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"The Avatar State is a defense mechanism, designed to empower you with the skills and knowledge of all the past Avatars."
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Aang and his friends rest at an Earth Kingdom outpost after their journey from the North Pole. They are to be escorted to Omashu, where Aang intends to find King Bumi to teach him earthbending. General Fong, however, inspired by Aang's battle-determining actions during the Siege of the North, suggests that Aang defeat the Fire Lord and end the War immediately by triggering the Avatar State. After many failed attempts, the general finally succeeds in triggering the Avatar State by faking Katara's death. Aang nearly destroys the base in anger and the group decides to go to Omashu alone. In the meantime, Zuko and his uncle are visited by his sister, Azula, who has come bearing a message from the Fire Lord, requesting their return home. Zuko and his uncle discover Azula's summons to be a disguise in order to imprison the pair and escape.
In a dream, Aang sees himself in the Avatar State causing devastation and threatening his friends. Aang gasps awake, realizing he was only having a nightmare. He is in a hammock on a Water Tribe ship with his friends; he climbs up to the ship's deck, and Katara follows to comfort him. Aang confides in her about his nightmare, and that the power of the Avatar State is terrifying both for him and those close to him. The next day, Pakku gives them parting gifts for their journey to the Earth Kingdom base, where they will be escorted to Omashu. Katara receives a necklace filled with water from the Spirit Oasis, Aang receives waterbending scrolls, and Sokka simply receives a farewell, disappointing him.
Elsewhere, Iroh is relaxing and getting a massage at a beautiful spa resort. Zuko however, is unhappy, realizing it has been three years to the day he was banished from the Fire Nation. He desperately wants to reclaim his honor, the throne, and his father's love.
At sea, a Fire Nation ship carrying Princess Azula is arriving in the Earth Kingdom to capture her brother and uncle. She threatens the ship captain's life when he warns the tides will not allow them to enter the port on time.
Aang and his friends arrive at the Earth Kingdom base and are greeted with every honor, as their deeds at the North Pole have become well-known. General Fong remarks on how Aang single-handedly destroyed a Fire Nation fleet. Fong believes with such power, Aang is ready to face the Fire Lord and end the Hundred Year War now. Panicked, Aang believes that he is certainly not ready and explains he was only able to do what he did because of the Avatar State, which he cannot enter willingly. After showing Aang the earth army infirmary, housing all the soldiers who were hurt by the War, Fong convinces Aang to aid him in his plan – Fong will help Aang master the Avatar State.
On her ship, Azula is practicing lightning generation, a highly advanced form of firebending. Her royal advisers, Lo and Li, watch her progress and remark she is close, but not perfect. Azula angrily remarks that "almost [perfect]" is not good enough and continues practicing, sending a bolt of lightning into the sky. Iroh wakes and looks outside in concern upon hearing thunder.
That night, Aang confesses to Katara that he has accepted Fong's proposal to go into the Avatar State. While Sokka agrees, Katara is very much against it, believing Aang needs to keep mastering the elements the right way. Aang tells her to be realistic, but she becomes mad and walks out of the room, refusing to be a part of the plan. The next day, Fong begins testing Aang in an attempt to trigger the Avatar State. First, he serves Aang a special herbal tea which increases energy ten-fold in soldiers, but it only gives Aang an energy rush. The tea could possibly have contained caffeine, a substance that was not well known until more modern times. Sokka tries to scare Aang into the Avatar State, but it does not work. Fong organizes a ritual, where Aang wears clothing from all four nations and is bathed in all four elements, but it just makes him sneeze.
Azula finds Iroh and Zuko at the resort and pays them a friendly visit, though the both of them are suspicious of her intentions. She tells them the Fire Lord regrets banishing his son and wants Zuko to come back home. Zuko is dumbstruck by the news, and Azula departs to pick them up to go home the next day.
At sunset, Katara confesses to Aang that when he is in the Avatar State, it worries her greatly to see him in that much rage. Aang realizes this, but still believes what Fong is doing is right. Every day the War continues, and more and more people die; Aang believes that is his fault for being one hundred years late. Katara tells him she will not come to watch their attempt to induce the Avatar State anymore.
That night, Zuko is overjoyed by the news that his father wants him to return home. Iroh is suspicious of the news and warns Zuko that things are never what they seem in their family. Zuko angrily tells his uncle that he is a lazy, selfish old man, who is jealous of his younger brother.
Aang has more nightmares about the Avatar State and awakens. He decides Katara is right and hopes General Fong will not be angered by his change of heart.
The next day, Zuko sets out to the port alone. Iroh joins him later, telling him family must stick together. Zuko smiles happily, but as they head for the ship, Iroh casts a wary eye toward it.
Aang explains to the general that he does not want to go through with the plan anymore, believing the Avatar State can only be triggered when he is in genuine danger. Fong starts to attack Aang with earthbending and orders his soldiers to start attacking as well, still bent upon inducing the Avatar State. Aang barely manages to dodge all their attacks and tries to persuade them to stop attacking, but to no avail.
