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December 23, 2009
Olivia Keaton is First Female to Enroll in Tri-County's New Automotive Technology Program
December 15, 2009
Tri-County Technical College to Close for Holidays
November 30, 2009
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November 12, 2009
Tri-County to Close for Thanksgiving Holidays
November 23, 2009
Tri-County Freshman is SC FFA State Secretary
November 12, 2009
Dr. Mendel Stewart Receives Tri-County's Order of Merit
November 11, 2009
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November 10, 2009
$100,000 Gift from Oconee Medical Center Announced At Kick off of Tri-County Technical College's Major Gifts Campaign
November 10, 2009
Tri-County Kicks Off First-Ever Capital Campaign
November 4, 2009
Chris Robinson Joins Tri-County's Foundation Board
October 27, 2009
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October 9, 2009
Dr. Lynn Lewis Appointed to Committee by National Council of State Boards of Nursing
October 9, 2009
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October 7, 2009
Fifty-Six Students Named to Tri-County's President's List for Summer Term
October 7, 2009
Forty-Nine Students Named to Tri-County's Dean's List for Summer Term
October 5, 2009
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September 28, 2009
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September 22, 2009
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August 12, 2009
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July 9, 2009
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Tri-County Technical College Closed July 3 and 6
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Tri-County Technical College's New Learning Center at Watkins Community Center Named in Honor of Senator Billy O'Dell
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SOUTHFIELD -- The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) has filed a lawsuit on behalf of several Muslim inmates against the Michigan Department of Corrections for the denial of an adequate diet during the yearly month-long fast of Ramadan.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court - Eastern District of Michigan Southern Division, challenges a policy that requires Muslim inmates to sacrifice an adequate diet when they elect to participate in the Ramadan fast. Muslim inmates receive less than half the calories that other inmates receive. The suit also challenges a policy the group says prevents Muslims from maintaining a religiously-mandated, or halal, diet.
"The Michigan Department of Corrections' Ramadan policy is discriminatory and subjects Muslim inmates participating in the Ramadan fast to cruel and unusual punishment by denying them a proper nutritional and caloric diet on a daily basis," said CAIR-MI Staff Attorney Lena Masri.
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DC Republicans Bow to Big Media "Friends", Fire Pro-Copyright Reform Staffer
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December 7, 2012 11:11 AM
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Termination comes after RIAA and MPAA "went ballistic"
While corruption in Congress is nothing new (see:
), with the rise of modern lobbying things have reached impressive new proportions, as chronicled on
, and other well-researched online voter resources.
I. MPAA, RIAA Get Republican Staffer Fired
One of the most active lobbying influences in Washington D.C. have been media corporations, represented by trade groups like the
Motion Picture Association of America
(MPAA) and
Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA). Recent estimates indicate that big media
paid 10 percent of members of Congress's
total reelection budget in the previous election cycle -- and the payments almost paid off as
big media's Orwellian SOPA
(Stop Online Piracy Act) was
only struck down
in the eleventh hour
amid a
storm of citizen lashback
Now comes word that a top traditional conservative (or in some source's words "Libertarian-leaning") staffer on the
Republican Study Committee
(RSC) has been terminated for his stance on
copyright reform
The fired staffer's name is Derek Khanna, and he turned heads in mid-November when he authored a pro-reform memo [
], which was thoroughly vetted and published by the RSC, a key advisory body to the conservative wing of federal Republican Representatives in Congress.
In his memo, Derek Khanna took issue with the RIAA's traditional rhetoric that piracy is a crime worth punishing with fines of up to $150,000 USD per song. [Image Source: RIAA]
In the memo (available below), Mr. Khanna argued that
punishments of up to $150,000 USD per work
for private citizens found guilty of filesharing are grossly out of line with reality.
Republican Study Committee Intellectual Property Brief
According to
's sources:
As soon as [the Khanna memo] was published, the MPAA and RIAA apparently went ballistic and hit the phones hard, demanding that the RSC take down the report. They succeeded.
RSC director subsequently complained that the memo had been published without adequate review, denying that the vetting process (which did occur) was sufficient. He essentially bowed the RIAA and MPAA demands, disavowing the Libertarian/reformist memo.
Representative Steve Scalise
(R-Lous.) recalls being "approached by several Republican members of Congress who were upset [about Khan's memo]", according to
The Washington Examiner
. Among those representatives (according to
The Washington Examiner
) was
Rep. Marsha Blackburn
(R-Tenn.), who
according to
The Center for Responsive Politics (OpenSecrets) received more money from the music industry than any other Republican Congressional candidate.
Funded by the music industry, Rep. Blackburn demanded Mr. Khanna be sacked for his comments, which offended her corporate masters. [Image Source: AP]
In the wake of the not-so-invisible hand exerting its influence on the elected officials, Rep. Scalise reportedly successfully pushed the RSC to fire Mr. Khanna, who will not be returning when Congress reconvenes in January.
II. Disavowing the Conservative Wing to Placate Special Interests
The move potentially puts the end to the career in the Republican party of the prominent-tech savvy 24-year-old, who many viewed as among the faces of young conservatism in the party. Active in Republican politics during his undergraduate education at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Mr. Khanna's first official post was working as an advisor to Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.).
Mr. Khanna has international experience, having studied in the Middle East, and was a key advisor to the RSC in cybersecurity with
his resume
[LinkedIn] citing his interest in "building computers and beta testing software" and experience in "C++, Backtrack, Python, Sql, Java, Dreamweaver/Photoshop, statistical modeling".
Derek Khanna, former RSC staffer [Image Source: ArsTechnica/Derek Khanna]
The firing represents a key schism in the Republican ranks. After all, Mr. Khanna may be singled out as the sacrificial lamb in the face of RIAA and MPAA wrath, but his sentiments were clearly shared to an extent by fellow staffers who vetted the memo.
Conservative authors and IP analysts Chris Sprigman and Kal Raustiala echoed Mr. Khanna's sentiments in a
post-election commentary
, suggesting the Republican Party shift to a position of copyright reform to court young voters and libertarians. Likewise,
Jerry Brito
, a scholar at the conservative/libertarian
Mercatus Center
think-tank, has just published "
Copyright Unbalanced: From Incentive to Excess
", a book which was honored by a special discussion panel by another top conservative/libertarian think-tank,
The Cato Institute
In other words, Reps. Scalise and Blackburn may have succeeded in firing one voice of reform, but their actions are dividing the Republican Party from its conservative/reformist backers. In that regard the copyright reform question is perhaps a microcosm of the more macroscopic search for identity and the balance of special interests with principles that is occurring among Republicans on The Hill.
