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MIAMI-DADE, Fla.and BROWARD, Fla., Jan. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Freddie Mac, the CNC and the Urban League of Broward County have joined forces to reach out to the Miami-Dade community and Broward communities focusing on foreclosure prevention and creating homeownership possibilities. CNC and The Urban League of Broward will be hosting consecutive press conference breakfast kick-offs to launch the Take Root South Florida initiative. This initiative is a marketing campaign to help mitigate the negative effects of foreclosure and abandonment in our community. Take Root South Florida is designed to be a valuable resource that provides free or low-cost, reliable and trustworthy assistance to help you purchase a new home or keep your current home. A variety of local experts have been gathered and made accessible to our local community specifically to provide support in stabilizing families and neighborhoods by simply dialing "211."
The program kicked off last year in Palm Beach County (West Palm Beach, FL) with great success, led by The Housing Leadership Council of Palm Beach County (HLC) which is a non-profit organization with a core of business, civic and community leaders working to sustain the economic viability of the area by ensuring that housing is attainable for the workforce at all income levels. HLC accomplishes this through a multifaceted approach including partnership/collaboration building, information & education, public policy, and housing studies, research and data collection/analysis. Their vision aligns with CNC and The Urban League of Broward County. That is, strive to ensure all the workforce has housing that is affordable, attainable, appropriate and sustainable.
"As part of our efforts we are launching the Take Root South Florida campaign to preserve and promote sustainable, diverse neighborhoods by encouraging and maintaining sustainable homeownership," said Sonia Lopez, President and CEO of CNC.
"Take Root South Florida is an outreach and marketing campaign which will seek to provide education, information and referral services in order to market two key concepts in stabilization: 'Keep Your Home' and 'Buy A Home.' The 'Keep Your Home' concept will be an outreach effort to individuals in danger of losing their home to foreclosure who need information and options. 'Buy a Home' is targeted to renters and potential first time buyers that can take advantage of the hundreds of millions of dollars in stimulus money designed to encourage owner occupancy in neighborhoods," added Dr. Germaine Smith-Baugh, ED.D Urban League of Broward County.
"We believe fear and uncertainty may still be keeping too many borrowers from getting the help they're qualified to receive," says Christina Diaz Malone, Vice President of Corporate Relations and Housing Outreach, Freddie Mac. "We are proud to launch Take Root South Florida with CNC and the Urban League of Broward County. Because both are trusted and valued resources, Take Root South Florida can reduce the chance of South Floridians losing their homes because they didn't know who to call and trust."
For so many families, life is a daily struggle.Karen Lanthier has heard the stories first-hand.A housing counselor, Lanthier has helped countless families navigate the housing crisis.It is difficult. Often complicated.
"We have a great majority of people who have been unemployed or underemployed and that has had a terrific impact on the way they've been able to manage their finances," she said. Help is out there. But it's often hard to find.
That's whereTake Root South Floridacomes in. It is a campaign lead by HLC that has set out to help families and stabilize neighborhoods. "This really is the 911 for the housing crisis. This is the call you make to get help," said Suzanne Cabrera President and CEO of the Housing Leadership Council. It works with a simple premise.
"For one thing, we're giving reliable information and really taking the confusion out of the programs that are out there. It's one call. It's one source to get all the help you need to save your home," Cabrera said. It's that easy. A single phone call to '211' that puts tens of thousands of families in touch with the help they need."
According to Lanthier, "There are reputable places they can go. There are free services for most families." Lanthier has seen the struggles. "It's really going to help a lot of people who have been misinformed. Help that can turn things around."
The first event will be held on Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 8:30 a.m. at CNC hosted by our co-sponsors at the United Way of Miami 3250 SW 3rd Ave, Miami, FL. 33129. The second event will be held on Friday, January 18th at 8:30am at The Urban League of Broward County 560 Northwest 27th AvenueFort Lauderdale, FL 33311. Guests include but not limited to: media, press, local government, nonprofit housing counselors, local business community, realtors, lenders and other housing stakeholders. Part of CNC's goal and the Urban League of Broward County is reducing the number of residents facing foreclosure by partnering with lending institutions to offer loan modifications/refinancing and other strategies to keep them in their homes. Their objective also entails promoting financial literacy in our community by conducting workshops to inform and educate our residents and also to empower residents who need one-on-one counseling to address their credit issues.