At the port, Azula warmly welcomes her brother and uncle. As they begin to depart, the ship's captain accidentally reveals it was all a set-up. Azula's true purpose was to return Zuko and Iroh to the Fire Nation to be imprisoned. Iroh fights the ship's guards as Zuko confronts Azula.
Katara and Sokka realize what is happening and help defend Aang. However, General Fong captures Katara with earthbending and begins to lower her into the ground in another attempt to induce the Avatar State. As Katara continues to sink, Aang begs for Fong to release her. Instead, Fong completely buries her. Enraged, Aang enters the Avatar State to Fong's delight, but begins to destroy everything in sight.
Zuko fights Azula, but he is no match for her. She taunts him, saying their father considers him a miserable failure and would rather Zuko rot in prison than be out in the world embarrassing the Fire Nation greatly angering Zuko. Azula prepares to strike him with lightning, but Iroh interrupts her and redirects the blast into the cliffside.
Back at the base, Fong releases Katara, informing Aang that her disappearance was merely a trick to trigger the Avatar State, but Aang does not respond and continues to destroy the base. Avatar Roku appears to Aang and takes a projection of his soul with him, so he can explain exactly what the Avatar State is, namely a defense mechanism designed to empower the Avatar with the skills and knowledge of all the past lives. He also warns that, while its power is undeniable, the Avatar State also possesses a weak spot; if an Avatar were to be killed while in the state, the reincarnation cycle would come to a halt, and the Avatar would cease to exist.
When he is back in his own body and released from the grip of the Avatar State, Aang is upset by all the destruction he caused, but General Fong is gleeful over having induced the Avatar State. Aang tells him he is out of his mind and Sokka knocks Fong unconscious, asking the remaining soldiers if they have any problems with his actions, to which they all quickly shake their heads. Team Avatar subsequently departs on Appa for Omashu on their own with no intervention from Fong's shell-shocked soldiers.
Azula warns Fire Nation citizens in a colony that "anybody who harbors these traitors (Zuko and Iroh) will face the wrath of the Fire Lord."
Zuko and Iroh, having escaped from Azula, stop to rest near a small creek. As a symbol of severance from their family and the Fire Nation, the pair cut off their top-knots and send them down the creek.
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- Also starring:
- Grey DeLisle - Azula
- Mako - Uncle
- Daniel Dae Kim - General Fong
- James Garrett - Avatar Roku
- Victor Brandt - Master Pakku
- Robin Atkin Downes - Captain
- Additional voices:
- Dee Bradley Baker
- Victor Brandt
- Robin Atkin Downes
- Takayo Fisher - Lo and Li
- Lex Lang
Production notes
- Main article: Transcript:The Avatar State
- Main article: Writing in the World of Avatar
Avatar Extras
- Main article: Avatar Extras for Book Two: Earth
Series continuity
- The significance of the dagger Zuko and Iroh use to cut off their topknots is examined in detail in "Zuko Alone".
- The line of Avatars that disappear while Roku is warning Aang reappear, in reverse of how they disappear in this episode, in "Sozin's Comet, Part 4: Avatar Aang" when the final chakra is finally unblocked and Aang masters the Avatar State.
- Lightning generation is first introduced, though lightning redirection was first suggested in "The Storm".
- This is the second time that Aang has been getting nightmares, the first being in "The Storm".
- This is the first time that Aang entered the Spirit World without meditating.
- This is the first known time that an Avatar went into the Spirit World while in the Avatar State.
- This is the first time Avatars Kuruk, Yangchen, and the unnamed fire Avatar are shown.
- This is the first time Sokka is seen with his hair down.
- This is the last time Zuko is seen in the present with the hairstyle he wore throughout season one.
- Iroh is seen redirecting lightning for the second and final time. He would later teach the skill to Zuko in "Bitter Work", who in turn, would teach it to Aang in "Sozin's Comet, Part 1: The Phoenix King".
- This is the first episode in which Azula is seen speaking. The character had brief appearances in "The Storm" and "The Siege of the North, Part 2" without any lines.
- During Aang's first dream, he is seeing the events that took place while he was at the Southern Air Temple, but the dream is shown occurring at the Northern Air Temple.
- While Aang is dreaming at the start of the episode, one can see that his shadow has a faint arrow tattoo on its head, the same Aang has to represent mastery over airbending.
- In Aang's dream, while fighting Zuko, Aang is in the Avatar State, but toward the end of the dream, his tattoos and eyes are not glowing like they should be.
- When Aang, Katara and Sokka are in the general's quarters for the first time, there are only two guards on either side of the door. When the camera zooms in on Aang, there are about ten soldiers behind him. This happens every time the camera zooms in or out.
- During the ritual to trigger the Avatar State, the oracle threw in one of the torches in the background into the bowl. After the scene returns to the oracle, the torch was back in place.
- When Katara is talking to Aang about what happened when they went to the Southern Air Temple and saw Monk Gyatso's skeleton, it cuts to a close-up of her face. During the close-up, the Water Tribe insignia on her necklace is missing.
- During Aang's last dream, while he is fighting on Zuko's ship, it is a new Fire Nation cruiser instead of the older variant.
- As the captain asks if they are ready to go, the red spike on the front of his helmet turns gray in a few frames.