The Washington Examiner
"Then they pop up and say 'Hello, surprise! Give us your money or we will shut you down!' Screw them. Seriously, screw them. You can quote me on that." -- Newegg Chief Legal Officer Lee Cheng referencing patent trolls
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I can't believe I would say this at 26 but I am getting too old for this crap. I could go out in college on a Thursday, drink more than I did last night, and be at my 8am the next morning feeling 100% fine.
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Michael was simply the most famous beer writer, beer advocate, beer fan, beer drinker, in the world. When I was researching my last book, I visited countless breweries around the world, and Michel had been there first. I knew this because people there couldn't wait to tell me - many of them had framed pictures by the mash tuns, evidence of his visit, a mark of approval, a stamp of credibility to rival any brewing award.
Every single person who ever puts pen to paper about beer (or finger to keyboard I suppose) is influenced by him, whether they know it or not. Because before Michael started writing about beer in the 1970s, nobody did - not in the way we recognise. He was the first champion of Belgian beers, then languishing in obscurity. He was the insipiration for god knows how many microbrewers setting up, a sort of patron saint of the American craft brew industry. He invented the way we write beer tasting notes, often imitated, never equalled.
Because the thing about Michael's writing was he understood that beer writing should be like beer itself - accessible, democratic, relaxed. His articles welcomed you in and sat you down. He made beer and brewers human, and realised you needed a bit of context around the piece, setting the scene, bringing it to life, if you wanted people to truly engage. He knew that it was only partly about what goes on in the glass - and at the same time made that compelling.
Earlier this year I was at a dinner where he was interviewing two young British microbrewers. The questions he asked them got them to open up and talk about their beer in a way they had probably never done before. He drew them out and made them eloquent. They were in awe of him - to them he was a pop star or movie idol, and they actually insisted on getting his autograph as the interview ended - but he treated them with respect and made them shine.
Coming only weeks after the death of John White, I think the whole community of British writers is just shellshocked now - I certainly am. It's no exaggeration to say that the whole world of beer has suffered a massive loss.
We Brewed the Beer!
Me cleaning out the mash tun. I told you they made me work.
By now it'll be in the barrel - or 'Barry' as I've taken to calling him. I'm going to collect him in about a week, and then we'll be off!
Saturday, 11 August 2007
Bye bye freedom - it was nice knowing you
I'm not the first writer to see a link between beer and pubs and fighting for freedom - many revolutionary and workers' rights movements met in pubs when they were not allowed to meet anywhere else, and George Orwell saw the pub as the last bastion of freedom away from the prying eyes of government. But that's another story, and I'm just trying to justify writing about this on my blog. Maybe I'm going to need a separate political blog like BLTP.
Anyway, many people in the UK still don't realise that the police have been given powers of random stop and search and detention without charge. Your brain doesn't want to accept it, because powers like that would mean we are living in a police state. Well guess what? We are.
The s44 Terrorism Act 2000 act gives the police powers to:
- Stop and search people and vehicles for anything that could be used in connection with terrorism
- Search people even if they do not have evidence to suspect them
- Hold people for up to a month without charge
- Search homes and remove protesters' outer clothes, such as hats, shoes and coats.
Everyone wants terrorism defeated, but when civil liberties groups protest against measures like this, it's because once granted, these powers may be misused - that is, used for purposes other than defeating terrorism. Because clearly that would be wrong. That would be using a climate of fear in order to erode civil liberties and increase government and police power across the board, with the overall aim of keeping the population cowed.
Whenever anyone protests about this they are dismissed as a paranoid conspiracy theorist who hasn't got their priorities right. "But we'd never misuse these powers!" the authorities protest. "Look at us, we're nice guys. Cross our hearts and hope to die, we will only ever use these powers to fight terrorism. It. Would. Never. Happen."
Cut to today's Guardian: the government are encouraging the police to use stop and search and detention without charge... against climate change protesters. Why? Because climate change protesters might blow shit up? No - because they might exacerbate delays at Heathrow.
Now, I wouldn't want to be delayed while going on my holidays either, but if I am flying off somewhere, I think it's right that I should have to go past a bunch of people pointing out what my flight was doing to the atmosphere. It might make me think a little before booking the next one. But those protesters now face the full might of anti-terror law.
The arrests have already started. According to the Guardian article, one protester has already been arrested under anti-terrorism powers. Her terrorist crime? Riding a bicycle, near Heathrow.
Perhaps they were worried that, inspired by 9/11, or by that mad fucker in Glasgow last month, she might crash her pushbike into the terminal, causing massive explosions and unimaginable loss of life. Perhaps the reason British troops could be on the ground in Afghanistan for another thirty years (The Soviet Empire failed to defeat the Taliban - it's almost cute we think we'll be able to) is that the Taliban have employed mass fleets of bikes, with wicker basket mounted rocket launchers, or bells with a specially modified ding-ding sound that disrupts human brain waves.
After holding her for thirty hours, they of course dropped the terrorist charges (because, in fact, she wasn't a terrorist after all - funny that) and re-charged her with the crime - and this really is a crime, apparently - intention to cause a public nuisance. Now. If that really is a crime - and Gods help us, it seems like it is - and you were to compile a most wanted list, and you went around arresting people in the order of how big a public nuisance they were intending to create, just how many people would you arrest before you got down as far as a woman riding a bicycle near Heathrow?
I'm sure the families who live under the flight path would like to see BA's top executives arrested on these grounds well ahead of the woman on a bike near their houses, and given that they are "the public" nearest to Heathrow, maybe we should let them decide. We could arrest Pete Doherty every time he plays a concert, as well as all the other times. James Blunt. Big Brother contestants. Jodie Marsh. Jose Mourinho. Simon Cowell. That sinner/winner bloke on Oxford Street (though I hear he has in fact been ASBO'd). Richard Littlejohn. Jordan and Peter Andre. All these people regularly cause a public nuisance and as far as I know, they have never been arrested for it. Perhaps it's just a matter of time.
It's funny how some people can sound a bit bonkers until they are proven right. Welcome to the police state.
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Thursday, 9 August 2007
Losing your head?
François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, and smartarse about English beer. Much like me - apart form the French bit. And the whole affectation about having to write under a pen name. And the global fame, obviously. And the memorable epithets.