There will be a multi-media campaign launch to help further educate our communities beginning February 2013 by Carnegie Communications, Ft. Lauderdale Fl. 33309 .A division of the Carnegie Group. http://www.thecarnegiegroup.com/
Media inquiries:
CNC please contact: Addamys Lopez, email@example.com, 305-642-3484 x111
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Head coach Linda Sagnelli has announced the addition of three student-athletes to the Central Connecticut volleyball program for the Fall of 2013. Nicole Dean, Brooke Schwab and Cassidy Stankowski have committed to the Blue Devils and will join the CCSU Class of 2017.
"I am pleased to have these three outstanding student-athletes join our program," Sagnelli said following the return of the student-athletes' national letters of intent. "Their abilities and competitiveness will help us continue to challenge for the NEC Championship on the court and their academic prowess will help us maintain our proud tradition of academic excellence in the classroom."
The Blue Devils finished the 2012 season as the runner-up at the Northeast Conference Championship. CCSU finished the season with an 18-13 record. The squad's 12-4 mark in NEC action earned the team a third place finish in the regular season and a 10th consecutive NEC Tournament berth.
Sagnelli added, "We are thrilled to have these three quality student-athletes become part of our Blue Devil family."
Dean is a 5-11 outside hitter from Almont, Michigan. In addition to playing for Almont High School she also played for the Michigan Elite Volleyball Academy. Dean earned MIVCA Class B Third Team All-State honors, First Team All-Region honors, and Academic All-State honors. She earned Blue Water Area Conference First Team All-Conference honors and was the conference's MVP in 2012. She also earned four straight Academic First Team selections from the BWAC. The Tri-City Times named Dean First Team All-Area and honored her as Athlete of the Week during the season.
Coach Sagnelli on Dean: "A physical outside hitter with a great jump. As she develops she could establish herself as one of the top outside hitters in the conference. An All-State player in Michigan whose impact will be felt right away."
Dean on CCSU: "I love CCSU's coaching staff, players, and campus. Everything about CCSU is a perfect fit, and I am so excited to continue my volleyball and academic career as a Blue Devil!"
Schwab is a 6-1 middle blocker from Beaverton, Oregon. She played high school volleyball for Beaverton and played on the club team T.E.A.M. Hiki No. Schwab earned four varsity letters in volleyball and earned three All-Metro honors. As a senior, Schwab was named to the First Team All-Metro and helped her team to a CEVA Regional Championship. During her career she also earned her team's MVP honor as a junior and the Coach's Award as a senior.
Coach Sagnelli on Schwab: "A talented middle with a long reach and good jump. Travels the net well defensively and will help to strengthen our team blocking. She will be able to put pressure on our opponents because of her ability to hit multiple sets."
Schwab on CCSU: "I chose CCSU because I felt that the volleyball program, led by phenomenal coaches, was a great fit for me; as well as Central Connecticut's outstanding academic offerings. I am eagerly looking forward to my future as a Blue Devil."
Stankowski is a 5-8 outside hitter from Deerfield, Massachusetts. She played her high school volleyball at Frontier Regional and played for the club team Pioneer Valley Juniors. Stankowski helped her team to three Massachusetts State Championships and in the process earned herself four All-State selections and was selected as the Massachusetts Gatorade Player of the Year for volleyball. She also earned an Under Armour All-America Honorable Mention. Stankowski earned player of the year honors from three different newspapers and was named athlete of the week by 22 News and ABC 40. She also earned five All-Western Massachusetts selections and helped her team to six Western Massachusetts Championships.
Coach Sagnelli on Stankowski: "A player who comes in with three state championships under her belt. A very talented, all-around player who will be relied on to contribute to our ball control. One of the top players in New England and our first Under Armor High School All-America Honorable Mention recruit. Very versatile on offense and an exceptional athlete."
