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K.C. Oakley: A Moguls Skier With A Cause
|K.C. Oakley skis in the qualifications for the ladies dual moguls
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2, 2013 in Park City, Utah.
Hand painted in gold letters on the back of K.C. Oakley's blue ski helmet are the words "Beat Lung Cancer." On her wrist is a rubber bracelet that also reads "Beat Lung Cancer," along with a website called JillsLegacy.org.
Oakley, a 24-year-old moguls skier from California, isn't just trying to make the 2014 U.S. Olympic Team. She also aims to raise awareness and research funding for lung cancer, a disease that three years ago killed her best friend Jill Costello, a varsity athlete who had never smoked.
Suddenly thrust into the middle of a situation that she had never imagined, Oakley was stunned by lung cancer statistics. According to the American Lung Association, lung cancer kills more people than any other type of cancer, and in the past 30 years, the number of women diagnosed with the disease has increased 106 percent. Every year, 16,000 to 24,000 non-smokers in America die of lung cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, if it were its own disease (separate from lung cancer caused by smoking), it would rank among the top 10 fatal cancers in the U.S.
"More and more young women are getting lung cancer," said Oakley. "It's shocking. They're slowly making strides in research now, but it's not enough to increase the survival rate."
Oakley met Costello at the University of California-Berkeley where freshman year, they shared three of four classes. Their friendship clicked immediately. Almost inseparable, they texted all the time and rushed Kappa Kappa Gamma. Costello watched her friend compete in moguls — and even tried skiing herself. Costello bragged about Oakley's ski career, telling everyone that her best friend would make both the U.S. Ski Team and the Olympics one day. Oakley, who skied with a "K" on one knee patch and a "C" on the other (her name is just the initials K.C., a tribute to her three aunts named Kim, Candy, and Cindy), was never comfortable publicizing her own talent.
Oakley, in turn, would show up at Cal's crew races, screaming and waving crazy signs to cheer on Costello. They were, as their private Facebook page said, two girls just having fun.
K.C. Oakley competes in the 2013 USANA Lake Placid Freestyle
Cup in Lake Placid, N.Y.
In June 2009, at the end of their junior year, Costello returned from NCAAs, where Cal finished second, and confessed to Oakley that she had been having bad stomach aches for about three weeks. Oakley suggested she see the Cal trainer in the morning.
The trainer sent her to the doctor. By evening, Costello was in the hospital.
"They're keeping me overnight," she texted Oakley. "They're seeing spots on my lung and liver."
By the following evening, doctors had narrowed down Costello's diagnosis: Stage IV lung cancer. The disease had metastasized to other organs.
But it never crossed Oakley's mind that her friend would die. She was young, a varsity athlete, and had never smoked. How could she have lung cancer?
In the 12 months that followed, Oakley never looked at the statistics. She didn't want to know that over half the people diagnosed with lung cancer die within a year of being diagnosed, or that the National Cancer Institute lists the five-year survival rate for those diagnosed when the disease has spread beyond the lungs is a frightening 3.7 percent. She believed her best friend would live.
Oakley canceled most of her ski training plans for the summer, hung out with Costello, and went to chemotherapy treatments.
"We acted like it was a very normal life," Oakley said. "It was a special time, a time I'll always remember, but not a time that you imagine it's going to be."
Then in December 2009, Oakley graduated early and moved to Park City, Utah, to continue training and competing. She believed Costello would survive and the two would march together in graduation in May 2010.
They did just that. And a week after the graduation ceremony, Oakley dropped off Costello at crew practice. She had been named coxswain of the women's eight competing at the upcoming 2010 NCAA Championships. Oakley wished her friend good luck and said goodbye. She had to get back to a training camp in Park City.
Before she left, Oakley asked, "You'll tell me if this is bad enough that I need to come home, won't you?"
In mid-June, Oakley called Costello on Skype and suddenly realized it was bad.
"For all this time, I was thinking she's not going to die, and then all of a sudden, I was staring death in the eyes," Oakley said.
Four days later, Costello stopped texting. Oakley flew home, but by the time she reached the hospital, it was too late.Costello died on June 24, 2010. She was 22.
One of the last messages Costello wrote in her journal was "Beat Lung Cancer Big Time." So Oakley and a few other friends formed Jill's Legacy to keep that dream alive. Jill's Legacy aims to mobilize young people to erase the stigma of lung cancer and raise funds for research through events such as Jog for Jill, 5-kilometer run/walks at university campuses across the U.S. Since its inception in 2011, Jill's Legacy has raised over $1.2 million for its umbrella organization, the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation, and lung cancer research.
K.C. Oakley competes in the 2013 USANA Lake Placid Freestyle
Cup in Lake Placid, NY.
Oakley has balanced the cause with her moguls career — which began when she was 13 at Alpine Meadows near Lake Tahoe under the guidance of her cousin, the late Clay Beck, who had also coached two-time Olympic medalist Shannon Bahrke. The winter after Costello died, Oakley's no-regrets, make-the-U.S.-Ski Team-or-bust attitude led her to win the overall NorAm title and finish second at the 2011 U.S. Championships. She was named to the U.S. Ski Team that spring. The following season, she finished the World Cup season ranked ninth overall, was named World Cup Rookie of the Year, and won her first national title.
Last October, Oakley helped organize a Jog for Jill at the University of Utah. The event attracted 100 participants and raised $9,000. And last year, during the World Cup at Deer Valley, she organized a fundraiser at a Park City restaurant that raised over $2,000.
"It was awesome because the World Cup lays a ground for awareness," she said. "Ten thousand people come out, and I'm talking about Jill's Legacy on the speaker after my run, and the announcers are talking about the party benefitting Jill's Legacy."
"It's such an amazing thing that she's doing," said U.S. teammate Heather McPhie. "The things that's K.C.'s experienced and her attitude about it all is really great. I hope to be involved moving forward."
For the next year, Oakley's primary focus is on making it to Sochi. She knows she has all the pieces to take her skiing to the next level. She's already placed third on the World Cup last year and is again ranked in the top 10 this year.
"I'm consistently the fastest skier, and I have very strong turns," she said. "But I'm a little messy in that I don't always squeeze my legs, and my jumps are mediocre."
Even if she can't focus on Jill's Legacy as much as she would like in the coming year, her friend isn't far away.
"I know she is an angel on my shoulder," wrote Oakley on her website, "and I carry her in my heart every day."Peggy Shinn is a freelance contributor for TeamUSA.org. This story was not subject to the approval of the United States Olympic Committee or any National Governing Bodies.


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Althusser, Louis
Louis Althusser 1918–1990
French Marxist philosopher.
The following entry presents an overview of Althusser's career.
Louis Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher who had a strong following as a serious and intellectual interpreter of Marxism. A troubled personal life overshadowed his intellectual achievements, however, when he was committed to a psychiatric hospital after he murdered his wife. Since then his abilities and accomplishments have been much reviewed and debated, with his place and importance to Marxist philosophy left unclear.
Biographical Information
Althusser was born in Algeria on October 16, 1918. He was named after his father's brother, with whom his mother had been in love. After his uncle was killed in World War I, his mother married Althusser's father. Althusser always felt inadequate in the shadow of his uncle's memory. Details about his early childhood are unclear and come mostly from his autobiography written after his wife's murder. His parents were Catholics and Althusser felt a strong attachment to Catholicism, an attachment which continued even after he joined the Communist Party. His family moved to Marseilles in 1930 and then to Lyons in 1936. Althusser entered a provincial school which enabled him to prepare for study at the Ecole Normale Superieure, but he was called to military service in World War II. By the spring of 1940 Althusser was captured by the Germans and remained in a prison camp until 1945. When Althusser returned to Paris he entered the Ecole, where he was trained as a philosopher. Althusser spent most of his life at the Ecole Normale Superieure, first as a student and then as an instructor. In 1948 he joined the Communist Party, and communism became the subject of his intellectual interest. Althusser's outspoken ideas about Marxism often conflicted with the French Communist Party. His involvement with Hélène Legotien, a former activist in the Resistance during the war who was denied admittance in the French Communist Party, further complicated his relationship with the Party. Althusser's relationship with Legotien was also a complicated one. She was older than him and dominating. Throughout their marriage their relations became increasingly volatile. In addition to his troubled marriage, Althusser suffered from severe bouts of depression throughout his adult life. His followers and employers at the Ecole tried to hide his troubles, but in November 1980 Althusser's psychological problems became public. Althusser strangled his wife and was committed to a psychiatric hospital after being judged mentally unfit to stand trial for her murder. He remained in the asylum until 1984 when he wrote his memoirs, L'avenir dure longtemps (1992) in an attempt to answer for his crime, an opportunity he never had in court. He died in Paris in 1990.
