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The Journal provides minute-by-minute analysis of the Fiesta Bowl between the Wildcats and Ducks. Pete McEntegart offers commentary on the game and ESPN telecast.
For a week there in mid-November, Kansas State and Oregon seemed destined to meet in the BCS national championship game. After Alabama lost to Texas A&M on Nov. 12, the Wildcats and Ducks were both 10-0 and the top two ranked teams in the country. The night of Nov. 17 changed all that. Kansas State lost at Baylor while Oregon was upset at home by Stanford, allowing Notre Dame to jump from No. 3 to the top spot and Alabama to climb back into the top two. So while the Irish and Crimson Tide will compete for crystal on Monday night, tonight's Fiesta Bowl has landed a terrific consolation prize: the Ducks and Wildcats playing for all the Tostitos.
Beyond the teams' matching 11-1 records, it's the contrast in styles that led many to circle this game as soon as the bowl schedule was released. Under coach Chip Kelly — who most expect will be graduating to the NFL after tonight — the Ducks are flashy in both style and substance. Kelly's hurry-up attack averages 550 yards and 50.8 points per game, perhaps in part because the Ducks' garish uniforms makes it hard for defenders to even look at them, never mind tackle them.
Kansas State, meanwhile, is led by 73-year-old coach Bill Snyder, who isn't going anywhere after building this program from scratch on two separate occasions. Whereas the Oregon offense resembles a track team, the Wildcats roll out a 6-foot-5, 226-pound bruiser of a quarterback named Collin Klein who would look right at home running the single-wing.
Kelly's Oregon teams have only lost seven games in four seasons, but four of those came in season openers or bowl games. That has led to the theory that opponents can better handle the Ducks' unique attack when given more time to prepare. Of course, those losses have also all come against highly ranked teams with excellent rushing defenses, like Stanford's in November. For the record, Kansas State is 16th in the nation against the run, allowing 119.2 yards a game. The Ducks figure to blow through that figure before halftime. But the real question might be just how much Oregon's rabbits can run away from the tortoises before Kansas State's hard shell starts dishing out the in-close punishment.
Oregon wins the toss and, in true Chip Kelly style, wants the ball. The Ducks are wearing what for them are relatively modest uniforms, with green pants and white tops. The jerseys are tricked-up a bit with numbers and shoulder accents that appear to reflect light. Snazzy. We're about to kick off.
8-0 Oregon, 1st Quarter, 14:48 left
Touchdown, Ducks! That didn't take long. DeAnthony "Black Mamba" Thomas returns the opening kickoff 94 yards for the score. Frankly, it's hard to believe that took 12 seconds. Wow! Then Kelly goes for two, and the ball is direct-snapped diagonally to defensive end Dion Jordan from a wacky formation, and Jordan barrels in for the two points. Of course.
8-0 Oregon, 1st Quarter, 13:30 left
Tyler Lockett turns in a nice kickoff return of his own but can't quite match the Mamba. Wildcats start from the 32. On third and 2, Klein hits Lockett in the left flat after the Ducks stack the box to defend a potential Klein keeper. First down to the Oregon 48.
8-0 Oregon, 1st Quarter, 11:51 left
The Ducks D holds on fourth and 1 as Klein can't find any room on a keeper up the middle. That came after Klein misfired on a deep out on third and 1 rather than run himself, which Oregon is clearly selling out to stop. The Ducks take over on their own 39.
8-0 Oregon, 1st Quarter, 11:00 left
Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota shows his big-time wheels by scrambling for the first down on third and 8 to move into KSU territory.
8-0 Oregon, 1st Quarter, 8:54 left
Two Ducks penalties and some excellent gang tackling in the backfield by the Wildcats leaves Oregon in a fourth and 10 from midfield. Not even Kelly will go for this one. Jackson Rice's punt is returned a few tough yards by Tramaine Thomspon, who maybe should have called a fair catch. Klein will take over on his own 11.
8-0 Oregon, 1st Quarter, 7:29 left
On yet another third and short, Klein hands off to John Hubert. Good decision, as Hubert pounds ahead for the first down out near the 25.
8-0 Oregon, 1st Quarter, 5:47 left
Linebacker Michael Clay smacks Klein on third and 9 for the game's first sack. Bralon Addison unwisely grabs the bouncing punt on a big hop while in a crowd, leading Kelly to clearly mouth: "Don't do that!" No harm done, though, as Addison hung on. The Ducks will take over in excellent field position at their 45.
8-0 Oregon, 1st Quarter, 5:36 left
Thomas sprints around left end on the speed sweep — with an emphasis on "speed" — for 14 yards.
8-0 Oregon, 1st Quarter, 4:36 left
Mariota's arm has been erratic this far, but there's nothing wrong with his legs. He converts another third and long (this time third-and-7) with a sprint past the sticks. First down.
15-0 Oregon, 1st Quarter, 3:46 left
Touchdown, Ducks! The Black Mamba strikes again! Thomas takes a middle screen from Mariota and weaves his way through the Wildcats defense before stretching into the end zone. The officials take a look at it but the touchdown stands. This time Alejandro Maldonado makes a boring extra point to make it 15-0. The Wildcats have actually done a decent job defending every Duck except Thomas, who has killed them thus far.
15-0 Oregon, 1st Quarter, 3:38 left
Lockett reels off another nice kickoff return for KSU, this one to the 42. Klein and Co. better start converting that field position into points, because you know the Ducks are going to keep their foot on the gas.
15-0 Oregon, 1st Quarter, 2:31 left
Ducks defensive back Terrance Mitchell bails out the Wildcats on third and 11 when he clearly grabs wide receiver Chris Harper downfield on a ball that appeared to be well out of his reach. Pass interference. First down. Now running back Angelo Pease reverses field and picks up another first down to the Ducks 31.
15-0 Oregon, 1st Quarter, 1:33 left
Two more Pease runs put the ball at the 15. Second and 7. Wildcats cranking up their option game.
15-0 Oregon, End 1st Quarter
This time, on third and 3, Klein does call his own number and bulls his way up the gut for a gain of 5. That's been his trademark all year, but it's the first time we've seen it tonight. Or at least, it's the first time we've seen it work. The Wildcats have a first and goal from the 6 after the teams change sides to start the second quarter.
15-0 Oregon, 2nd Quarter, 14:00 left
After a defensive offsides moves the ball to the 3, two Klein runs lose a total of two yards. Third and goal from the 5.
15-7 Oregon, 2nd Quarter, 13:26 left
Touchdown, Wildcats! Klein scrambles from the 6 and beats defensive back Iko Ekpre-Olomu to the pylon. Actually, Ekpre-Olumu got to Klein before the end zone, but Klein shrugged off the attempted tackle. He's a strong guy. The extra point pulls KSU within 15-7. Who suggests a pooch kick rather than knocking it deep to the Mamba?
15-7 Oregon, 2nd Quarter, 13:20 left
Yes indeed, the Wildcats pooch the ball away from Thomas. Smart move. Ducks start this time from their 25, not the Kansas State end zone.
15-7 Oregon, 2nd Quarter, 11:57 left
Wooo! Mariota floats a pass to Barner sprinting down the sideline, but Barner somehow never saw it despite turning back. I'm not sure if he lost it in the lights or what, but he never located the ball and it fell harmlessly a few yards from him. Good thing for KSU, because Barner might have been gone. Instead, the Ducks punt again, and again Thompson tries to return a punt he should have fair caught and gets smacked around for his troubles. Ball is around the KSU 32.
15-7 Oregon, 2nd Quarter, 10:03 left
Two Klein completions sandwiching a 6-yard scramble give the Wildcats a first down at the Oregon 42. Then Klein calls KSU's first timeout as the play clock is about to expire. It's not hard to figure out which one of these teams plays hurry-up.
15-7 Oregon, 2nd Quarter, 9:30 left
Two more quick, short completions by Klein bring up another first down at the Ducks 32. Oregon still selling out to stop the run, and Klein is effectively countering that with the short pass on this drive.
15-7 Oregon, 2nd Quarter, 7:30 left
Klein throws again on third and 3, and this time wide receiver Chris Harper turns a short pass into a long gain by breaking the tackle of Ekpre-Olomu and sprinting to the 4-yard line. First and goal.
15-10 Oregon, 2nd Quarter, 5:21 left
The Ducks drive KSU back 4 yards on three runs, smothering Hubert for a loss of 5 on a well-defended option pitch on third and goal. That brings on Anthony Cantele to try a 25-yard field goal. The kick is up… and good!
15-10 Oregon, 2nd Quarter, 4:55 left
KSU pooches it away from the Mamba again, but this time Keanon Lowe finds a seam of his own and brings it back to the Oregon 44. Does anyone on the Ducks roster not have sprinter's speed?