Stankowski on CCSU: "Close enough to home, with friendly, caring people and it's right where I belong."


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McMovie: Bulking up with Ronald
Everything's super in the summer: superstars playing superheroes in superbudgeted supermovies that often turn out to be superdisappointments.
The most super movie of Summer 2004 may turn out to be a low-budget, video-shot documentary about Americans' eating habits: Super Size Me.
Morgan Spurlock gives Michael Moore competition in the area of documentaries that entertain, inform, and inflame. Spurlock is less abrasive than Moore or Showtime's Penn & Teller (though you may not think so if you own a fast food franchise) but he's still able to have fun with a serious subject.
He begins with statistics about the growing problem of obesity in America (60 percent of Americans are overweight or obese, obesity is second only to smoking among preventable causes of death in America) and our dependence on fast food, which a quarter of the population eats every day.
A Frenchwoman notes that a "small" soft drink at McDonald's here is equal to a "large" in her country (and you thought the only difference is that they call it "le Big Mac"!). Spurlock points out that today's "small" was the only size offered when McDonald's first opened.
Putting his mouth where his mouth is, Spurlock embarks on an experiment to eat nothing for 30 days he can't buy at McDonald's, to eat three meals a day there and to try everything on the menu at least once; and not to "supersize" unless the option is offered to him.
With the grudging support but not blessing of his girlfriend, a vegan chef, and a cadre of doctors, Spurlock has himself measured and tested before he starts and monitored periodically during the McMonth. He goes from 185.5 to 210 pounds and 11 to 18 percent body fat. His cholesterol climbs from 168 to 230 and his liver goes to hell along with his sex life. He's tired and has wild mood swings.
Being on camera may make Spurlock a bit of a drama queen in discussing his symptoms, and it's not clear why the Double Cheeseburger Meal makes him puke his guts out on the second day.
While the experiment is going on, Spurlock looks at a smorgasbord of nutrition-related issues, from litigants blaming McDonald's for their obesity to surgical options to the junk food in the school lunch program and the lack of mandatory phys ed for school kids.
Among the people we meet are Subway spokesperson and former fatty Jared Fogle and Big Mac enthusiast Don Gorske, who looks reasonably trim and healthy after consuming 19,000 of the sandwiches on sesame seed buns.
Texas gets a bad rap for its super size reputation and the fact that five of the top 15 fattest cities in American are located there. Houston, number one at the time of filming, has since been passed by Detroit.
A case is made for making more information about nutritional content available, but I would argue there's already more than the average American can wade through. What we need is a simple rating system, perhaps on a 10 scale, for a food item's overall healthiness, followed by a list of the areas which earned it negative points.
The next danger is that the seemingly inevitable success of Super Size Me will swell Spurlock's head the way McDonald's food did his stomach and he'll be a lot more obnoxious in future efforts.
Or he may become an opportunist and lend his name to a line of health foods, vitamins, etc., effectively becoming the next Dr. Atkins. Overeating isn't the only trait Americans are known for.


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I'm feeling a bit dumb at the moment...
It would seem to run poco's connections through a proxy server I would simply need to enter the proxy's data under the "Network Settings" of the "Options" menu, correct?
No matter what I enter, it seems Poco ignores it. I've tried entering nonsense numbers and characters as a test and Pocomail connects and successfully downloads my mail...am I missing something?
I'd like to make sure my network traffic is running through my proxy and not my default connection.
I appreciate any insight into this and hopefully, I'm just missing something stupid.


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Academics / Courses / DescriptionsCOMP_SCI 457: Advanced Algorithms
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PrerequisitesCOMP_SCI 336 or any algorithms course
CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Design and analysis of advanced algorithms: graph algorithms; maximal network flows; min-cost flow algorithms; convex cost flows.