Major Works
Althusser's two major works were his collection of essays entitled Pour Marx (For Marx; 1965) and a collaborative effort with his students Lire "Le Capital" (Reading "Capital"; 1965). Althusser asserted that it was necessary to clear away what people thought of as Marxism and start fresh by re-examining the writings of Karl Marx, the German political philosopher who inspired twentieth-century communism. It was Althusser's contention that Marx discovered historical materialism and dialectical materialism. Althusser also rejected the idea of a Marxist humanism which had become popular after the 1953 death of Joseph Stalin. Instead of focusing on the individual worker, Althusser's work examines the overall structure of society. Humanism asserts that humans, or subjects, are the initiators of change, but the structuralism Althusser expounded presumed that humans are actually shaped by societal structures. Althusser's For Marx and Reading "Capital" assert that Marx himself abandoned the idea of humanism found in his early works and turned instead to what Althusser called a "science of history" to explain societal change. Humanistic concerns over individuals suffering from alienation became less important to Marx than understanding the structure that caused this alienation. The resulting science of history, according to Althusser, consisted of tracing the causes of social phenomena to economic, political, ideological, and theoretical factors that often act independently of one another. In addition, structural change is rooted in an "overdetermination"—a term Althusser borrowed from Sigmund Freud—of events from these four factors. Specifically, change occurs through an "overdetermination of contradiction," which means that when a society's structural components include opposing forces, the contradiction is resolved through a change in the structure. Hence, change arises not from individual achievement but from large-scale struggle and contradiction, an idea Althusser derived in part from Marx's concept of history as class struggle.
Critical Reception
Critical reception of Althusser's work has been mixed and has changed over the years. Initial response to his ideas was favorable. He offered a fresh approach to Marxist philosophy which was gratefully embraced by a generation of young communists. Humanist Marxists, however, have always taken exception with Althusser's lack of concern with the individual and question the validity of Althusser's approach. One major criticism of Althusserianism referred to what Althusser called his "symptomatic reading" of Marx. Tony Judt complained that a symptomatic reading meant "they took from him what they needed and ignored the rest." Criticism and discussion addressing Althusser's work since the murder of his wife has concentrated on the value of studying the work of a madman rather than the specifics of his philosophy. Most of this discussion has arisen out of Althusser's confession in his autobiography that he was a fraud and did not even read all of Marx's original writings. Paul Mattick, Jr. states that "Of course, the truth is more complex: Althusser was neither a genius nor just a nut." Other critics try to avert attention from Althusser the man and point to what his work has contributed to Marxist philosophy. Susan James asserts that "his views have moulded the character of much recent social theory and changed the direction of current debate. His startling claims about the emergence of Marx's ideas have provoked a rejuvenating, hermeneutic interest in Marx's own texts."
Principal Works
Montesquieu: La Politique et l'histoire ["Montesquieu: Politics and History"] (essays) 1959
Pour Marx [For Marx] (essays) 1965
Lire "Le Capital." 2 Volumes. [with Jacques Ranciere and Pierre Macherey in Volume I; with Etiene Balibar and Roger Establet in Volume II] [Reading "Capital"] (essays) 1965
Lenine et la philosophie [Lenin and Philosophy, and Other Essays] (essays) 1969
L'Eglise aujourd'hui [As L. Althusser, with J. M. Domenach, M.D., M. D. Chenu, M. Marechal, and others] (essays) 1969
Response a John Lewis (essay) 1973
Elements d'autocritique ["Elements of Self-Criticism"] (essays) 1974
Philosophie et philosophie spontanee des savants, 1967 [Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists, and Other Essays] (essays) 1974
Positions, 1964–1975 (essays) 1976
Vingt-deuxieme Congres (essays) 1977
Ce qui ne peut plus durer dans le Parti communiste (articles) 1978
Essays on Ideology (essays) 1984
L'avenir dure longtemps [The Future Lasts Forever] (autobiography) 1992
Susan James (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: "Althusserian Materialism in England," in Studies in Anglo-French Relations: Imagining France, edited by Ceri Crossley and Ian Small, London: MacMillan Press, 1988, pp. 187-209.
[In the following essay, James discusses the influence Althusser's conception of materialism has had on other thinkers and points out some of the problems with his arguments.]
Hearing that I was about to write this essay, a friend recently remarked to me that he no longer felt ashamed at not knowing about the work of Louis Althusser—a reaction which has become, I think, quite common among English and American philosophers and social scientists. During the 1970s, when Althusser was a...
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Mark Lilla (review date 25 September 1992)
SOURCE: "Marx and murder: Althusser's demon and the flight from subjectivity," in TLS, No. 4669, September 25, 1992, pp. 3-4.
[In the following review, Lilla discusses the implications that details from Althusser's life have on his work.]
On a grey November morning in 1980, the French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser strangled his wife Hélène in their apartment at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Within hours he was whisked away by ambulance to a psychiatric hospital, where he was subsequently confined by court order after having been judged mentally unfit to stand trial for an act he said he could not remember. At the time, many in Paris suspected a plot...
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Morton G. Wenger (review date Summer 1993)
SOURCE: A review of Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists and Other Essays, in Science and Society, Vol. 57, No. 2, Summer, 1993, pp. 240-43.
[In the following review, Wenger asserts that "If the reader follows the unfolding of Althusser's logic with care, it is evident that while he is not correct about everything he analyzes, most of what he says is powerful and compelling."]
An important set of questions might now be asked about Louis Althusser by current theorists of "what is left of the Left," with the least interesting being the empirical matter of the extent and character of his contemporary readership, and the more significant...
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Martin Bright (review date 10 December 1993)
SOURCE: "Invisible man," in New Statesman and Society, December 10, 1993, pp. 38-9.
[In the following review, Bright discusses Althusser's The Future Lasts a Long Time and asserts that "it is when he writes about his dreadful upbringing that he is at his most passionate."]
When the French Marxist philosopher, Louis Althusser, wrote his autobiography in 1985, he knew that it would not be published in his lifetime. Five years earlier, he had strangled his wife Hélène during a severe bout of depression. His state of mind at the time meant that he was never tried for the murder. Instead he was granted a non-lieu, a special dispensation for someone who is...
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Philip Goldstein (essay date Winter 1994)
SOURCE: "Althusserian Theory: From Scientific Truth to Institutional History," in Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature, Vol. 18, No. 1, Winter, 1994, pp. 15-26.
[In the following essay, Goldstein asserts that "[Tony] Bennett's account of literary studies gives Althusserian theory the Foucaldian history that its postmodern opponents deny it."]
The spectacular collapse of the USSR and other Communist states has only exacerbated the hostile relationship of Marxism and postmodern theory. On the one hand, Marxists complain that postmodern theorists refuse to see society as a whole or to preserve culture's autonomous ideals. On the other hand, postmodern theorists fear...
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Chip Rhodes (essay date Winter 1994)
SOURCE: "Ideology Takes a Day Off: Althusser and Mass Culture," in Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature, Vol. 18, No. 1, Winter, 1994, pp. 39-54.
[In the following essay, Rhodes discusses Althusser's work on ideology and the aesthetic as it applies specifically to mass culture. In addition he analyzes the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off in relation to an Althusserian approach to mass culture.]
In the move within cultural studies toward the effacement of the distinction between high and low culture, the Althusserian theory of ideology has become something that one moves beyond. In this theory's implications many critics have detected the creeping specter of the...
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George Steiner (review date 21 February 1994)
SOURCE: "Stranglehold," in The New Yorker, Vol. LXX, No. 1, February 21, 1994, pp. 115-19.
[In the following review, Steiner asserts that the scandal surrounding Althusser's life has overshadowed his work.]
There are moments when bad taste is the last refuge of common sense. Let me be in bad taste. Perhaps philosophers should strangle their wives. The name of Socrates' wife has passed into the language as that of an ignorant shrew. Philosophy is an unworldly, abstruse, often egomaniacal obsession. The body is an enemy to absolute logic or metaphysical speculation. The thinker inhabits fictions of purity, of reasoned propositions as sharp as white light. Marriage...
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Scott McLemee (review date March 1994)
SOURCE: "Breathless: Louis Althusser Loses His Grip," in Voice Literary Supplement, No. 123, March, 1994, p. 15.
[In the following review, McLemee discusses the implications of Althusser's memoir, The Future Lasts Forever, on the reading of his work.]
Marxism is dead, as everybody knows; so is Louis Althusser. And not for the first time, in either case. In 1978, after nearly two decades as the most provocative thinker in the French Communist Party, Althusser told a friend: "My universe of thought has been abolished. I can't think anymore." (No fate closer to death than that, for a philosopher.) The mind exhausted, his body lived on until 1990—collapsing...
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Tony Judt (review date 7 March 1994)
SOURCE: "The Paris Strangler," in The New Republic, Vol. 210, No. 10, March 7, 1994, pp. 33-7.
