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- Amsberry, D. "Talking the talk: Library classroom communication and international students." Journal of Academic Librarianship 34.4 (2008): 354-357.
- Brief survey of recent Second Language Acquisition studies about 'teacher talk' – how teachers communicate with non-native speakers. Provides recommendations for engaging international students in the classroom.
- Daly, E. "Embedding library resources into learning management systems: A way to reach Duke undergrads at their points of need." College and Research Libraries News 71.4(2010): 208-212.
- Duke librarians decided to reach students in Blackboard rather than waiting for students to approach them. Working with faculty, they added "Library Links", including contact information, library resources, social bookmarking and subject-specific databases to course sites, later using LibGuides and later automating the process using 'on the fly' generated content linked to the subject code assigned to each course.
- Gross, M. and D. Latham. "Undergraduate Perceptions of Information Literacy: Defining, Attaining, and Self-Assessing Skills."College & Research Libraries 70.4(2009): 336-350.
- Interesting insight into freshman students and their understanding of IL (unclear) and IL skill level (90% are proficient, according to the ILT). Students gravitate towards people they know or trust for search help, and do not often utilize help files or online tutorials. Small sample but well-designed study with interesting implications for research and practice.
- Huwe, Terence K. "Some Best Practices for Personalizing Outreach." Computers in Libraries 26.2 (February 2006): 36-38.
- This article provides information on forms of digital outreach. The four types of outreach discussed are blogs, RSS, e-news, and alerts. Huwe discusses the best ways to incorporate these newer possibilities for outreach into a library program.
- Johnston, Bill and Webber, Sheila. "Information Literacy in Higher Education: A Review and Case Study." Studies in Higher Education 28.3 (2003): 335-353.
- Knight, Lorrie A. "Using Rubrics to Assess Information Literacy." Reference Services Review 34.1 (2006): 43-55.
- Luo, L. "Web 2.0 Integration in Information Literacy Instruction: An Overview." Journal of Academic Librarianship 36.1 (2010): 32-40.
- Macklin, Alexius Smith and Culp, F. Bartow. "Information Literacy Instruction: Competencies, Caveats, and a Call to Action." Science & Technology Libraries 28.1/2 (2008).
- Matoush, Toby Leigh. "New Forms of Information Literacy." Reference Services Review 34.1 (2006): 156-163.
- McClure, R., & Clink, K. "How do you know that?: An investigation of student research practices in the digital age." Portal: Libraries and the Academy 9.1 (2009): 115-132.
- Nichols, J. T. "The 3 Directions: Situated Information Literacy." College & Research Libraries 70.6 (2009): 515-530.
- This is an author-developed model for understanding student information literacy experiences using four pre-existing frameworks: Kulthau's Information Seeking Process, Hayes' recursive writing process, Dervin's Sense Making Approach, and the community of practice approach to scholarly communication. Students are seen as making progress in each of the three dimensions. Discussion of the model includes its correlation with the ACRL General IL standards in developing a matrix for IL throughout one undergraduate curriculum, and also in using it to rebuild a basic IL level tutorial.
- Pinto, M., J. A. Cordon, et al. "Thirty years of information literacy (1977-2007): A terminological, conceptual and statistical analysis." Journal of Librarianship & Information Science 42.1 (2010):3-19.
- Exploration for evidence of the development of information literacy in the professional and academic literature. Increasing interest in IL coincides with the emergence of the Internet and increasing Web use by professionals. Publication of increasing numbers of monographs and dissertations also indicates growing interest.
- Ramsay, Karen M. and Jim Kinnie. "The Embedded Librarian." Library Journal 131.6 (April 1, 2006): 34-35.
- This article focuses on electronic outreach to student and faculty at the University of Rhode Island. This article provides information on the changing role of the librarian.
- Rempel, H. G., & Davidson, J. "Providing information literacy instruction to graduate students through literature review workshops." Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship (Winter 2008).