REQUIRED TEXT: R. K. Ahuja, T. L. Magnanti, and J. B. Orlin, Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications, Prentice Hall, 1993
COURSE DIRECTOR: Hai Zhou
COURSE GOALS: This course will cover the theoretical aspects of algorithm design and analysis. Starting with a matching problem, we will first discuss the three central tasks of algorithm design: correctness, termination, and efficiency. Following a similar design process, we will design efficient algorithms for a sequence of problems: shortest paths, minimal cycle ratios, maximal network flows, min-cost flows, and convex cost flows. Besides allowing students to understand those data structures and algorithms, a main goal of this course is to improve the problem solving capabilities of the students. Therefore, if possible, we will study together how each efficient algorithm is designed.
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A Haunting Good Time
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That is a great insight.
I agree totally with you on that too.
Aubrey Huff was searching for a winner. Pat Burrell was cast off by my Rays into oblivion and found a home.
Josh Hamilton was lost in an abyss and found his way back to not only life, but the Major Leagues.
Cody Ross…..well, the list can go on and on….
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I think this world series at Halloween is very fitting, considering all the players who's careers were presumed dead as they were cast away by some clubs….
I remember you telling me about the haunted spots in St. Pete, especially the Vinoy since I was staying there. I swear I saw a ghost in our room one night – this creepy figure that I chalked up to my imagination. Maybe it/he was a Yankee!
There are actually a few spectors that have been known to " visit" people during their stays at the Vinoy.
But saddly for you, non are Yankees at this time.
I have stayws a few times in the Vinoy and have had one experience myself in Room 521.
Rays Renegade
I'm a skeptic. I need proof to believe in stuff like this, but I understand the appeal. Nice twist with the baseball background. At least it's more interesting ;-)
I am not a skeptic at all. When I was 8 years old I stepped on a live electrical cable during Hurricane Barbara while helping my Father tow out cars in the sands off Sunset Beach, Florida.
I had a weird experience that day that I attribute to near-death and it made me at least accept the fact there might be something else.
There ismore baseball-basedhistory here than just those few, but I know of about 15 cases of baseball players getting freaked out at the Vinoy, and maybe Iwill tell the whole story of the Huggins-Stengel complex sometime this offseason.
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Home Page Chess Life Magazine 2014 May The May Check is in the Mail
|The May Check is in the Mail
|By Alex Dunne
|May 4, 2014
Daniel Woodard tops 2007 GN
Daniel Woodard, winner of the Game of the Year Award for 2013 (See February 2014 issue) has won the 2007 Golden Knights. Daniel is 70 years old and began playing in 1958 with the help of some Fred Reinfeld books, He began playing postal in 1975 but had to give it up due to a heavy work load. He came back to postal play in 1998 playing in USCF, CCLA, and in 2011, ICCF Veterans World Cups.
Daniel, of Las Vegas, Nevada, gambles away a Pawn in the opening for the initiative. Or is it an investment? Whichever, the initiative stays with the Black pieces for a long time.
1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3 Bb4 5.Nd5
The usual continuation here is 5. Bg2. The text is very aggressive and tricky
This aggressive action has been largely replaced by 5...Bc5. Woodard has a different opinion as to the value of this move.
6.Nh4 0-0
6. ... Bc5 7. Bg2 d6 8. 00 00 9. Nxf6+ Qxf6 10. Bxe4 Walters-Greene, 2009 Absolute when Black has some compensation for ther Pawn, but White won.
7.Bg2 Bc5
7...Re8 led to a slaughter after 8. 00 Bc5 9. e3 g5 10, Nf5 d6 11. Ne7+ Rxe7 12. Nxf6+ Kg7 13, Ne4 Bf5 14. Nc3 Vacher Legrave - Meins, Biel 2002
Safer is 8. 00 Re8 9. e3 d6 10. f3 Libiszewski-Naumkin, Maremman 2013, destroying the foundation of Black's attack with chances for a White advantage.