15-10 Oregon, 2nd Quarter, 3:55 left
Big play! The Wildcats force a second straight three-and-out but Kelly refused to go out that meekly. Instead, he dialed up a fake punt, but Jackson Rice (the punter) took an option pitch and got absolutely smoked about 5 yards from the marker. So K-State takes over right at midfield.
15-10 Oregon, 2nd Quarter, 3:00 left
Harper sprints across the field on a crossing pattern and stiff-arms a defender to pick up 11 huge yards on third and 10. First down at the Oregon 27.
15-10 Oregon, 2nd Quarter, 1:00 left
Klein tries to draw the Ducks offsides on fourth and 1, but instead his left tackle Cornelius Lucas is the one who jumps. Oops. So Cantele must try a 40-yarder. The kick is up… and no good! Wide left. The Ducks take over with a minute left.
22-10 Oregon, 2nd Quarter, 0:14 left
Touchdown, Ducks! Mariota flips one to Barner in the right flat. Barner sees this one all the way and darts into the end zone from 23 yards out. The point-after makes it 22-10. What a drive — five plays, 77 yards in 0:46. Besides the touchdown, the big plays were two nice gains over the middle from Mariota to his tight end Colt Lyerla.
22-10 Oregon, Halftime
Klein heaves it downfield on the final play of the half, and the pass is picked off by safety Erick Dargan. The Ducks will sprint (these guys don't walk anywhere) into the locker room with a 22-10 lead.
22-10 Oregon, Halftime
The momentum swung wildly there late in the first half. After the Wildcats pulled to within 15-10 and stopped the Ducks on a fake punt, it seemed Snyder's boys were poised to take the lead. Instead, a false start on fourth-and-1 and a missed field goal gave Oregon the ball back on its own 23 with 1:00 left, and that's way too much time for the Ducks. After being corralled most of the half, Mariota finally got the passing game cranked up. In a blink of an eye, it was 22-10 Oregon. The Wildcats are not a quick-strike offense like the Ducks, so they can't afford to squander any more opportunities — starting with the second-half kickoff.
22-10 Oregon, 3rd Quarter, 14:15 left
Lockett is money as usual, returning the kick to the KSU 36. Then one play, one first down as Klein throws a strike to Thompson. Unfortunately, the Wildcats next have to burn a timeout. Ball is at the KSU 48.
22-10 Oregon, 3rd Quarter, 13:11 left
From there the Wildcats back up 3 yards and have to punt. Wasted opportunity No. 1 for the 'Cats. The punt is fair-caught by Addison at the 23.
22-10 Oregon, 3rd Quarter, 12:45 left
Ouch! Daryle Hawkins is separated from the football on a huge hit by defensive back Milo Jarrard. That brings up third and 11. Mariota picks it up with his legs once again, though, slipping 15 yards for the first down.
22-10 Oregon, 3rd Quarter, 11:21 left
Ducks now moving at a breakneck speed. Two Barner runs and a pass to the tight end and the ball is on the KSU 15. Now Mariota overthrows an open receiver in the end zone, and finally the Wildcats can take a breath.
25-10 Oregon, 3rd Quarter, 11:01 left
That quick breath proved to be just what the KSU defense needed, as Oregon can move no farther. Maldonado comes out on fourth and 10 to attempt a 32-yarder. The kick is up… and good! It's a 15-point game.
25-10 Oregon, 3rd Quarter, 10:51 left
For some reason, the Ducks keep kicking to Lockett, and he obliges by running it back to the 42. Now the Wildcats need to convert the field position into points.
25-10 Oregon, 3rd Quarter, 10:29 left
Klein throws three straight incompletions, and he was hit as he threw on the last two. The Wildcats are getting away from their game plan too early, in my never-coached-at-any-level opinion. On the resulting punt, Addison calls a fair catch but literally trips over KSU linebacker Jonathan Truman, who's flagged 15 yards for interference. That pushes the ball to the Ducks 38.
25-10 Oregon, 3rd Quarter, 10:15 left
Mariota keeps it on the option and bursts 32 yards to the KSU 29. The Ducks then sprint up to the line but are flagged for a false start, for which this can't-keep-up blogger thanks them. Whew!
25-10 Oregon, 3rd Quarter, 8:15 left
On third and 3 from the 7-yard line, Barner squirms through to the 2. First and goal. Wildcats starting to look gassed.
31-10 Oregon, 3rd Quarter, 8:03 left
Touchdown, Ducks! Mariota makes it look easy by gliding around left end to the pylon. Maldonado's extra point is blocked, so Oregon finally has a normal score. If KSU doesn't score soon, this could get out of hand.
32-10 Oregon, 3rd Quarter, 8:03 left
One-point safety for the Ducks! That's not a misprint. After the break, the officials revealed that Oregon actually scored a point on the conversion after all. That's because after the block, a Kansas State defender picked up the ball at about the 2 and backed into the end zone, where he flipped the ball to another Wildcat, who was tackled in the end zone. It turns out that's a one-point safety for the offense because the defender took the ball into the end zone. Who knew?
32-10 Oregon, 3rd Quarter, 6:23 left
The Wildcats go three-and-out again, and the air is going out of the KSU fan section, if it hasn't already been completely deflated. Addison calls another fair catch at the Oregon 20, and the Ducks' sprint relay team — excuse me, offense — will take the field again.
32-10 Oregon, 3rd Quarter, 4:56 left
Ooh! Josh Huff runs right by Randall Evans but can't hang on to Mariota's deep pass for what would've been a sure touchdown. Evans had grabbed Huff (ineffectively) as he ran by, though, so it's a penalty and automatic first down at the KSU 42.
32-10 Oregon, 3rd Quarter, 4:03 left
Mariota hands to Barner on fourth and 1 from the 33, and Barner sidles sidewise for the first down to the 30. You didn't think Kelly was going to kick, did you?
32-10 Oregon, 3rd Quarter, 1:35 left
Kelly goes for it again on fourth and 4, but this time Mariota remains hemmed in the pocket until he's sacked by linebacker Meshak Williams. That was a must stop by the Wildcats if they're to have any shot.
32-10 Oregon, End 3rd Quarter
Klein scrambles for his biggest run of the night, 16 yards to the Oregon 32, on the final play of the third quarter. The Wildcats need a touchdown, and fast. As in, Oregon-fast.
32-10 Oregon, 4th Quarter, 13:51 left
Klein keeps it on third and 1, and this is going to be close. The refs bring out the chains and it's a first down — barely. Ball is at the Oregon 22.
32-17 Oregon, 4th Quarter, 11:35 left
Touchdown, Wildcats! Hubert takes the shovel pass from Klein, makes a sharp cut to his left and goes into the end zone untouched from 10 yards out. KSU needed that badly. Cantele's conversion is good and the 'Cats are back within two scores.
32-17 Oregon, 4th Quarter, 11:28 left
The Wildcats do kick to the Black Mamba again but this time corral him at the Oregon 29. That's playing with fire. Or venom, I guess.
32-17 Oregon, 4th Quarter, 10:14 left
KSU forces a quick three-and-out as Mariota misfires for Thomas on third and 4. Thompson breaks a nice punt return but it's for naught — a block in the back will pin the Wildcats deep in their own territory.
32-17 Oregon, 4th Quarter, 9:25 left
Pease breaks a run for 14 yards to the 27. Oops, another false start on Lucas — his second and the third on KSU — moves it 5 yards back. And the clock ticks, ticks, ticks…
32-17 Oregon, 4th Quarter, 7:38 left
Lockett can't hang on to Klein's third-and-9 pass along the sideline and the Wildcats will punt. So that drive didn't get very far, and it took too long to not get there. KSU simply has to get in and out of plays quicker. Addison again trips over someone while making a fair catch, but this time it's a teammate. No matter — he catches it while lying flat on his back at the Oregon 37.
32-17 Oregon, 4th Quarter, 6:00 left
Two Barner runs result in a first down to out near midfield. Now Oregon is milking the clock, which is just weird to see. But even going slower between plays, Barner bursts 15 yards to the KSU 36. Of course, now the Ducks return to the no-huddle.
32-17 Oregon, 4th Quarter, 3:47 left
The Ducks are now running every play, and the 'Cats have no answer. The seventh run in a row sees Barner down to the 6-yard line.
32-17 Oregon, 4th Quarter, 2:30 left
The Wildcats call their second timeout as Oregon faces a fourth and 4 from the 6. You have to think Kelly will kick the field goal to make it a three-score lead, but who knows? Maybe he wants to go to the NFL in a blaze of go-for-it glory.