- VanScoy, A., & Oakleaf, M. J. "Evidence vs. anecdote: Using syllabi to plan curriculum-integrated information literacy instruction." College & Research Libraries 69.6 (2008): 566-575.


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How do we create the experience we call reality? How are rapidly evolving interaction technologies changing it? Presence is a field studying the science, technology and social impact of digitally mediated interaction. It consists of research strands studying how to produce "real"-feeling experiences and the impact of associated technologies on social dynamics. Presence is intensely interdisciplinary, requiring collaboration in fields as diverse as Human and social cognition, human-machine interaction and machine cognition.
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Beaming, an european project to develop virtual transport
Beaming, a four year collaborative project to develop science and technology to give people a real sense of physically being in a remote location with other people without actually physically travelling, held today its first Plenary Meeting in Barcelona (Spain) hosted by the University of Barcelona and the project coordinator – the R+D company Starlab. The project, which started on January 1st, is financially supported by the Seventh Framework Programme for Research of the European Commission and will be carried out by a consortium of 11 leading technology R+D and neuroscience groups and companies coming from seven countries in Europe. The budget for Beaming, a four year project, is over 12 Million €.
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Dear all,
The Science Fair and 3rd WinG consultation events took place in Edinburgh April 15-16 2009. We enjoyed a very interesting show from Stelarc followed by a very interesting Panel Session on body augmentation and Presence.
The 3rd and last WinG consultation event also took place, and provided very interesting inputs to all Peach activities. We will share them with you during the following weeks, together with the final Peach roadmap.
A new Presence-related journal has been created: IEEE Transactions on Haptics. This is excellent news, as such a medium will cater to a significant part of the community focused around a key aspect (sense) of presence technologies. To learn more, visit the journal website.

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Marburn Academy is expected to move from 1860 Walden Drive in north Columbus to Griswold Drive in New Albany by 2014.
"When you're turning 20 families away a year, it feels tragic," said the school's headmaster, Earl Oremus.
Marburn Academy was founded in 1981 and teaches students with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder and other learning disabilities who struggle to learn in a traditional school environment.
"We teach the way these children learn," Oremus said.
He said many Marburn students spend a couple of years at the academy, then return to a public school system where they graduate. Others graduate from Marburn Academy.
Oremus said in the last 10 years, 100 percent of Marburn graduates have been accepted into college.
He added the academy has 178 students from 26 different school districts.
But more need the school's help, which is why the academy needs to move and build a facility for 250 students, he said.
The school hopes to open in fall 2014 in New Albany's Windsor subdivision, off Johnstown Road.
Academy officials cleared their first hurdle to build in New Albany on June 10 when the New Albany Architectural Review Board approved a certificate of appropriateness for the project and a waiver for construction.
The waiver is required because the school building would be developed on property zoned for residential housing within a planned unit development, said New Albany City Planner Stephen Mayer.
Mayer said the 50,000-square-foot building would be built north of Griswold Drive and west of Johnstown Road. It is covered on all four sides with brick and includes a glass walkway to a gymnasium.
Marburn Academy charges $23,800 a year for high school students and $22,500 a year for lower and middle school students.
Robyn Hofman, director of the school's capital campaign, said it will cost $9.2 million to build the new facility in New Albany.
The school launched its capital campaign in November 2012 and so far has raised 31 percent of the funding needed.
Four neighbors who live in Windsor subdivision spoke to the New Albany ARB June 10 and said they are concerned that a school will overburden their narrow neighborhood roads.
"I appreciate Marburn's goals and I'd like to see them build there. I think it would be a good addition," said Jason Hire of Hearthstone Park. "I find it hard to see a workable solution to traffic there. It's already difficult to get in and out, particularly in the morning."
Jerry Merritt of Parsons Pass said he, too, wants Marburn as a neighbor, but he requested the ARB table the waiver pending a traffic study.
Marburn's attorney, Tim Madison, said the school needs to close on the purchase of the property by June 30.
"It would be really hard for me to have them purchase the property without knowing the use is permitted," Madison told the ARB.