[In the following review, Judt states that in Althusser's The Future Lasts Forever "We are presented not only with a man who is on the edge of insanity, obsessed with sexual imagery … dreams of grandeur and his own psychoanalytical history, but also with a man who is quite remarkably ignorant."]
I was brought up a Marxist. Nowadays that is not much of a boast, but it had its advantages. Parents and grandparents were imbued with all of the assumptions and some of the faith that shaped the European Socialist movement in its heyday. Coming from that branch of East...
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Alice Kaplan (review date 13 March 1994)
SOURCE: "A Living Death," in The Los Angeles Times Book Review, March 13, 1994, pp. 4, 8.
[In the following review, Kaplan asserts that "The lucidity of a man condemned by his madness to a living death is perhaps what gives [The Future Lasts Forever] its chilling edge."]
On Nov. 16, 1980, Louis Althusser, the leading philosophical and political theorist of French Marxism, strangled his wife, Hélène Rytman, in their suite at the Ecole Normale Superieure, an elite institute for the training of the French professoriate where he had lived, first as a student, then as a professor, for 34 years.
Many received the news of his crime as a symbol of...
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Paul Mattick Jr. (review date 25 May 1994)
SOURCE: "Murder, He Wrote," in The Nation, Vol. 258, No. 16, May 25, 1994, pp. 566-68.
[In the following review, Mattick analyzes Althusser's attempt to understand his murder of his wife, but asserts that "Unfortunately, the book must be judged a failure as an effort at self-understanding."]
The publication of the English translation of Louis Althusser's memoir has provoked a lively response among the local intelligentsia. People are talking about it, and it has been widely reviewed. This interest is no doubt traceable in part at least to the sensational aspect of the French philosopher's story: his 1980 strangling of his wife, Hélène, in their apartment in the...
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Edith Kurzweil (review date Summer 1994)
SOURCE: "Althusser's Madness: Theory or Practice?" in Partisan Review, Vol. LXI, No. 3, Summer, 1994, pp. 514-17.
[In the following review, Kurzweil discusses Althusser's focus on his personal past as opposed to his philosophy in his The Future Lasts Forever.]
From this lucid and gripping memoir the average American reader would not realize that Louis Althusser, "the world-renowned French philosopher" who murdered his wife on November 16, 1980, was the preeminent theoretician of the Communist Party in the 1960s and 1970s, or that he incited the French student revolts of 1968. Nor would anyone familiar with his distinctive and heavy theoretical prose have thought him...
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Richard Block (essay date Spring 1995)
SOURCE: "Second Reads: Althusser Reading Marx Reading Hegel (After 1989)," in Boundary 2, Vol. 22, No. 1, Spring, 1995, pp. 211-33.
[In the following essay, Block analyzes the relationships between the works of Althusser, Marx, and Hegel.]
The English translation of Louis Althusser's Le future dure longtemps presents a curiosity. Longtemps, for the most part, has been rendered as forever, as if, after 1989, the promise of Althusserian Marxism had been displaced into an irretrievable or unrealizable future. One need only refer to the many recent dismissive reviews of the book to note how such judgments extend to Althusser's thought in general. Martin...
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Further Reading
Easthope, Antony. "Text and Subject Position after Althusser." Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature 18, No. 1 (Winter 1994): 83-96.
Presents a new reading of Althusser's work and provides reasons for the importance of reexamining his work.
Lock, Graham. Review of Schriften Vol. 1 and 2, by Louis Althusser. Ethics 99, No. 1 (October 1988): 197.
Asserts that "Political theorists should find many points of interest in this volume."
Ricoeur, Paul. "Althusser." In his Lectures on Ideology and Utopia, pp. 103-58....
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Debates of Nov. 20th, 2008
House of Commons Hansard #3 of the 40th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was economy.
- Question Period
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- Aboriginal Affairs
- Polio Awareness
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Transgender Day of Remembrance
- British Columbia
- National Child Day
- ATHENA Oakville Award
- Football
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- Forestry Industry
- The Economy
- Securities Industry
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- The Environment
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- Point of Order
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Polio Awareness
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Larry Bagnell Yukon, YT
Mr. Speaker, last April, I informed the House of the plans of polio survivor and Yukon resident, Ramesh Ferris, to undertake an inspirational cross-Canada trek to raise awareness of polio.
I am very pleased to announce that on October 1 he completed his 7,110 kilometre hand-cycle journey when the front wheels of his bicycle touched the Atlantic ocean in St. John's, Newfoundland. Canadians gave him over $300,000 to help the fight against polio. He is now currently in India with Rotary International working to eradicate polio.
We can still assist Ramesh and Rotary in the success of their work. For as little as 60¢ a day, we can prevent a life of misery for children affected by polio. I aks everyone to take a moment to visit the Ramesh Ferris website, www.cycletowalk.com, and help this worthy cause.
Canadians can now add the name of Ramesh Ferris beside those of Rick Hanson and Terry Fox when they think of Canadians who embarked upon epic cross-Canada fundraising journeys and truly helped to make a difference.
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Josée Beaudin Saint-Lambert, QC
Mr. Speaker, today commemorates the adoption by the United Nations of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. What an excellent opportunity, the day after the Speech from the Throne, to remind the government that nearly 800,000 children in Canada are living in poverty.
In times of economic slowdown, without a doubt the first victims will be the children, who will have to bear the brunt of their parents' loss of work and income. Hence the urgency to implement measures such as social and affordable housing and improvements to employment insurance.
May I take this opportunity to thank the community organizations in my riding of Saint-Lambert for their efforts in gaining recognition for children's rights.
Thanks to community activists such as these, today Quebec is the only place in Canada where there has been a constant decrease in child poverty for the past 10 years.
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Statements by Members
November 20th, 2008 / 2 p.m.
Bill Siksay Burnaby—Douglas, BC
Mr. Speaker, today is a Trans Day of Remembrance, the day when here in Canada and around the world, members of the transsexual and transgender communities and their families, friends, co-workers and allies remember victims of transphobic violence and recommit to ensuring the full humanity and full human rights of trans people.
Trans people have too often faced violence, even to the point of death, discrimination in the workplace, in housing and in the provision of identity documents, and the denial of appropriate health care.
We celebrate the life experience of trans people and the new perspectives on gender they bring to our understanding of human diversity. To that end, the Canadian Human Rights Act must be amended to explicitly include protection from discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression. The Criminal Code must be amended so that hate crimes against trans Canadians can be prosecuted and so that judges can consider transphobic violence in sentencing.
New Democrats stand in solidarity with transsexual and transgender Canadians on this important day.
British Columbia
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Mark Warawa Langley, BC
Mr. Speaker, on November 19, 1858, at Fort Langley, Governor James Douglas issued a proclamation on behalf of Queen Victoria creating the new colony of British Columbia.
Yesterday we celebrated the 150th anniversary of this historic occasion. My riding of Langley is the birthplace of B.C. and for 150 years British Columbia has been an integral part of our Confederation.
From the early days of the gold rush and maritime trade with the Orient, to the present day Asia-Pacific gateway, British Columbia continues to be an economic engine.
British Columbia has produced Nobel laureates such as Michael Smith, noted writers and artists such as Emily Carr, and two Stanley Cup champions in 1915 and 1925.
I congratulate British Columbia on its past contributions and look forward to the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. We will be cheering on our athletes as they bring Canada a gold rush on the ice and on the snow.
National Child Day
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Michael Savage Dartmouth—Cole Harbour, NS
Mr. Speaker, today is National Child Day, a day when Canadians acknowledge the 19th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which states:
In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration.
One of those key interests for our children is quality accessible child care, such as the plan introduced by the previous Liberal government and shelved by the Conservative government, much to the disappointment of hundreds of thousands of Canadian families.
Today, we acknowledge the thousands of child care workers, people who work so hard to help children and their families, often for little compensation and little recognition.
Members of the Liberal caucus are wearing blue ribbons today, the symbol of child care in Canada. For the second year a not-for-profit child care organization in my riding, the Dartmouth Preschool, led by Pat Hogan, has prepared these ribbons in honour of National Child Day. We wish to thank her and all child care workers for their commitment to children in our country and throughout the world.
ATHENA Oakville Award
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2:05 p.m.
Terence Young Oakville, ON
Mr. Speaker, I stand in the House today first to thank the voters of Oakville for the honour of sending me to represent them in Ottawa.
My first words in the House are made with much civic pride, to congratulate the nominees and winner of the 2008 ATHENA Oakville Award. This year five distinguished and dedicated women were nominated for their achievements in mentoring others: C.J. Martin promotes talented local artists and writers; Elka Ruth Enola is a leader in women's advocacy; Jane Thomas Yager supports cancer patients and mentors countless students; Alison Thomas mentors many individuals in the nursing profession; and Wendy Perkins, this year's winner, was recognized for her dedicated work as the co-founder and executive director of Home Suite Hope, a model organization devoted to helping the homeless by providing affordable housing and assisting them to develop new skills.