8...d6 9.Nxf6+ Qxf6 10.Bxe4 Re8 11.Bxc6 bxc6 12.0-0 d5
This is a Woodard TN. Both 12...Be6 13. d4 Bb6 14. b3 Bh3 15. Ng2 Veceu-Petruzzelli, ICCF 2012 and 12...Bh3 13. Ng2 a5 14. d4 Bd6 15. c5 Bf8 16. Bd2 g6 17. Re1 Solares-Malo Guillen, Zaragoza 1997 have failed to produce anthing for Black.
13.d4 Bf8 14.cxd5 cxd5 15.Qf3 Qe6 16.Ng2 c6
White's extra Pawn in this position is not enough to give him a plus..
17.Bd2 Rb8 18.Bc3 Ba6 19.Rfd1 g5!
Restricting White's Knight but not weakening Black's King's position.
20.Qh5 h6 21.Rd2 Qf6 22.Rad1 Re6 23.h3
This passive move cannot be helpful to White.
23...Qf5 24.Ne1 Rf6 25.Qg4 Qg6 26.Nd3 h5 27.Qe2
It was better to keep White's pieces active with 27. Qd7.
27...Re8 28.Ba5 Bd6 29.Rc1 Qf5
With all Black's pieces active and looking at the White King, White is desperate for activity.
30.Rxc6!? Bb5 31.Rc3
White is tiring of being strait-jacketed but 31. Rcc2 was better.
31...Qxh3 32.Qf1
Naturally 32. Bc7 is met by 37...Bb4 with advantage to Black.
Black could play 32...Qxf1+ 33. Kxf1 Rxe3 34. Kg2 Re4 with even material and a slight edge, but he prefers to keep to pressure on.
33.Qg2 Bxd3 34.Rdxd3 h4!
The attack begun with 19...g5! comes to life as White's pieces are poorly situated to help defend the King.
35.gxh4 Rh6 36.f4 Kh8!
A crushing conclusion. White has no defense.
37.hxg5 Rh4 38.e4 Rxe4 0-1
Spencer Kell took second place. Spencer is currently down to one postal game after which he plans to retire. He has had a long and distinguished career in postal play:
1-3 rd tie in the 1979 Golden Knights, second in the CCLA 51st Grand National, the ICCM title was awarded to him in 1999.
Spencer also played fourth board in the Afrotain Cup.
Here Spencer defeats Alfredo Nunez with a decisive Kingside attack after winning two pieces for a Rook.
Daniel Woodard 42.35
Spencer Kell 41.30
Thomas Langland 40.60
Gary Adams 36.90
Barry Walker 36.75
Lee Kemfort 36.70
Randy Cook 36.15
Chuck Cullum 36.10
Edward Addis 34.65
Laurence Bonsack 34.45
Dana Daves 33.35
James Ellis 31.15
Alfredo Nunez 30.75
Leo Bonnell 30.65
Gregory Cross 30.50
Stephen Fairbairn 29.55
Walter Howard 29.50
James Anderson 28.50
Abe Wilson 26.60
Michael Calogridis 25.65
Joel Robinson 20.00
James Ellis 19.90
Carlos Molina 19.90
David Porter 17.65
William Perez 16.00
Menahem Ovadya 15.90
Barry Walker 14.90
2014 Absolute Roster
The 2014 Absolute is underway. The contestants are Harry Ingersol 2417, Daniel Woodard 2395, David Sogin 2386, Anthony Kain 2381, Chris Torres 2375, Keith Rodriguez 2363, Robert Fass 2351, Danny Horwitz 2322, Kristo Miettinen 2309, Gordon Magat 2305, Dana Daves 2289, Charles Jacobs 2259, and James Rhodes 2250.
John Collins
Kenneth Langstraat 13C09 6-0
John Galvin 11C22 6-0
Tim Rutledge 12C15 5-1
Thomas Buchanan 12C15 5-1
Walter Muir
John Davis 13W15 6-0
Gregory Sanders 13W19 5-1
Edward Schweikert 13W43 5-1
David Wright 13W47 4-2
Errol Acosta 13W47 4-2
Swift Quad
Nathaniel Wood 13SQ03 6-0
Mark Stephenson notes that he is not a board's on fire: kind of player. Here is an example of a board's on fire kind of game.