ARB members approved the waiver with the condition that Marburn complete a traffic study. Four ARB members voted in favor and Chairman Bernard Costantino abstained because he said his wife is employed by the architecture firm working on the project.
Adrienne Joly, New Albany's deputy community development director, said the site currently is zoned for 88 homes. The traffic study will compare the amount of traffic the school will generate versus what the 88 homes would have generated.
ARB members also approved the certificate of appropriateness with the condition that the plan is reviewed after the traffic study is complete in a 4-1 vote, with Costantino abstaining.


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OLYMPIA — Money Washington collects as taxes and fees is increasing, but perhaps not fast enough to stave off spending cuts for state agencies next year.
A new forecast issued Tuesday predicts the state will take in $157 million more in revenue in the next fiscal year than had been assumed three months ago.
And it predicts the slowly growing economy will generate $238 million more for the next two-year budget than had been previously estimated.
But even with those millions of additional dollars, Gov. Jay Inslee's budget director said it won't enable the state to cover the cost of existing public services and comply with a state Supreme Court order to meet the state's constitutional obligation to fund public schools.
"It's a helpful step but it's a pretty small step when you are looking at maybe a $2 billion budget problem to solve," budget director David Schumacher said after a meeting of the Revenue and Forecast Council, at which the latest forecast was presented.
Last week Schumacher directed leaders of state agencies to identify ways to pare 15 percent from their budgets. Some of those ideas might find their way into the 2015-17 budget proposal Inslee is to deliver to lawmakers in December.
"This is not a drill to impose across-the-board cuts," Schumacher said. "This is a drill to give the governor options. We're not expecting to do 15 percent in each and every agency."
Washington is midway through the 2013-15 budget cycle, and in January the governor and lawmakers will focus on approving a 2015-17 budget.
State economist Steve Lerch said Tuesday that the state expects to take in $33.8 billion in this budget, up $157 million from his last report in February. And he said the state will collect $36.6 billion during the 2015-17 biennium. Those figures represent what the state collects and spends through a general fund and associated accounts, not federal dollars that pass through.
If September and November forecasts for revenue continue to rise, cuts might not be needed in the governor's proposal.
But that's a tall order given that the state needs to spend $1 billion to $2 billion to make a dent in education funding obligations per the so-called McCleary decision by the Supreme Court, Schumacher said.
And, he said, there are obligations for such things as employee pensions and health care for low-income residents, as well as pressure to provide teachers and state workers with a cost-of-living increase.
The June 13 directive stirred concern in some quarters of state government.
Corrections Secretary Bernie Warner shared the news with employees that it amounts to shaving $250 million in agency spending. It drew a sharp response from the largest union representing correctional employees.
"Cuts of this magnitude would likely mean more prison closures and the early release of prisoners into our community," Tracey A. Thompson, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 117, said in a statement "Public safety and the safety of correctional staff would be put at risk. We ought to allocate more resources to protect and retain prison staff, not make their jobs more difficult."
Rep. Ross Hunter, D-Medina, the chief House budget writer and chairman of the Revenue Forecast Council, said that where prisons are concerned, such a deep cut can't be done without shuttering facilities and releasing inmates.
"You can't cut 15 percent out of (the) corrections budget and maintain anything close to a safe workplace, either safe for the inmates or safe for the staff," he said. "To achieve that level of savings in corrections, you have to let a lot of people out. You have to shut down probably an entire facility, a large facility, to save that kind of money."
Stephen Gehrke, a spokesman for the agency, said options will be prepared, though it's too soon to know exactly what they might look like.
"Any cuts are inherently difficult, particularly given that the agency just went through a difficult round," he wrote in an email. "Right now it's important to keep in mind this is a contingency exercise and is just getting under way."
Marty Brown, executive director of the state Board of Community and Technical Colleges, said it would be "catastrophic" to the system of two-year higher education institutions.
A 15 percent reduction is about $92 million and would require a 24 percent tuition increase as an offset, he said.
But Brown, a former state budget director, said Schumacher is taking the right approach given the pressure to come up with money for the McCleary decision.
"I thought it was a prudent thing for them to do," he said. "It's a planning tool. It's not a budget."
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Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we'll provide the jams.
If you watched the presidential debate last night (there's an election of some sort coming up), you'll have heard a bit about CAFE standards as well as letting Detroit go bankrupt.
Since Detroit will be a hot button issue today, why not listen to a little music from native son Bob Seger?


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Two years ago, a few of the minds within the hacker collective Anonymous had a bright idea—to "Kochblock" the conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch, who own a list of companies longer than a roll of Angel Soft toilet paper (a brand which they also own). Anonymous decided that the attack would take some of the Koch brothers' sites offline, so it asked the hivemind to flood Koch sites with traffic.
The hivemind did so—but failed to down Angel Soft. The main Koch Industries site in Wichita, Kansas did buckle, however. "Keep it up, boys and kids! LAZERS TO 18.104.22.168 kochind.com is down and sinking further! Keep it up!" read one IRC post in the #OpWisconsin channel Anons used to coordinate the attack—a channel the FBI appears to have been watching. The attacks on Koch were in large part due to the brothers' support for embattled Wisconsin governor Scott Walker at the time.
Fast forward to yesterday, when the US Attorney for Kansas, Barry Grissom, announced that his office has brought federal charges against Eric Rosol, a 37-year old Wisconsin man from the town of Black Creek. From the indictment, Rosol doesn't appear to be some kind of mastermind, but rather just a guy who allegedly decided to install and fire the "Low Orbit Ion Cannon" denial of service weapon. (Read our primer on how these attack tools work.) Says the government:
On or about February 28, 2011, Anonymous requested that persons engaged in the DDOS attack against Koch Industries redirect their efforts to "Kochind.com," and on said date Defendant Rosol, and others, "fired" a LOIC tool at "Kochind.com." As a result of the acts of Defendant Rosol and others, on February 28, 2011, "Kochind.com" website crashed and was unavailable for legitimate traffic.
The government wants Rosol to forfeit what is described as an "Antec CPU (Custom), no visible serial number," an apparent reference to Rosol's home-built computer. (Antec makes computer cases and power supplies.) He also faces up to 10 years in prison—five on each of the two counts—though any sentence is likely to be a small fraction of that number.
The case, which was investigated by the FBI, shows the continued government interest in even less-spectacular Anonymous activities. DDoS a website for a couple days and you might have the feds on your doorstep... even years after the attack.


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Nothing will make you want to take a vacation in your own state like the "Maryland in Photographs" board built by the Maryland Office of Tourism. Sweeping views of mountains in Allegany County, a couple cuddled on the sand, fields of sunflowers and charming Annapolis streets will get you in the mood to pack your bags and load up the car. A "Famous Marylanders" board is also fun, peppered with big names like Billie Holiday, Goldie Hawn and Jim Henson (does that mean we can claim Kermit, too?) Find Maryland Tourism on Pinterest at pinterest.com/visitmaryland/.
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Ted Nugent: Military Service Members Are Committing Suicide Because Obama Is "Violating" The Constitution
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In an appearance on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' radio show, NRA board member Ted Nugent blamed the epidemic of suicides among veterans and active duty military on frustration with President Obama for supposedly "violating" the Constitution.
Nugent, who has appeared on Jones' show several times, told the host that the military is frustrated with Obama for "violating the oath that they're dying for," which is leading to an unprecedented increase in suicides.
Nugent went on to describe the Obama administration as "treasonous" and also characterized the president as a "groomed America hater."
On Sunday, Nugent will appear at the NRA's Annual Meeting for an event titled "Freedom Is Not Free - Repaying Our Debt to Heros [sic]" which is billed as a tribute to "those who gave all to utilize our precious freedoms as provided by the ultimate sacrifices of the US Military warriors and their families."