These five women exemplify caring leadership. Their accomplishments have helped build our local community and our national community, and we salute them.
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Pascal-Pierre Paillé Louis-Hébert, QC
Mr. Speaker, I will start with warm thanks to the voters of Louis-Hébert for the confidence they have shown me in the October 14 election.
I would also like to draw attention to three major sporting events that have taken place in recent days. First of all, two triumphs by football teams from the Quebec City area. Last Saturday, the Collège François-Xavier-Garneau Élans were the winners of the AAA collegiate football finals, the Bol d'or, while the Rouge et Or defeated the University of Calgary for the Uteck Cup.
My congratulations also go to the Montreal Alouettes for their win over the Edmonton Eskimos on November 16, before more than 40,000 fans.
Bravo to the players and coaching staff of these three top-notch teams. And good luck in the games coming up: the Vanier Cup game for the Rouge et Or and the Grey Cup game for the Montreal Alouettes.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Joe Preston Elgin—Middlesex—London, ON
Mr. Speaker, I read a troubling news story this week regarding excessive and, frankly, irresponsible spending habits regarding a top CBC executive's expense account: $10,000 for dinner tickets to a fundraiser in Montreal; $6,000 for lunches and dinners with other CBC managers; $7,500 on trips to Paris; $2,300 worth of beer, wine and snacks for a reception in March for CBC employees. And the CBC said that this type of spending was totally in line with its corporate policy.
In this time of fiscal restraint, such practices do not sit well with Canadians. The Minister of Canadian Heritage is right to call for the CBC to rein in its lavish spending.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier Day
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Lise Zarac LaSalle—Émard, QC
Mr. Speaker, today I would like to highlight an important occasion—Sir Wilfrid Laurier Day. This is an excellent opportunity for us to remember the optimistic vision Sir Wilfrid Laurier offered Canada at the start of the 20th century and the leadership to make that vision a reality.
Under Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canada experienced an period of unequalled wealth and significant economic growth, which established Canada as an unavoidable economic force on the international scene. As a francophone prime minister, he played a crucial role as a peacemaker between English and French Canada.
I would ask my colleagues to recognize the valuable contribution of Sir Wilfrid Laurier who, more than 100 years ago, was among those who created the country we are proud to live in today.
National Security
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Gord Brown Leeds—Grenville, ON
Mr. Speaker, first I would like to thank the people of Leeds—Grenville for their support and their renewed confidence in me, and congratulate you on your re-election as Speaker.
As the government, our first duty is the safety and security of Canadians. Canada is not immune to threats to our national security.
In the Speech from the Throne we committed to tabling a national security statement, which will explain how we intend to combat threats to our national security. We will balance this with the need for accountability and the protection of civil liberties.
The national security statement is another step in a series of security reforms and investments that include a new Emergency Management Act, a Canada first defence strategy and investment in intelligence and cyber defence capacities.
National security is about preserving our economic prosperity, our core values and our quality of life.
Financial Institutions
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Olivia Chow Trinity—Spadina, ON
Mr. Speaker, "it's only another 5% interest hike" said the big credit card companies. "So what if it is 5% above the 18% interest rate? It's just another increase in the interchange fees every time you use your card".
Credit card companies sucked in more than $4.5 billion in hidden fees last year alone and increased them four times this year, yet the throne speech did nothing to address these crazy fees.
The Conservative government is happy to help banks with billions, but offers nothing to regular consumers. Canadians cannot take getting squeezed any more and neither can small businesses.
Together they started a campaign called "StopStickingItToUs.com". They demand that government stop the credit card companies with their outrageous and unjustified charges. People cannot afford it any more.
It is time to stop credit card companies from sticking it to all of us.
The Economy
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Rodney Weston Saint John, NB
Mr. Speaker, I thank the people of Saint John for allowing me to represent their interests in this House.
At times like these, Canadians families review their finances to make sure they are spending prudently and they demand government do the same. That is why we ended the uncontrolled spending and wasting of taxpayer dollars that took place under the Liberals. That is why we introduced an expenditure management system to review every cent that government spends.
In the Speech from the Throne, we pledge to roll up our sleeves to further build on this work and to continue to find efficiencies in government spending.
We will review public sector compensation, ensure equalization grows in line with the economy and remains sustainable and affordable and examine corporate assets to ensure they are still performing a useful function.
Difficult but necessary decisions will be made to keep federal government spending prudent. Canadians expect no less from our government. Our government will review spending with a focus on results and ensure that every dollar spent is in the best interest of Canadians.
Tax Credit for New Graduates
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Robert Bouchard Chicoutimi—Le Fjord, QC
Mr. Speaker, during the previous Parliament, Bill C-207, which I introduced, reached third reading. The bill proposed a tax credit of up to $8,000 for new graduates working in economically troubled regions.
All members of the previous Parliament, except for the Conservatives, supported this measure designed to stem the exodus of young people and to help bring skilled workers back to the regions.
This bill will be a priority for the Bloc Québécois in the coming session. That is why I am once again asking all members of the House for their support. In particular, I am asking the Conservative members from my region to set aside their party's ideology and put the interests of young people and their region first by supporting this measure. Conservatives cannot keep ignoring the regions of Quebec.
The Economy
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Yasmin Ratansi Don Valley East, ON
Mr. Speaker, a few weeks ago in the midst of a federal election campaign the Prime Minister swore that his Conservative government would never run a federal deficit. In spite of a $16 billion surplus that the Conservatives inherited from Liberals in 2005, it now seems that the Prime Minister is poised to break his first campaign promise in less than a month.
The official excuse from the PMO will be the downturn in the global economy, but the reality is this is a deficit manufactured by the Conservatives. Despite the advice of leading economists from across the country, the Conservatives went ahead with ill-conceived economic policies that cost the federal treasury $11 billion a year. Couple this with the largest federal spending spree in Canadian history and we have a made in Canada fiscal disaster courtesy of the Conservative government.
It is said that history repeats itself, and once again the Liberal Party will eventually inherit a financial mess and will have to clean it up.
Riding of Lévis—Bellechasse
Statements by Members
2:15 p.m.
Steven Blaney Lévis—Bellechasse, QC
Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the people of Lévis—Bellechasse and Les Etchemins for their vote of confidence, renewed on October 14, 2008.
Together, we have made considerable progress with the Davie Shipyard, which has grown from three to 1,000 employees, the new congress centre—which some Conservative caucus members visited—the Patro de Lévis, as well as investment projects in Buckland, Sainte-Justine and Saint-Anselme, to name a few.
We will continue to work on recreational and tourism projects in our region, such as the Massif du Sud project and ferry services.
Many supporters and volunteers, along with some of my family members, are here on the Hill today for this new session. I would like to sincerely thank them for their support, and assure them of my commitment and my affection for them.
In this period of global economic uncertainty, it is more important than ever to spend money responsibly. I urge all members to cooperate with our government and review all expenditures to ensure that our taxpayers' dollars are being used responsibly.
The Conservatives are maintaining a steady course towards sustainability and prosperity for all Canadians.


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Skip to comments.Sci-fi Worthy of Malthus
Posted on 05/01/2013 7:18:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the new sci-fi movie "Oblivion," Earth's most precious resource is Tom Cruise. But running a close second (spoiler alert) is water. Aliens want it. All of it.
This is old hat, science fiction-wise. In "The War of the Worlds," H.G. Wells had Martians coming to Earth to quench their thirst. The extraterrestrial lizards (cleverly disguised as human catalog models) in the 1980s TV series "V" came here to steal our water too -- though they wanted it in part to wash down the meal they intended to make of us. In the more recent "Battle: Los Angeles," pillaging Earth's oceans was the only motivation we're given for why aliens were laying waste to humanity.
The first problem with this plot device is that it's pretty dumb. Hydrogen and oxygen are two of the most common elements in the universe. An alien race is savvy enough to master interstellar travel but too clueless to combine two Hs with one O to form H2O? C'mon.
At least in "Mars Needs Women," the precious resource in question -- Earth girls -- by definition can be found only here, just as "real" Champagne must come from the region that bears its name. And though I have no doubt that Earth women really are the best, the logic of evolution suggests that compatibility issues for aliens would be a hurdle not even Match.com could overcome.
In "To Serve Man," the famous "Twilight Zone" episode, the motivation was far more plausible: They wanted to eat us ("To Serve Man" -- it's a cookbook!). And who knows -- maybe we're delicious.
One rule of thumb in sci-fi is that the aliens are really us too. They reflect a good trait in humanity -- think E.T., Spock or Mork -- or a bad one. That's why writers recycle ancient human motives -- the desire to plunder, colonize, rape, enslave -- as the motives of futuristic aliens.
That's all fine. But science fiction is also supposed to raise ambitions for what humans can accomplish. And in that, Hollywood is failing.
