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A 34-year-old father was being held by authorities Wednesday in connection with the deaths of his three daughters, who were found inside his ex-wife's Wisconsin home with the gas fireplace turned on, officials said.
In a political battle where fiscal conservatives faced off against the labor movement, Wisconsin held a closely watched gubernatorial recall election this week.
CNN's John King talks to a panel about what the Wisconsin recall election means for national races this fall.
In 2004, when President George W. Bush was re-elected by 3.5 million votes, he had a message to deliver about the mandate he had won. "I earned capital in this campaign, political capital," he said, "and now I intend to spend it."
Republican Gov. Scott Walker's convincing win Tuesday in Wisconsin was not just a victory for the governor himself, but a major triumph for conservatives in the fight to curb public employee unions. For the country's sake, however, it will be far better if this struggle remains a fight rather than all-out war.
CNN's Tom Foreman reports on Wisconsin's ferocious gubernatorial recall campaign thundering to a conclusion.
Millions of phone calls have been made. Thousands of yard signs are posted on Badger State lawns. Television ads blanket the Wisconsin airwaves.
Wisconsin voters inundated by advertising and door-to-door canvassing began delivering their judgment Tuesday on whether to recall Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican hero for pushing austerity measures that stripped collective bargaining rights from most public unions.
CNN's Erin Burnett tackles the impact of Tuesday's Wisconsin recall election on this year presidential race.
In the canon of political cliches, "it all comes down to turnout" is among the most tired.
Sure, there are things at stake in Tuesday's recall election for governor of Wisconsin. You need to know only a smidgeon about the politics of Republican Gov. Scott Walker and the Democratic challenger Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett to be aware of that. You need to have paid only passing attention to the political battle that has engulfed Wisconsin for 16 months to know that.
Candy Crowley reports on Wisconsin's high-profile recall election and what it could mean for the presidential candidates.
Fueled by the power of organized labor, the passion of the tea party and millions in outside money, it is politics gone wild in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin authorities have jailed the father, stepmother and stepbrother of a 15-year-old girl investigators say was kept in a basement, sexually abused and starved before being found last week.
States are getting $2.5 billion from the national mortgage settlement, but not all of that money is going to help troubled homeowners.
More than a million people have signed a petition to recall Wisconsin's governor, the state's Democratic Party said Tuesday.
Embattled Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker could face a recall election down the line. Ted Rowlands reports.
Two Democratic state senators in Wisconsin defeated Republican challengers to hold on to their seats in a recall election Tuesday, news media in the state reported.
Wisconsin Democrats' failed effort to seize control of the state Senate in Tuesday's special elections left some Republican groups cheering, but analysts in the state cautioned against seeing the results as a national rallying point for the GOP.
CNN's Ted Rowlands reports from Wisconsin where six GOP state senators are fighting to keep their jobs in a recall vote.
Republicans retained four of the six state Senate seats that were in jeopardy in Tuesday's recall elections in Wisconsin, news media in the state reported.
A number of homes were destroyed after a line of fast-moving storms and high winds swept through northwestern Wisconsin.
Wisconsin's battle over labor rights shifted toward a series of recall elections Wednesday after the state's highest court reinstated a bitterly contested law that restricts collective bargaining for state workers.
A Wisconsin judge struck down that state's controversial new collective bargaining law Thursday, ruling that GOP legislators failed to provide sufficient public notice before passing the measure this year.
The controversial governor of Wisconsin defended his efforts to limit public employees' collective bargaining rights and make them pay more toward pension and health care costs at a congressional hearing on Thursday.
Shock and sadness etched the faces of residents in northeastern Wisconsin as daylight on Monday revealed the damage left behind by a powerful storm that cut a swath through the state.
A Wisconsin Judge has continued her temporary restraining order barring a new collective bargaining law from taking effect by signing an amended order on Thursday.
Amid a debate over whether Wisconsin's new collective bargaining law had taken effect, a Wisconsin judge again put it on hold Tuesday and warned anyone against trying to implement it.
The litigious and contentious battle in Wisconsin over collective bargaining rights has a new twist -- the publishing of the law despite a judge's order against such a move.
A Wisconsin judge issued a temporary restraining order Friday halting the state's controversial budget repair law that curbs the union power of most public employees, the Dane County district attorney's office said.
Democratic state senators who fled Wisconsin to protest the governor's bid to curb the bargaining rights of public workers were greeted Saturday by cheering crowds and vowed to continue the fight.
Labor unions around the nation can thank Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker for re-energizing the workers movement.
A CNN producer reports from Madison, Wisconsin, where protesters are being forced from the State Capitol building
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has won an important battle against public employees in his state, but the war -- and here we might justifiably call it the class war -- is far from over. By pushing through the state Legislature a bill stripping most public employees of their collective bargaining rights, Walker has become a hero to the Republican right.
Wisconsin Republican senators pass an abridged version of a bill that curbs rights to collective bargaining.
Senate Republicans pass the governor's controversial budget bill despite missing Democrats who oppose it.
Wisconsin's Republican-led state Senate passed Gov. Scott Walker's proposed restrictions on collective bargaining for public employees Wednesday, getting around a Democratic walkout by stripping financial provisions from the bill.
CNN's Ed Lavandera has the latest in the stalemate between Wisconsin Democrats and the governor over the budget.
The posters and placards carried by Wisconsin demonstrators will soon become an official part of the nation's legacy, adorning the walls of the Smithsonian's Museum of American History.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Monday dismissed as "ridiculous" a letter from a Democratic state Senate leader who suggested a meeting "near the Wisconsin-Illinois border" to discuss the state's budget impasse.
CNN's Casey Wian talks to supporters and opponents of the proposed restrictions on Wisconsin government unions.
Video shows police in Wisconsin tackling state Rep. Nick Milroy to the ground outside the state capitol building.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says after his budget bill passes, tempers will subside.
Three weeks after igniting a firestorm of protest from unions, Gov. Scott Walker introduced a budget Tuesday that would slash more than $1.25 billion from aid to schools and local governments. Walker stressed that the aid won't be missed if the legislature votes to severely curtail public employees' collective bargaining power. That's because school districts and local governments will be able to raise workers' contributions to their health care and pensions, saving a total of $1.5 billion.
Tensions rise in Wisconsin after the assembly passed a bill that would reduce workers' collective-bargaining rights.
A coalition spearheaded by liberal advocacy group Moveon.org held rallies across the country Saturday in support of public employees and others outraged at the Wisconsin budget-cutting bill they consider an attack on unions.
Tensions simmered in Wisconsin as a political stalemate continued Friday after the state's Assembly passed a Republican bill that would strip most state workers of the bulk of their collective-bargaining rights.
A prank caller got Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to reveal details of his strategy in his battle over union rights.
There should be no illusions. What is unfolding in Wisconsin and a half-dozen other states may be the beginning of the end for American labor.
State Assembly lawmakers in Wisconsin are poised to vote on a controversial budget-repair bill that would curb public workers' collective-bargaining rights and raise their contributions to pensions and health insurance plans.