From the April 30 edition of The Alex Jones Show:
TED NUGENT: I'm going to hit you with something even more ugly, and just heartbreaking, and anti-American than anything else -- I bet you've covered this, Alex.
We have an epidemic, an unprecedented increase in heroes of the U.S. military committing suicide, and I'm going to tell you why. And I'm sure the leftist blogs are going to attack me, misquote me, but I'll tell you why more and more warrior heroes of the military are killing themselves: Because they are in absolute frustration and heartbreak that their boss, their Commander-In-Chief violates the Constitution that he has made an oath to while their hero warrior blood brothers are being blown to smithereens and blown up while executing their oath to the same Constitution that the president, the vice president, and the attorney general violate.
There is a heartbreak in the warrior community.
Nugent, who writes a column for birther website WND, recently doubled down on a claim that he would be "dead or in jail" after Obama's re-election. He also recently compared Obama to a Nazi while appearing on a radio show hosted by a Sandy Hook shooting conspiracy theorist.
Despite his long history of outrageous comments, media figures at CNN and Fox News have praised Nugent and invited him on-air as a guest.
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Mary Seacole (1805-81)
Mary Seacole was a Jamaican-born nurse who helped soldiers during the Crimean War. Her work was praised at the time, but she became even more famous a century later. She was born Mary Grant in Kingston, Jamaica, daughter of a Scottish soldier and the owner of a boarding house for officers and their families.
Seacole had a good education, and developed an interest in medicine and nursing from her mother, who was a traditional healer. In 1836 she married Edwin Horatio Seacole, a naval officer. He died in 1844, shortly before Mary's mother also died. Mary remained in Kingston but spent a lot of time nursing in Panama, where a cholera epidemic was raging. At the start of the Crimean War in 1853, she went to London to offer her services. Her application to join Florence Nightingale's nursing team was refused. Many nurses were turned down, whether because of their class background or, in this case, probably, ethnicity.
Instead of giving up, Mary Seacole sailed to the Crimea at her own expense. She and Thomas Day (a relative in the shipping business) opened the British Hotel near Balaclava a few months later in 1855. The roughly built hotel was also an officers' club and had a popular canteen serving good food. Using it as a base, she would take mules laden with food, wine and medicines across country to the battlefield front lines at Redan, Sebastopol and Tchernaya. She obtained special passes, which allowed her to look after the wounded and dying on both sides.
When she arrived back in London in 1856, Seacole was bankrupt from debts run up by soldiers at the British Hotel. The newspapers started a public campaign to raise money for her, backed by royalty and a grateful British Army. In 1857 her autobiography, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands, became a bestseller. The Seacole Fund eventually enabled her to live in comfort in Paddington, London, until her death in 1881.
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Z Alexander and A Dewjee (eds), Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (Bristol: Falling Wall Press,1984)
E N Anionwu, A Short History of Mary Seacole. A Resource for Nurses and Students (London: Royal College of Nursing 2005)
A Palmer, 'Mary Seacole', Oxford Dictionary of National Bibliography (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2004-08)
R Ramdin, Mary Seacole (London: Haus Publishing, 2005)
J Robinson, Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea (London: Constable, 2004)
A sudden widespread occurance of an infection with high numbers of people affected.
The study and practice of caring for and waiting on the sick, injured, or others unable to look after themselves or to deal with their specific medical needs.


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Bad-tasting starter
In one of Nancy Silverton's books she mentioned home bakers who said their starters were just fine despite long periods of neglect. Maybe they still worked as leaven, but Silverton thought these starters tasted awful!
At first I thought she was referring to an excess of acid, but now I think there must also be different flavors of sour. My starter has become more acidic recently, and I don't like the way it tastes. Reminds me more of stomach acid than sourdough bread!—so I haven't tried baking with it.
Can bad-tasting starter be corrected easily, or am I better off beginning a new batch?


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The bomb bombed morality
Hmmmm. I don't know in what conscience you sought out, paid for, and printed the opinion piece about the Enola Gay ["No apology: Japan deserved Enola Gay's visit," Essay, December 11, 2003].