For a while now, filmmakers have been churning out fare -- like the horrendous remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" -- based on the Malthusian assumption that resources are finite and if we keep going the way we are, the Earth will be "used up" (to borrow a phrase from the opening monologue of the canceled cult sensation "Firefly"). Either that or we'll be invaded by aliens who appreciate our stuff more than we do.
The pessimism is infectious. Physicist and sci-fi nerd Stephen Hawking recently argued that maybe we should hide from aliens lest they rob us blind. When Newt Gingrich proposed a base on the moon, everyone guffawed as if such an optimistic ambition was absurd. The obsession with "peak oil" and the need to embrace "renewables" because we're running out of fossil fuels is another symptom of our malaise. Fracking and other breakthroughs demonstrate that, at least so far, whatever energy scarcity we've had has been imposed by policy, not nature.
Which gets us back to outer space. In our neighborhood alone, there are thousands of asteroids with enormous riches -- in gold, platinum, rare earth metals, etc. Planetary Resources Inc., an asteroid mining firm started last year by director James Cameron (ironic given the politics of his film "Avatar") and some Microsoft and Google billionaires, has its sights on several rocks worth anywhere from hundreds of billions to tens of trillions of dollars. And these are just the chunks scattered around our orbital backyard and near enough to exploit with existing technology. There are also plenty of balls of ice out there that might be convertible into fuel for further space exploration.
Thomas Malthus and his intellectual descendants saw humans as voracious consumers of finite resources, like a "virus" devouring its host, as Agent Smith says in "The Matrix." But humans are better understood as creators who've consistently solved the problems of scarcity by inventing or discovering new paths to abundance. As the late anti-Malthusian hero Julian Simon said, human imagination is the ultimate resource.
Unfortunately, that resource is dismayingly scarce these days, in Washington and Hollywood.
You can say that again, especially after the lousy remakes of once excellent movies
Another good trope. I guess the icy rocks could be owned by corporations, these guys hunt claim jumpers and run into alien wildcatters.
A Western and a Sci-Fi!
Heck, the icy rocks could be held off-limits by the Department of the Interior...
Too bad Gabby Hayes is dead...
United Solar Dept of Interior
So, our heroic stars are ... Park Rangers?
ROTFLMAO! Prince of Darkness Ping!
"West World"
The Park Rangers stuble upon a nefarious plot on the part of President of Earth...
Yul Brenner kicked a$$ in that movie.
"Kingdom of Heaven" -they took an excellent story from history and proceeded to mess it up, make it derivative, and introduce absurd anachronisms. Guy of Lusignon should have been the hero, played by Orlando Bloom, came to the Holy Land - killed some Muslims that he shouldn't have because they were our allies - romanced and won the princess and eventually the throne - listened to religious fanatics instead of good military council - lost the Kingdom of Jerusalem to Saladin. Instead they made a mockery of the actual history and slandered one of the most romantic histories of the Middle Ages.
"John Carter" - they took a very simple story with excellent sci-fi elements - proceeded to complicate it beyond measure - changed what the characters said, what they did, and their motivations for what they did (they put a sword in Dejah Thora's hand - and made her WEAK! In the story she didn't flee from sacrificing herself for her people, she embraced it - and her father wasn't willing to sell her into sexual slavery - he was willing to see his entire city fall rather than sell his daughter)- then wondered why it FAILED to capture ANY of the Edgar Rice Burroughs magic.
Joseph W. Campbell had the alien/human interaction correct. We come out the winner.
Space shuttle fuel cells did it all the time. Water is the output. On the Apollo missions, the astronauts complained the mix was H2 rich, and gave them very smelly flatulance.
Yeah, but Gabby Johnson lives forever as long as we remember him, galdangit.
Consarnit, yer right! Ain't no dagburn two-bit hornswaggler gonna change that!
Something I did not know.
Thank you.
It indeed was the "show with everything, including Yul Brenner".
Nice music refernce!
In space there are no circuit breakers.... or seat belts either.
Happened after some guy called it a slut..
ah... cross threading?
Indeed. A five point harness would have served well in many an episode.
"Neither wears the politics on their shoulders and havent polluted their product."
I like a lot of their movies too, but I wouldn't set my expectations too high as to their political views.
Tom Cruise keeps his opinions to himself most of the time in public as well. The last time he was outspoken was on psychiatry for which he took a lot of bad publicity even though he was probably right.
Prince of Darkness Ping!
Warm beer......Lucas refrigerators ping!
I don't get the reference. Where's the pic from?
"Perhaps Lucas Electric had all the starship wiring contracts."
Coffee up the schnozz - on a thread chock-full of bright comments, yours wins the Blue Ribbon!
If Lucas(or SmithInstuments) is still in business I sure hope it's not below freezing in space...
With error messages like lp0 on fire that might be the case.
The 1980s film "Ice Pirates."
Perhaps the Federation starships all had bumperstickers with Britsh Leyland logo and the phrase "I'd rather push a Leyland than fly a Klingon Battlecruiser."
LOL - sounds like "Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy"!
Ah, thank you.
Obviously in league with the aliens...
Sums it up, IMO.
I have wondered for a couple decades why humans in the movies were so busy scouring the ruins for crumbs when they could just re-create civilization. We're more ingenious than that.
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Skip to comments.Did Americans in 1776 have British accents? (Suprising answer)
Posted on 10/09/2010 8:08:47 AM PDT by prisoner6
The typical English accent didn't develop until after the Revolutionary War, so Americans actually speak proper English. Here comes the science.
Reading David McCulloughs 1776, I found myself wondering: Did Americans in 1776 have British accents? If so, when did American accents diverge from British accents?
The answer surprised me.
Id always assumed that Americans used to have British accents, and that American accents diverged after the Revolutionary War, while British accents remained more or less the same.
Americans in 1776 did have British accents in that American accents and British accents hadnt yet diverged. Thats not too surprising.
Whats surprising, though, is that those accents were much closer to todays American accents than to todays British accents. While both have changed over time, its actually British accents that have changed much more drastically since then.
First, lets be clear: the terms British accent and American accent are oversimplifications; there were, and still are, many constantly-evolving regional British and American accents. What many Americans think of as the British accent is the standardized Received Pronunciation, also known as BBC English.
The biggest difference between most American and most British accents is rhotacism. While most American accents are rhotic, the standard British accent is non-rhotic. (Rhotic speakers pronounce the R sound in the word hard. Non-rhotic speakers do not.)
So, what happened?
In 1776, both American accents and British accents were largely rhotic. It was around this time that non-rhotic speech took off in southern England, especially among the upper class. This prestige non-rhotic speech was standardized, and has been spreading in Britain ever since.
Most American accents, however, remained rhotic.
There are a few fascinating exceptions: New York and Boston accents became non-rhotic, perhaps because of the regions British connections in the post-Revolutionary War era. Irish and Scottish accents are still rhotic.
If youd like to learn more, this passage in The Cambridge History of the English Language is a good place to start.
■American English, Rhotic and non-rhotic accents, Received Pronunciation - Wikipedia
■The Cambridge History of the English Language - Google Books
Something I've always wondered about, especially after all those Disney movies/TV programs from the '50's and '60's.
Both accents have obviously diverged. I wonder if we woould be able to understand our sncestors.
Does not compute. :O)
Something like 7 generations seperated them from Britain. As I understand it, the colonists were considerably taller than the brits as well.
Pirates must be rhotic speakers.
Sourced, but, if this hypothesis is accurate, then why was the dialog in Dickens' writing praised for so accurately presenting the nuances of the various regional dialects (a skill he developed while serving in some capacity as government reporter, where he could tell the region of a speaker by the accent)? Those sorts of nuances don't develop in merely half a century.
I'm not saying that this is not possible, it is. But it is far more likely that the early colonists spoke the English they came here with and that the "America" dialect commenced when immigration began in earnest and Americans had been here for several generations. Thus, it is far more likely that we did, in fact, diverge from the English accent into an amalgamation of dialects from various immigrant accents.
I've always wondered about this. It isn't like we have lots of .mp3 files of Washington giving speeches to his troops.
this is one part of an accent....
saying Hard or Haaad
what about the rest of the accent.....?
Can't stand a Brit accent ... someone with a mouthful of marbles makes more sense.
In my opinion the Australian accent is converging with the American accent.
I have always wondered the same thing. I always pictured the colonial era British sounding more like Charles Laughton of Captain Bligh, than Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits.
Looks like I was right.
There's a band of "r" coloring ("Rhoticism") about 50 miles wide North to South that stretches from Baltimore to the Rocky Mountains ~ just listen to it when someone says "wash" (as in Warshington) or "squash" (as in Squarsh).
There's a band of "r" coloring ("Rhoticism") about 50 miles wide North to South that stretches from Baltimore to the Rocky Mountains ~ just listen to it when someone says "wash" (as in Warshington) or "squash" (as in Squarsh).