35-17 Oregon, 4th Quarter, 2:27 left
Field goal, Ducks! Kelly indeed sends Maldonado out and his kicker nails the 23-yarder. That puts this one away, if that wasn't the case already.
35-17 Oregon, 4th Quarter, 2:06 left
Interception! Klein heaves deep and is picked again by Dargan, just like at the end of the first half. Dargan makes a nice return to the KSU 31. The Ducks will basically run out the clock from here.
35-17 Oregon, Final
Mariota takes another knee, and this one is in the books. Oregon wins its second straight Bowl Championship Series bowl.
If that was indeed Kelly's final game as Oregon's head coach, he went out in style — and that style was his patented fast-break offense. The Wildcats actually did well to weather the opening-kickoff touchdown by the blur that is the Black Mamba, but when they could turn two promising second-quarter drives into only three points, the Ducks were off to the races. Mariota led a lightning-quick drive through the air just before the half to extend the lead to 22-10, and Oregon was never seriously threatened. After intermission, the tiring KSU defense could no longer keep running back Kenyon Barner in check, and a potential comeback by the noted second-half team never materialized. Kelly has now reached a BCS game in each of his four seasons as Oregon's head coach, winning the last two. If he leaves for the NFL in the next week, Ducks fans should tip their bills to him for a job well done.


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In response to community and client input, the Department of Public Health is extending clinic appointment hours, officials said in a news release Monday.
The change comes as a result from data gathered from the community through the department's online survey and from patient surveys.
The extended appointment hours will begin on Mondays starting March 4.
"We want to serve the community. Based on survey responses, we realized that a demand exists for extended hours," said Terri Arrington, QA/project coordinator. "By offering extended hours for clinic patient appointments, we give more flexibility to our clients."
Clinic appointments can be made by calling 828-692-4223 starting at 8 a.m. each weekday.
Immunization Clinic hours remain unchanged (8-11:30 a.m. and 1-4 p.m., Monday through Friday). Business hours for the Department of Public Health are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
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This year, Richmond County is cracking down to help students make healthier food choices in and out of school. (WRDW-TV / Aug. 12, 2011)
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AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Lunch time at Monte Sano Elementary School can get a little hectic. Students have three meal options a day and plenty of side choices.
"We have broccoli, kiwi and we just have a variety of fruits and vegetables for them," said Josephine Mack, director of Richmond County Schools' nutrition program.
She said this year the program is cracking down to help students make healthier food choices in and out of school.
"The whole idea is to furnish children with a nutritious meal and to expose them to good nutrition habits," she said.
This year the school district is following new food guidelines. The old pyramid is out and the food plate is in.
Cafeteria Manager Darlene Dickerson said she serves fewer sweets and uses more whole grains and veggies.
"They have more choices instead of bringing a lot of snack food that have a lot fat," she said.
But healthier choices have caused lunch prices to rise by 50 cents.
"You the saying it cost more to eat healthier," Dickerson said.
Mack says it's easier to qualify for free or reduced lunches with the rise in fees.
"After we get the application it goes through the process and then it is determined if it is free reduced or paid," she said.
It is still free for all Richmond County students to eat breakfast at school.
"We serve breakfast in all 56 schools and that is commendable for the board because we are always trying to do what is best for children," she said.
So far, the students at Monte Sano elementary are not complaining. We'll let you know how they do with the broccoli and kiwi.


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NEW MATAMORAS - No decision was made Thursday on the fate of Lawrence Elementary and the future of the Frontier Local school district, with board members and the administration saying there's not enough information to know the financial impact of any course of action.
Board members indicated last month they wanted to determine a direction at Thursday's meeting. But Superintendent Bruce Kidder said the unsettled state budget - including a new school-funding formula - leaves too many unknowns.
"Are they going to make a decision tonight? Probably not. Because I don't have all of the numbers I need," he said.
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The bulk of the meeting was still taken up by public discussion of the district's options. Residents agreed on little more than that the best interests of all students in the district should be pursued. Sharp disagreements arose over the best way to do so.
Supporters of Lawrence, the oldest building in the district with the smallest enrollment, want to see the school become a district-sponsored charter, or conversion, school. This would, for the most part, take Lawrence off the district's books as the school would be supported directly by state funding.
However, that's money that would have gone to Frontier - assuming the students attending the charter school would have remained in the district if the school was closed outright.
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"We would be throwing $250,000 out of our state money, not throwing it, but giving it to another option," said Steve Foutty, 45, of Newport. "Anything that we can do to avoid cuts, we ought to do ... because kids lose."
Some of those present questioned the charter plan because, as presented in figures at the March board meeting, it was expected to require one or two mills more in a levy than closing Lawrence and converting Newport and New Matamoras elementaries to K-3 and 4-6 buildings.
But former board member Dean Booth said that using new calculations, the charter option would not cost district residents any additional money and would likely secure Lawrence supporters' votes to pass a levy, something board members said the district needs no matter which scenario is pursued.
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The Frontier Local Board of Education plans to put an emergency levy on the November ballot.
The amount has not been determined because no decision on the shape of th district going forward has been made.
The board and administration officials say the unsettled state budget makes it impossible at this point to predict the economics of several possible courses of action.
Options being explored include making Lawrence Elementary a district-sponsored charter, or conversion, school; closing Lawrence and making Newport and New Matamoras grade-level-specific buildings; closing Lawrence and another elementary.
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"The beauty of giving Lawrence a chance and putting a community school out there is it would unite it with Frontier," Booth said.
Some of those in attendance suggested Lawrence supporters were threatening the district by saying they wouldn't vote for a levy if the school was closed.
Board President Justin Hoff said none of the scenarios presented - even closing Lawrence and another elementary - would negate the need for a levy.
"All these options cost money," he said. "Even if we go to one building, we're not saving enough to break even."
The one-elementary approach would require less millage than the other plans. However, Treasurer Frank Antill said the levy numbers provided in March were no longer being used and he had no estimates of how much a levy would be under any of the options due to the uncertainty over the state funding formula, which provides approximately 80 percent of the district's money.
Kelli Semon, 44, a resident of Benton Township, Monroe County, whose children attend New Matamoras Elementary through open enrollment, opposed the proposal to convert the other elementaries to grade-level buildings.
"I don't understand that at all because you're still going to have the same amount of kids," she said.
Kidder said closing Lawrence would divert those students who remained in the district to the other elementaries, potentially pushing some classes over 30 students. No grade would have more than 60 though, which means the district could use two teachers per grade - if every student in the grade was in the same building.
"Then I have both third-grade teachers in the same place at the same time," he said. "If 22 of them are up here and 38 of them are down there, I've got to hire a third teacher."
On average, salary and benefits for a teacher cost the district about $50,000 a year.
Semon asked whether closing Lawrence would free up enough money to afford the extra teachers needed.
"All the money you're going to save there, why not leave the two grade schools the way they are?" she said.
In response to a question from Semon, Kidder said going to grade-level buildings would increase the time students spend on school buses by an average of 18 to 20 minutes. Some parents balked at that, but Booth pointed out that's also why Lawrence supporters want to keep their school open.
"A kid inconvenienced at Lawrence ... should be the same concern as an inconvenience of a kid at Newport having to go to New Matamoras," he said.
Foutty, a teacher in another area district, said his objections to the plan were based strictly on educational issues - having Lawrence students in classes consisting of two or three grade levels and using district resources to keep Lawrence's small class sizes while students at New Matamoras and Newport sometimes are in classes of 30.
"I think small schools are the best," he said. "But I don't think that's fair to all the kids in the district."
Booth said parents who want their children in smaller classes have always had the option of attending Lawrence through open enrollment and still would. However, the distance to travel and not being in their own community are usually cited as reasons why they don't choose to do so, he said.
Also speaking against the charter school plan was Rachel Jordan McElfresh, field representative for the region's Ohio Association of Public School Employees union. She pointed to statistics that show 64 percent of charter schools are classified under academic watch or emergency on state report cards, compared to just 9 percent of public schools.
Kidder said a conversion school, a specific type of charter sponsored by a school district, are different from charters run by for-profit companies. And Booth suggested Jordan McElfresh's main concern was charter employees eventually voting to leave the union.
"The only thing that this lady's concerned about is de-certifying," he said.
Jordan McElfresh denied that.
"We want to have good jobs in this district," she said.
Kidder said the union could vote to de-certify but more union jobs would be lost immediately if Lawrence closed. And even if the jobs at the charter school were no longer union, they likely still would be filled by area residents, he said.
"Either way, community members are going to have a job," Kidder said.
Board member Jeff Lauer said residents will ultimately decide the shape of the district by how they vote on whatever levy is placed on the November ballot.
"If you say no, then things are going to change for everybody," he said.