Do you believe 120,000 Japanese civilians deserved to be cooked alive in a radioactive mushroom cloud? Or are you just trying to be controversial?
All morality aside, if you are under the popular delusion that only an atom bomb would have brought the Japanese to surrender, here's a bit of history (fact, not rhetoric) you and your readers should be aware of:
Time magazine publisher Henry Luce, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, New York Times military correspondent Hanson Baldwin, and David Lawrence, editor of U.S. News, who wrote in October 1945: "Competent testimony exists to prove that Japan was seeking to surrender many weeks before the atomic bomb came."
William D. Leahy, chief of staff to President Truman, wrote in his memoirs:
"It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender ... In being the first to use [the bomb], we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages."
General Eisenhower put it bluntly: "Japan was already defeated. ...It wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing."
In his own private diary, President Truman writes that on July 18, 1945, he had read a "telegram from Jap Emperor asking for peace." On August 3, 1945, Walter Brown, an aide to Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, noted in his diary that Truman and his aides "agreed Japs looking for peace."
So, by the consensus of this last document, if we knew the Japanese were planning to surrender, why did we nuke them three days later (August 6)? It is becoming clear to historians that the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima for political reasons. A) We wanted an unconditional surrender, not a conditional one. B) We didn't want the invading Russians to claim Japanese territory. C) We wanted to demonstrate to the Russians (and the rest of the world) that we had the bomb.
Truman's Secretary of State James F. Byrnes said that in his belief "the atomic bomb might as well put us in a position to dictate our own terms at the end of the war."
Did innocent Japanese civilians "deserve the Enola Gay?" No more than innocent American civilians deserved 9/11. Now, there's your controversy.
Brian Wimer


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Opinion: Worse Than Watergate
Best of the Web Today columnist James Taranto on the deeper meaning of the Obama scandals. Photo: Getty Images
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... I ... welcome to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... more hearings today on the ever widening IRS harassment scandal ... into some historical context is best of the Web columnist ... James Taranto James ... like you reach all the way back to Watergate in your column today to explain what's going on now ... how why respect for them ... my point is that the liberal left in America ... by the ... political tendency of which Barack Obama is a part ... and which dominates our cultural institutions remediate academia science and so forth ... is it has this sense of authority and is undergoing a crisis of authority ... and that that their authority in their sense of their own moral superiority really goes back to the coalition this'll rights Act in nineteen sixty four nineteen sixty but that give them a sense of moral spirit they were ... genuinely doing the right on the right side of that and much of the right was on the wrong side ... by ... then they had the antiwar movement ... you which day I've managed to wide secure defeat in Vietnam basically ... I've that was morally ambiguous bought it gave them a certain political authority not just talking that Democrats are talking about a broader group bodies are not talking about it I'm talking about the liberal left in America which increasingly has become identified with the Democratic Party because ... you know the the ... these various events ... I contributed to the ideological polarization parties that the Democrats were conservative a more liberal or publicans more conservative who was kind of assorted process ... then there was water get which enhance the left sense of spur already by discrediting the opposition to the political opposition ... now since Watergate Republicans have maintained basically political party that won half the presidential elections that well you know they took over the house ... by that and you know that they remain competitive politically but the left dominates the cultural institutions ... and so what happens is that we're constantly being berated about the left's moral security and rights moral in fear and this is why ... you so often hear ... about racism with things that have nothing to address is right to live mobile columnists at least five Donna ... Brizo the Democratic strategist rich for CNN Richard Cohen of the year of the ... Washington post ... have both a cute book called the Ira scandal ... a Lynch mob ... it was a little in trading on the Democratic Party ... will referring to ... this is astonishing given decided to government officials who abuse their power to persecute the center's ... as victims of a lynching ... what is this is one of these racial dog whistles they're trying to widen trying to stir up ... by ... a whole racial resentments is something that really has nothing to do with race except in as much as races related to this ... this left wing ... odd feeling of their own morals so the plan is in you correctly this IRS scandal is damaging ... to this moral authority because these institutions have supported the government ... is supported this bureaucracy which has ... really gone after the political speech of others the darker two points here the side ... the IRS scandal is a product of this left wing moral for because what happens when you have moral authority ... he creates a moral hazard it creates a need to get it creates a temptation ... to think of yourself as day on the side of goodness and light under opponents of that is just being evil ... now if you look at what ... was being set in the mainstream media about the tea party ... between two thousand and nine and two thousand eleven ... it was this man a key in worldview ... this is the sort of thing that was in the air ... this is what led the IRS to think oh you know this it's our patriotic duty to fight these extremists idling ... why ... but it also stresses that moral authority because ... you know now we have ... the ... president who better than any other president represents this cultural tendency need Oakland was sorted and he was also not the same extent Barack Obama is surely a creature of the liberally you know he's would be a lot more at home in the faculty lounge than anywhere else ... I'm and I'm so it's it's it's a crisis because its hit show is odd how ... there's this sense of authority has erupted on the side this political tensions in the sense of authority leads to corruption ... power corrupts absolutely absolute power Crouch absolutely and the moral power corrupts units in


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Who Could That Be at This Hour?
A novel
By Lemony Snicket, with illustrations by Seth
Little, Brown, 272 pp.; $15.99, for readers 8 and up
What is a bombinating beast, and why would anyone make a statue of it, much less steal it, in a city nowhere near an ocean that's nevertheless known as Stain'd by the Sea? These, and other alliterative oddities, are at the center of "Who Could That Be at This Hour?" — a Pink Panther-esque page turner that marks the return of eccentric narrator Lemony Snicket, who was last heard from six years ago with "The End" to his 13-book "A Series of Unfortunate Events."
The events in "Who Could That Be at This Hour?" are no less fortunate. They do, however, turn back the clock to a time when phones plugged into the wall, music was played on vinyl records and Snicket — self-described as an excellent reader, good cook, mediocre musician and awful quarreler — was just 12 years old. Despite his tender age, Snicket is an apprentice in a secret organization who, as he's constantly reminded by his chaperone, asks all the wrong questions as he attempts to discover why someone would " say something was stolen when it was never theirs to begin with?"
The kickoff to the new four-book illustrated series titled "All the Wrong Questions" opens with an introduction that would likely be dismissed as third-grade drivel if not for the notoriety of the author who penned it: "There was a town, and there was a girl, and there was a theft. I was living in the town, and I was hired to investigate the theft, and I thought the girl had nothing to do with it. … I was wrong."
So begins a contrarian story that unfolds near a sea with no water, a forest without trees and a city that's mostly unpopulated. The few people who live there are, of course, strange. There's typewriter-toting tween journalist Moxie Mallahan, "sub-librarian" Dashiell Qwerty and a pair of kids named Pip and Squeak who operate the town's sole taxi with one sitting in the driver's seat atop a stack of books and the other down below, working the pedals.
The Snicket style of storytelling is exceptionally literary and entirely singular. Characterized by linguistic playfulness and an appreciation for the archaic, "Who Could That Be at This Hour?" is frequently laugh-out-loud hilarious, as Snicket spars with his delightfully inept chaperon, who makes their investigation into the whereabouts of the missing statue far more complicated than it needs to be. Leave it to S. Theodora Markson to suspect the burglar must have broken into the mansion where the statue — "valued at upward of a great deal of money" — was supposedly stolen by sawing a hole in the ceiling and replastering it. When Snicket suggests a door was the more likely entry point, Theodora inevitably responds with an over-the-top dressing down.
As in "Unfortunate Events," there are page-long digressions detailing Italian pasta recipes and a plethora of highfalutin vocabulary words, which are always defined, often in the bicker-banter of dialogue. The black, gray and blue illustrations by celebrated cartoonist Seth only add to the throwback gumshoe vibe of this outrageous, long-overdue, middle-grade follow-up series from a truly beloved narrator.