There's a band of "r" coloring ("Rhoticism") about 50 miles wide North to South that stretches from Baltimore to the Rocky Mountains ~ just listen to it when someone says "wash" (as in Warshington) or "squash" (as in Squarsh).
I used to wonder about the quasi accents of women in old movies, ie 30's & 40's. I looked it up & found that in the day, acting schools taught a "mid Atlantic" accent that sounds like something of a hybrid.
And with the increase in the Hispanic population, English and Spanish are converging in America. In a few decades I believe we'll have a separate language called Spanglish. It's already beginning.
So Bawney Fronk would've been Barney Frank had he been born in Iowa, which is still considered the center of the most proper Shakespearean English.
I'd just like to point out for those I know who will say it is: It isn't my fault.
So interesting. They are pretty rhotic in Northumberland. We had a great laugh with our B&B hosts - who told ME, "We enjoyed listening to your interesting accents." (We live in Los Angeles). "Oh, no, Geoff, YOU have the interesting accent." He also asked me, "What is that word 'cute' you used? I don't know that word. I had told him his B&B was so cute. The next morning he said, "I found that word 'cute' — it is archaic!" "But it is alive and well in Los Angeles."
So interesting, the English language. Thanks for posting.
And we have the recordings to prove it???
I thought it was Bawney Fwank??? .....in either case, Barney Frank would have been a bone smuggling, turd burgling Marxist no mater where he was born
Don't forget, tho — usually the 'colonies' have kept some of the old word/ old wayss. It's true in Spanish, anyway.
Arrrhh, Matie!
Don't forget "earl" as in "I'm going to change my car's earl".
If something like that happens, it will be a mark of a lower class person, much like "Ebonics" today. I don't see any movement toward "Spanglish" in the SW. Those who speak it are recent immigrants.
Which one? If you put a Maine lobsterman in the same room with an Alabama sharecropper you'd have difficulty believing they are speaking the same language.
...and they had much better, whiter and straighter teeth than our cousins across the pond!
The Original GW made a deal with God. He said "I will wear wooden teeth if the rest of America can have great teeth"
So, today as a nation, we have the best smiles.....EVER!
True, there are random hot chicks worldwide that have hot smiles.... but as a rule.. Americans rock!!!!
(and we have better haircuts too than our cousins!)
Or Orl, as in Orl Well!
As my lovely Southern Belle wife would remind me..."Y'all talk like a Yankee..
Many Americans were proud to hear their children speaking perfect (for the time) English. For instance the earliest settlers of New Sweden didn't even speak Swedish ~ except for the 5 officers.
Their kids went straight from Sa'ami to English in three generations. That's probably why the "r" coloring is strongest today ~ right where the Sa'ami settled as they moved inland from the coast and its hurricanes.
You can't use Disney films. My Fair Lady was much better.
The rine in spine sties minely in the pline.
Rex Harrison plays a professor of phonetics Henry Higgins in the movie. We can always relay on actors that play roles for expert advice. Especially when they play the role of a expert.
This is all a bit oversimplified. Visit different parts of the UK, and you'll find that pronunciation and accent vary by region and always have. Not everyone who immigrated the US or Canada came from the west end of London. It's probably quite rare to find any 3rd generation or greater American who doesn't have an Irish, Scottish, German ...or Scottish by way of Ireland, or French, or (name a nationality)... ancestor. The "standard" American accent is supposedly a Midwestern accent, but it's "standard" in name only. Your accent has everything to do with where in the US you came from, who your parents were, and how much TV you watch.
and there is fanger and wuhtuhr.
I have often thought, and I do still believe, we got into our American accents by being taught to read phonetically the one room schoolhouse as one advanced westward, etc. Hence, we became Rhotic speakers.
I think I will stick with that belief.
But an interesting article never the less. Thank you.
A side note.
With the dramatic advancement of technology over the past two decades, regional centers have sprung up to handle calls from consumers with respect to different issues involving different products.
When I have need to call a service center for a particular product, I have enjoyed hearing the varied accents from different regions of our country. On many an occasion, I have complimented the individual on the beauty of their accent only to hear a polite, "thank you" in response.
Not once have I heard, "I don't have an accent, you do".
Natives of the Outer Banks of North Carolina have a unique accent that sounds Elizabethan.
And they refer to us tourists as 'off islanders'.
Of course not. It's all Bush's fault.
The Pirate alphabet is much simpler....mainly "eye" and "arrgh".
In 1991, while living in a Chinese City, a geologist from Edinburgh, Scotland visited our home. He had been out in the wilderness with Chinese geologists for some weeks, and was eager just to sit and drink tea with anyone who could speak English. When he heard about us, he ventured to our home.
We were just as delighted to have a visitor, and we listened to his accounts from having been in the field with Chinese scientists.
I finally had to tell him that I was amazed that his speech sounded more like a southern Virginian's or like someone from Edenton, North Carolina, than what we expected a Scot to sound like.
He laughed and said that Englishmen used to sound like him, too, "300 years ago."
Well, that Scot's understanding of English accents fairly well corresponds with the information provided in this article.
It's very interesting, and I will give this link to my son who is a linguist. We have talked about this several times.
Thanks for the info. This was something I hadn't read about, but kind of wondered about.
We ate alot better than the average lobsterback.
Q. What is a pirates favorite article of speech?
A. A dangling parrrrrrrrrrticiple.
"New York and Boston accents became non-rhotic, perhaps because of the regions British connections in the post-Revolutionary War era..."
But NOBODY understands what happened to New Jersey:)
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Last Night in L.A.: Gubaidulina and SchnittkePosted by JerryZ in Contemporary Classical
One of the treats of the Los Angeles Philharmonic programming in recent years has been a series of related concerts on a particular theme of 20th and 21st century music. The theme might be a composer (Schoenberg, Stravinsky), or it might be a style (minimalism). This year's special theme has been "Shadow of Stalin": music of the Soviet Union before, during, and after the controls placed on music style and content. A nice range of programs has been established: five programs by Philharmonic musicians; a symposium; two films; an all-night re-mix with visuals; contemporary underground pops; and a youth orchestra concert.
Last night's Green Umbrella concert took the sub-theme "Music After the Thaw". The first half of the program comprised two works by Sofia Gubaidulina. The early "Concordanza" (1971), written when she was 40, is a masterful chamber work for four strings, five winds and percussion. While it is one of the few published works written before she was 50, the sheer control of language and technique expressed in the work (and the sheer volume of work published after she was 60), makes me wonder about all of those unpublished works that had to have lived in her mind before she was able to communicate more openly. "In Croce" (1979) has several allowed versions: for cello and button accordian (bayan), for various instruments, and for cello and organ, which was performed last night. I was blown away. Most of the recordings seem to be for cello and bayan, but I found one clip for cello and organ, which approximates what I heard in Disney Hall last night. Ben Hong on cello and Mark Robson on the WDCH organ made this pairing of instruments a beautiful thing to hear.
The last half of the concert was Alfred Schnittke's "Symphony No. 4" (1984), a 42-minute work in one movement, a work that deserves multiple hearings to begin understanding its patterns. The work is written for 9 strings (2 vn1, 2vn2, 2va, 2vn, 1cb); 7 winds (f, o, c, b, h, tr, tb); 4 percussionists on pitched percussion; plus celeste, harpsichord, and piano; and vocal quartet (satb) with important solos by tenor and mezzo. The work has an attractive surface of sounds; it seems quite accessible. But beneath the surface are slow, repeated, medidative ideas. These ideas are restrained; they seem to remain private at first meeting. The vocal line is without words; the original text, a setting of Ave Maria, was removed to avoid censorship of the work. Certainly this (and other Schnittke works) provide guidance as to the general nature of the meditations in the music, but understanding would come only with familiarity, I think. I'll find a version to listen to; it seems to deserve more hearings.
Alexander Mickelthwaite, the Phil's outgoing Associate Conductor, did his usual fine job in leading the ensemble works that began and ended the program.


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Okabe has one final chance to travel back in time, set everything right, and save the girl he never even got to love. His mission is vital, but it may mean the end for the mad scientist.
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And Engle's binges were epic. He talks openly, candidly, about them, spilling out stories like a stuck-open faucet. "My kids know all the stories," he says. "You're only as sick as your secrets. When I talk about mine, they lose their power. And it can make other people realize their own stuff is not so bad."
One jaw-dropping episode, in particular, illustrates the depths of Engle's addiction.
In October 1990, one of the biggest hailstorms in modern history swept through Denver, hammering more than 100,000 cars. "The little frozen golf balls were dollars from heaven for me," says Engle. "So after two weeks in Denver, I had a pocket full of money and a demon in my brain telling me I deserved a little bit of fun. Despite all evidence to the contrary, I convinced myself that this time things would be different, this time I could handle it, this time I would quit after a few hours, this time I would be at work on time the next day, this time I would be safe, this time I wouldn't die."