11P05 Palciauskas Tournament
Joel Levine of Commack, New York, won the 2011 Palciauskas tournament with an unbeaten 5 ½-½ score duplicating his effort in the 2008 Palciauskas.
John Galvin takes 11C22
John Galvin has added another tournament to his name. Last month he won a Master level Swift Quad. This month he dominates a Master level John Collins.
Jack Shaw of Phoenix, Arizona, has died. Jack was a prolific player at one time carrying a 2100+ rating.
An excellent defensive stance by Walker is translated into a winning endgame.
Take my pieces, please ! Daniel Woodard sacrifices his Queen for three pieces and then gives most of those pieces back.
The White pieces take turns in this game: First the Rooks, then the Bishops, and then the Pawns.
QUEEN's GAMBIT DECLINED (D37)
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Those Angry Days
Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight over World War II, 1939-1941
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Lynne Olson traces the crisis period leading up to America entering World War II, describing the nation's polarized interventionist and isolationist factions as represented by the government, in the press and on the streets.
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Excerpt: Those Angry Days
By the summer of 1941, morale in the U.S. Army had sunk to rock bottom. Young men drafted the previous year talked of going AWOL; some even raised the possibility of mutiny. In a camp in Mississippi, soldiers watching a newsreel booed loudly when images of President Roosevelt and Gen. George Marshall flashed on the screen.
Here the draftees were, digging latrines, peeling potatoes, and endlessly drilling, all for a measly thirty dollars a month, while friends back home were earning six and seven times that much in defense factory jobs. And for what? There was no war, and despite what the president said in his May 27 speech, there didn't appear to be a national emergency either. Anyone with eyes could see that life was proceeding as usual outside the training camps. "Where is this crisis?' one draftee grumbled. " All I see are people with more dough than they had before and more dough for the guys who've already got it." Why should he and the others have to make sacrifices when no one else had to? In fact, why the hell were they there?
No one seemed to know. "As far as the men can see," Life noted, "the Army has no goal. It does not know whether it is going to fight, or when or where. If the U.S. political leaders have set any military objective, they have not made it clear to the Army. This is reflected in the training, which is not geared to any real military situation."
The country's faltering defense mobilization program revealed the same lack of direction. Roosevelt continued to refuse to appoint a czar of war production, and administration of the effort remained chaotic. Bitter conflict had erupted everywhere. Defense industries were plagued by strikes and shortages. Government bureaucrats clashed with businessmen brought to Washington to help direct the mobilization effort. Army, Navy, and Air Corps officials fought with each other to get a bigger slice of the procurement pie. As Attorney General Francis Biddle observed, the bickering "gave the country a sense of disunity and a feeling that the administration did not know where it was going."
In August, the editors of Fortune reported that America was "not merely falling short" in becoming the arsenal of democracy that Roosevelt had envisaged; it was "failing spectacularly, in nine different ways and nine different places." Among the problems, the magazine said, was the fact that Americans had "not yet been asked to do what is necessary to win."
The key question was, as it had been for months: what was the country's key objective in this fight? Was it solely a defense of the Americas — or was it active participation in the war? Whatever it was, "the people at the top better damn quick give us something we can sink our teeth in, believe in — before it's too late," one soldier declared.
An anxious Henry Stimson had begun to wonder if it wasn't already too late. "Tonight I feel more up against it than ever before," he wrote in his diary in early July. "It is not clear whether this country has it in itself to meet such an emergency. Whether we are really powerful enough and sincere enough and devoted enough to meet the Germans is getting to be more and more of a real problem."
According to polls, a majority of Americans continued to hold what seemed, at first glance, diametrically opposite views of what their country's role should be. In one Gallup survey, three-quarters of those questioned said yes when asked whether they favored going to war if there was no other way to defeat the Axis. Eighty percent said they thought the United States would have to go to war eventually. Yet, when asked if the country should enter the conflict now, an identical eighty percent said no.