- When the captain tries to plead with Azula, after revealing the set-up, his mouth is not moving.
- At the time Sokka tries to get on top of a ostrich horse, its saddle appears to be a simple seat on its back with the area under it exposed and showing its fur color. For a split-second, however, it turns green implying the saddle fits around its entire body. It soon changes back to the original brown.
- When Azula and Zuko are fighting, Azula hits Zuko on his head and three scratches appear on Zuko's right temple, but in the next scene, he no longer has these marks.
- When Azula grabs Zuko's hand during her and Zuko's fight, she has no Fire Nation hair clip. The clip reappears in the same scene.
- When Aang is in the Avatar State and crashes to the ground to destroy everything around him, Katara does not get thrown out of the way like everything else.
- During the line-up of Avatars that appears during Roku's talk with Aang, the airbending Avatars' eyes are glowing, but not their tattoos.
- When Zuko cuts his top-knot, part of the red cloth still remains. In the next shot, it is gone.
- When Zuko's top-knot flows down the river the bottom of the ponytail holder flickers on and off.
- This is the first episode where Sokka's shirt is sleeveless.
- This is the first episode where Aang is seen earthbending, albeit in the Avatar State.
- In this episode, Aang performs a similar move with airbending that he used to raise himself with waterbending in "The Avatar Returns".
- This episode had four writers involved in the writing process, which is more than any other episode had until "The Tales of Ba Sing Se".[1]
- This is the first episode where Katara is considered an official master of waterbending, following her training of the art at the North Pole.[1]
- In the scene where Azula's ship captain accidentally reveals that Zuko and Iroh are prisoners, the creators originally planned on Azula vaporizing the man on the spot, but later decided that was "a little harsh".[1]
- In the beginning of the episode, Pakku is wearing different clothing due to a warmer climate.
- The statues that Avatar Kyoshi earthbends are similar to the statues used by the Earth King's Royal Guards against Aang and his friends when they were trying to infiltrate the Earth Kingdom Royal Palace.
- The statues are also identical to those seen in the ruins of Taku in "The Blue Spirit".
- This is the second of three episodes in the series to have a name that starts with "The Avatar"; "The Avatar Returns" and "The Avatar and the Fire Lord" are the other two.
- Zuko and Iroh cutting their hair parallels the story of Buddha, who, when starting his journey of self-discovery and enlightenment, cut off his hair beside a river.
- The writing on Zuko's knife reads "非戰不屈", which means "Never give up without a fight."
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Avatar Extras for "The Avatar State" on Nicktoons Network.


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2011 marks 50 years that the all-black Douglass High School closed. In 1961, Douglass closed its doors as a school and the students integrated with Huntington High. It was a transition that was bittersweet, former Douglass students said -- one that meant new opportunities, but the passing of a time when their world was close-knit and familiar.


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Cathedral of Assumption, Moscow Kremlin
Bucknell Russian Studies majors have developed careers in a wide variety of disciplines: education, business, law, government, even medicine. (Remember, the Russian major at Bucknell is a Russian Studies major that allows students to focus on any aspect of Russian culture and society they choose.) Since 1991 most graduates of the Russian Studies Program have decided to begin their post-graduate careers with a job in Russia. The reason is compelling: in Russia you can do well while doing good. More than anything else the Russians need people who have experienced a Western free-market economy to talk to them, show them how to start up and run businesses. Some of our graduates are actually engaged in missionary and charity work, but most are involved in the same sort of jobs that they would have in this country. The only difference is that they are in an exciting place at an exciting time -- and, despite what we often read in the US press, none have mentioned any sense of danger. A few of their stories are listed below.
BRSP also has a notable record in graduate schools including the London School of Economics, George Washington, Oxford University, Stanford, Indiana, Syracuse, and Kings College, London, Yale, Harvard, and Columbia. Bucknell Russian Studies Program graduates compete among the very best in the world.
Tracy Dennison '94
Tracy taught English in Moscow for two years, enjoying every minute of it. The pay was not high but the satisfaction level was. Tracy is now working on a master's degree at St. Andrews College, Oxford.
Bob Foresman '90
Bob is the investment officer of the International Finance Corporation of World Bank in charge of the Ukraine office (60 employees). He began as a privatization consultant while also lending a helping hand to several Ukrainian orphanages. He was in Moscow in August 1991 during the abortive coup attempt and actually participated in those heroic events, talking to the tank drivers and helping erect the barricades in front of the parliament building. He is married to a woman he met in Kiev while studying in Moscow.
Gerry Greenberg '77
Gerry completed his PhD in Slavic Linguistics at Cornell and is now the chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Syracuse University.
Sharon Harris '93
Sharon worked with Greg Martin for a year at the MIR Travel Agency in St. Petersburg, then moved on to teach English in St. Petersburg. She just finished her masters as the Maxwell School of Business at the University of Syracuse and will soon be moving to a new job in NYC. Her sister, Susan, starts Russian in this spring.