"Then we as a board have no choice but to make the very hard decisions to make this district stay financially afloat," Lauer said. "If you want to keep what you have, it's going to cost us. All."


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1. Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals
My Big, Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs) are:
- Revolutionize computer science education by making it highly
individualized and experiential. - Become a world-famous expert on creating systems for planning one's life. Instead of pushing a particular methodology, I'd like to work with people's current ways of planning, suggesting improvements and software/hardware to support their life.
I'm at the 1st Philippine Blogging Summit right now with my BHAGs firmly in mind. It's _amazing._
The first person I talked to was J. Angelo Racoma, an old friend from my BBSing days. After chatting about blogging, talk turned to what we're both up to. He told me about his work at http://i.ph . I told him about my BHAGs.
It turned out that his wife is into tutoring, and one of the things they're planning to do in the future is set up a tutoring portal to help students, parents and tutors find each other. Neato. That looks like a great fit for what I want to do. =)
As I explained my BHAG for teaching and training to him, I realized that one of the things I really, really, really care about is quality assurance for teachers and tutors. I firmly believe that it's not just about technical knowledge, but it's also about teaching and communication skills. I don't think we're paying enough attention to that, and I think that's a compelling sales point.
I also got to meet Gabriel Narciso.
He started by asking me if I was still into open source. Of
course! He then asked me if there was a native version of
Let's say that again. Wow!
_That's_ why you should practice talking about your BHAGs until you can squeeze it into a small-talk conversation. Joey Gurango told us how wannabe entrepreneurs would give him two-inch-thick business proposals and expect him to have the time or interest in reading them. He said that's entirely the wrong way to do that. You start with your 90-second elevator pitch. You get people interested. Then you go for your executive summary--the shorter, the better. You get people hooked. When you get them hooked, _then_ you hit them with the business proposal.
BHAGs work the same way. Refine them until you get a sound bite. Say it with confidence and passion. Get them hooked. Explain the rest over lunch another day!
コンピューターが使えたらもっとお金をもらえるかもしれないのに。 They might pay me more if I could use a computer.
2. Structuring content
What do I write about that other people might find useful/interesting?
- Emacs-related stuff
- Personal information management and productivity
- ShortStories and FlashFiction
- Teaching reflections (haven't been posting anything on this lately)
How do I currently organize things?
- <notes> tag and cross-referencing notes on a topic page
- Emacs-related stuff: emacs, planner, PlannerMode, EmacsHacks, EmacsTips
- PIM and productivity: LifeHacks
- Teaching reflections: TeachingReflections, TeachingIdeas
- Topic-related RSS feeds: ../wiki/emacs.rdf, ../wiki/planner.rdf, ../wiki/education.rdf, ../wiki/flash.rdf
However, my wiki is not as organized and easy-to-read as it can be. It's difficult for people to find Emacs-related code and posts, for example. There are a lot of posts all over the place. I need to make it easy for people to browse titles so that they can get an idea of the things I blog about as well as spot something possibly useful. Articles should also be linked to previous articles in the same topic.
The "Recent topics" thing in my sidebar is a good start. That way, people who visit my page instead of using an aggregator will be able to see a list of posts even if I skip days.
Hmmm... I wonder how I can improve the way things are organized, not only for people who read this on my site but also for people who aggregate things...
コンピューターのおかげで多くの時間と手間が省ける。 Computer save us a lot of time and trouble.
"We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." (Linus Torvalds about the superiority of Linux on the Amsterdam Linux Symposium)
I'd love to hear about any questions, comments, suggestions or links that you might have. Your comments will not be posted on this website immediately, but will be e-mailed to me first. You can use this form to get in touch with me, or e-mail me at [email protected] .


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Dr. Deborah Lipstadt Interviews Dr. Saul Friedlander
Dr. Saul Friedlander, Professor of History at UCLA, is an internationally renowned scholar of the Holocaust. He just completed second volume of his examination of Nazi Germany and the Jews. The book, The Years of Extermination, 1939-1945, which won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for Non-fiction as well as the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. His other seminal historical texts include Reflections of Nazism and Pius XII and the Third Reich.
He is here in conversation with Emory University's Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies Deborah Lipstadt.
We join the conversation with Friedlander reflecting on the process of writing his Holocaust memoir, When Memory Comes, published in 1979.Dr. Saul Friedlander
The writing of testimony is a need. It's not that I thought; it's not what would I write next. I tried, you know, for years and years to write it. Never managed. I wrote always the first page, which didn't start with Prague. It started the moment when I fled from this institution. And after that page I sensed this doesn't work but I sensed I have to tell something. We speak of the late, well of the early seventies (throughout the seventies I wrote from seventy-seven to seventy-eight), and I then wrote something and sent it to the publisher whom I mentioned before and he said, "You know, there is a story there but it's dead." He said, "Your text is dead." And I said, "What do I do now," and I called Claude Lanzmann and asked him maybe a dialogue would help me to say things, you know we would record it, and that would be a dialogue, and he agreed.
And then I went to visit somebody I knew who was with me in that seminary and who had become a Trappist monk. This Trappist was given the permission to talk to me and I even stayed there overnight and we discussed things. It was a very moving experience. When I came back to Geneva where I was, I realized that we talked about everything of our common experience in this place but not how really I got there. So I started writing him a long letter to try to explain this and suddenly I understood I was addressing somebody and writing my... starting from the beginning.
And so you have to find the, I would say, the addressee. And so that is a need, I guess any survivor who wrote a memoir will tell you, maybe not now but during the 70s/80s/90s I think, they would tell you it was a personal need. And some say, "Well, it's for the grandchildren," so it had to come out.Q. [Lipstadt]
Many survivors have said to me that they couldn't write until they had grandchildren, because children...it's too close but with grandchildren, "mir seinen da": We've survived.A. [Friedlander]
It is the children you want to protect from this.Q. [Lipstadt]
Yes, that's right.A. [Friedlander]
The grandchildren are already distanced enough, but they have to know, you see. So the use of these memoirs demands caution. I understand the more time goes that people may totally unintentionally shift, I mean in their mind stories shift. This doesn't happen of course in a diary interrupted in the middle, you know, some of the diaries stop in the middle of a sentence where you see that the diarist has been taken away in the middle of a sentence, so diaries ‐ there are so many when not only you see the contradictions within the diaries are a proof of their authenticity in a way. [Victor] Klemperer ‐ if you look, let's say, at his opinion about how the Germans feel about the Jews, he changes opinion many times. There is no better proof. He doesn't try to keep his impressions coherent because he goes day after day and probably never looked back. And you sense reading Klemperer that the very fact that he changes his opinion and explodes sometimes after saying how this and that came to say, "We hope it will not last very long," and so on, then he says, "Oh, the Germans are not," I mean you see that he...Q. [Lipstadt]
He's a human being.A. [Friedlander]
Exactly.Q. [Lipstadt]
You know where you see that also, excuse me for interrupting, but in Anne Frank. The deniers go after Anne Frank's diary because they say at one point Mrs. Van Damme, Peter's mother, runs the vacuum cleaner. So Faurisson says, "A vacuum cleaner in a hiding place?" And then at one point Miep brings them a sack of beans and the sack of beans breaks open and Anne writes, "The noise was enough to wake the dead." Now Faurisson jumps on that and says, "A vacuum cleaner, a sack of beans breaking open? This couldn't be a hiding place." Now first of all she runs the vacuum cleaner on a Sunday night and they're above a warehouse, so Sunday night a warehouse would've been empty. Number two, when the sack of beans breaks open Anne writes, "Thank God the warehouse was empty." But he only quotes half of it. But someone said to me, very interestingly a Dutch survivor, she said the very fact that that's there makes it authentic because if I was making up a diary -- it's so simple, it's so obvious -- if I was making up a phony diary I wouldn't put in a vacuum cleaner.A. [Friedlander]
Yeah, exactly. Of course.
Now moving for a second from diary to the attempt by deniers to say this never could have been written ‐ the case of [Kurt] Gerstein. Now Gerstein wrote four times his report, one for the Americans, one for the French, of course in German. There was a denier whose name escapes me now who is a professor at Nantes in France who tried to compare things about Gerstein observing the deaths of Jews in these early gas chambers in Belzec. He says this couldn't have been, but this man of course did not mention anywhere, I mean the denier, that there were two people looking. Otto [Wilhelm] Pfannenstiel, an SS physician from the University of Marburg accompanied Gerstein. And Pfannenstiel in a very early post-war deposition at trial said, "Yes I was there but I never said 'wail like in a synagogue.'" Because Gerstein wrote in his report "Pfannenstiel looked and said, 'they are wailing like in a synagogue.'" And Pfannenstiel, outraged by this remark, says, "I never said this," but otherwise he confirms it.