These opinions, however, were not as contradictory as they appeared. Understandably, Americans were reluctant to plunge into war unless and until they felt it was necessary. And, so far, they were not convinced it was. According to Stimson and other interventionists, it was the president's obligation to connect the dots for the American people, to persuade them that in order to defeat Hitler, the United States must take bold action now. If only he would lead, they said, the people would follow.
From Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 by Lynne Olson. Copyright 2013 by Lynne Olson. Excerpted by permission of Random House.
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Olson / THOSE ANGRY DAYS
Chapter 1
"A Modern Galahad"
The cab stopped in front of the Smithsonian's Arts and Industries Building and Charles Lindbergh stepped out. He stared for a moment at the Victorian-era museum, with its turrets and multicolored brick facade, then strolled around its perimeter, hoping to find a side door. Seeing none, he returned to the front entrance, considering how to slip past the tourists outside without being recognized.
By now, avoiding public attention was as natural to Lindbergh as breathing. He put his head down, covered his nose with a handkerchief, blew into it—and walked into the museum unnoticed. Once inside, he ducked into the first room on the right, which featured a display of dresses worn by the nation's First Ladies, and stationed himself by the salmon-pink silk gown that once belonged to Martha Washington. From there he had a perfect view of the Spirit of St. Louis, hanging from the ceiling in the main hall.
It was March 1940, and Europe was at war. Lindbergh was at the epicenter of the struggle over America's role in the conflict. But for almost an hour that day, he took time out from the frenzy of the present to find refuge in the past. Lost in reverie, the lanky blond aviator gazed at the Spirit of St. Louis, suspended by cables above the tourists staring up at it. He had long felt a mystical closeness to this tiny silver plane. When he landed in Paris on May 21, 1927, at the end of the first solo transatlantic flight in history, his first thought had been how to protect it from the hordes of frenzied Frenchmen racing across the field to greet him.
To Lindbergh, the Spirit was "a living creature," with whom he had shared a transcendent experience and whose loyalty to him was unquestioned. In his mind, they were inseparably linked: he always referred to the plane and himself as "we." (Indeed, We was the title of the first of two books he wrote about the flight.) More than once in recent years, he dreamed he had crept into the Smithsonian at night, cut the Spirit down, transported it to an airstrip, and taken off. Once aloft—away from his troubled, complicated life—he experienced nothing but joy. He could ride the sky "like a god . . . I could dive at a peak; I could touch a cloud; I could climb far above them all. This hour was mine, free of the earth."
A supremely rational, practical man by nature, he was unex- pectedly lyrical, even fanciful, when he later described his visit to the Smithsonian in his journal. He noted the kinship he felt with the mannequin representing Martha Washington as they studied the Spirit together: "I rather envied her the constant intimacy with the plane that I once had."
But then, he wrote, he suddenly noticed two young women staring at him. He was well acquainted with that look. Not quite certain it was him, they soon would come closer to find out. Up to that point, it had been a wonderful visit: just him, Martha, and the Spirit of St. Louis. Determined to preserve the enchantment of the moment, he spun around and walked out.
when the twenty-five-year-old Lindbergh touched down at Paris's Le Bourget airfield on that late spring evening in 1927, there was so much awaiting him, his wife later observed: "Fame—Opportunity—Wealth, and also tragedy & loneliness & frustration. . . . And he so innocent & unaware." Several decades after the flight, the Lindberghs' daughter Reeve mused: "Sometimes . . . I wonder whether he would have turned back if he'd known the life he was headed for."
Although his flight had attracted considerable attention even before he'd taken off, Lindbergh was convinced that any fame that followed would swiftly vanish. Soon after he arrived in France, he presented letters of introduction to Myron Herrick, the U.S. ambassador, unsure whether Herrick even knew who he was. He had no inkling of the remarkable international response to what had been, in essence, a stunt flight—a stunt that the press and public, especially in America, had transformed into something infinitely more.
The New York Evening World, for example, had made the aston- ishing declaration that Lindbergh had performed "the greatest feat of a solitary man in the records of the human race." The day after the flight, the usually staid New York Times, under the banner headline lindbergh does it!, devoted its entire front page and four more pages inside to stories about the young airman and his triumph.