National groups flock to Wisconsin in a battle over union power. CNN's Casey Wian reports.
Democratic state legislators have begun fleeing their respective capitals as if the plague has broken out. Perhaps they see it that way. Republicanism has gone viral, and it seems that no state is safe, no matter how unionized.
Wisconsin state workers are calling for the "largest day of demonstration outside of Madison in state history" on Thursday to protest Gov. Scott Walker's budget-cutting strategy that they say will cause them to lose their collective bargaining rights.
Legislatures from New Jersey to California are struggling to tackle yawning deficits, longstanding pension obligations and health benefits and some broader questions about how unionized labor will fit into America's evolving political landscape.
Recent weeks have seen attacks on public employees in several states. In New Jersey, Ohio, and Wisconsin, newly elected Republican governors are seeking to remove the right to collective bargaining, except perhaps on wages, and to eliminate or shift a major portion of the costs for pensions upon the workers.
Hundreds of union activists demonstrated in front of the Washington offices of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday, in solidarity with workers in Walker's state who may lose their collective bargaining rights as part of his budget-cutting strategy.
Embattled Republican Gov. Scott Walker fired back at opponents of a budget bill that would increase the costs of benefits to public employees and curb their collective bargaining rights, describing in a written statement how current agreements give too much power to unions.
Democrats in Wisconsin's State Senate remain out of town as Republicans get back to work today.
A few days ago, I wrote an opinion piece for CNN.com explaining why teachers in Wisconsin -- and throughout the nation -- are angry, and it isn't just because Gov. Scott Walker asked them to pay more for their pensions and health-care benefits. They are angry because of the unwarranted public vilification that has been heaped on them for the past two years.
Protestors continue to demonstrate against Gov. Scott Walker's proposed budget cuts in Madison, Wisconsin.
The newly elected executive began implementing his campaign platform in a tough economic environment.
For about a week, tens of thousands of men, women and children have been gathering at the State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, protesting Gov. Scott Walker's "budget repair" bill. Besides requiring sharp increases in employee contributions to pension and health insurance benefits, the bill strips most of the state's public sector unions of almost all their collective bargaining rights.
After six days of protests that packed the state capitol, Wisconsin's major teachers' union called on members to start returning to work Monday but keep fighting a proposed rollback of union protections for public employees.
This week's bitter budget showdown in Wisconsin isn't the first time state legislators have fled a state, left a building or refused to show when votes were called.
Embattled Republican Gov. Scott Walker defended a budget bill that would slash public workers' benefits and most collective bargaining rights in an effort to address Wisconsin's impending $3.6 billion dollar deficit.
School systems across Wisconsin have been canceling classes as teachers protest Gov. Scott Walker's effort to curb collective bargaining rights for state workers, including educators.
The partisan aisle-wide gap widenes in Wisconsin as Democratic lawmakers defend their right to flee the state.
This week's growing controversy about funding public education in Wisconsin is hardly an isolated incident, as 40 states are coping with budget shortfalls totaling $140 billion, which will threaten America's 14,000 school districts for the next five years, one analyst said Thursday.
At least 15 school systems in Wisconsin are closed as budget protests continue. WTMJ has more.
Furor over a bill that would strip Wisconsin public employees of most of their collective bargaining rights and have them pay dramatically more for benefits drew at least 10,000 protesters to the state Capitol on Wednesday and forced the cancellation of classes in one large school district because of a teacher sick-out.
An Obama administration initiative that aims to create jobs and economic growth has been derailed in some states while it speeds along in others.
Much of the upper Midwest battled blizzard conditions Saturday, with a combination of heavy snow, fierce winds and subzero temperatures pummeling the region 10 days before the official start of winter.
A 15-year-old high school sophomore, accused of holding 23 classmates and a teacher hostage at his Wisconsin school on Monday, fired his two weapons at least five times, police believe, and had a duffel bag containing more bullets with him, authorities said Tuesday.
At least one tornado ripped through Wisconsin, officials said Tuesday, as severe storms moved throughout the region, leaving significant damage.
A Wisconsin man was recovering Friday after being bit by a 7-year-old Siberian tiger, the local sheriff's office said.
A worker sustained a leg injury Wednesday afternoon when he fell between two spans of an interstate bridge that links Minnesota and Wisconsin, officials said.
Parts of the Midwest battled severe flooding as torrential rains caused rivers to overflow, submerging towns.
Officials say a tornado touched down in Eagle, Wisconsin leveling several homes and leaving thousands without power.
Congress wants to help protect seniors who buy complex investment products that they don't understand or may do more harm than good.
A man carrying an assault rifle walked out of the woods and shot four young people who had gathered at a river to go swimming, killing three of them and wounding one
Nancy Grace investigates the case of college student Brittany Sue Zimmermann, found slain in her off-campus apartment.
Both candidates for a hotly contested state race in Wisconsin agree the campaign has become nasty, but that's about the only thing they agree on.
Dear FSB: I run a small tavern in Wisconsin from mid-April through mid-November. I do not collect sales tax from the customers, but do pay in monthly to the state. Does this become a business expense deduction on Schedule C?
Sen. John McCain thanks voters for delivering him the Wisconsin primary.
Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee may be trailing John McCain by hundreds of delegates, but he is still a competitor.
John McCain still has trouble with GOP voters who consider themselves "very conservative," but his strength among moderates and those who say they are only "somewhat conservative" made up for the deficit among the more orthodox in Tuesday's GOP primary in Wisconsin, exit polls showed.
Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are courting one-time rival John Edwards as they move forward in the delegate-by-delegate fight for their party's nomination.
CNN's Mary Snow reports on the battle for Wisconsin ahead of Tuesday's primary race.
Severe winter weather cause problems on the roads in Minnesota.
Greetings, Hoop Thinkers. The action on the court is slow this week because of finals (thank the Lord I'll never have to take another one of those babies). So today, you get to join me at the table of a smart, civil hoops conversation as I dip into my mailbag for the first time this season.
It is a common way for business schools to secure their future: In exchange for a substantial bequest from a former student or other benefactor the school is re-named in their honor.
The pumpkins made all the difference.
A couple weeks ago, my editor called with an idea, simple yet beguiling: a baseball road trip through the Midwest in the heat of August. The plan: Six teams in four days in three cities, with an eye toward the NL Central race. Go forth and explore baseball country, the editor said, and then he used a bunch of words that East Coasters like to invoke when talking about the Midwest, like "Americana" and "heartland" and "cheese curds." I told him I would do my best.
Another round of thunderstorms brought more rain and a flash-flood warning to an already deluged southwestern Wisconsin on Monday, forcing residents below four dams to evacuate.
Two storm systems colliding along the nation's midsection set off a spate of weather warnings from Colorado to Ohio as the deadly combination moved toward the Great Lakes on Wednesday.
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Clint Eastwood adds yet another new, revealing side to his filmmaking repertoire with Herafter. Matt Damon plays a conflicted medium drawn to a French journalist (Cecile De France), who survives a tsunami and is haunted by a near-death experience.
Michael Owens, who is Eastwood's long-time visual effects supervisor, collaborated with ScanlineVFX/Los Angeles on the tour de force tsunami sequence at the beginning, and visions of the hereafter scattered throughout. The challenges were obviously different both technically and stylistically.
To begin with, Owens did a four-staged previs of the tsunami sequence, which is smaller in scale and less fanciful than the one Scanline did for 2012.
"Clint is very studied but when he actually goes to shoot, he doesn't want to have any of that reference with him," Owens explains. "So he was thrilled to have the previs and the edits that I had done so he could see how it fit together. But when we go to shoot, I'll remind him of stuff that I think will be cool. But it usually ends up being a hybrid from the previs because that's the style of filmmaking that Clint does. Quite frankly, it adds a loose, organic quality to the equation that has a little more randomness to it.
The key sequence was obviously the recreation of the tsunami, which drew upon a wide array of techniques: Full CG water shots and CG water extensions to water plates, digital doubles, CG set extensions, matte paintings, digital make-up vfx and full CG environments with extensive destruction, from toppling digital palm trees to colliding digital cars.
The tsunami wave comprised half the work. "Not only did the film offer us the opportunity to work with legendary, Academy Award-winning director Clint Eastwood, but also it gave us a great opportunity to build on our work on 2012, and to take it to another level altogether in terms of complexity, particularly in the area of water interaction with digital doubles," suggests Joel Mendias, exec producer, ScanlineVFX/Los Angeles.
"Digital doubles figured extensively in this sequence. We had a motion capture shoot, to build a library of moves for digi-doubles (including Massive doubles). As might be expected, motions included running and stumbling actions, as well as various reactions to the wave, accomplished with more conventional falls into crash pads. But to simulate characters in water, we also used a traveling wire rig, in order to capture characters in water -- from getting pummeled by strong currents, to treading water and trying to surface and stay afloat and floating dead underwater. Ultimately, much of this motion capture was combined with key frame, traditional animation, as animators worked to incorporate characters into digital water flows, both above and below water.

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The author consistently acts on the Lotus Sutra principle that the problems of people anywhere are the problems of all and that happiness cannot be realized for one person until it is realized for all. As he makes clear, this principle can be employed by anyone, regardless of religious affiliation, to enable people to work together effectively for the great cause of peace in our lifetime. A tireless worker for world peace, the author was a member of the Japanese Peace Delegation of Religious Leaders for Banning Nuclear Weapons and has played active roles in the World Conference on Religion and Peace, the Asian Conference on Religion and Peace, and the International Association for Religious Freedom. It is his firm conviction that interreligious cooperation, encouraging people of different faiths to work together, is the key to achieving lasting peace. NIKKYO NIWANO, author of The Richer Life and Buddhism for Today and winner of the 1979 Templeton Foundation Prize for Progress in Religion, is the founder of Rissho Kosei-kai, a lay Buddhist organization that numbers well over six million members worldwide. |
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Enjoy a rich combination of chocolate and coconut with this simple fudge. No candy thermometer needed, this fudge comes together easily into a creamy and decadent treat. Keep refrigerated to maintain its shape.
Miso adds savory depth of flavor to this recipe, an excellent side dish for any time of year. Transform it into a hearty vegan entrée by adding cubed baked tofu or tempeh.
Rich and creamy, here's a lime- and cilantro-spiked creamy bean dip that pairs perfectly with our spicy, crunchy potato chips. Watch it disappear!
Serve this over your favorite whole grain pasta. If you like spinach, try substituting 3 cups packed spinach leaves for the broccoli rabe.
This rich, full-flavored stuffing is a show stealer, whether stuffed in a turkey or baked on its own. For a vegetarian version, use vegetable broth instead of chicken broth and substitute vegetarian sausage or a few cups cooked shiitake mushrooms for the meat...
Searing green beans in a dry wok gives them a mild smoky flavor; you can get the same blistered effect with a large cast-iron skillet if you don't have a wok.
Sweet and tangy sugared cranberries make a surprising addition to candy bowls, your favorite apple pie recipe, cheesecake or baked brie.
Hearty wild rice and sweet and tangy cherries star in this deliciously satisfying main-course salad.
This recipe combines the tangy flavor of quick-pickled spinach with ground pork and is served over rice. The original version would use water spinach, but we substituted more widely available baby spinach.
Experiment by trying different vinegars and mustards to craft your perfect blend. A mild honey such as clover or orange blossom works best in this recipe. Toss dressing with salad greens or serve as a dipping sauce with chicken, fried mozzarella or potatoes.
Strawberries and watermelon have long been the perfect summer pair. In this light, vitamin-packed homemade cooler, we think they shine particularly bright.
This recipe has earned its name since the salad features ingredients that can be easily prepared Thanksgiving morning, arranged in a cooler and driven for more than 100 miles, then assembled on site.
Lavender adds a fragrant touch to this tempting union of stone fruits, blackberries and sweet ice cream. A decidedly unique summer treat.
Protein-rich lentils are a great choice to include in your regular diet. Here, they're prepared with curry powder, tomatoes and onions and spooned over rice with cashews and yogurt on top.
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My chestpiece is finally finished! 7 hours ish in total. Painful as hell, but totally worth it. (Taken with Instagram)
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Stage 2: Crows colored + Clouds shaded. (and the Beatles will judge you if you think it looks bad. Jk lol. But seriously.) (Taken with instagram)
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Although this source is in a position to know, I provide my usual warning. He looks kind of suspicious -- has a long beard and goes around in a red costume, a weird get-up with a tasseled hat and motorcycle boots -- and keeps advocating some kind of an annual giveaway plan.
His list:
Mitch Daniels -- Purdue's new president gets privatization deals with new naming rights for the Purdue All-American Airlines Marching Band, featuring the Chevy Golden Girl and the Silverado Twins.
Tony Bennett -- Suntan lotion. Lose an election in Indiana, and you get to go to Florida for the winter.
Pete Buttigieg -- Ribs from Dreamland Bar-b-que in Tuscaloosa, Ala. But Santa says Pete can't collect the tasty ribs from the Tuscaloosa mayor until the night of Jan. 7.
Joe Donnelly -- To honor the man who did so much to make Joe what he is today, a U.S. senator-elect, Joe gets a portrait of Chris Chocola.
Richard Mourdock -- A framed copy of the Abraham Lincoln saying: "You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time. But you cannot fool all of the people all of the time."
Dick Lugar -- Gold-plated scissors for ribbon cuttings at the announced Chrysler expansions in Kokomo and Tipton, with the now-prospering automaker he helped to save planning to add more than 1,200 jobs.
Brendan Mullen -- A rug to replace the one pulled out from under him by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Jackie Walorski -- She already got what she wanted, membership on the House Armed Services Committee, so she can cite her own military expertise in a 2014 rematch with West Point grad Brendan Mullen.
Mike Pence -- A road map. For Iowa and New Hampshire.
John Gregg -- An appointment for his mom at a beauty parlor in the big city, not tiny Sandborn but in the nearby Loop of Loogootee.
Joe Kernan -- A "Swoop" mascot costume so he still can be involved at Silver Hawks baseball games after selling the team to the best Berlin since Irving.
Hillary Clinton -- A football helmet to protect against another concussion if she tries to break through that ultimate glass ceiling.
Mitt Romney -- Etch A Sketch.
Big Bird -- A new lease on life.
Donald Trump -- A birth certificate proving he was born on Mars.
John McCain -- A political cookbook featuring his recipe for cooking Rice.
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Known as much for her intelligence as for her talent, Canadian actress
Sarah Polley
has been wowing television and film audiences since she was barely out of diapers. Born January 8, 1979, in the Toronto area,
got her first screen role at the age of six, in Disney's
One Magic Christmas
. From 1987 to 1988,
made her name in the title role of the Canadian television series
. Her work on the show led to more screen work, first in the
Matt Dillon
The Big Town
(1987) and then in
Terry Gilliam
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
In 1990,
got a lead role on the acclaimed TV series
The Road to Avonlea
, a part that she played for five seasons. In 1994, she had a small but significant role in
Atom Egoyan
and again collaborated with the director in 1997, for his critically lauded
The Sweet Hereafter
. The film was nominated for a host of awards, including a Best Director Oscar for
, and won a Special Grand Prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.
drew her share of praise for her performance as the paralyzed survivor of a catastrophic bus accident and soon Hollywood was courting the waifishly unconventional actress, whom one critic remarked looked like
Uma Thurman
's wiser younger sister. However, for her next picture,
opted for a small Canadian production,
The Last Night
(1998), directed by
Don McKellar
Hollywood did become part of the picture with
's casting in
Doug Liman
(1999), in which she starred with such other young notables as
Katie Holmes
Scott Wolf
Taye Diggs
, and
Breckin Meyer
. Her role in the film, combined with her performance in
David Cronenberg
(1999) and a lead role in
(also 1999), helped to classify her as one of the most talented actresses of her generation, not a bad accomplishment for someone who repeatedly stated that her primary goal in life was to become a writer.
In 2000,
returned to Canada to star in
Kathryn Bigelow
The Weight of Water
, a drama about the efforts of a photojournalist and her husband (
Catherine McCormack
Sean Penn
) to investigate a 19th century murder. That same year, she also appeared in
Michael Winterbottom
The Claim
, playing the daughter of a gold miner (
Peter Mullan
) who sells his family for a bag of gold.
Over the next four years,
continued to stick mostly to smaller independent films. She played a journalist opposite a monster in
Hal Hartley
's 2001 fantasy
No Such Thing
and won rave reviews and a Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for her performance as a terminally ill young woman in 2003's
My Life Without Me
In 2004,
took another stab at Hollywood, heading up the ensemble cast in the remake of
George Romero
's horror classic
Dawn of the Dead
. She returned to artier fare with the 2005 film The Secret Life of Words opposite Tim Robbins.
made her direcotiral and screenwriting debuts in 2007 with Away From Her), an adaptation of Alice Munro's story The Bear Came Over the Mountain, a beautifully observed drama about an elderly married couple dealing with the wife alzheimer's disease. The film earned a handful of year-end awards and nominations, garnering
a nod for Best Adapted Screenplay from the Academy.
She returned to acting in the award-winning miniseries John Adams, and appeared in the sci-fi film Splice in 2010. Her released her sophomore directorial effort, Take This Waltz the next year. The movie, starring Michelle Williams as a young married woman contemplating cheating on her husband, was a festival favorite and got a release in the United States in the summer of 2012. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
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Sarah Polley's documentary Stories We Tell finds the director/actress exploring a family secret. She had discovered a few years earlier that her biological father was not actually the person she knew as her father; in an effort to fully understand this long-held family secret, Polley interviews every member of her family, and had the man she thought of as her dad write his version of events and record it, using him reading his story as a recurring voiceover throughout the film. Stories We Tell screened at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
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Sarah Polley's sophomore directorial effort Take This Waltz stars Michelle Williams as Margot, a 28-year-old Toronto woman who has been married for five years to Lou (Seth Rogen), a cookbook author who specializes in chicken dishes. One day she meets Daniel (Luke Kirby) her neighbor across the street, and there is a quick and lasting connection between the two. While she remains faithful to Lou, she finds herself drawn more and more to this seemingly perfect other man. Eventually, Margot is forced to confront the truth about herself, and share her feelings with her unsuspecting husband. Take This Waltz had its world premiere at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
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Celebrated genetic engineers Clive (Adrien Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley) conduct a clandestine experiment to create an animal/human hybrid that could revolutionize modern medicine -- if it doesn't destroy humanity first. On the heels of engineering an entirely new species of animal, Clive and Elsa become the toast of the scientific community. Their experiment begins to spiral out of control, however, when the superstar scientists introduce human DNA into the equation. When Dren is born, Clive and Elsa welcome her into the world as the next leap in human evolution. Now, the faster Dren evolves, the more her creators start to realize they may have made a catastrophic mistake. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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The founding members of a legendary female punk outfit are reunited years after their band imploded, and spend a long night reflecting on both their fractured friendship, as well as their moment in the spotlight in this raucous drama from director Bruce McDonald (Hard Core Logo, Pontypool). Ever since they were little girls, Victoria "Vic" Sawchyn (Tracy Wright) and Kathryn "Kat" Lake (Molly Parker) were inseparable. Eventually, Victoria and Kathryn started making music together. Dubbed Trigger, their punk-inspired band went through numerous line-up changes before hitting the perfect formula, and storming the charts. Then as quickly as success came, clashing egos and rampant excess brought it crumbling down like a house of cards. Unfortunately, Victoria and Kathryn's friendship appeared to die along with Trigger. A decade later, however, a small record label announces a benefit concert staged to celebrate women who rock. It's clear that the owners of the label expect Victoria and Kathryn to take part in the event, but when the two former friends come together over dinner both end up feeling responsible for the band's demise. Later, after the concert has ended, the two old friends prepare to attend an after-party, and the details of their turbulent relationship slowly come into focus. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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A man close to death ponders the many lives he might have led in this fantasy from director and screenwriter Jaco van Dormael. Nemo Nobody (Jared Leto) is 117-years-old, ill and facing his last days as he looks back on his past and a particular crucial moment -- at the age of nine, Nemo's parents divorced, and as his mother (Natasha Little) and father (Rhys Ifans) stood on a train platform, he had to choose who he would go with, and whether he would live in the United States or Great Britain. Either choice would bring with it a wide variety of possibilities regarding the sort of life he would lead, and Nemo imagines nearly all of them, including two different wives -- sweet but emotionally blank Jeanne (Linh-Dan Pham) and lovely but troubled Elise (Sarah Polley) -- and another woman, Anna (Diane Kruger), who he loves but can not marry. But as Nemo considers the many different paths his life could have taken, his memory begins to fail him, and he finds it increasingly difficult to be certain which was his real life and which is a product of his imagination. Mr. Nobody also stars Thomas Byrne as nine-year-old Nemo and Toby Regbo as Nemo in his teenage years. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Emmy Award-winning director Tom Hopper takes the helm for this epic, seven-part miniseries produced by Playtone's Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and presenting American history as seen from the perspective of fiercely independent founding father John Adams (Paul Giamatti). Based on author David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, the film tells the tale of a leader whose remarkable vision helped to guide a burgeoning republic through an especially tumultuous period. Thanks to the tireless support of his loving wife Abigail (Laura Linney), and lifelong friendship with political rivalry Thomas Jefferson (Stephen Dillane), John Adams rose to prominence as the spokesman for the American independence movement before moving on to become America's first ambassador to Holland and England, the first American Vice President, the second American President, and the father of the sixth American President. As with McCullough's best-selling biography, the film draws on a comprehensive collection of letters, diaries, and family papers in order to create the most accurate representation of Adams' life and achievements ever captured on film. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Filmmaker Atom Egoyan -- a longtime onscreen collaborator with the gifted young actress Sarah Polley (The Sweet Hereafter) -- executive-produced Polley's directorial debut, Away from Her, starring Julie Christie, Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy, and Wendy Crewson. Adapted by Polley from a short story by Alice Munro, this small-scaled two-character drama concerns Grant (Gordon Pinsent) and Fiona (Christie), a long-married couple, well into their golden years, who are much in love and connected to one another on every level. "Soul mates" in the purest sense of the term, the two feel a sense of ease and tranquility in their rural home. But when Fiona's memory begins to slip away and she insists on being taken to a rest home, the decision stirs up torrents of guilt and regret in Grant's heart. The rules of the center only complicate matters, as they forbid visitation and communication with Fiona for an interminable period of time. He determines to support his wife at all costs, even if must happen at the expense of his own peace of mind. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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One of the oldest epic poems in the English language gets a robust visual interpretation in this historical epic shot on location in Iceland. Hrothgar (Stellan Skarsgård) is a Danish king who murders a troll that has been terrorizing his countryside. But Hrothgar spares the life of the troll's strange young son, who with the passage of years grows to become Grendel (Ingvar Sigurdsson), a fearsome warrior intent upon avenging his father's death. As Grendel begins his slaughter of the king's closest confidants, Hrothgar realizes his life is in danger, and he calls upon the brave and fearless Beowulf (Gerard Butler) to track down and kill Grendel. As Beowulf and his band of warriors search for the vicious and elusive Grendel, he crosses paths with Selma (Sarah Polley), a beautiful and sensuous witch whose alliances are divided between Beowulf and his archenemy. Produced by Canadian, British, and Icelandic concerns, Beowulf & Grendel was a major box-office success in Canada before crossing south to American theaters in the summer of 2006. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Writer-director Isabel Coixet's (My Life Without Me) beautifully wrought chamber drama The Secret Life of Words opens on Hanna (Sarah Polley), a laconic, backward and introverted girl in her early '30s, quietly drowning in her own isolation. Partially deaf from working an untold number of hours in a loud factory, Hanna must wear a hearing aid. When her supervisors -- deeply concerned about the four years that have lapsed in Hanna's life without a break -- force her to go on holiday for a month, she hesitantly takes off for a coastal village in the north of Ireland. Once there, she decides to dine in a local restaurant, and overhears, by chance, a telephone conversation conducted by Victor (Eddie Marsan), regarding an accident on a nearby oil rig that he precipitated, which left a victim, Josef (Tim Robbins) in its wake. Hanna tells Victor that she is a nurse, and is instantly flown to the rig to treat the bedbound Josef -- temporarily blind from extensive cornea damage, and his body blanketed with severe burns. She also encounters the structure's motley and eccentric band of workers -- from ecologist Martin (Daniel Mays), who spends his time studying mutated mussels that collect on the ship's base and the waves that strike the side of the rig, to Josef, to chef Simon (Javier Camára), who prepares "gourmet" food no one else can stand, to Dimitri (Sverre Anker Ousdal), an elderly gentleman who is as much of a loner as Hanna. As Hanna begins to foresee a new place for herself among these individuals, a relationship gradually develops between Hanna and Josef, who holds his new friend rapt with lyrical, evocative, magisterial tales from his past -- unknowingly drawing Hanna, one step at a time, toward inner joy, self-expression, and revelation of her own sad and complex story. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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Director Wim Wenders and writer Sam Shepard, who collaborated on the award-winning film Paris, Texas, once again join forces for this dark drama of a man trying to turn over a new leaf late in life. Howard Spence (Sam Shepard) is a veteran actor who has been a popular Western star since the mid-'70s. Spence's onscreen image as a strong, principled lawman is a severe contrast to his life off the set, which has been dominated by drinking, drugs, and promiscuous womanizing. However, Spence has begun to find his hedonistic life a shallow existence, and one day, in the midst of filming his latest movie, he simply hops on his horse and rides away, eventually making his way to the small Nevada town where his mother lives. Mother (Eva Marie Saint) has little interest in seeing her wayward son after so many years, but she does share a recently discovered bit of information with him -- one of Spence's former girlfriends stopped by with word that she had given birth to his son years before. Spence borrows his father's old car and drives to Butte, MT, where he finds Doreen (Jessica Lange), the woman who was his lover years ago. Doreen runs a tavern where her son, Earl (Gabriel Mann), plays for the locals with his rock band; Spence is in fact Earl's father, but the young man has no interest in meeting his biological father, and shuts out Spence as the actor tries to get to know him. As Spence struggles to find some sort of familial connection in Butte, he makes friends with a young woman named Sky (Sarah Polley), only to discover she was also fathered by him during his rowdy younger days. Don't Come Knocking's distinguished supporting cast includes Tim Roth, George Kennedy, Fairuza Balk, Julia Sweeney, and Tim Matheson. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Adapted from a series of short stories by Canadian cult favorite Bruce La Bruce, this seriocomic coming-of-age story stars Andre Noble as Cliff, a teenager growing up in Toronto in the 1980s. While Cliff is aware of the fact he's gay and has a ravenous curiosity about sex, he hasn't been able to do much about it. However, on his 18h birthday, Cliff's free-thinking mother, Madge (Marnie McPhail), pours him a stiff drink, offers him a reefer, and politely but firmly tells him to go downtown and have some fun. Eager to lose his virginity, Cliff instead encounters Butch (Brendan Fehr), a good-looking guy in his early twenties who makes his living as a male prostitute. Cliff is infatuated with Butch from the first moment he sees him; however, while Butch appears fond of Cliff and strikes up a friendship with him, his career has forced him to develop a sense of emotional distance from others, and he isn't interested in sex with other men unless he's being paid for it. Cliff becomes a regular visitor to Butch's apartment and gets a crash course in the underbelly of the Toronto gay community, but one day Butch drafts Cliff into performing a sex act with him for a customer, leaving Cliff humiliated and heartbroken. Sugar also stars Sarah Polley and Maury Chaykin. Only the second feature film from respected theatrical director John Palmer, it was screened as part of the 2004 San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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The feature-film debut of director Zack Snyder, Dawn of the Dead is a modern retelling of George Romero's 1978 horror classic, which was actually the second film in a trilogy that began with Night of the Living Dead and concluded with Day of the Dead. Sarah Polley and Ving Rhames star as two of the last remaining people on an earth that has been ravaged by flesh-eating zombies. After escaping to a shopping mall with a handful of other survivors, they decide that they only way to truly elude the approaching throng of undead is to somehow make their way to an island that is supposedly zombie-free. Jake Weber and Mekhi Phifer also star. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
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Roland Suso Richter's psychological thriller The I Inside stars Ryan Phillippe as a man who, as the film opens, becomes involved in a terrifying accident that leaves him unable to remember the last two years of his life. As if the protagonist being unable to recognize his wife (Piper Perabo), and learning that his brother (Robert Sean Leonard) has died, were not bad enough, dreams of a woman (Sarah Polley) he once loved come to him regularly. The hero must negotiate the terrain between fact and fiction in order to figure out what happened to his life. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
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Isabel Coixet's Mi vida sin mi (My Life Without Me) is a tale of a woman dying before her time. Sarah Polley plays Ann, a 24-year-old mother of two. Ann is married to Don (Scott Speedman), and they live near Ann's mother (Deborah Harry), who is bitter about the fact that Ann's father is serving a ten-year prison sentence. Ann learns that she has only a few months to live. She makes a series of goals to complete before her time on Earth comes to an end. Among her accomplishments are taking a lover (Mark Ruffalo), finding someone to care for Don, and recording birthday greetings for her two daughters. My Life Without Me was screened in competition at the Berlin Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
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Canadian filmmaker Thom Fitzgerald directs the sentimental ensemble drama The Event. Nick (Parker Posey) is a district attorney investigating several deaths in the gay community of New York City's Chelsea District. It seems that many AIDS sufferers have died under similar mysterious circumstances. Each case suggest the use of assisted suicide, which is illegal in New York. HIV-infected cellist Matt (Don McKellar) has died of a drug overdose following a large party in Manhattan given by his family and friends. Nick first questions his lover Brian (Brent Carver), who runs an HIV support clinic. Still looking for answers, she interviews Matt's closest family members, including his mother Lila (Olympia Dukakis), his younger sister Dana (Sarah Polley), and his older sister Gaby (Joanna P. Adler). Meanwhile, Nick battles with her own past secrets involving her family back in New Jersey. The Event premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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Beauty meets the Beast, and neither is sure just what to make of the other, in a modern-dress comic variation on the ancient folk tale, written and directed by the eternally offbeat Hal Hartley. Beatrice (Sarah Polley) works with the office staff of a sleazy tabloid TV news show, run by a harridan producer (Helen Mirren) eager for something other than the usual spate of violent crimes and natural disasters that are her show's bread and butter. The producer sends her camera crew to Iceland in search of something new and unusual, and they certainly find it when they run across a village that has its own monster (Robert John Burke), a large part-mammal and part-lizard with a short temper and habit of killing people who get on his nerves. The show's camera crew (including Beatrice's boyfriend) doesn't survive their first encounter with the monster, and Beatrice is sent to find out what happened to them. En route to Iceland, Beatrice's plane crashes into the waters off the coast, and while she survives the accident, a group of unsympathetic locals decide (after a few drinks too many) to take her to the monster's lair, where a grim fate doubtless awaits her. Except that the monster is a bit depressed and Beatrice isn't in the mood to take any guff from anyone; after the monster wonders aloud why folks aren't as frightened of him as they once were, he asks Beatrice to help him find Dr. Artaud (Baltasar Kormakur), a mad scientist who might be able to cure him of the curse of eternal life. No Such Thing received its world premiere at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Un Certain Regard series. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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An aspiring comic, Neville (Larenz Tate) is burdened by drug abuse and memories of childhood traumas. He and his older half brother Matthew (Martin Cummins), a boxer, are unable to escape from the painful repercussions of their past, which includes their mother serving a prison sentence for killing Neville's father. Things seem to look up for Neville when he becomes involved with a gifted singer (real-life R&B chanteuse Deborah Cox), but still he must struggle to surmount a family legacy that has resulted in so much anger and emotional ruin. Screened at the 2000 Vancouver International Film Festival, Love Come Down features renowned Canadian actress Sarah Polley in a role as an unconventional nun. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
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Two young people struggling to find happiness in the midst of adversity exist side by side with their alter egos, an older and very unhappy married couple, in this offbeat drama. Beatrice (Sarah Polley) is a supermarket checkout girl fascinated by Henry (Brendan Fletcher), an angry and withdrawn young man whose bitterness stems largely from having been diagnosed with a rare, often fatal form of cancer. Beatrice and Henry fall in love, their passion intensified by the possibility of Henry's imminent death, but Henry's life is saved by surgery and they soon marry. In contrast, Bea (Diane Ladd) and Hank (Sean McCann) are a sixtysomething couple whose love burned out long ago. Bea and Hank have first grown bored, and then bitter, their rancor coming to a head when Hank buys a retirement home without consulting Bea, and she gets back at him by incurring financially ruinous construction and decorating expenses. Living near Bea is her old friend Myra (Shirley Douglas), whose husband Stan (Victor Cowie) is dying of cancer, while Beatrice's best friend Myrah (Kristin Thompson) has fallen deeply in love with Stanley (Rob Stefaniuk), a soldier soon to leave for the Gulf War. The Law of Enclosures was based on the well-regarded novel by Dale Peck and was the first non-gay-themed project from director John Greyson. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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One man's small empire threatens to collapse under the weight of his greed and deceit in this drama that transplants the story of Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge to 19th century America. In 1867, Dillon (Peter Mullan) is an Irish immigrant who settled in California during the Gold Rush of '49 and has done quite well for himself. Dillon owns nearly every business of consequence in the town of Kingdom Come; if someone wants to dig for gold, rent a room, open a bank account, or even order a drink, they have to go to Dillon to do it. One of the few profitable enterprises in town that he doesn't own is the brothel, which is operated by Lucia (Milla Jovovich), Dillon's lover. Circumstances change somewhat when Dalglish - a surveyor with the Central Pacific Railroad - turns up and expresses his plans to implement a railroad in the area. Dillon, sensing a great opportunity afoot, travels well out of his way to ensure that the line is run through Kingdom Come, to enhance the town's commercial prospects. Also arriving in town the same time as Dalglish are two women, the beautiful but ailing Elena (Nastassja Kinski) and her lovely teenage daughter Hope (Sarah Polley); their presence is deeply troubling for Dillon, for they are the keys to a dark secret Dillon has kept from the people of Kingdom Come. The Claim is Michael Winterbottom's second adaptation of the works of Thomas Hardy; his 1996 feature Jude was adapted from Hardy's final novel, Jude the Obscure. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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A woman studying a crime of the past finds her own life becoming a morass of suspicion and deceit in this drama based on the novel by Anita Shreve. Jean Janes (Catherine McCormack) is a photographer working on a project that would document surviving evidence of a multiple murder that occurred a hundred years ago -- when a man named Louis Wagner (Ciaran Hinds) brutally killed two immigrant women from Norway with an axe, only to discover a third, Maren Hontvedt (Sarah Polley), witnessed the mayhem and survived to identify him in court. Jean travels to the small New Hampshire coastal town where the killings occurred with her husband Thomas (Sean Penn), an award-winning poet; his brother Rich (Josh Lucas); and Rich's girlfriend Adaline (Elizabeth Hurley). As Jean digs deeper into the troubling facts of the long-ago murder, as well as the tangential details of Maren Honvedt's unhappy marriage to John Hontvedt (Ulrich Thomsen) and her incestuous affair with her brother Evan (Anders W. Berthelsen), Jean begins to believe that she has a crisis of her own to contend with: she is convinced Thomas is having an affair with Adaline. The Weight of Water also features Katrin Cartlidge as Maren's sister Karen and Vinessa Shaw as her sister-in-law Anethe. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Foreign Language Education, B.A.