Steve Hoerter '91 and Jean Platt '92
This Bucknell couple are working for Eli Lilly & Company (Steve) and Merck . Steve is in international marketing for oncology and Orpha represents Merck in corporate affairs for Central & Eastern Europe, including Russia. For two years after graduation Jean worked as a legal assistant in US law offices in Moscow.
Leo Klementovich '84
Leo started his own joint venture with a Russian friend while studying politics in Moscow in 1991. Leo went over to study at the Communist Party Institute during its last year of existence and while there went into business with a Russian selling clothing. He not only received a good education at the critical moment of the new revolution, but pocketed a handsome some to bring home.
Thyra Leslie '90
Thyra is currently completing her PhD in Slavic linguistics and Uralo-Altaic studies at the University of Indiana. In 1995 she gave her first talk on Hungarian at a professional conference.
Josh Lipton '95
Josh is currently working for a German transportation company and plans to continue next year. He is making a solid Western European salary and has asked that we remind everyone that so long as a US citizen remains most of the year abroad, they pay no US taxes. This means that not only is his salary higher than it would have been in the US, but he keeps all of it.
Brian Long '94
Brian spent a year in one of the oldest cities in Russian, Pskov, teaching English in an elementary school there. Now he is currently working on a masters degree in Russian studies at Michigan State University.
Troy McGrath
Troy completed his PhD in political science at Columbia University, focusing on Russia and the NIS states. He has been teaching political science at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary for three years.
Kerri Marks '94
Kerri is now in graduate school but she spent 1994-95 in Moscow working with a missionary service helping those suffering from the current turmoil both economically and spiritually. The pay was not much, Kerri lived pretty much like other Muscovites, but the satisfaction level was high and it was the experience of a life-time.
Greg Martin '93
Greg worked for two years with the MIR Travel Agency in St. Petersburg before finding a more interesting job with the US Consulate there. He is now completing his MBA at the Cornell School of Business.
Barbara Meier '88
Barbara completed her PhD at Yale University in Slavic Linguistics and is now teaching at George Washington University. She recently read a paper and organized her own session on Slavic gender for the 1996 conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. (She was thoughtful enough to invite Professor Beard to participate in her session.)
Joe Meschino '79
Joe worked 5 years in Moscow on the new USA Embassy construction site. He then began working with the Scott-European Corporation in the medical sales department until January 1995. He currently co-owns, with his Russian partner, a medical supply company in Doylestown, PA, his hometown, selling medical supplies in Russia.
Kadi Miller '91
Kadi completed her law degree at Duke Law school in 1994 and went to work for The Centre for International Environmental Law in Washington. She heads their project to help draft new environmental laws for Russia and the NIS on subcontract from US AID. She helps organize and mobilize grassroots environmental groups there, and makes frequent trips in that direction.
Chris Mitchell '91
Chris, on last report, was running the Miller Distributing Co. of Moscow. He is enjoying his work immensely as well as the excitement of watching major events in world history unfold.
John Pommersheim '85
John opened the first US Embassy in Minsk and did such a good job that he was assigned to Bonn as the US Ambassador's chief of staff.
Edmund Rhodes '95
'Misha' is currently working for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) in Washington. NDI is a non-partisan organization designed to strengthen democratic institutions and pluralistic values in new and emerging democracies. Its goal is to increase public participation in a democratic society and to improve negotiations with the government. He also visits various institutions in Russia and the NIS.
Pete Rossi '91
Pete wrote us from Moscow that he knew several Bucknellians employed in Russia in 1993. He assured us that all are in contact with each other and that they would be happy to help other Bucknell graduates of the Russian Program to find apartments and jobs in that part of the country. Pete and his fiancée are still living in Moscow.
Richard Sosnowski '95
Rich is working for a French catering service in Moscow. For three months the work is demanding; he is expected to work evenings and often weekends. However, the fourth month he spends on paid vacation anywhere in the world he wishes to go--that's at company expense. This is a typical European plan for companies whose work cannot be conducted from 9 to 5, five days a week. Remember, too, Richard is receiving a Western European salary, which is higher than US salaries and pays no US taxes.
Tom Trimble
Tom's one year of Russian at Bucknell whetted his appetite for all things Russian. Despite the language deficit, he got into the Harriman Institute at Columbia and then went on to law school. When he received his law degree, he moved to Moscow for 3 years, working as a lawyer with the firm Latham & Watkins, while his wife Shelly worked in the ING and Dialog Banks. They lived in a great apartment in Old Arbat. Now he works with Latham & Watkins in their DC office but still flies periodically to Russia and East Europe on a variety of deals.
Mike Troper '85
Mike was the controller for the town of Worthington, Ohio when he received a telephone call one day from a group of businessmen who wanted him to become the controller of the Moscow Country Club, a joint US-Russian venture. (That phrase rings strange bells for those of us who studied Russia in the bad old days.) He held that position for several months before returning to the US.
Jonathan Wise '94
Jon is enrolled in the Boston College School of Law. In the summer of 1995 he served an internship with a US law firm in St. Petersburg. Jonathan revised contracts in both English and Russian. He returned to a similar internship in Moscow in the summer of 1996 and, according to Tracy Dennison, he is planning to return again in 1997. When he receives his law degree, he will have a solid understanding of US corporate and commercial law (which all the contracts were based on) as well as a familiarity with the Russian legal system (such as it is).