Although Engle lacked a drug connection in Denver, he had become adept at sussing them out. While Engle was putting out feelers at a bar in downtown Denver, a bartender told him, whatever he did, to avoid seedy Colfax Avenue, "because that's where all the bad shit goes down." Engle drove straight to Colfax.
"I finally spotted what I felt like was an acceptable risk, a young woman dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. By acceptable, I mean to say that it looked like she had showered sometime in the recent past and didn't appear to be carrying a gun," says Engle. "I pulled over and said I was looking for cocaine and somebody to share it with."
Hopping in Engle's car, the woman proceeded to direct him through some poor areas and eventually to pull over behind a dumpster, where a very large man appeared, waving a handgun in Engle's direction. Once the pair, who turned out to be siblings, intimidated Engle enough to become convinced he was not a cop, Engle purchased an "8-ball" for $250. Engle and his passenger, whom he says "loved to smoke crack ... and the fact that once I started getting high, I was only interested in getting higher," raged.
Four times in the ensuing 24 hours, Engle would return to purchase drugs from the big man. Still at it four days later, Engle was almost out of money, and his female companion took his last $100 and car keys, promising to return with one more delivery. Five hours later, the woman had not returned and, Engle figured, would not.
He could not pay his $15-per-day motel bill, and found himself out on the street, without even a jacket, in a snowstorm. He had consumed gallons of alcohol but had not eaten in five days. Delirious and starving, he wondered into a Wendy's and filled up someone's used plate at the salad bar, but was booted by the manager before he could take a bite.
"That moment was powerfully humiliating for me," says Engle. "Even after all of my drugs and bad behavior, I was embarrassed to be a vagrant, a loiterer, a crackhead."
Despondent, crying, frozen, Engle stumbled down the street, and "thought about just falling over in the deep snow and letting my body freeze. I would be well preserved, and at least I wouldn't stink."
Then, amazingly, he spotted what looked like his Toyota 4Runner a couple of blocks off Colfax in a decrepit neighborhood. Drawing closer, he could see exhaust smoke—the vehicle was running!—and his North Carolina license plates. With his heart racing, he jumped in and took off, tires squealing, in his rearview mirror noticing a woman screaming in the yard.


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воспитанный, вежливый.
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
Albert Einstein
"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
E. M. Forster
"The sweetest of all sounds is praise."
"The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice."
Martin Luther King, Jr.


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Twenty years ago – 1993
Dunkirk Mayor Margaret Wuerstle this morning said there was "absolutely no truth" to reports circulating around the city that she plans to resign in June to accept a job elsewhere. Wuerstle explained she had been looking at jobs to get a feel for what is out there as this is an election year. She added, however, that she made a two-year commitment to the city and she intended to see that through to the end.
Thirty years ago – 1983
The congregation of Grace Lutheran Church, West Sixth Street, Dunkirk celebrated its 80th anniversary this month. The church was incorporated on April 15, 1903. In honor of the occasion, the congregation held a day of rededication and celebration. The Bishop of the Upper New York Synod of the Lutheran Church in America, the Rt. Rev. Edward K. Perry, DD, of Syracuse delivered the sermon and helped the parish pastor, the Rev. N. Jerge, celebrate the anniversary.
Forty years ago – 1973
Dunkirk city officials participated in grand-opening ceremonies at the administration building at the Dunkirk Municipal Airport off Middle Road in the town of Dunkirk.
Fifty years ago – 1963
The Manufacturers and Traders Trust Co. today announced the appointment of Marlin R. Hemphill, general manager of the Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp., Dunkirk as a member of the advisory board of the Dunkirk office.


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Welcome to TeaDay all day Saturday. I hope you can stop by often and share what is in your cup, see what everyone else is sipping and of course TeaChat. So, post what is in your cup throughout the day.
Remember, all are welcome to TeaDay, so newbies, this is a great spot to get to know fellow TeaChatters and for us to get to know you.
Today's TeaPoll and discussion topic. You are given a limited choice at a pretty swanky restuarant...do you choose Assam, Darjeeling, Keemun, non descript Chinese Oolong, Dragon Well, Sencha, Matcha blended with Kukicha...or do you ask the server to bring you water because you BYOT?
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This week's Poly Weekly #222: Metamours & Change.
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Topic: Dealing with metamours in a changing relationship
Listener calls in to ask for advice with a situation in which she begins dating Sean when he and Jill were broken up. When Sean and Jill reconcile, Jill doesn't wish to have a child while unmarried, so they marry with caller's blessing, who hopes Jill will then be happy and secure. However, Jill continues to be even more hostile towards the caller. What to do?
Hosts bring up the issues of assumptions: what does marriage mean to you? Where do you see each person's place in the new relationship?
Happy poly moment of the week!
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I have used this product multiple ways. My RtI group likes it when we use it on occasion to practice our vocabulary. It reinforces the words they already know, and then we add the ones they don't know to a word ring to practice.
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Students like this game so much they ask to play it at recess! One even asked her parents to buy her one to play at home. Only problem is that there is no way to be certain that the children are saying the correct word unless a stronger reader or adult is present.


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Below is a summary of some of the laws (rules) of soccer. There may be some variations for younger age groups. Besides understanding the topics below, it is important to become familiar with the Short-sided guidelines for ages 5-12.
How many players on each team?
11 players (1 goalkeeper and 10 field players) on each full sided team. Short sided games use fewer players depending on the age group.
A full sided game may not be played if there are less than 7 players on any team.
What are the positions on a soccer team?
There are four main positions:
- Forwards (you may also hear the terms striker, attacker, wings or target players). These players usually score the most goals.
- Midfielders (also called half-backs). These players work the hardest as they need to support their forwards up front and help to protect the goal on defense.
- Defenders (certain defenders may also be called sweeper, stopper, left or right back, full back and sometimes even the goalie-helper). These players are usually the last line of defense for their team but they also help start the attack toward the opponent's goal.
- Goalkeeper (sometimes called the goalie or the keeper). This is the last defender to beat but this player gets to use his hands. All the goalkeeper has to do is stop all shots on goal, risk his body against flying cleats, organize the team on offense and defense, distribute the ball well and start an attack against the other team.
How long are the games?
In AYSO, each game is split into four (4) quarters to guarantee that each player gets to play at least one half of the game. The referee stops the game approximately half way through each half to allow for substitutions.
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80 minutes (40 minute halves)
|70 minutes (35 minute halves)
|60 minutes (30 minute halves)
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*Due to High School, U-16 and U-19 follow slightly diifferent rules for substitutions. (See your coach for specifics.)
When can a player use his/her hands?
As most people know, the goalkeeper is the only player who can touch the ball with his hands when the ball in the penalty area that he is defending.
The keeper can not use his hands outside the penalty area and must abide by the regular rules when outside the penalty area.
That sounds simple, but there are other conditions:
- a goalkeeper can not use his hands if his teammate intentionally kicks the ball back to him.
- a goalkeeper can not use his hands if his teammate throws the ball to him on a throw-in.
- a goalkeeper must release the ball within 6 seconds after controlling the ball. The keeper will be cautioned if time is wasted.
The other field players can use their hands only when the ball is out of play, such as for a throw-in, or to set up a goal kick, a corner kick or a free kick. If a player touches the ball with his hands at any other time, the opponent will be given a direct kick.
When is a goal actually scored?
A goal is scored when the entire ball crosses the goal line, between the goalposts and under the crossbar.
When is the ball out of bounds?
The ball is out of bounds when the ball goes completely over the sideline (touch-line) or the end-line (goal-line). If the ball is touching the line even a little bit, it is still in play.
(Note: A player may be out of bounds as he plays the ball but the ball must still be in bounds.)
Who get the ball when it goes out of bounds?
The team that last touched the ball as it goes completely over the touch-line, or goal-line, must give the ball up to the other team for the throw-in, goal kick or corner kick.
Touch-line: If the ball goes out at the side-lines, the ball is thrown in by a player of the team opposite the player who last touched the ball as it went out of bounds.
For a throw-in to be legal, both feet must remain on the ground during the throw and the throw must be delivered completely over the head with both hands (one on each side of the ball) in a smooth motion without twisting the ball. The thrower can not throw the ball to himself.
Goal Kicks
Goal-line: If the ball is put over the end-line by the team attacking, such as by a shot on goal that missed, the team that was defending gets to take a goal kick from within the goal area.
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Black History Month
Monday, February 7, 2011
Sheyann Webb-Christburg, African American civil rights activist, speaks Feb. 8 in Atwood Ballroom.
St. Cloud State's observance of Black History Month includes speakers, panel discussions, poetry, films, a leadership conference and more.