But you see, deniers, you have to read them, as you did yourself, very carefully, because sometimes they'll just forget that there are corroborating elements.Q. [Lipstadt]
We had a very interesting piece in the trial where we brought the testimony of Ada Bimko, who became Hadassah Rosensaft (Ada was Hadassah and then she married Rosensaft) and she was a doctor in Birkenau.A. [Friedlander]
She was Yosele Rosensaft's wife.Q. [Lipstadt]
That's right. Exactly.
She was a doctor in Birkenau and at one point she was sent to the gas chambers, she was sent to either four or five, you know, the ones that are on one floor, to pick up the blankets because when women went from the death barracks or from the hospital they went naked and sometimes they were allowed to wrap themselves in blankets as you well know. So she was sent to pick up the blankets. And this is testimony she gave at the Bergen-Belsen trial right after the war. As you know so many of the people at Bergen-Belsen were staff from Auschwitz who had been transferred, so a lot of the testimony was about Auschwitz.
So she writes about the fact that when she came to the gas chamber she asked one of the SS men who was there to show here the gas chamber. So he takes her up into a crawl space like a little attic -- so that's how we know it was four or five -- and he shows here a big metal container on the side and he says, "That's where the gas comes in." And he points to two pipes that go into the room downstairs and he says, "And that's how it's piped into the room." Now "Lo Dubim Ve'lo Yaar" it's not true because we know the gas was thrown in, in those gas chambers, through the windows. They had the windows, the shutters... in fact we found one of those shutters in Auschwitz.
So David Irving and other deniers pounce on this. And what Robert Jan van Pelt, who was one of the expert witnesses, in his expert report shows, he said, "What she was being shown was the ventilation unit." Because we know there was a ventilation unit there to draw the gas out, and the pipes drew the gas out. What she described that she saw was absolutely accurate. The mistaken information when he says, "That's how the gas," that was second-hand information. That's what the SS man was telling her maybe to make fun of her or something, you know? But what she saw with her eyes was absolutely perfect.
So she saw, she described something. She gave the wrong explanation for it but the explanation she gave came from the SS man who took her up there and said, "That's what the gas is." Maybe he was just making fun of her or something. So you have to read very defensively.A. [Friedlander]
The question you see, Deborah, is, well you did an essential thing by going after Irving who is really the central intellectual personality in this immense kind of nebula.
This started in France actually, I think; I may be mistaken, but Faurisson, and before him [Paul] Rassinier started this, and I remember very well being in Strasbourg in the probably late seventies or some time like that and being asked at a meeting whether one should not systematically go after this as you did. And I at that time was naïve and said, "No, because that creates a dialogue, as if, you know, two points of view." This is said now all the time. I still sometimes wonder whether it's worth the time and the effort to go after each statement like that (Bishop Williamson now, as we are speaking), because it gives a kind of legitimization to those who come with the most absurd statements. They come with statements which we of course cannot answer numbers and things like that because it's so difficult to say five million six hundred thousand. But you know by the way that since the trial, as I am not sure it existed at the time of the trial, these numbers that the British decoded which were sent from [Odilo] Globocnik's headquarters to the headquarters of the Sicherheitspolizei in Krakow and then forwarded to Eichmann about the exact number of victims they counted in the main extermination camps. This I think didn't exist. We have it now. I think [Richard] Breitman is the first to have published it, no two German historians in Holocaust and Genocide Studies three years ago I think and the Germans themselves reported the numbers about Belzec, Sobibor and then Treblinka where there was even a mistake in the transcription, and the total of course gave the exact number.Q. [Lipstadt]
I think you're right in the sense, I think your initial instinct was right and actually I agree with you in the sense that if you sit down and you debate them or you answer them it's as if to say they're another side and then someone could say, "It's like asking a scientist to go debate someone or go answer someone who says the earth is flat." I didn't go after Irving. Irving came after me. What I was doing in writing Denying The Holocaust was I wanted to show the modus operandi. To show how they operate, how they lie. So at some point you almost enter into a dialogue with them, but I'm very careful not to get into a debating match because it's not another side.A. [Friedlander]
It's not another side, and that's always troubling. We are giving importance to crackpots.Q. [Lipstadt]
To crackpots. Crackpots. That's exactly right, that's exactly right. That's why you get to do work that is advancing what we know and that is so important.A. [Friedlander]
One of the things I hope I did in this second volume, but many others not because of me but on their own were doing just the same ‐ Dieter Paul and Peter Longerich ‐ we all of us together at more or less the same time discovered that the Germans knew much more, and much earlier, than we thought they had. At least I could go on for a long to say how now I am convinced that they didn't know the technicalities, but they knew that the Jews were being exterminated one way or the other. They knew it in the letters of soldiers coming back; the fact that in Auschwitz you could bring your wife, your girlfriend, or whoever, and often children, and stay there in the town with those guards.
As Hoess himself writes, you cannot keep people from talking, "even if we have tried to impose sanctions, the men are talking." Of course they are talking. That's what makes the deniers so unbearable in so many ways, because nowhere has an event been as pertinently documented.Q. [Lipstadt]
I always say the Holocaust has the dubious distinction of being the best-documented genocide in the world.A. [Friedlander]
Yes, and yet it seems almost to attract, it demands some kind of hatred, or just, you know, "let us show them."Q. [Lipstadt]
Can you tell us what you're working on now, what your next project is?A. [Friedlander]
The part which deals with the Shoah, of course I felt or read it in volume 2. But now there is specifically that I had to get back to the Pius XII book, which my first book of the Showa; 1964 in France. And I have quite a chunk of chapter 9 in the second volume, The Years of Extermination, dealing with the Pope's reactions. And some people told me who commented on the book that it was in a way stricter (let's put it that way), that my criticism of the Catholic Church was stricter than in the early book. And I agreed because I think I understood, and I didn't write it there, some of the motivations behind Pius XII's decision. And then of course the document which was published after the War about children, which should not be given back. That explained to me...Q. [Lipstadt]
Especially French children.A. [Friedlander]
...explained to me why the police had to come and fetch me, which I didn't know when I wrote my memoir.Q. [Lipstadt]
Why don't you just, so we have it for the record, talk a little bit about that document?A. [Friedlander]
Oh, very simple ‐ I will start with the personal and then go to the document. I didn't know, which was told to me later by the person who came in to fetch me, he came into this Catholic seminary for youngsters who then would to a grand séminaire that is for the priestly education, but we were already on the track. I was under another name of course, Paul-Henri Marie Ferlon so that when this Mr. Rosenblatt passed away in the meantime, of course, came in the name of the O.S.E. which was the Oeuvre de secours aux enfants [Children's Relief Organization], to ask for me because somehow my uncles knew that I was there: my parents had left an address. He was told there is no kid with that name. So he said, "But we know he is there." They said, "No."
So he came back a second time, same, and so the third time he came with a letter from the Prefect, you know, the district head in France of the Department of the Allier where Vichy was also. But of course that was after the liberation, who said that if they didn't respond a third time the police would search the place. So they admitted. But that I didn't know when I wrote, When Memory Comes.
So I got this news, I was pretty upset, but that is that. That's what he told me. I didn't know these were instructions given by the Pope and the holy office.
Now I come to the document found in France actually. But very much splashed all over by the career of Corriere della Sera I think. The Pope allowed the holy office to give to the nuncios, and mainly in Western Europe but all over, he gave guidelines how to deal with the children which Jewish organizations were now trying to get out of Catholic institutions. If a child had been baptized, and if there were no parents, direct parents, that is father and mother coming to fetch that child, not to be returned. If there were children who had not been baptized, were hidden there, and there were no direct parents coming to fetch the child, not to return the child. If though there was a child, even baptized, whose parents were coming, return the child. So that of course I was baptized and no parents came.
Now I understood suddenly what was the Bishops, the nuncios gave the orders to the Bishops, the Bishop for the institutions, and therefore the institution simply followed Vatican instructions. So it's endless, but we have more now than we had when I wrote, of course, the publications, the monographs written, the hundreds and maybe thousands of them written since then, but never with the Vatican archives. But now we have at least one research completed and published by a German historian called Wolff, from Muenster, which uses the Pius XI's archives, which were open to him. And they promised to show the documents on Pius XII but I'm convinced they never will in the foreseeable future. (Surely not now with the new Pope.)
But at least we have Pius XI's and Secretary of State Pacelli interacting. It confirms many of the ideas; at least it confirms it not through German documents or other, but also through Vatican documents. So I will simply write a very long introduction and then have the book published.Q. [Lipstadt]
How is it for you to traverse the intersection between the personal and the professional? When you find a document like that and suddenly you put it together with "that's why they had to practically bring the police to get me out of there..."A. [Friedlander]
No, not practically; the threat, yes, practically. All right.
I am always a little bit taken aback but I got used to it. Also it was often used against me, this subjective position. And [by] no lesser a personality than Mr. [Arthur] Butz came to, eh... oh that was when the lessons and legacies started.Q. [Lipstadt]
Butz ‐ the electrical engineer professor from Northwestern.A. [Friedlander]
I didn't know it was him and I had given the keynote there and then somebody there says, "I know this voice," and says more or less, "How can you speak objectively if you claim..." and well, I don't know how he phrased it. And that's where you see the problem which we discussed a moment ago came back. I refused to enter into a dialogue with him because I thought, "Mr. Butz, we are not here having equal opinions."Q. [Lipstadt]
That's right, that's right. I remember that. You wrote that up. Either it was written... somebody wrote it up.A. [Friedlander]
Yes. So, the answer to this is very simple. And I said it also to German colleagues, they also had Hans Mommsen and people like that that were Hitler youths. Martin Broszat of course was also in the Nazi party.Q. [Lipstadt]
Pope Benedict?A. [Friedlander]
Pope Benedict was HitlerJunge [Hitler Youth]!
One thing has to be said for the victims at least. We have to be totally aware constantly that there is a stronger, let us say, stronger element of subjectivity than somebody writing, a totally new generation ‐ grandchildren, let's say ‐ from the perspective of, God knows, Milwaukee. This is obvious. But the moment you are constantly aware of this you hold yourself back sometimes too much almost. You lean back so much to be very careful that you may hesitate to express things which otherwise would be expressed more naturally. And, in the Pius XII for example... I don't know if it's of interest to you, but you will see afterwards. I had the manuscript, and based on documents I had found in the German Foreign office archives in Bonn, at that time in '63 as I was writing my dissertation I saw the Vatican documents being displaced and asked for them afterwards. When this was finished I was aware that I had something very important in terms of documentation.
The German reports about Pius XII's behavior, or responses. I went to a publisher who happened to be a Jew, very left wing, in Paris, (Les Editions de Minuit, Jerome Lindon was very well known) who had just published La Torture, Torture about Algeria, and this had an immense impact in France. And he said, "Oh this is fantastic," and so on and so forth. And then I realized that this was a big mistake. That I had to go to a more directly Catholic, in any case not Jewish, publisher and moderate also in it's [politics].
And I think it's Elie Wiesel who at that time I knew very well in Paris, to whom I said, "Look, I'm..." And he sent me to Editions du Seuil, which was left-wing Catholic publishers they published [Pierre] Teilhard de Chardin and other things which were... And he went to Rome, the owner, at that time on a (also died long ago), went to Rome to see Monsignor [Agostino] Casaroli and asked whether I could see the Vatican documents. The answer was no. So we published it, but there was a Catholic journalist, Jacques Nobécourt, who went with me over each sentence. He said, "You know, maybe you put 'perhaps' where you seem to assert things." And I agreed, in most cases I said, "It's absolutely right." The preface was written by Alfred Grosser, a converted Jew but very much a Catholic intellectual.
So you take guarantees against yourself if you're honest and if you know that there is a possibility of a kind of strong subjectivity.Q. [Lipstadt]
But you could also hold yourself back at times.A. [Friedlander]
You will hold yourself back. Now I learned it of course this time. You can hold yourself back and if need be you ask friends who, let's say, a priori would agree in general but point out to you that here there is something; you should think twice about being so assertive ‐ maybe say "perhaps."
And I am absolutely in favor of this kind of... not because we... because we are careful, because we really check things, we deal with this, and because there is this constant (not at that time in '64, but from the '70s on), this constant presence of this lunatic fringe.Q. [Lipstadt]
But I think you would agree, I know you would agree, that even without the presence of a lunatic fringe you would be just as careful with it.A. [Friedlander]
As a historian, of course. But then I want to add something which occurs to me now. At some stage a French colleague who wrote Les Lieux de Mémoire, Pierre Nora, published a book, published a book together, Essais d'Ego-Histoire, "Ego History," that is the historians who lived through. And I remember one of those interviews, there was Le Roy-Laduri and there were many of the very famous names in French historiography. One whose father had been killed in World War I, and who wrote many books about World War I, he was asked about this ‐ the personal involvement in his father's memory and the way of writing down the history of World War I. And he answered more or less the same thing, that is, the emotional involvement is in itself a plus of course because you sense things that others may not see. But then you have to know: careful, careful. So that is also another aspect. Because you lived through, let's say the fears, and the horror and the terror of the epoch you can read a word or a sentence and you know that is that. In the diaries you sense that much better than people who write so many decades later.Q. [Lipstadt]
You know who does that also very beautifully is Ruth Kluger. Both in the German and the English, which are essentially two different books. The English book is fantastic.A. [Friedlander]
Absolutely. That's why I chose among the memoirs. She lives in Irvine.Q. [Lipstadt]
Yes, yes. Yes, I know. She was here last year. One of her students is Caroline Schaumann is here, and she brought her last year, and she was really wonderful. She read from your next work. Angelica [Bammer] and I co-taught a course on the memoirs and she brought in the German Weiter Leben and she compared that ‐ like the scene with the traffic accident at the end, which is completely different in the two volumes.
But Ruth has a way of seeing things and saying things that, you know, just are so obvious if you read it. You know, about her childhood in Vienna when her father comes back. And the hot chocolate, which they give her something that she hated drinking because it had a film, when you know, it gets that scum on the top when you overcook it. And the family would make her, the mother or grandmother, whoever it was, would make her sit and drink it and she hated it. And then she would be late to school and she would be punished being late to school. And she said, "I just wish grownups could get organized, because the grownups here are making be late and the grownups here are punishing me for coming late." That of course could be a child writing anywhere, but even in her scenes in Auschwitz and the relationship with her mother, is just...A. [Friedlander]
Her mother. Astounding.Orna Kenan:
Wasn't it her mother who told her?A. [Friedlander]
...To move, to move to another line.Q. [Lipstadt]
Yes, go back. Go back. No, no. The mother told her... They came forward and they were being told which way to go. And she said, "Go around." And her mother just took a chance.A. [Friedlander]
That was, by the way, extremely dangerous.Q. [Lipstadt]
Yes. But the mother also says to her at one point, I think in one of the early nights there, she takes her to the fence and says, "Let's throw ourselves on the fence and kill ourselves." And that's so counterintuitive because the one thing a parent is supposed to do for a child is protect the child. But it's a marvelous... You've read it haven't you?A. [Friedlander]
Oh, it's powerful.


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Of course, the internet speaks English - but German ranks as the second most frequently used language on the internet. According to "Netz-Tipp-Studie", 56.4% of web pages were in English, in the second place were 7.7% web pages in German. More...
Please keep in mind that German is as easy to learn as any other language. You already know much more German vocabulary than you think: Professor, Kindergarten, Angst, etc. More...
Knowledge of German improves your chances of employment. German companies abroad and foreign companies in Germany seek experts with a knowledge of German. Staff in international companies also enjoy an advantage if they know German. In the European Union there are interesting training, study and employment opportunities for specialists with this knowledge.
Why Bilinguals Are Smarter
By YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE
New York Times
SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age.
This view of bilingualism is remarkably different from the understanding of bilingualism through much of the 20th century. Researchers, educators and policy makers long considered a second language to be an interference, cognitively speaking, that hindered a child's academic and intellectual development.
They were not wrong about the interference: there is ample evidence that in a bilingual's brain both language systems are active even when he is using only one language, thus creating situations in which one system obstructs the other. But this interference, researchers are finding out, isn't so much a handicap as a blessing in disguise. It forces the brain to resolve internal conflict, giving the mind a workout that strengthens its cognitive muscles.
Bilinguals, for instance, seem to be more adept than monolinguals at solving certain kinds of mental puzzles. In a 2004 study by the psychologists Ellen Bialystok and Michelle Martin-Rhee, bilingual and monolingual preschoolers were asked to sort blue circles and red squares presented on a computer screen into two digital bins - one marked with a blue square and the other marked with a red circle. Read more.
In this article, Bill George, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School and former CEO of Medtronic Inc. explains Germany's unusual success in world business.
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MUNICH, GERMANY - The United States seems in awe of China's economic miracle, but rather disdainful of Europe, especially Germany. To the contrary, there is great wisdom in the German economic model from which Minnesotans can learn.
Germany is a jobs machine. Its unemployment is just over 5 percent vs. 8.5 percent in the United States. In Munich unemployment is only 2.2 percent. Germany exports four times as much as the United States with only 30 percent of the population. It has a positive $200 billion trade balance, compared with negative $700 billion for America, and favorable trade balances with China, India and Japan, as well all European countries.