Christine Zapotocky
Chris is the executive assistant to the president and rector of Central European University in Budapest and loving the city. Her apartment looks out at the palace over the Danube, no wonder she loves it.
Whatever our graduates do with their experience in Russia, all find it an exhilarating adventure into a very friendly culture truly different from our own--an adventure which they will never forget and a valuable experience that US companies, government agencies, and private research institutes need.
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Playing to win: Conservative think tank rankles left with activism, anonymous donors
PORTLAND — John Piotti says he pays no attention to the Maine Heritage Policy Center – and then quickly admits he's being flippant.
In reality, Piotti, a state legislator, and his Democratic colleagues are becoming increasingly wary of the free-market think tank and its quest for increased political influence.
"I don't ignore them, I take them seriously," said Piotti, the representative from Unity. "And because they're often misrepresenting the truth, I take them particularly seriously."
Piotti's criticism is extensive and shared by Democrats, who have been forced to fight several ballot initiatives shepherded by the policy center and its attempts to spread its ideology of limited government.
Democrats have cause for concern. The center was created by a handful of board members in 2002. Today, 36 individuals, including six staffers, work to advance its causes. The center has become increasingly influential, leading tax-reduction initiatives, offering research urging smaller government, running training seminars on how to get politically involved and hosting political forums, usually involving conservative candidates and conservative causes.
The center is perhaps best known for introducing two versions of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights — fiercely debated tax cap proposals rejected by voters in 2006 and 2009. Despite those defeats, the organization has continued to engage voters in traditional hot-button issues, including health care, education and taxes.
The center's position on taxes will sound familiar to voters. The organization says the state is overtaxed and unfriendly to business, and has rolled out several position papers to make its case.
It has also fed the public's oft-held suspicion that government is too wasteful. It recently published the names and salaries of every state employee on maineopengov.org, and linked it to the center's homepage.
According to the center, the site has received more than 100,000 unique visitors.
Piotti and other critics, however, claim the center has cloaked itself as a "scholarly research center" while advancing policy embraced by the extreme right and Libertarianism, a movement currently marshaled nationally by factions of the tea party.
The nonprofit organization also faces allegations that its increased involvement in this year's gubernatorial election pushes, if not violates, the political lobbying limits allowed by its tax-exempt status.
The center's political activism is made more relevant after a recent report in The New Yorker magazine detailing the tea party's billionaire benefactor, Koch Industries. The modern-day oil baron has funnelled millions into the nonprofit Americans for Prosperity group.
According to the story, AFP is at the nexus of a national web of like-minded nonprofits set up as analysis centers to produce policy papers challenging climate science and regulation of the financial industry. Billed as education positions, the analysis papers ultimately benefit the organization's anonymous corporate donors, the story says.
The furor over AFP would seem distant from Maine politics if not for the group's similarities to the Maine Heritage Policy Center. The connection is more than resemblance: Two months ago AFP started a Maine chapter and began partnering with the policy center to hold activist training seminars.
Further, AFP-Maine is headed by Trevor Bragdon, the brother of Tarren Bragdon, the 34-year-old chief executive officer of the policy center.
Tarren Bragdon, a former two-term legislator from Bangor, deflected accusations about the center, saying they're politics as usual and a byproduct of the organization's successful engagement in state economic policy.
"We're confident in the integrity of the center and its work," Bragdon said during an interview at the center's headquarters in Portland. "If people want to attack us, that's fine."
Despite hosting events with keynote speakers like Maine GOP gubernatorial hopeful Paul LePage and Marco Rubio, a tea party candidate from Florida running for U.S. Senate, Bragdon insists the center is as nonpartisan as its IRS filings say it is.
"What we want to see is a particular policy enacted," he said. "If a Republican does that, great. If it's a Democrat, great. ... Obviously one party is going to align with our philosophy more often than the other."
Bragdon denies that the center's policies are dictated by ideologies of the tea party or libertarianism.
"We're not anarchists," he said. "We're not anti-government, although we get labeled that by some extreme folks on the left."
Accusations of extremism
The center's pursuit of the electorate has been facilitated by its grass-roots activity. It has engaged local chambers of commerce and provided activist training that appeals to voters dissatisfied with the economy and government.
With Bragdon at the helm, the organization has also worked to engage the media, and its advisers have earned column space on newspaper opinion pages.
But critics say people influenced by the center might not be aware of its strict adherence to a free-market ideology or its connections on the far right.
Kit St. John, the executive director of the Maine Center for Economic Policy, a left-leaning nonprofit whose roots extend to 1993, said Bragdon's organization has no interest in improving government.
"Our suspicion is that they only want to denigrate government, take it apart," St. John said.
St. John also refutes Bragdon's claim that the center operates independent of extreme forces on the right, pointing to the inviting of GOP operatives including Grover Norquist to its events.
"We see their approach to be characterized by the famous quote from (Norquist)," St. John said. "He said he doesn't want to abolish government, he just wants to shrink it to a size that it can be drowned in a bathtub. That's an extreme statement."