February is the month students, staff and faculty honor nearly 500 years of contributions to American life by people of African ancestry.
Between the 16th and 19th centuries, an estimated 645,000 African slaves were brought to what is now the United States.
Descendants of those slaves -- and others -- helped build, defend, govern, feed, educate, entertain and inspire a nation.
View the event poster (PDF).
All events are free and open to the public, unless noted.
Candelight Memoir
Commemorate African-American history in candelit silence.
6:30 p.m. Feb. 2, Atwood Memorial Center (AMC)
Leadership Conference
The Power in Diversity Leadership Conference features five speakers, social events, workshops and entertainment. Learn more.
Feb. 4-6, AMC and Centennial Hall.
Film: "Selma, Lord, Selma"
Two showings of the 1999 Disney film based on the Sheyann Webb-Christburg book of the same name. The 88-minute film recounts the "Bloody Sunday" events of March 7, 1965 in Selma, Ala., during one of the emotional and political peaks of the Civil Rights Movement.
2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Feb. 7, AMC Theatre
Speech: "The Smallest Freedom Fighter"
Sheyann Webb-Christburg reminisces about her days in the Civil Rights Movement, including her harrowing walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., with the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. As an eight-year-old she was witness to one of the seminal events in the campaign to improve voting, housing, employment and other rights for blacks.
2 p.m. Feb. 8, AMC Ballroom
Black Poetry Night
An evening of spoken word geared toward Black history.
7 p.m. Feb. 9, AMC Quarry Room
Film: "Black is... Black Ain't"
This documentary about Black identity won a Sundance Film Festival award. The 87-minute film was the final work by Marlon Riggs, American poet, educator, filmmaker and gay-rights activist. Riggs died in 1994 from AIDs complications.
2 p.m. Feb. 15, AMC Theatre
Valentine's Day Dance
Join the Council of African American Students (CAAS) for "Night of Hearts," an evening of dance music, fun and flowers for your sweetheart. Entrance fee.
9:30 p.m. Feb. 17, AMC Quarry Room
CAAS College Day
CAAS members and friends will host area high school students for a day-long campus visit.
Feb. 18
Talent Show
CAAS hosts "Show Me What You Got," an open talent show.
7 p.m. Feb. 18, Ritsche Auditorium
Video: "Beyond the Dream III"
Taped discussion about Black history featuring the late Alex Haley, author of "The Autobiography of Malcom X" and "Roots"; the late Henry Hampton, creator/producer of the documentary "Eyes on the Prize"; Barbara Reynolds, newspaper journalist; Chuck Stone, Tuskegee Airman, professor and journalist; and Maxine Waters, U.S. Representative (D-CA). The 120-minute discussion is moderated by Renee Poussaint, Emmy-winning television journalist.
1 p.m. Feb. 21, AMC Theatre
Discussion: "A Continental Affair"
A panel discussion about the similarities and differences among African and African American cultures. Panelists are members of CAAS and the African Student Association (ASA).
2 p.m. Feb. 22, AMC Theatre
Black History Month is sponsored by these St. Cloud State entities: CAAS, ASA, Multicultural Student Services, Cultural Diversity Committee, Student Finance Committee and University Program Board.
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With the hard work of Hung Nguyen, we have had a Vietnamese Firefox since 3.6. However, Hung is working on his own and is looking for additional help to localize Firefox as well as other Mozilla software and websites into Vietnamese. This mailing list has been set up to coordinate the localization of Firefox and other Mozilla software into Vietnamese. We are actively looking for volunteers- please come help if you are interested.
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We want parents to support kids' learning, but what do we want them to do specifically? asks Bill Jackson of Great Schools in an e-mail discussion. He envisions a campaign of public service announcements tied to a GreatKids mobile app:
1. Read to your child for 30 minutes a day.
2. Have conversations with your child every day. Use questions, not commands.
3. Teach your child the alphabet before kindergarten.
4. Teach your child to count to 20.
5. Limit TV time to 30 minutes a day.
An iPad app could let parents "give their kids a quick test to see how they are doing in acquiring vocabulary," Jackson adds. "The idea here is to . . make it a 'club' of parents doing the right things and getting positive feedback."
I think some parents need to be shown how to read a book with a child and how to have a conversation.
Guest-blogging for Rick Hess, Jackson asks parents to list their aspirations for their children at age 18. "When you launch them at age 18, what knowledge, skills, character traits, and other qualities do you want them to have?" His list for his daughters:
1. Be passionate about some activities or commitments
2. Love to read; read for pleasure
3. Know a lot about the world (for their age) and want to know more
4. Have strong analytical and mathematical skills
5. Know a lot (for their age) about at least one area of science (biology, physics, etc)
6. Write well
7. Have skills in at least one visual, fine or performing art discipline (piano, theater, etc.)
8. Have at least one manual skill (sewing, cooking, fixing car, etc.)
9. Have at least basic computer programming skills
10. Be able to draw reasonably well
11. Have friends (fewer closer or more less close both OK)
12. Be active in serving people in need and/or advocating for ideas larger than themselves
13. Be kind to everyone they interact with
14. Have demonstrated resiliency through failure
15. Be physically active
16. Be optimistic
Whether a particular school is good for a child depends on the parent's aspirations, Jackson writes.
My expectations for my daughter's schools were modest. I wanted school to teach her reading, writing, 'rithmetic, history and science — especially math and science, which I wasn't teaching at home. I didn't expect her to be skilled in a performing art or in drawing — and I was right. (She took a programming class in college, but I don't think it's a critical skill.) Kindness, friendliness, resiliency, problem solving, cooking . . . Kids learn that at home or not at all.


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To celebrate Chinese New Year, Garrett Popcorn hit the streets of Chicago Chinatown for a special Happy Friday event.
Every month, our Teammates visit a Chicago community to share Complimentary Bags of Garrett Mix with our amazing fans. With Chinese New Year falling on Thursday, February 19, we thought it was the perfect opportunity to visit Chinatown and share Handcrafted Happiness with our fans there as they celebrated the Year of the Goat.
If you didn't see us in Chinatown this month, you can always POP by one of our Shops or visit GarrettPopcorn.com online to enjoy our Happy Food. Stay tuned for where we'll POP up for Happy Friday in March!


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Aleksander Feliks Wierzbicki born abroad and subsequently having resided in most corners of the world; early on was schooled in and acclimated to his various linguistic environments by maturing into and becoming an ardent practitioner of the Language and Performing Arts.
Multicultural and multilingual, Aleksander who is fluent in Polish, Russian and French is delighted to be an integral part of his Alma Mater's, "Oral Tradition" and honored in their having given him the opportunity to teach Voice and Articulation and "Career Speech" to the multi-Dialect / Accent diversified students.
Aleksander has acted, directed, stage-managed, functioned as an Artistic Foreign Language to English Cross Cultural Interpreter-Liaison, and taught "speech & acting" locally and regionally at the University of Michigan, Minneapolis Children's Theatre Company & School, C.U.N.Y.- Lehman College in the Bronx, Suffolk University, Northeastern University, the American Repertory Theatre, Huntington, Opera Company of Boston (under the Artistic mentorship of the late Ms. Sarah Caldwell), Gloucester Stage, Lyric Stage, S.U.N.Y. Purchase's Pepsico SummerFare, and the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe.
Aleksander utilized his multilingual talents, particularly French, in his OFF-Broadway direction of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and a Surrealist-Dadaist-Cubist internationally diversified event entitled Le Boeuf sur Le Toit -The Ox on the Roof Cabaret, at the Rhode Island School of Design, and on stage appearing in the Huntington's production of Cyrano de Bergerac, in "English" of course! His film credits include Barry, the therapist, in the Sundance Film Festival acclaimed Miramax film Next Stop...Wonderland, and an appearance in Prozac Nation. He is featured as " voice talent " interpreting various characters on the Houghton Mifflin Interactive CD-ROM, Children's Series of Curious George.
Aleksander is an active member of the Actors' Equity Association and Screen Actors Guild as well as the proud Recipient of the 2003 Emerson College-Gold Key Honor Society Affiliated Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching.


text: Weekly Poetry Contest One Hundred and Forty Eight Voting A healthy batch of entries this time. And this week's theme was: All is one, one is all Voting will end on Saturday 30th April 2011. Voting for yourself is entirely at your own discretion. I'm frankly sick of discussion on the matter, so any in here will be deleted. If you want to vote for yourself, go for it, but I personally wouldn't do that unless I genuinely believed mine was the best. The winning poem will be stickied for a week in the poetry contest. Oh, and if I catch anyone cheating, their entry will be removed from the contest and you will be unable to enter a poem into the contest for a month. Sorry to be such an ogre about this, I don't want to be, but rules are rules and are in place for valid reasons. If you can not follow the rules, you face the consequences. Best of luck to all entrants, and happy voting. Banzai


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