Germans are well-paid, have excellent health care and pension benefits, and save 11 percent of their income. Yet German health care costs only 9 percent of GDP compared with 17 percent in the U.S. Politically, the country operates like a grand coalition, with narrow differences between moderates on both sides.
Politicians put the country's interests ahead of their parties. A decade ago the government went through a restructuring that moderated the cost of wages and benefits to be competitive with Asian countries. Germany is fiscally responsible: inflation is just over 1 percent, and deficits are 3.3 percent of GDP compared with 11 percent for the U.S. Read more.
CNN - The city of Freud, Klimt and the famed Spanish riding school is top of the pops when it comes to the world's best cities to live in, according to a new survey. For the third successive year, Vienna was ranked number one as European cities claimed more than half of the top 25 positions in Mercer's 2011 Quality of Living index, which awards points for a range of criteria, including political and economic stability, culture, health and sanitation, quality of schools, public services and housing. Zurich in neighboring Switzerland came in second, while New Zealand's largest city, Auckland, was third in the list of 221 cities worldwide.
Top 10 Cities in the World Rated for Quality of Life
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Zurich (Switzerland)
Auckland (New Zealand)
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Gas leak forces Oaks residents from homes
Published: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 at 11:09 a.m.
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Residents of 27 units at The Oaks condominiums off Haywood Road were evacuated from their homes Tuesday morning because of a gas leak, caused when city crews hit a gas line while repairing a water line.
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Emergency personnel from the Hendersonville, Mountain Home and Valley Hill fire departments responded to the scene around 10:30 a.m. and evacuated about 35 people and five pets from the units near the intersection of Wild Oak Lane and Red Oak Drive.
The Henderson County Rescue Squad, Henderson County EMS and Hendersonville Police Department also responded to the evacuation.
With gas leaks, "We run it as a full structural fire response" because of the risk of asphyxiation, explosion and fire hazards, said Engineer Thomas Kleppe with the Hendersonville Fire Department.
Hendersonville Mayor Pro Tem Ron Stephens, who lives in the neighborhood, said a city crew arrived at The Oaks earlier Tuesday morning to repair a water line that had been leaking along Wild Oak Lane for weeks.
"They were repairing a water line and cut a two-inch gas line … which is very dangerous," Stephens said. "We could smell it in the air."
Judy Gizara, whose home is located directly behind the cut gas line, said she smelled gas immediately.
"My whole unit is filled with gas," she said. "The firemen just went in and rescued my two cats."
Stephens said firefighters gave him five minutes to evacuate, and Gizara was told to turn off all her appliances.
"A spark can come from a cell phone, believe it or not," she said.
A crew from PSNC Energy arrived on the scene at 11:20 a.m., and Deputy Fire Chief Joe Vindigni said, "They're thinking it's a service line that was struck."
The gas line was shut off by 12:40 p.m., at which point residents and pets were allowed to return to their houses.
"It's safe for them to go back home," Vindigni said.
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The Taft senior Little League all-star baseball team completed their run in a tournament they would rather forget about Monday night after falling 21-4 to Section four representative Rocklin in the Division 2 all-star tournament at American River College in Sacramento.
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Gifford Medical Center's plans to create a senior living community in Randolph Center and renovate the Randolph hospital to have private inpatient rooms cleared a final permitting hurdle Thursday when it earned Certificate of Need approval from the Green Mountain Care Board.
The 5-0 decision was the final approval needed for the project to move forward.
"We're ecstatic. This project has been years in the making and we're excited to be moving forward. Our community is in dire need of more senior care and housing options and patients will benefit from the private room model, which is proven to enhance patient safety and satisfaction," said Gifford Administrator Joseph Woodin, who was on hand in Montpelier Thursday to hear the board's unanimous vote.
As part of the project, Gifford will move its 30-bed, award-winning nursing home, the Menig Extended Care Facility, to 30 stunning acres in Randolph Center. When the new nursing home is built, current nursing home rooms at the downtown medical center will be converted into private hospital rooms.
Independent and assisted living options will be added over time in Randolph Center to create a vibrant senior living community. Up to 150 total units are planned. The project's first phase calls for the reconstruction of the 30-bed nursing home and a 40-unit independent living facility. Later phases, including 60 more independent living units and 20 assisted living units attached to the nursing home, are spread over 20 years.
Faced with facility constraints and a great number of inefficient older buildings in its downtown location, Gifford has been planning for this project for years. Many options were considered, including rebuilding the entire medical center. Looking at the most affordable, least disruptive option, the hospital finalized its plans in 2011 and filed for Act 250 approval under select criteria on Oct. 3, 2011.
Significant discussions on the use of "prime agricultural soils" for the development delayed discussions and approval on those criteria did not come until Jan. 3 of this year. Full Act 250 approval was sought on April 2, 2013, and awarded Aug. 13. Randolph Development Review Board approval also came earlier this year.
The hospital first filed its Certificate of Need application on Oct. 3, 2012. After the initial detailed review, Gifford resubmitted a revised application in May. A final hearing was held just last month on Sept. 26 and a verbal decision issued on Oct. 10.
A written decision was released late Monday. In it, the board finds the project has met all Certificate of Need criteria, including regarding cost, need, quality and access, and public good. "Gifford has demonstrated that the project serves the public good by enhancing services, improving quality of care and increasing customer satisfaction," the five-member board wrote.
"We appreciate the Green Mountain Care Board's thoughtful review and support of this project. The board clearly saw the need and the vision. Due to this decision, we will soon be able to better meet the needs of our community," said Woodin, who also thanked community members for their support.
"It's very exciting for all of us, for the staff, for the residents of Menig as well as those who will live in independent and assisted living. Thank you very much for the time, effort and all of the work folks have put into this."
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New Energy Act Calls for Increased Renewable Energy Research
The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, signed into law on December 19th, calls for accelerated research and development (R&D) and deployment of renewable energy technologies, although all the provisions are subject to congressional appropriations of funds. For solar energy, the act calls for new R&D programs for solar thermal energy storage, daylighting, and solar-powered air conditioning, as well as grant programs for solar industry workforce training and advanced photovoltaic demonstration projects. For geothermal energy, the act calls for a wide range of R&D programs, an expansion of the "GeoPowering the West" program to make it "GeoPowering America," and the creation of a new Center for Geothermal Technology Transfer. The act also establishes a new R&D program for marine and hydrokinetic energy, which includes wave, tidal, current, and thermal technologies that draw on the energy of the ocean or free-flowing rivers. The act includes a measure to establish one or more demonstration centers for marine and hydrokinetic technologies. See Title VI of the new energy act on the Library of Congress Web site, as well as the press release from the Geothermal Energy Association (PDF 85 KB). Download Adobe Reader.


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Get an overview of this hotelHistoric San Francisco hotel near Union Square
Near cable car
Built in 1927, this 9-story downtown San Francisco hotel is 3 blocks from the California St cable car line, 6 blocks from Union Square, and 8 blocks from Chinatown and 9 blocks from Civic Center.
Free WiFi, wine reception
Complimentary evening wine receptions are held in Hotel Carlton's lobby nightly. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available throughout.
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Hotel Carlton, a Joie de Vivre Boutique Hotel1075 Sutter St San Francisco CA 94109
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This San Francisco hotel offers a 24-hour business center, meeting room, and complimentary wireless Internet access throughout. A complimentary wine reception is held nightly in the lobby amid the hotel's collection of international art and artifacts, which showcase cross-cultural design from Africa, India, Nepal and Asia.
The sleek Arabic-fusion restaurant, Saha, serves breakfast on weekends, and dinner Tuesday through Saturday. Guests receive discounted access to a nearby fitness center. Valet parking is available 6 AM-midnight.
- 24-hour business center
- 24-hour front desk
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Free reception
- Concierge services
- Conference space size (feet) - 750
- Conference space size (meters) - 70
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Fireplace in lobby
- Free WiFi
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Number of floors - 9
- One meeting room
- Porter/bellhop
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- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Smoke-free property
- Total number of rooms - 161
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- Use of nearby fitness center (discount)
- Valet parking (surcharge)
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- Bathrobes
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- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Daily housekeeping
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- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Hair dryer
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- iPod docking station
- Iron/ironing board
- Phone
- Premium TV channels
- Private bathroom
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Saha - This Middle Eastern-style restaurant serves Arabic-fusion cuisine in a sleek space with dark-wood floors, bright red-lacquer seats, and red-leather upholstery. House specialties include Saha's own red curry served with stuffed acorn squash and tofu, classic Moroccan couscous, and lamb tagine with prunes and almonds.