Bragdon, who has several copies of Norquist's book "Leave Us Alone" in his Portland office, responded via e-mail, "(St. John) is quoting Mr. Norquist, known for his colorful comments, from 2001. He is not quoting me or The Maine Heritage Policy Center. Our mission is clear: We promote free-markets and limited government in Maine."
St. John also alleged that the center has engaged in promoting Republican candidates, a practice he believes violates its tax-exempt status.
According to IRS rules governing 501(c)3 organizations, the center is not allowed to participate in any "political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to a candidate."
However, the line is made famously vague by a provision allowing organizations to "educate" voters through outreach "if it's conducted in a nonpartisan manner."
Bragdon flatly denies that the center endorsed LePage during a July 6 luncheon also attended by Rubio.
"We did not endorse Mayor LePage, Marco Rubio, and any of the numerous other candidates or elected officials of both political parties who attend our events," Bragdon said. "We don't endorse candidates. Period."
Pushing the limits
Michael Franz, an associate professor of government at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, has noticed the policy center's willingness to engage in political elections, including the gubernatorial race. In addition to holding events in which LePage was a keynote speaker, Franz said he anticipates the center will attempt to steer voters through carefully crafted candidate evaluations on their website.
"They've been increasingly active in a wider variety of controversial issues," Franz said. "More than likely they're taking advantage of the lax regulatory environment in terms of how political they can be."
Franz referred to recent court decisions loosening rules on just how much nonprofits and corporations can get involved in elections.
"They're responding to the rules of the game," he said. "They would probably make the case that what they're doing is permissible within the First Amendment, which the courts have recently been amenable to."
Franz said the center is like other conservative groups "willing to push the limits for the strict reason that they don't believe those limits are just."
"For some people, that's a good thing," he said. "To them it's information to make informed decisions. For others, it's a way to influence decisions that takes the power out of the hands of voters."
Franz said the center's critics might feel more comfortable if they knew who was behind its funding, and by extension, its policy initiatives.
The sources of any nonprofit's donations are private, although some organizations disclose more information than others.
St. John's group, for example, publishes annual reports listing all of its donors. However, the donations are not itemized, making it impossible tell who gave how much.
Bragdon describes the policy center's donors in general terms. The organization's most recent IRS filing showed about $1.3 million in contributions. Bragdon said 50 percent came from competitive grants awarded by foundations that give to free-market think tanks.
The rest, he said, is from 1,300 individual donors and corporations, most from Maine.
Bragdon didn't specify which foundations awards the grants. However, the center belongs to the State Policy Association, which has links to Americans for Prosperity, the Heritage Foundation and the Mercatus Center, tentacles in the so-called Kochtopus.
Bragdon refused to say if Koch Industries or Americans for Prosperity helped fund the policy center.
"There's this myth that we're funded by a handful of really big corporations," he said. "That would be great if that were the case. It would make my life a lot easier than working with 1,300 individuals."
Bragdon said St. John's requests for the center to disclose donations are a double-standard.
"Why do folks on the left want to know so badly?" he asks. "To what end?"
The center has a history of shielding its funding sources. Following voter rejection of the first TABOR referendum in 2006, the organization attempted to withhold campaign finance reports associated with its lobbying efforts.
The state Ethics Commission eventually ruled that the group had acted as a ballot question committee, which is similar to a political action committee and subject to campaign finance disclosure law.
The center's subsequent filing, released under protest, didn't identify individual campaign contributors, just a withdrawal from its treasury.
In 2009, the center collaborated with Maine Leads on TABOR 2 and a ballot measure proposing dramatic cuts in motor vehicle excise tax. Despite receiving nearly $400,000 from three national organizations to push the ballot initiatives, Maine Leads never registered as a PAC.
The Ethics Commission eventually levied a fine of $10,000. According to Jonathan Wayne, the commission's executive director, he and his staff advocated for a higher penalty.
"We felt this was a sophisticated operation well aware of its requirements," Wayne said.
Maine Leads officially dissolved earlier this year with some staffers joining the policy center. Trevor Bragdon, Maine Leads' grass roots director, departed for Americans for Prosperity.
Rising influence
The Maine Heritage Policy Center was founded in 2002. It received the coveted 501.c.3 nonprofit status in 2004, allowing donors to write off contributions.
Over that period, the center's donor funding has increased more than sevenfold. The policy center's most recent IRS filings show donor contributions close to or exceeding those of MCEP, founded 17 years ago.
Although voters' 2009 rejection of TABOR 2 was decisive, the organization has since elevated its profile, frequently testifying on bills at the state Legislature and publishing policy papers on its website.
Bragdon, who describes himself, as a "recovering politician," said operating in the political realm was required to advance the center's agenda.
Its initiatives have not been tepid. In addition to playing a bit part in the successful effort to repeal the 2009 tax reform law – legislation Rep. John Piotti spearheaded – it has since tackled issues nationally and locally.
Recently, the center threatened to sue the city of Portland over its effort to regulate a 19-year-old man who was providing free taxi service on Peaks Island.