Prospective teachers of French, Italian, Spanish, German or Russian select the language they wish to teach as a liberal arts and science major (see specific language requirements). After completing a minimum of 45 semester hours of college semester hours of course work, the student then chooses Foreign Language Education as a co-major. For admission policies, procedures, and program requirement, see Secondary Education, Undergraduate Programs at the beginning of the Secondary Education heading.
In the specific language studies, the prospective teacher must earn 24-36 semester hours above level 4 (depending on the particular language major) a d must acquire sufficient competence to utilize the language as an instrument of oral and written communication. Before student teaching, the prospective teacher must present to the Office of Field Placement a statement from the chairperson of his/her language major(s) attesting to proficiency in written and oral communication in that language. In addition, prospective teachers of French, Italian, Spanish, German, or Russian must be knowledgeable of the culture and society of the country or countries in which the target language is spoken.
All prospective teachers of French, Italian, Spanish, German, or Russian must complete a minimum of each of the following: 6 semester hours of culture, 3 semester hours of conversation practice, 3 semester hours of grammar, and 3 semester hours of composition (see academic adviser within the major for specific courses). The adviser may recommend additional course work in one or more of these areas to remedy identified weaknesses. Prospective teachers of French, Spanish or Italian will register for FREN 107, SPAN 108, or ITAL 108 for a total of 1 semester hour.
The co-major in Foreign Language Education consists of a minimum of 31 semester hours of education course work, and you can view the curriculum by visiting the Hofstra Bulletin.
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Oct. 30, 2012 — A little over a year ago, the Occupy Wall Street movement broke out on the scene and, while we don't hear as much about it these days, protests continue to crop up world-wide.
Last month one of the Internet groups I subscribe to asked us to share our thoughts on the Occupy movement and to take a survey with three options to choose from:
1. I'm all for it and even participated in some of the events.
2. It's a nice idea, but I don't think the protests do anything
3. I don't support it at all, and disagree with the ideas.
None of these choices really reflect how I feel, but I was somewhat surprised to realize the one that came closest was number three.
Of course, I do support the Occupy Wall Street movement in the sense I believe in freedom of speech. I figure everyone has the right to voice his or her opinions and to protest, provided it's not violent. But so often demonstrations do turn violent, with the protestors blaming the police, and the police blaming the protestors.
And that's why I can't get behind the Occupy movement, or a lot of other political movements, for that matter.
As long as we continue with this dualistic way of thinking: us vs. them (even if "them" is only 1 percent), right vs. wrong, good vs. bad, we're going to keep going in circles and ending up in the same place.
We don't live in a world of black and white, but of complexities and nuances, shades and textures. Some things are right, some are clearly wrong, but most balance somewhere between the two. Too often ideologies, regardless of whether they come from radical liberals or dogged conservatives, become rigid and myopic.
I was in India last year when the Occupy Wall Street movement broke out over here, and so had the advantage of watching it unfold in another culture, one that is very different from our own. I tried to look at it from the perspective of my recent friends, which was something along the lines of, "Isn't it interesting?"
But what's your opinion I would ask. They would think a bit, and say something like, "Yes, yes, the protestors make some very good points, but the other side has good points too, and the rich have always been a very small percentage. What is new? They need to get together to talk and try to reach some compromise."
One of these very friends once told me he liked George Bush and Barrack Obama in the same breath, which, like the protestors and the opposition actually talking, isn't something we're likely to hear over here any time soon.
As we come up on election time, this duality is becoming even more divisive.
One of my guilty pleasures is Facebook, mostly because it gives me a way to keep up with my sons and step-kids, although recently I haven't been on it so much. Some of the posts are just too ugly. I even had to block one person when I woke up one morning and found he had left 37 messages on my wall, spouting his own particular viewpoint. It wasn't his viewpoint I minded, but I'd like to hear what other friends are up to as well.
But, then again, sometimes I don't want to know. One day one of my liberal friends might be ranting about someone posting a conservative viewpoint on her timeline. The next day a conservative friend will be bewailing the same about some liberal posting.
Both of them will probably react by "unfriending" the culprit so soon they will be surrounded only by people who think like they do, share their viewpoints and won't do things like challenge their thinking or engage them in debate.
Certainly, there are times to take a stand for our beliefs, but I think they should be carefully thought out, not reactive. When we try to impose our will or ideas on others, or when we blame others for our woes, we become brittle like glass and are unable to see any side but our own.
That's how wars start, I guess.
Mahatma Ghandi said, "Peace is the road," and I would love to see peace in the world, but I don't think peace is some tangible thing we can attain, and then we have it there in our hand. Like life itself, it's fluid and always changing. It's a road we travel on, not a goal we reach.
I've even heard people talk about fighting for peace, which has always struck me as an oxymoron if ever I heard one.
I truly believe the only way we will have peace is if we find it in our own hearts first. And maybe when we allow peace to be a road, as Gandhi said, something will unfold that's gentler and able to bend.
Maybe we'll learn to think beyond dualities and find solutions to our problems we haven't even considered.
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Library > Sports & Recreation > Hobbies
1999In our web site Hobby.Com we wanted to help others to learn more about two special hobbies- soap box derby racing and coins. On our soap box derby page, we gave visitors information on building a soap box derby car, parts of a soap box derby car, driving tips, age limits, and what to bring to a race. We included photographs and original drawings on our page to clarify the information. The Coin part of our hobby page shows visitors pictures of coins and tells a history of about five different kinds of coins. We feel that we have met our objectives.