On weekends, start your day with a cooked-to-order breakfast, available from 9 AM to noon for a surcharge. Every day, the hotel hosts a free manager's reception for you to enjoy.
Nearby Things to Do
The hotel does not have its own fitness facilities, but guests receive discounted access to a fitness center three blocks away.
Public 18-hole golf courses within five miles of the hotel include the Presidio Golf Club and the Lincoln Park Golf Course. Three miles away, Golden Gate Park has walking and running trails, a children's playground, gardens, and tennis courts. Ocean beaches, including Seal Rock, are five miles from the hotel.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
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Check-in time ends at 2 AM
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Pets allowed (no fees)
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- Valet parking fee: USD 35 per day (in/out privileges)
- A pet fee will be charged
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 20 per night
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Myakka man killed in motorcycle crash
Published: Friday, July 26, 2013 at 6:05 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, July 26, 2013 at 9:22 a.m.
A Myakka City man was killed Thursday in an early-evening motorcycle crash in rural Manatee County, authorities said.
Ernesto Bernal, 35, was taken to Blake Medical Center following the crash, but did not survive, according to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office.
The incident unfolded shortly before 4:30 p.m., according to reports, with a helmeted Bernal riding a 2006 Suzuki GS500E northbound on Betts Road, just north of the Anson Acres Road intersection. Nicholas Solana, 23, also of Myakka City, was driving a 2000 Toyota Tacoma pickup southbound on Betts, approaching Bernal.
Attempting to pull into a private driveway, Solana turned his pickup left into the path of Bernal's motorcycle, deputies reported. The motorcycle hit the right side of the pickup.
Solana was charged with failing to yield the right of way and failure to produce proof of insurance.
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Cyndi Soraoka was in elite company as one of only four advisers from HOSA-Future Health Professionals at the Office of the Surgeon General.
The Dozier-Libbey High instructor spent a week in a summer internship in Washington, D.C.
Soraoka said she was "privileged to learn about our public health system," including the Medical Reserve Corps, the U.S. Public Health Service and the U.S. Public Health Commissioned Corps, "which is on par with the Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard in service to our country."
The week included visits to the Department of Human Services, learning about the Emergency Management System (a nationwide medical service) and the Secretary's Operation Center, which serves as the "nerve center for public health emergency preparedness."
Soraoka was privileged to meet Dr. Regina Benjamin, the surgeon general, even nabbing a group photo with her.
"It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience," she said.
The Antioch teacher said she plans to share what she learned with the Dozier-Libbey HOSA chapter and will be incorporating it into the 10th-grade health science curriculum.
AND, THE BAND PLAYED ON: With instruments in hand, music students from Bristow and Adams Middle schools and Heritage High join forces for a free evening of song.
The seventh annual collaborative effort of the Brentwood schools is at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Heritage gym, 101 American Ave. Each band will perform three selections. The trio will end the night by playing "America the Beautiful" together.
Mark Morello, Bristow band director, said, "This year will include a record number of students -- with (more than) 300 students." Lindsay Kellogg is the director at Adams, and Steve Ernest heads up the band for Heritage.
CRAFTY EVENT: The Deer Valley High grad night committee hosts a craft and vendor fair from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 3 at the Antioch school, 4700 Lone Tree Ave.
Entry fee for vendors is $25, while admission is free to shoppers. Already on board are reps from Avon, Princess House, Thirty One, Pampered Chef, PartyLite, Mary Kay and Stella & Dot.
The vendor fair will be in the school's cafeteria and feature more than 20 vendors. All proceeds benefit the Antioch school's grad night event. For more info and how to participate, call 925-754-3910.
COLLEGE CROWD: Some 400 folks attended Antioch School District's recent college fair.
"The gyms were (filled) with the visuals and sounds of a college-going culture," said Pamela Price, DVHS' career center technician. "The event went well (and was) attended by students, parents and the community."
A large array of college reps handed out brochures, pens, pencils and many other promo materials.
Price said she appreciated and was grateful to the College Fair planning team and all the "student ambassadors who made the event successful."
She gave special thanks to those who helped with hospitality and catering, including Quizno's (Brentwood) and donations from Starbucks (Lone Tree Way), Antioch's Panera Bread and pasta from Antioch's Uno Chicago.
Jason Murphy, Antioch High's vice principal, thanked Price and said "it was exciting to see all the students meeting with college representatives and taking those steps to make the college dreams a reality."
Darice Ingram of Cal State East Bay told Price, "I was impressed with the organization of the college fair, (but) what most impressed me was the steady stream of students that visited our table."
For more information about the fair, call 925-756-6792.
ROYAL CHARMS AT ANTIOCH HIGH: Antioch High recently channeled its royal charms during the annual homecoming event. Sporting a new tiara is Makayla Hall (escorted by Cristian Avalos), who was crowned queen. The court included Viviana Escobar (Andrew
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FoodFacts.com has been finding fascinating health benefits linked to the Mediterranean diet for the past several months. We're always excited by the new findings because the traditional Mediterranean diet is such a flavorful, fresh way to eat that incorporating it into your lifestyle is an easy transition for most to make. Today we found more information we wanted to share with our community.
There's new research out of Ohio State University that links a compound that is abundant in the Mediterranean diet to eliminating the power of cancer cells to escape cell death. It appears that this compound alters a specific step in gene regulation and turns the cancer cells into normal cells that will die.
One of the reasons that cancer is a difficult disease to cure is that cancer cells thrive by inhibiting the regular cell death process. The researchers from Ohio State discovered that a compound found in some plant-based foods, apigenin, could re-educate breast cancer cells, leaving them to live and die by the regular cell lifecycle.
Though finding that apigenin can influence cancer cell behavior was an important outcome of the work, the researchers noted the importance of their new biomedical research technique and its contribution to nutraceutical research. The technique was compared to "fishing" for human proteins in cells that interact with molecules available in the diet.
Through experimentation, the researchers established that apigenin has relationships with proteins that have specific functions. The most important was a protein called hnRNPA2. It appears that this protein influences the activity of messenger RNA, which contains the instructions to produce a specific protein. The production of messenger RNA results from splicing RNA. It is noted that abnormal splicing is the problem with about 80 percent of all cancers. It appears that in cancer cells, two types of splicing occur when only one takes place in a normal cell. It's an integral part of how cancer cells stay alive and continue to reproduce instead of following the normal cell lifecycle.
When apigenin was introduced, the splicing that inhibited cell death was eliminated. The single-splice characteristic was restored to the cells, causing them to die in a natural manner.
Parsley, celery and chamomile tea are the most common sources of apigenin, but it is found in many fruits and vegetables. Since the Mediterranean Diet is rich in a variety of fruits and vegetables, the compound is most readily available through this particular style of eating.
FoodFacts.com is once again thrilled by the knowledge being uncovered about the powerful health benefits that come to us through pure, fresh foods. It's exciting to imagine a future where nutraceuticals become the chosen treatments for the chronic and often fatal diseases that plague so many in our population. In the meantime, the Mediterranean Diet is rich in many health benefits. It's easy to incorporate into your lifestyle and allows for an abundance of food options. You'll enjoy your food. You won't be bored with your diet. And you'll be doing something positive for your health!


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Happy Holidays! I created this yummy gluten-free, vegan cinnamon roll recipe about a month ago and have been looking forward to posting it here for you all! It makes a fun treat to share with family and friends around the holidays. This recipe uses a mix of a few gluten-free whole grain flours along with ground golden flax seeds to add structure and tenderness. It's actually a version of the gluten-free breadstick recipe in my new cookbook.
If you follow me on Instagram I am sure you've seen a few cinnamon roll photos already. So as promised, here it is...finally!
Gluten-Free Cinnamon Rolls
These rolls are best served the same day they are made. Top them with dairy-free cream cheese frosting for pure decadence! You can use the updated recipe for the recipe which can be found in our new cookbook, or this one here. If you don't have millet flour on hand you can substitute brown rice flour if need be.
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Three leg surgeries for a high school athlete could affect the ability to succeed. But for Norman (Oklahoma) Community Christian senior second baseman Haddon McIntosh, it has not slowed him down.
McIntosh set the national record for career stolen bases (pending approval from the OSSAA) in his final high school baseball game despite a history of major injuries. During his high school career, he has suffered a broken ankle and two torn ACLs the past three football seasons.
McIntosh stole 11 bases in the regional tournament, and tied the record of 210 set by Tim Dressler of Waltonville, Illinois from 1981-1984 in the fourth inning of Community Christian's season ending game. Later, McIntosh stole third base in the sixth inning to set the record of 211.
McIntosh finished his senior year with 63 stolen bases. He signed to play at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma.
Check out the We Are High School blog for more record-setting perfmances.