Imagine you're in Starbucks. You order a cappuccino. Here it comes, in its big cup, a dense, creamy foam piled high. If you're feeling naughty, it might have chocolate or even cinnamon sprinkles on it. What do you do? Is it:
a) Think, "Mmm, lovely, an indulgent little treat to start the day. This is way posher than a cup of Nescafe. Because this is REAL coffee, like the Italians drink, but with a really complex ordering system, like the Americans have. So I feel a little bit more stylish, like an Italian. And also, at a subconscious level, though I may not realise it, I'm associating myself with the opening scenes of Hollywood romantic comedies in the tradition of Working Girl with Melanie Griffiths. They always use moments like these to symbolise the start of yet another humdrum working day and then something wonderful happens. So in drinking this particular type of coffee I'm making my working day a bit more like Melanie Griffiths's, so that means that I too am making myself slightly more likely to be swept off my feet by Harrison Ford fifteen years ago. Shit, I suppose I'll have to settle for Hugh Grant, or Sandra Sodding Bullock if I'm the heterosexual male of the piece. Still, at least the coffee's nice," before enjoying a tiny, lost, blink-and-you've-missed-it moment of private bliss as the foam caresses your top lip and you mouth puckers downward through the fluffy clouds in search of the hot, dark delights it conceals.
or is it:
b) Take your coffee back to the counter and say "Oi! I think you will find I asked for a cup of COFFEE! What do you call THIS?! I think you'll find that this is half a cup of coffee, and a lot of air. I'm not standing for this! I demand you scrape off all this foam, NOW, and fill up my paper mug with more coffee until it's dribbling down the sides, or I shall have no alternative other than to mutter under my breath and sign a strongly worded petition!"
Which one are you? I really hope it's not (b). Nobody would be that sad. So why would you choose (b) if we switched the capuccino for a pint of beer?
Melanie Griffith asking Harrison Ford if he likes a good head.
It's really simple: a foamy head is an integral part of a pint. It's not something that sits on top of a pint, superfluous, it is part of the pint. A pint is not complete without a head. Want to do this on technical grounds? OK, a head releases volatiles from the hop compounds in the beer, which improve the aroma of the pint. And head formation indicates that the glass is clean, and that the beer is fresh. The world's brewing scientists KNOW that a head is an important part of a beer. If you disagree, and you're not one of the world's leading brewing scientists, then I'm afraid you're wrong.
This is why I have a major problem with CAMRA's dogged determination to fight for a change in the law to demand a full pint.
First, let's define parameters:
- It's acceptable for a head to constitute five per cent of the total pint. You may like it to be more than that, but if it is more, no-one's going to call you an arse if you demand a top-up.
- I share the view that the simplest solution to the whole controversy over a full pint would be to introduce over-size glasses with the pint mark clearly on them, to allow room for a head.
- And I do know that pub companies have been known to ask for yields from tenants of over 100% of the volume of a barrel, effectively ordering bar staff to short-serve.
So I'm not saying there isn't an issue here.
But I've seen data from research sponsored by CAMRA, and it says that most consumers think you're a bit of an arse if you keep banging on about our right to have a full pint. Alright, it doesn't say that; I'm lying. But it really does say that most drinkers, if they were given a short measure, would simply ask for a top-up. And you know what? The vast majority of pubs would give you one, no questions asked. Most pubs these days even have signs behind the bar stating that they will give you a top-up if you are not happy with your serve.
So at best, the issue is not all that big, and CAMRA's campaign for a full pint is a waste of valuable campaigning time and energy.
At worst, it's damaging the interests of the beer drinkers it seeks to protect.
Here's a true story. Last year Paulaner lager (I know, it's not a real ale but bear with me - it's still a very fine beer and the story is still relevant) introduced special World Cup glasses into UK pubs - it's a German lager, World Cup in Germany, good promotional opportunity. These were over-size glasses, with pint line clearly marked, to allow a good couple of inches of head, as is the tradition for German lagers.
As a new, different, quality lager, served in its own unique glass, Paulaner could be sold at a premium price compared to other lagers, but bars weren't too keen on stocking it. One of the importers, a friend of mine, went out to find out why. Bar staff were filling the glass to the brim, serving drinkers considerably more than a pint, and yet, serving a drink that looked, smelled and tasted a little less appetising than it should. Pubs were losing money, and at the same time, the beer was not as attractive as it should be. My mate pointed out the lined glass, the fact that you didn't need to fill it to the top. The barman said, "Watch this."
A customer came to the bar and ordered a pint. The thing about a large head in an oversized glass is, when the beer is first poured, the head extends below the pint glass mark. But we all know that as the beer settles, the head doesn't just evaporate; the level of beer comes up as the level of head goes down. The drinker, however, wasn't having this. He insisted he had not been served a full pint. The barman explained what I've just said. So the drinker waited at the bar for several minutes, until the head had disappeared and the liquid had settled at the pint mark. Despite being proven wrong about his accusation of being short-served, despite pissing off the barman, despite allowing the head on his beer to disappear and the beer to warm up, giving himself a poorer quality pint, despite spending ten minutes more at the bar away from his mates, he was satisfied.
The barman explained to my mate, better just to over-serve. Better still just to give them an ordinary lager in an ordinary pint glass.
This doesn't have to happen. But if we get what we want and we have all beer served in over-sized glasses, then it will happen - maybe not to this extreme degree, but drinkers won't be any happier, one way or another, with what they get. And that's because this British attitude, where we always assume we're about to be ripped off, leeches both the trust and the joy out of what should be a happy, informal occasion. CAMRA didn't invent this attitude, but they are encouraging it with a full pint campaign that doesn't explain all the issues around the importance of a head, and which panders to and encourages English small-minded pettiness.
Where there is a short serve, people are happy to correct it. To shout shrilly (and ultimately, inaccurately) about it could ruin perfectly good and valid beer serves.
OK, I'm ready. As the late, not-so-great Mike Reid would have said, "Rrrrrrrrunaround now!"
Wednesday, 8 August 2007
It's that time of the year again...
This year's festival opened yesterday and I was down there for the trade day. And I just had one problem: there was nothing to complain about.
This bloke wasn't even there.
I feel slightly cheated. I also worry that perhaps this means I'm going native and turning into one of them through over-exposure (I've even started wondering about growing a beard.)
I mean, yes, there were the usual things - the fact that it's cask only doesn't represent the true picture of British beer. But they're a cask-only organisation, rightly or wrongly. That's not going to change. Yes there was the usual motley collection of weirdos, but that's half the fun - I'd have been devastated if they weren't there.
And of course, they still refuse to stock my books in their bookshop.