During the health-care debate, Bragdon co-authored an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal warning about the perils of the national health care bill. He's identified as the CEO of the policy center and an adjunct fellow with the Manhattan Institute, a free-market think tank whose board of directors includes Bill Kristol and other conservative icons.
Before becoming the center's CEO in 2008, Bragdon performed health-care policy analysis for the Empire Center, a Manhattan Institute offshoot.
Despite Bragdon's connections to the web of free-market institutes, the center's CEO insists most of his organization's work is done independently.
But the connection has riled the center's critics, who claim its goal is to dismantle government.
According to St. John, the maineopengov.com site, with its listing of state employee salaries, illustrates his point. St. John called the move a cynical hijacking of transparency to foster public mistrust in government.
"It was a showy show of transparency," St. John said.
Bragdon disagreed, pointing to the site's 100,000 unique visitors, many state employees.
"If publishing that information is uncomfortable for some reason, then there needs to be a conversation about why it's uncomfortable," he said.
Despite its critics on the left, the Maine Heritage Policy Center's anonymous funding sources don't seem to bother the right. In conservative blogs, Bragdon is often mentioned as a potential candidate for higher office. Bragdon, a father of four adopted children, all under age 4, said public office isn't a consideration, at least not now.
In the meantime, Bragdon said he's content pushing the center's philosophies into policy. He is confident the national health care law will be overturned and his group will work to make sure it is.
Despite its collaboration with high-profile conservative think tanks, he said he'll work with any party that advances the center's agenda.
"I don't like to fight," Bragdon said, "as much as I like to win."
Steve Mistler is the Statehouse reporter for the Sun Journal in Lewiston. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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EET330 - Teaching with New Technologies
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This unit focuses on developing students' awareness and understandings of the philosophical and practical implications of the use of digital technologies to support teaching and learning in schools. The unit also supports students to extend their ICT skills and to articulate how these skills are relevant to their emerging teaching philosophies and their future roles as classroom teachers. Assignments produced in this unit will contribute directly to students' professional portfolios.
Topics addressed in this unit include:
- Socio-cultural and historical understandings of educational technology
- The transformative potential of new technologies
- New digital technologies and emerging trends and possibilities
- Leveraging ubiquitous technologies
- Assessing and responding to risks associated with new technologies
Technologies in focus will include social software and emerging Web 2.0 applications, multimedia and digital learning objects, and classroom tools such as interactive whiteboards and tablet and handheld computers. This unit takes an interdisciplinary approach to developing students' professional digital literacies through: the hands-on development of operational skills; engagement with research on current and emerging practices; and, the development of a critical perspective grounded in students' own teaching goals and values.
Focus on skills 30%, 1200 words equivalent - An individual assignment, presented in digital form, and demonstrating operational skills learned.
Focus on application 40%, 1600 words equivalent - A group assignment, presented in digital form, focused on the pedagogical application of technology.
Focus on philosophy 30%, 1200 words equivalent - An individual assignment, presented in digital form, focused on your emerging teaching philosophy.
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PITTSBURGH, PA – Hilbert College suffered an 18-13 non-conference loss to La Roche College in men's lacrosse April 7. The RedHawks outscored the visiting Hawks in the first three quarters, holding a 15 – 7 lead going into the final session and then held on for their fifth win of the season.
Leading the way for Hilbert in the scoring column with three goals piece were Nick Cavalieri (one assist) and Elliot Russillio who each earned two grounds. Nick Kiefferalso chipped in two goals and three assists as well as 11 ground balls while he won 20 of the Hawks 33 face-offs. William Wagner went the full 60 minutes between the pipes making 17 saves.
La Roche outscored the Hawks by identical scores (6-3) each quarter in the first half. Offensive out-put slowed for both teams in the third quarter (3-1) before Hilbert held the point advantage (6-3) in the last fifteen minute session.
Hilbert was the stronger team in the circle winning 23 of the game's 33 face-offs, but La Roche held a ten shot advantage (47-37) and earned 15 more ground balls (51-35) to capture the win.
Hilbert returns to Hamburg for their next game against Wells College April 9 with a 4 pm face-off.
Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college's engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship, and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. The Hilbert Blueprint promotes a well-rounded student experience over four years – starting with the Foundations Seminar in the freshman year, followed by Sophomore Service, Junior Symposium, and culminating with the Senior Capstone. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college's first graduate programs and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.
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The New England House Historian will guide you through the adventure of discovering your historic home. Tips on research, resources and lots more!
Friday, October 1, 2010
The Top 10 Places to Find Old Photos of Your House
One of the funnest parts of researching the history of your house is viewing old photos of it from yesteryear. Old photos can reveal what color your house used to be and alert you to any alterations or additions that have been made. Here are some of the best places to look for photos.
1. Your Local Historical Society
When people clean out their parents' estates or move from town they often leave their archive of local photos at the town historical society. Your local society may have large collections of photos of homes and buildings in your town through the years.
Arcadia Publishing puts out several series of local history books most of which are photographically based. The Images of America series features old photos of individual towns and cities. Many towns in New England have books specific to them. You will find many photos of old homes in the series and many even find a photo of yours! These are often for sale at your historical society or can be viewed at your library.