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Sunday, October 05, 2008
Thanks so much for all of the birfday wishes & cards so far. I'm kinda hung over from the cheese popcorn at the bonfire we had here last night! Hehehehehe!
Mama will post my birfday pics later today. We kind of have a water disaster going on in the house right now. Mama & Papa are tearing apart the pantry & a wall to get to the water pipes. Let me tell ya, Mama is NOT happy at all.
Wirey Hugs from the Birfday Boy!
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29 comments:
- Lorenza said...
Happy Birthday Butchy!
I hope your Mama and Papa finish soon their work so you can have a big celebration!
Kisses and hugs
Lorenza - October 05, 2008 10:32 AM
- Sparky said...
I hope you had a grrrrEAT day my friend, and I wish you many more years to come!
Sparky - October 05, 2008 10:42 AM
- Scruffy, Lacie and Stanley's Place said...
Ohh....water disaster??? Did ya pawty to hearty last night Butch??
Put on some high waders and get in there and help Mama...so she'll have time to give ya pressies later today!!!!!
Love ya...Lacie - October 05, 2008 10:42 AM
- Sunny,Scooter,Jamie said...
HAPPY BURPDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!& Happy Birthday too!!!!
We wish you many,many more Butchy!!!!
(hope the water disaster gets better....akk)
Sunny,Scooter&Jamie - October 05, 2008 11:19 AM
- Amber-Mae said...
Hey Butchy! I'm sooo sorry that I missed your Barkday. My family & I have been sooo busy for this past two weeks that I just couldn't visit any of you guys. Anyway, I hope you had a great one! Happy Barkday to you!!!
Pee/s: Check out the new post in my bloggie!
Butt wiggles,
Solid Gold Dancer - October 05, 2008 11:44 AM
- Snowball said...
Happy Barkday,Butchy.
I hope the problem around the house get settled soon.
Snowball - October 05, 2008 11:47 AM
- Thor said...
I hope water problems are resolved soon!
Have a great day!
Love and licks
Thor - October 05, 2008 12:29 PM
Aroooo Aroooo Butchy (standard poodle speak for Happy Birthday Butchy!) Hope your parents fix the water problem right away so they can have a party for you.
- October 05, 2008 1:10 PM
- Lacy said...
w00f's Butchy and Snickers, me will b verwy quiet, so not to upset ur mama...happy barkday, git lots of pressies and treats and have many many more...
b safe,
~rocky~ - October 05, 2008 1:38 PM
- Asta said...
Glad you ha a happy Birfdaydeawest Butchy..just get some west and then tell us about it..I'm sosowwy that youw Mama and Papa awe having watew pwoblems..that's tewwwible..
i hope it gets solved soon
love and smoochie kisses
ASTA - October 05, 2008 1:57 PM
- Eric said...
Happy Barkday Butchy! I wish you the bestest one ever- even if you are spending it in your wellies instead of the dashing flying helmet and scarf. Poor 2 leggededs hope it was easy peasy to sort out and no damage.
Aw, now I like Ruby's friend, wagging nice that Moma is going to make him a shelter for the winter and that he has a full belly every day.Hope Ruby doesn't do that spitty face t him and scare him away!
Wiry wags, Eric x - October 05, 2008 2:05 PM
- Pearl said...
Happy Barkday Butchy enjoy your special day. Water problems are just horrible ask Nanny she had a whopper some years ago, she evens lost her wedding gown.
Hugs, bellyrubs & smoochies
Pearl - October 05, 2008 3:31 PM
- Noah the Airedale said...
Happy 8th birthday Butchy. Gosh you're only 1 month older than me. We're nearly twins matie hee hee.
Sorry to hear about your water problems. Our pinkies know about things going wrong around the house too. Good luck it getting it fixed quickly.
Noah Willow Tess Lucy - October 05, 2008 4:01 PM
- Maggie and Mitch said...
Oh no! This sorta thing isn't supposed to happen on your birthday!
Happy 8th birthday, Butchy!
Love ya lots,
Maggie and Mitch - October 05, 2008 4:58 PM
- Joe Stains said...
- October 05, 2008 6:33 PM
- Clover said...
HAPPY BARKDAY BUTCHY! Hope you had a super pawesome day despite your water problems. Hope it is all cleared up now.
Love Clover xo - October 05, 2008 7:02 PM
- The Animal Doctor said...
thanks for dropping by our blog, pals. we see its butchy's birthday so we want to greet him a HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
belly rubs,
The Secretary - October 05, 2008 7:26 PM
- Huskee and Hershey said...
Happiest Barkday to you, Butchy!! Hope you had a wonderful day (despite the 'water disaster'..)!!
- October 05, 2008 8:08 PM
- Kirby said...
Happy, happy birthday Butchy! I hope your birthday is absolutely wonderful and full of all kinds of treats and prezzies. Can't wait to see how the day was.
Your pal,
Kirby - October 05, 2008 8:44 PM
- Scruffy, Lacie and Stanley's Place said...
Um...Las Vegas? The French Riveria...er wait a minute...that plane looks like overseas travel may be a tad extreme...
Ohh...Niagra Falls??? Great gambling!!!!
Get us by midnight...we'll decide in the air!!!
Scruffman - October 05, 2008 9:30 PM
- Achilles Wong said...
hellow there butchy and snickers!
we saw from our friend, The Animal Doctor that it is Butchy's Birthday so..
Happy Birthday Butchy!
Wehope you'll have more wirey birthday's ahead of you!
drooly kisses,
Aki, Poopie and Heinz - October 06, 2008 2:56 AM
- Balboa & Mommy said...
Happy Belated Birthday Butchy, hope you had a wonderful day.
Sorry about missing DWB, mommy will help me do a new post this afternoon.
Frenchie Snorts
Balboa - October 06, 2008 9:07 AM
- Mango the Maltese kiddo said...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUTCHY and enjoy many more to come.
So sorry about the house leakage and your parents had to deal with it,
Hug y'all! - October 06, 2008 9:12 AM
- Murphey said...
Aren't barkdays cool? Have a happy one.
Murph - October 06, 2008 9:40 AM
- Ruby Bleu said...
Happy Barkday Butchy!!! Hope you had a great day...even with all the home improvement stuff going on!
Lots of Licks, Ruby - October 06, 2008 10:16 AM
- Jake of Florida said...
Happy Barkday Butcho -- We've been off the computer 'cause it was sick -- so we just learfned about your big day!!!
Hope the water pipes get fixed too!!
Wirey love, pal!!!
Jake and Just Harry - October 06, 2008 10:32 AM
- Chloé said...
Hi Butchy!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!! hope you have great day!!!!
Love,Chloe - October 06, 2008 12:34 PM
- Chloé said...
Hi Butchy!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!! hope you have great day!!!!
Love,Chloe - October 06, 2008 12:34 PM
- Girasol said...
Happy belated birthday, I bet you had a great day.
- October 13, 2008 8:35 AM


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