But most of the specific things I've ranted about in the past seem to have disappeared: the door staff were unfailingly polite; no-one was wearing T-shirts with messages like "If you drink lager you're a moron and you're not welcome here", the service was mostly attentive and, again, polite. They's sorted out the acoustics so you could hear what was happening on stage. It's the second year at Earls Court, and they've made the venue look a bit nicer - there are more seating areas, though still not enough really.
They've brought back third of a pint glasses, and these are elegant and stemmed, so women don't have to stand holding a pint. The pint glasses also have half and third of a pint markings, so everyone can explore more. I didn't have a full pint over the eight hours I was there. I must have tried ten or twelve beers, but only drunk about three and a half pints. This is the future for beer festivals, and it's the way American festivals have always been run, with the emphasis on trial and exploration rather than drunkenness.
And the 'Bieres san Frontieres' bit, the exception to the cask only rule (it's great that they do this - just stupid that you can have non-cask beer if you're foreign, but not if you're, say, Greenwich Meantime, who brew great beers just down the river) is bigger and better than ever. We spent most of our time drinking awesome American IPAs and unfiltered, unpasteurised Czech lagers. In both cases, this is the only time these beers are available in the UK. In both cases, this makes you want to get on a plane and spend a bit of time drinking in the beer's country of origin.
So for the first time in my beer writing career, I can heartily and unreservedly recommend that you go. It's on till Saturday.
Monday, 6 August 2007
Pete's Big Adventure, or, Can You Take Obsession With a Beer Style Too Far?
I like IPA. It's my favourite beer style. I love the heady, citrus and tropical fruit rush of the American new wave, and revere those few examples of English beer that are faithful to the style rather thn simply appropriating the name for an average session bitter. And when I was challenged to do a great beer journey... well. As soon as the idea emerged, I had to do it.
So on 16th August, I'm in Burton-on-Trent brewing an authentic 19th century IPA with Steve Wellington, head brewer at the White Shield Brewery. At the beginning of September, we take a pin of this beer (four and a half gallons) from Burton to London, hopefully by canal (like it went before 1839), but if not, by train (like it went in its heyday).
Then on 16th September I leave the UK... on a P&O cruise ship! This gets me as far as Tenerife, where a few days later I board the Barque Europa (top), a nineteenth century tall ship who made me cry the first time I saw her. Tenerife was often a staging post for the old East Indiamen, so while it sounds like a great holiday, it's still a kosher historical recreation.
As part of the extended crew of the Europa, Barry and I (that's what I'm calling my beer - it's short for 'barrel') sail south and across the Atlantic, and land in Salvador, Brazil, at the end of October. From here I have to cheat slightly, getting a flight down to Rio, where I board the Carribbean (right), a modern container ship.
Sailing ships would often drift, becalmed, for weeks in the mid-Atlantic doldrums, and would sometimes end up as far off their route as Brazil, so again, this is still accurate.
The Caribbean sails without stopping down the coast of Brazil, across the South Atlantic, round the Cape of Good Hope, and up the coast of East Africa. Then we stop at various points around the Arabian peninsular (including Iran) before landing in Mumbai. From Mumbai, I'm getting the train across to Kolkata (Calcutta), which used to be the main base of the East India Company. There, we'll taste the beer and find out of the sea voyage, with its constant pitch and roll, and its thirty degrees celcius temperature change, really does condition the beer in the way we've always told each other it did.
This is an enormously exciting journey personally, but I also hope it's of interest to anyone who brews or drinks IPA. And it's an opportunity to put Burton-on-Trent back on the map as one of the world's great brewing centres. No-one outside beer aficionado circles is aware of Burton's former glories, and that's something this book hopes to change.
I'll be posting updates on here as frequently as I can. The book is due out in Summer 2008.
And if you know anyone with a narrowboat on the English canals who might be interested in doing the first bit, please let me know!


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Choosing large, bold art is a fast way to add instant impact to a room and is easier than compiling several small pieces.
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Switch up your bedding to easily add a touch of drama to a bedroom. It's also a fast, simple way to update the room.
A patterned screen can add drama and division.
Consider adding a standout screen to a room. It gives you a pop of colour, helps break up the space and hides areas that are less attractive, cluttered or used for storage.
A touch of the unexpected in the bathroom adds style.
Add fast finishing touches in your bathroom with a dash of the unexpected — like a non-bathroom-style rug and a piece of lovely art.
Start fresh by paring back on superfluous accessories.
A rich wall colour, such as Rockies Brown (2107-30) by Benjamin Moore, creates the perfect bold backdrop for a shocking pink sofa and acid-green side table in this living room. A small-scale original painting looks right at home when hung near a personality-filled tabletop vignette.
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Display vases or lamps atop books.
"Use books as a propping surface to give objects or decorative pieces more importance," advises H&H design editor Joel Bray. If the stack looks a bit lost, define it with a glass top: "Place a square piece of glass or mirror on top to create a stylish side table," adds assistant design editor Kathryn Bala. If bookshelf space is limited, this is a great way to store books elsewhere, while still giving them function.
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Swap vases for unexpected vessels.
H&H style editor Michael Penney recommends picking up some tossed-away cans from curbs, garage sales or flea markets and making them into eclectic vases for flowers or houseplants. For deep cans, add some crumpled newspaper to the bottom to elevate the plant a bit.
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"This idea from designer Summer Thornton is a great example of an easy way to give a space architectural interest, colour and pattern all in one go, while keeping the project budget manageable," says Apartment Therapy's managing editor, Janel Laban. "She simply framed out a wallpapered section of the wall with painted moulding for maximum impact and minimum cost."
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Update a tired room by changing up the wall colour — or better yet, the walls, trim and ceiling. Use a mid tone on walls and a paler tint on the ceiling with trim in goes-with-everything grey as the basis for a rich, regal space. Add a complement to enhance the look: try experimenting with colour wheel opposites (think shades of red with greens, shades of blue with oranges, and shades of yellow with purples) in soft graduated shades. Here, H&H senior style editor Morgan Michener added gold-hued upholstery, embellishments, art and accessories to make lilac walls pop, with hits of black to anchor the arrangement.
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Framed Donghia fabric becomes artwork, adding instant drama to this living space. The occasional chair was a curbside find; new legs and upholstery in a fuchsia damask print give it a trendy new life.
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Think outside the box when mounting lights.
A light fixture like this is most often mounted horizontally over a mirror or medicine cabinet. But here, installed vertically, it becomes an instant sconce — and when it comes to applying makeup, two bulbs are better than one.
Japanese decorations create a Zen space.