In hindsight, the reason for the extraordinary reaction was clear: America, nearing the end of a decade marked by cynicism, disillusionment, and political apathy, badly needed a hero. As one historian put it, Lindbergh became "a modern Galahad for a generation which had forsworn Galahads."
The 1920s in America had been a feverish time, noted for government corruption and graft, a spectacular boom in the stock market, organized crime on an unprecedented scale, a widespread rebellion against convention, the loss of idealism, and an emphasis on enjoying oneself. All this was fodder for the country's booming mass-circulation tabloid newspapers, which specialized in prodigious coverage of the latest national sensation, be it a murder trial, a heavyweight boxing match, or a dramatic but failed attempt to rescue a man lost in a Kentucky cave. Under heavy competitive pressure, the other, more respectable newspapers more often than not followed the tabloids' lead, as did the national magazines and a mass media newcomer called radio.
In early 1927, the media, insatiable as ever, had shifted their focus to the $25,000 prize offered by Raymond Orteig, a wealthy French-born businessman living in Manhattan, to whoever made the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris (or vice versa). Although several airmen had already failed—and died—in the attempt, a new crop of aviators had recently announced plans to enter the competition. Most were well known, with expensive, technologically advanced planes, considerable outside financial backing, and armies of assistants, including staffers whose sole job was to publicize their bosses' participation. And then there was Charles Lindbergh, an unknown, virtually penniless airmail pilot from Minnesota who managed to scrounge just enough funds from a group of St. Louis businessmen to finance the construction of a stripped-down little plane he named Spirit of St. Louis, in honor of his benefactors.
To aviation experts, Lindbergh's plan appeared more than quixotic; it seemed suicidal. Never having flown over any large body of water before, he would now try to cross the Atlantic, steering by the stars, a method of navigation relatively unfamiliar to him. He would carry neither parachute nor radio. Even more foolhardy, he planned to make the thirty-three-plus-hour flight alone. No one had ever attempted such a hazardous journey solo; as one wit noted, not even Columbus had sailed by himself. Lloyd's of London, which issued odds on virtually any enterprise, regardless of its danger, refused to do so for Lindbergh's venture. "The underwriters believe the risk is too great," a Lloyd's spokesman declared.
America has always loved an underdog, especially one as polite, unassuming, self-disciplined, and boyishly handsome as Lindbergh— a stark contrast to the bootleggers, gangsters, playboys, arrogant bankers, dizzy flappers, and corrupt government officials who made up a sizable percentage of the era's top newsmakers. It was not surprising, then, that when he took off from Long Island's rain-slick Roosevelt Field in the early morning of May 20, 1927, the entire nation anxiously followed his progress. Newspapers throughout the country printed extra editions, and radio broadcasts issued frequent flash bulletins. During a prizefight at Yankee Stadium, forty thousand people, at the urging of the announcer, rose as one and prayed silently for the young flier. In his May 21 newspaper column, the humorist Will Rogers wrote: "No attempt at jokes today. A slim, tall, bashful, smiling American boy is somewhere over the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, where no lone human being has ever ventured before."
When word came that Lindbergh had made it, America went mad. "We measure heroes as we do ships, by their displacement," said Charles Evans Hughes, soon to be chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. "Colonel Lindbergh has displaced everything." President Coolidge dispatched an admiral's flagship to Europe to bring Lindbergh and the Spirit home. In Washington, the president presented him with the Congressional Medal of Honor and Distinguished Flying Cross. In New York, more than four million people—75 percent of the city's population—lined its streets to honor Lindbergh in the biggest ticker-tape parade in New York's history. A few months later, Time magazine named him its first "Man of the Year."
After his tumultuous homecoming, Lindbergh spent three months touring all forty-eight states in the Spirit. An estimated thirty million people flocked to see this new national idol, labeled a "demigod" by one newspaperman; wherever he appeared, huge crowds fought to get near him. