigrant, anti-gay and anti-women's rights kind of guy. Not the kind of person to lead a "Latino coalition," it would seem.
Can Sarah Palin be far behind or stop by during the campaign to see the extremist Sanguinetti?
On the other hand, it was Bruce Rauner that skipped an event in Moline because of the tinges of racism. Rauner was to attend a Rock Island County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner where the Rev. Donald Johnson of Rock Island's Destiny Baptist Church was to speak. Rev. Johnson made vile attacks against President Obama and Rauner passed on the event. Rauner called for the GOP chairman of Winnebago County to resign, because he emailed a racist joke about Barack Obama, so the question is, "How will Rauner react to his own running mate liking that same extremist message with her now-deleted Facebook page?"
The Rauner campaign has its own Facebook page, and through it can control its message, without having to read about some anti-Obama remarks and posting related to the page. Can Rauner and his team trust the candidacy of his running mate, Evelyn Sanguinetti? Is she a Sarah Palin in disguise? Can the so-called "Latino coalition" survive, led by Sanguinetti?
Rauner has many other challenges ahead in trying to unseat an incumbent governor, including his explanation of how his daughter leapfrogged 6800 other Chicago high school freshman applicants, in gaining entry to only 200 slots at Walter Payton College Prep. Or explaining the GTCR nursing home investments that went bad, resulting in patient deaths. Or the truth about the relationship with Stuart Levine, the federal convict.
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Release year: 2010
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Director Reed Cowan initially planned on making a documentary about gay teen homelessness and suicide in Utah but soon realized that the homophobia that prompts otherwise loving parents to kick teenagers out of their homes is deep-seated in current Mormon ideology. Cowan, with his fellow filmmakers, experienced first-hand what it was like to grow up gay in Utah in the Mormon faith, then turned their attention to the historic campaign by the Mormon Church to pass Proposition 8 in California believing that it was the cornerstone of an ideology that has worked for decades "to damage gay people and their causes." The film is their emotional outcry to what they found.
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