In Japan, black is considered a colour that is used to emphasize form. Look for shapely black items such as leggy cocktail tables or a curvy webbed chair. As a finishing touch, decorate white walls with traditional calligraphic scrolls; fashioned into a kimono and hung on a bamboo pole, their inky script becomes gorgeous graphic art.
A quick way to update a bedroom or living room.
Large- and small-scale florals and stripes give this room a cohesive look. Decorating on a budget? A covered night table, painted bench and mismatched lamp bases demonstrate the charm of thrift store finds. A bench at the foot of the bed provides a space to store books.
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Go with the faux for an affordable update.
Woven beach mats tacked or stapled to the wall are more textured than grasscloth wallpaper and a fraction of the price. They also create a fun tropical feel, emphasized by the capiz shell blind.
Add a custom look to windows.
A fabric valance like this turns a ho-hum window into a showstopper. Ribbon trim that echoes its shape creates the effect of millwork and brings an architectural element to the room. Contrast the contemporary valance with full-height drapes in a traditional pattern — and keep the look tailored by allowing them to just skim the floor.
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Draw attention to windows with dramatic trim.
A kitchen lighting system that layers an antique chandelier, antique wall sconces, pot lights mounted under the cabinets and a candelabra with taper candles is visually stunning but also allows the flexibility to create any type of mood. Herringbone patterned hardwood floors only add to the European country, luxe look. Framed French doors and leaded glass cabinet doors elevate the kitchen's high style even more while milk stools used as seating around the harvest table keep it casual and comfortable.
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Softly-tinted glass bottles add impact when grouped together.
Bold black framed windowpanes are juxtaposed with a delicate and colourful arrangement of glass bottles in various shapes and sizes, their fluid shapes a perfect contrast to the clean lines of the window and metal table.
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Coordinated books add punch to white shelves and collectibles.
H&H style editor Michael Penney splurged on a chocolate brown tuxedo sofa with a well-made frame. A seagrass rug and vintage glass and wood furniture introduce texture and personality in the space.
See more photos of Michael's former apartment and a tour in our gallery and video. Plus, see tours of his new house, too!
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Paint out floors for a noticable update.
A major appeal of the increasingly popular white-painted floor is flexibility: the neutral but fresh tone creates a clean canvas. In this oasis-like bathroom, it sets an airy and romantic mood, and the matte finish works with the white walls to give prominence to the raw wood beams and organic egg-shaped tub.
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Create cohesion by painting mix-and-match frames one colour.
This room proves that affordable, vintage finds can add sophistication to any space. The chair was found in an antique shop with tattered, outdated pink upholstery. Stripping the stain from the wood frame and retufting and reupholstering it in neutral linen gave it a classy, Barbara Barry effect. The collection of frames are from various thrift stores and even the garbage. A few coats of matte white spray paint made them like new for a cohesive art wall. A round pedestal table found at Value Village was also transformed with two coats of black paint to become a new side table. The teal throw and patterned toss cushions add personality to an affordable white sofa from Ikea.
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The first wave of construction projects for Graham and Crittenden middles schools funded by the $198 million Measure G facilities improvement bond includes new and revamped classrooms and new technology infrastructure updates and new athletic facilities.
Trustees had previously approved a list of priority projects to be pursued at both Crittenden and Graham. At the most recent board meeting, trustees got a look at preliminary floor plans for new classrooms and looked at overhead views of each school to see how the new classes, auditoriums and athletic facilities would be placed on the respective campuses.
The total budget for both projects is $50 million. "Phase I," as the first leg is being called, is set to begin next summer with the installation of new classrooms and music buildings at each school, a new library at Graham, and a new art building at Crittenden. Phase I is expected to cost between $15.5 million and $16 million, according to official estimates.
The new music rooms will feature improved sound-proofing, more private rehearsal space and increased storage space for musical instruments. Crittenden's new and upgraded classrooms will be outfitted with built-in speakers and the ability for teachers to control video presentations via wireless devices.
The new classrooms at Graham will include science labs with an increased number of sinks — one for every four students in the class. The new library will be built with acoustical baffling to keep sound out.
Next up, the project's architects — DLM Architects (Crittenden) and Artik Art & Architecture (Graham) — must finalize their construction drawings and submit them to the Department of State Architecture for approval. Once the DSA signs off on the projects, the district can begin taking bids from construction firms. If all goes according to plan, the winning construction firm — or firms — will break ground in June 2014.
In addition to the Phase I projects, the district still plans to erect new auditoriums at each school and install a new track and field at Crittenden.


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19 March 2012
Lynn Henning has a Detroit News article out today in which he extols the virtues of Austin Jackson's changed batting approach. Henning admits that Jackson's 11 strikeouts in 29 at-bats don't look very good (as I pointed out the other day), but he quickly dismisses the 32% strikeout rate as not being an issues because of "a different circumstance from 2011".
I can't imagine what the "different circumstance" would really be besides the fact that he's currently racking up the whiffs in spring training, which means he's likely facing inferior pitching. I guess Henning is trying to argue that Jackson is smacking the ball hard, so he's looking like a "better hitter" right now than he did at any point last season, even though his strikeout numbers are still sky-high. But I think he's well off-base with what he's trying say. Here's the money quote:
"Jackson, if anything, has been dealing with bad luck after two weeks in the Grapefruit League. He scorched a grounder and a line drive at the shortstop against the Cardinals on Saturday, and came away with zeros."
In fact, if we take Jackson's spring numbers to date, and regress them to a BABIP of .340, then his slash line falls to: .234/.317/.366. That's nearly identical to the numbers he ended up with last year (.249.319/.374).
So, while the numbers appear on the surface to indicate that Jackson's hitting has turned a corner, I don't think the stats really tell us that. If anything, they tell us that we should expect more of the same from the Tigers' leadoff man.
Matt Snyder is the editor of The Tigers Den. He can be reached on Twitter @snyder_matthew.


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Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood
by Sandra Steingraber
[2001, New York: Perseus Publishing; 352 pages, paperback.]
[Review first published in Midwifery Today Issue 81, Spring 2007, © 2007, Midwifery Today, Inc. Review by Ramona Denk.]
What do you get when you cross a poet, a scientist and a mother? You get the author of this outstanding book!
I have to be honest. If you told me that there was a book about how the environment affects pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding, I wouldn't necessarily run out and get it. But I happened across this one on the library shelf and opened it in the middle. I discovered a fascinating narrative of Sandra Steingraber's experience of becoming a mother, entwined with her personal exploration of the impact of the modern world on our babies.
The title Having Faith is a double reference to the author's daughter named Faith and to the step of faith that we take by bringing babies into a far-from-perfect world.
The book flows like a "true confessions" autobiography rather than a scientific treatise. The opening line reads: "In a faculty bathroom on the campus of Illinois Wesleyan University, I am trying to pee on a stick." After three poignant minutes, the pregnancy test shows that this 38-year-old professor has indeed conceived.
As she tells her tale, Steingraber enchantingly describes aspects of reproductive biology and environmental science. For instance, her description of the menstrual cycle begins thus:
"At the end of a period, the lining of the uterus is thin and bare—like a layer of silt left behind after flood waters have receded. The ovaries, too, are smooth and quiet. Then, high in the brain, the pituitary gland begins to drizzle into the bloodstream a substance called follicle stimulating hormone. True to its name, the hormone awakens in one or the other ovary a whole choir of follicles. Like bubbles, they rise to the surface in unison."
About how the egg travels into the uterus, she writes:
"It's easy to think of the egg as a little gondola floating serenely down the Venetian canal of the fallopian tube, but this is not quite right …. Under the influence of estrogen, fallopian tubes move. They stretch, and they bend, and their mouths are actively attracted to ovulating eggs, a drawing power that apparently extends even across the continent of the pelvis."
One of the things I appreciate most about this book is how the author manages to delve into negative topics, from mercury-laden fish to dioxin levels in breast milk, and face them squarely without being alarmist or despairing of our ever being able to produce healthy children. I emerged from reading it with a broader knowledge of how creatures and chemicals in our world interact and about the history and politics of pollutants, but without feeling like there is nothing we can do. (At the back of the book Steingraber lists resources [organizations] that she found helpful for research and activism.)
The author is baffled by how often the people who are aware of environmental threats do not strive to educate expectant mothers about them. While she is pregnant, she tells her artist husband, "Not a single one of these pregnancy magazines [that I've been reading] encourages mothers to find out what the Toxic Release Inventory shows for their own communities." After some thought, he theorizes that it is because "pregnancy and motherhood are private. We still act like pregnant women are not part of the public world …. You are not supposed to upset them." She also explores the habit of communities putting the burden on the consumer to avoid pollutants (for example, don't eat fish) rather than taking relatively simple steps to reduce the spread of contaminants in the first place. And she wrestles with the issue of avoiding potentially harmful substances versus trusting that something is all right until the scientific studies force the companies involved to admit that it isn't.
Charming and hilarious stories decorate the book, like the unfolding of the author's sex education as a child (when she thought the sperm and egg swim across the mattress to meet and unite); her first intimate encounter with her now-husband, during which she inadvertently set the curtains on fire; her breastfeeding adventure at a fancy fundraising dinner; and her toddler's discovery that her own mammary glands related her to other mammals, like the cows at the 4H fair that had "big nums!"
The chapter on breastfeeding starts:
"The nicest mammary glands I ever saw belonged to an American Alpine goat at a county fair in upstate New York. Talk about your velvet orbs! Your snowy white hemispheres, gently trembling!"
You'll have to pick up the book to read the rest of this playful ode to mammae.
Steingraber, who has received awards for science writing and was named a "Woman of the Year" by Ms. magazine, also shares some of the more challenging parts of her adventures in motherhood. These range from anxiously awaiting amniocentesis results to enduring a fear-inducing hospital-based childbirth class to the drama of trying to have a natural childbirth. After her daughter was born, breastfeeding didn't immediately come easily: "Every few hours, day and night, the neonatal nurses have instructed me in the art of breastfeeding …. They have been wonderful teachers all, but Faith is losing weight and I don't have any milk. And I don't have any breasts. And there is no God. Failing. I am failing." Later she says, "Early motherhood is an extreme sport."
Here's another great quote: " …everything that toddlers do seems alarming and grotesque to first-time parents of infants. Compared to one's own sweet babe, who coos and waves her hands so delicately in the air, toddlers are a tribe of dangerous giants."
Are you a parent? A midwife or other reproductive health professional? A student of the amazing human body? Interested in politics, the environment or our future life on earth? If you are any of these, this passionate, eloquent, well-researched work of art will enlighten and enrich your life.
Reviewer Ramona Denk is a midwife from Michigan who has left pieces of her heart all over the planet. Her next destination is North Africa. She can be reached at email@example.com.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The controversial "stand your ground" self-defense law will be challenged in the next session of the Florida Legislature by a bill filed Wednesday by Alan Williams, D-Tallahassee.
The current law, which allows a person to attack assailants when they feel threatened with no duty to retreat, has been under a microscope since the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Jacksonville teen Jordan Davis have raised concerns.
The bill comes a year after Gov. Rick Scott created a task force to examine the law, but the final report offered few major suggestions and changes.
William's House Bill 4009 removes the "no duty to retreat" language in the current law, meaning it would not apply to another who pursues an assailant. He believes Stand Your Ground has been abused and a "crutch" for those who commit violent acts.
"It's our role and responsibility as outlined in the constitution of our great state to put forth laws and pass laws that we think will be for the betterment of the entire community," Rep. Williams argues.
John Philips, the attorney for the family of Jordan Davis -- the 17-year-old shot and killed in November in an apparent dispute over loud music at a gas station parking lot -- supports the bill and believes it's a step in the right direction.
"They [need to] re-define dwelling and make this about home and property protection and protection of the person, not just two people get into an altercation, and somebody gets killed that this might be a stand your ground case," said Philips.
Defense attorney Mitch Stone, who has one several cases using the law, calls the bill an "uphill battle" and does not see compromise as an option.
"I think the vast majority of the people in the state of Florida believe they have the right to defend themselves under any circumstances," said Stone.
The bill is still waiting on a sponsor in the Senate.
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The stylish ax work by the 16th president in "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" inspired some destructive emulation by a Monterey man honing his own ax chops.
The victim was no vampire, but a wooden sign welcoming visitors to Pacific Grove, police said.
Andrew Enriquez, 26, was arrested about 5:30 a.m. Sunday after he was seen running with an ax in his hands, police said.
He tried to evade officers by hiding beneath a car in the 100 block of Central Avenue, but he was caught, police said.
After he was taken into custody, police determined the man was intoxicated and he admitted having damaged a "Welcome to Pacific Grove" sign on the Recreation Trail near Eardley Avenue, police said.
The sign was broken in half, apparently by the ax-wielder, police said. Damage was estimated at $1,800.
Enriquez was arrested on charges of felony vandalism, public intoxication and delaying officers, police said.
He was released on his own recognizance from the Pacific Grove police station.
Cmdr. John Miller said the suspect had been drinking and watching the movie, in which Lincoln is depicted as a master, martial-arts fighter with an ax.
"Apparently he does some pretty fancy ax work," Miller said, and the suspect wanted to practice "his craft."
"He was being drunk," Miller added.
The incident was not the first, or most famous, of incidents in Pacific Grove featuring ax play.
During the early days of the community, local historians say, state Sen. Benjamin Langford built a seaside villa in the town that had started as a Methodist retreat.
With a strict curfew, dress codes and blue laws, Pacific Grove also had a fence on three sides and a wooden wagon gate that separated the community from Monterey.
In 1885, "Judge" Langford grew tired of having to walk to the Grand Avenue office for the gate key and he used an ax to chop it down. The gate wasn't repaired and the fence was mostly gone by 1890.
And in 1932, marine biologist Julia Platt, the town's first woman mayor, took an ax to a gate to allow public access to Lovers Point.
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A Historian Remembers Her Father--And What United ThemNews at Home
The child of immigrants, he passionately loved this country, its Constitution and its rule of law. When I was a little girl, he took me to the U.S. Supreme Court and there, in that awesome chamber, he told me that the most important question a judge should ask is: What's fair?
I never forgot that simple question.
Later, in the 1960s, he wondered where he'd gone wrong in raising me. By the time he voted for Barry Goldwater in 1964, I had already worked in the civil rights movement and marched against the war in Vietnam.
What did he expect? He had taught me to worship the ideals he cherished. So I was outraged by injustice and by the deception practiced by political leaders. Though we vehemently disagreed about the Vietnam War, I thought he'd done a fine job teaching me to respect our democratic traditions.
His own disillusionment came a few years later. He had voted for Richard Nixon and then Watergate shattered his political faith. After that, he never voted again.
That's when our political views grew closer. He'd call from across the country to express his outrage at the Iran-Contra scandal. He'd write and tell me that the United States had no right to ignore the World Court's decisions. "No one is above the law, not even this this country."
Now, 10 years after his death, I can still imagine what he'd be thinking and saying today. He'd sharply criticize the U.S. Supreme Court for selecting a president; he'd excoriate President Bush for rejecting the International Criminal Court.
He would be especially outraged that prisoners are languishing in a lawless netherworld at a naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. "No right to a lawyer? No right to hear charges? And now they're going to hold secret military tribunals? This is not the country I loved."
He would definitely attack the U.S. Patriot Act. "Libraries have to tell the government what you read? Wiretaps on citizens without judicial review? And now this Ashcroft wants to extend his powers? This is why I hated communism. Doesn't this man know about the Bill of Rights?"
"And putting John Poindexter in charge of this Pentagon spying machine? My God! The man's criminal conviction was only overturned on a technicality!
"These people aren't real conservatives -- they don't give a damn about the law or democracy."
As was his custom, he'd get pretty worked up. "Giving government funds to religious institutions? What ever happened to the separation of church and state? Why are people letting this government get away with this?"
I would remind him of the Sept. 11 attacks, the al Qaeda terrorist network, and how the government has successfully manipulated and deepened the public's fears.
But I know how he'd respond: "Even Roosevelt -- and you know how much I disliked him -- tried to get people to overcome their fears. What kind of a president is this?"
"The Cold War ends, we defeat totalitarianism, and this is what we get? What about our civil liberties, our civil rights? What's the matter with Congress? Why aren't they doing anything to stop this? You've got a lot to do. . . ."
And his words, not for the last time, would remind me where I got this strange notion that all of us -- whatever our political loyalties -- are responsible for the fate of our democracy.
This article was first published by the San Francisco Chronicle and is reprinted with permission of the author.
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Richard Henry Morgan - 6/16/2003
Law is about many things, including legitimacy, and fairness. Law aims for justice, and justice may have something to do with fairness, but fairness is not the special province of the jurist. It is hoped that the law encompasses fairness, but that should be distinguished from investing each interpretation of the law with fairness as the premier hermeneutic principle.
Sure, the rot did not set in during the '50's -- it's just that Yale-style legal realism bore its greatest fruit then. Not for nothing that Warren, the enthusiastic supporter of rounding up Japanese-Americans, should be the leader of a court that looked outside the law for its interpretation. As a former teacher, I've seen the results of a creative approach to interpretation, where fairness considerations have led to fictitious property rights to education, etc., with the resultant destruction of discipline and educational opportunity for other students. I'm thinking of a whole string of decisions, from Tinker v. Des Moines, to Goss v. Lopez, that demonstrate that the justices of the USSC have no great appreciation of the real-word impact of their creative decisions, and are therefore particularly prone to falling prey to the law of unintended consequences. They would do well to stick to the law, which is their special province, but too many rather see themselves as philosopher-kings unfairly forced to hide their virtue beneath a judge's robes. Brennan was particularly prone to this. There are cogent moral objections to capital punishment, but Brennan thought it his role to help the law along to a conclusion towards he thought society was heading anyway, under the guise of constitutional interpretation. That's what I oppose -- the substitution of personal views of fairness for established law and established canons of construction.
William H. Leckie, Jr. - 6/16/2003
"The law is about legitimacy" is tautological, Mr. Morgan.
On the other hand, we do have a legitimate issue for debate here!
Do we take the positions put so starkly long ago--By Thrasymachus in Republic: Baws were created by the rich and powerful to control others? And Callicles in Gorgias: That laws were invented by the demos to curb the men whose natural right it is to rule?
What you deride as navel gazing or lotus positions and incense are about whether there's any other ground for legitimacy, though most I knew who actually engaged in those things couldn't have cared a whit. It's tommyrot that rot set in in the 50s or 60s; it's been there since the 5th century BCE at least and we are still trying to figure it out.
Richard Henry Morgan - 6/14/2003
Actually, Ralph, I think the law is about legitimacy. The law is what has been passed by a legitimate procedure, not what is divined by sitting, lotus-position style, taking in the incense, and contemplating the question "What's fair?". That is a question that should precede the making of law, not direct its interpretation.
NYGuy - 6/14/2003
The Following is a Column by Ruth Rosen, a liberal since youth.
Interesting. Sorry her father got to hate this country. Wonder where that came from.
Of friendship and war RUTH ROSEN Friday, April 4, 2003
ONCE A YEAR, like migratory birds, the five of us arrive at Point Reyes National Seashore for a three-day reunion. We take over a small inn, leave behind husbands, children and challenging careers. We take long hikes, eat leisurely meals and talk interminably about our families and work.
We are all educators of one sort or another and sadness saturates this year's reunion. We don't speak of the war very much, but anguish dwells inside each of us.
"There is the quiet recognition that this ultraconservative administration -- by bankrupting our national wealth through war and tax cuts - - has turned our dreams into a nightmare."
Another example of liberal honesty. Happy Father's day everyone.
Ralph E. Luker - 6/14/2003
Richard, Maybe that _is_ your problem: that you do not believe that the law is about equity.
j horse - 6/13/2003
Ruth, your fine article made me think of my own father. Papa hated dishonesty and phonies, so I have a good idea of how he would have felt about alot of the current issues. He served in WWI, survived the Great Depression, and was in the merchant marines during WWII. He wasn't afraid to speak his mind, which was something that used to embarass me when I was younger but is something that I've come to appreciate today.
Thanks for the memories.
AnotherNYGuy - 6/13/2003
How can Rosen use her dead father to further her own political agenda? It seems almost immoral. How could she possibly "know" how her father would have responded to current political events? I also find it hard to believe that someone, like Rosen's father, would completely change his philosophy based on Nixon and Watergate. I would think one would disassociate oneself from the person and the event, rather than from the whole political party.
Rosen might want to believe that her father would approve of her her beliefs, but that doesn't make it true. It just seems to be a way for Rosen to justify what she thinks.
Richard Henry Morgan - 6/13/2003
"he told me that the most important question a judge should ask is: What's fair?"
You and your father shared a vision -- that the law is about discovering what is fair. I can't think of a better summation of the rot that set in during the '50's, reached its zenith in the '60's, and continues to this day.
NYGuy - 6/13/2003
I said:
"I just get amazed at the number of ways people start with a simple statement and turn it into a rant against GW. Capenter is an expert at this."
We are at war and things change. Civil libeties were suspended during WWI when people could not buy gas or meat at will. They had to cover their windows at night, or shut their lights off so submerines off shore could not use cities as a guide for navagation. Some citizens were prevented from continuing their schooling and put into the Army or Navy with all its restrictions. My grandmother had to register since she was not born in this country. The list goes on.
I agree with you, "The sooner we defeat Al Qaida and their ilk, the sooner we can halt the erosion of civil liberty. I pray we can restore what was lost that terrible day." We were not Empire builders in WW2 and we are not Empire builders today, even though in both cases we fought on foreign lands.
It is just tiresome to hear a bunch of cry babies from the "me generation" who always got their way and have no concept of what it takes to proctect ourselves.
Thank God we have men like GM the father who put his life on the line for this country during a period when he lost most of his civil liberties. Thank God he taught his son how to protect this nation.
James Thornton - 6/13/2003
A long time from now, in a galaxy so close, history will mark September 11, 2001 as the date that began the transformation of the American Republic into an American Empire.
The sooner we defeat Al Qaida and their ilk, the sooner we can halt the erosion of civil liberty. I pray we can restore what was lost that terrible day.
NYGuy - 6/13/2003
I just get amazed at the number of ways people start with a simple statement and turn it into a rant against GW. Capenter is an expert at this.
As you said you helped shaped the polotics of this country and probably supported Clinton and now you don't like what you see. Fair enough. Maybe you should examine your father's earlier attitute about America.
I personally don't think you do much to honor to your father with this article. I would have had more respect for you if you had titled it, "J'Accuse".
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TWO talented ballet dancers from a Bacup dance academy are set to perform with the English Youth Ballet.
Dansworks Dance Academy protégés Charlie Morris, 12, and Sarah Brooks, 13, were selected from more than 75 youngsters who auditioned to perform with the EYB when its tour reaches the North West next month.
The pair are currently rehearsing for roles in Coppelia, which will run at the Stockport Plaza from June 13 to14.
Haslingden High School pupil Charlie, from Bacup, has turned down a permanent place in the EYB to take up an offer from the Ballet Associates Scheme in Leeds.
Karen Roe, the principal at Dansworks, which is based at the Pioneer Building, in Alma Street, said she was proud of both dancers.
She said: "I am delighted with their success and they definitely both have a future in dance.
"We have worked really hard with Sarah to get her to the place she is at now. She is a completely different dancer to the one who started here two years ago and she has really grown in confidence and ability.
"Charlie has been dancing here since she was eight and she has grown into a confident performer and really stands out when she is on stage. It was a really good experience for both of them to go to the audition because they will have to do that at some stage if this is the career they decided to go for." Charlie, who attends classes at Dansworks six days a week, is also a cornet player with Haslingden High School's brass and wind bands.
She said: "I do limbering, Irish, freestyle, street dance, ballet, tap, musical theatre, lyrical, modern, song and dance and character dance. Dancing is my life."
Sarah, from Greenmount, near Ramsbottom, added: "Both of us pretty much live for music and dance."


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For years, high school football games in Ohio could be shortened by mutual agreement of both head coaches. That will change this fall with the adoption of a football point differential rule as part of 2014-15 regulations approved by the Ohio High School Athletic Association's board of directors recently.
The point differential regulation is already used in many states. The proposal was recommended to the board by the OHSAA staff after more than a year of consultation with the Ohio High School Football Coaches Association.
Unlike changes to the bylaws and constitution, which require a vote of the OHSAA's membership, changes to sport-specific regulations and the general sports regulations need only approval from the board of directors.
"First and foremost, this was proposed out of concern for player safety," said Beau Rugg, the OHSAA's assistant commissioner in charge of football, wrestling and all officiating.
"Lopsided games aren't good for anybody. The risk of injury goes up and it can be a tense situation for coaches and players. The length of games is also a topic of conversation at the national level. This is just the right thing to do."
The football point differential regulation reads as follows:
After the first half, any time the score differential reaches 30 points or more for 11- man football, the following changes, and only these changes, will be made regarding rules determining when the clock will be stopped. The clock will be stopped when:
An official's timeout is called either for an injured player or following a change of team possession.
A charged timeout is called.
At the end of a period.
A score occurs.
The clock will start again on the ready-for-play signal for the first play after the above situations. The clock will continue to run in all other situations.
The use of the new rule does not preclude the use of a rule which reads: "A period or periods may be shortened in any emergency by agreement of the opposing coaches and referee. ... Any remaining periods may be shortened at any time or the game terminated."
After the 30-point difference has been met, if the score drops below 30 points, the clock reverts to regular timing.


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