3. Neighbors
New to town and looking for photos of your house? Check with your neighbors. Maybe they didn't set out to take a photo of your house but they might just have one anyway. Photos could have been taken of the neighborhood kids or from a neighborhood block party and your house could be in the background. See who has lived in your neighborhood the longest and ask them to check their photo albums.
4. Former Owners
The people who used to live in your home are very likely to have old photos of your house. The trick is tracking them or their children or grandchildren down to get copies of the photos. Do a little detective work or ask your neighbors for contact information. Send them a polite and non-intrusive letter to ask for the photos. Be sure to offer to pay for copies if they can't make scans.
5. The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)
If you have an older, significant house there may be a photo available on the HABS section of the Library of Congress website. HABS originated as a Works Project Administration effort to put architects and photographers to work by surveying historical homes in the 1930s. Each HABS file includes a photo or schematic which will show you what your home looked many years ago.
6. Local History Books
Don't rely on just old photo books for images of your house. Local history books, whether specific to your town or county, may also have images or drawings of your home from years ago. Peruse the local history section of your library stacks to find these books, some of which were published in the late 1800s.
7. Local Library History Room
Some libraries have their own local history rooms set aside for historical town collections. You could go to your library for years and not know that they have a local history room if you've never asked. Often these rooms are locked and require sign in. The local history room can contain many different types of collections including, old newspapers, tax records, and old photos.
8. Old Newspapers
It might take a bit more work if there isn't an index available but old newspapers can provide old photos of your house too. Is your house located near the town center? Your home could be featured in photographs of town parades or highlights of holiday decorations on the Fourth of July, Halloween or Christmas. If you live in an area that floods your house could be featured in an expose after a 100 year flood.
9. Real Estate Listing Sheets and Ads
If your house has been sold a number of times in the past 20 years there may be lots of old photos of your home. Check with a local real estate agent and ask them to print out the listing sheets for all the previous sales of your home. Keep in mind that listings have only been computerized in the last 10 years or so. However, some historical societies (Dover, MA for example) have files of printed copies of listings that can go back earlier. Also, before computers, advertisements, sometimes even full page, were taken out in local magazines and newspapers. These could also be good sources for old photos of your house.
10. Historical Commission Survey Sheets
During the 1970s and 1980s local historical commissions started surveying the historical properties in each town. Most survey forms include a photograph. Check your local library for a copy of the survey sheets. If you can find them, check with the state historical commission or preservation office.
Having success finding old photos of your house? Send me a note and let me know. I would love to hear your stories of where you found them and how old the photos are.
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I have found several ancestral homes in the HABS website. I didn't know about it until the curator of Washington Place in Honolulu recommended it. I find something interesting to look at here everytime I check it out!ReplyDelete
- Jeff EmidyOctober 1, 2010 at 4:52 PM
One more resource (though probably legitimately left out of the Top 10): your local department of public works or similar. Some departments have, for a long time, documented their work (roads, bridges, sewer pipes, water lines, etc.) with photographs. While they will be focused on what's going on in the street, your house may show up in the background. When I was in grad school at UVM, the school had a huge photo archive which they acquired from the city of roads projects photos from the 1920s-1940s. Good stuff. Oh, and if you live next to a school, check with the school department.ReplyDelete
I recently found an old photo of the house my mother grew up in (and in which I lived as a teen)--in a book about my hometown, selling on Amazon. Found the photo on a preview page. Will surely order the book for myself and family members for Christmas this year!ReplyDelete
I'm finding it seemingly impossible to find photos of my home. The main family living in the home had a common last name and the last member living here died in the 1950's. Succeeding owners were older couples. The previous owner before us lived here for 20 years and did not change the home all too much. Our home is listed in the HABS database without a photo. Our local library is void of information, so is the historical society. Local history books don't show our street. It is quite frustrating. The only thing we have is the neighbor who's been living across the street since 1959 but she has no photos of our home either, just small stories, which I am not complaining about.ReplyDeleteReplies
What county and state is the house in? Perhaps I can come up with some suggestions for you.
Thank you for the offer. We are located in Hartford County, Connecticut. Our home was built in 1760 +/-. There is a photo at the historical society that was faxed, copied, faxed... distorted etc. and apart of a file for historic properties in our town. Though the photo was taken only 10 years ago when our street was placed on the national register. The photo was used to identify this home, among many others, for the creation of the Historic District. As far as older photos, perhaps the occupants were not famous enough to be noteworthy of a photograph. Even though two of them were representatives to the State Legislature.
It may also help to look in the city tax records. Some cities still have these files on records while others have turned them over to a public library or historical society. Sadly some cities simply dispose of them.ReplyDelete
We are having a similar problem. Our home in Canon City, CO was built in 1898 and to us should be extremely noteworthy. The architect was VERY well known, having designed many notable homes in town (2 mansions). Our home is in the Historical District, although not yet listed. The 1st occupants of our home was a state senator and his wife, who was a local artisan and has several painting on permanent exhibit here at the Center for the Arts. We can't find ANY photographic evidence of our home prior to 1990.ReplyDelete
Not sure where to look now. Historical society has plenty of written information, but zero photographs.


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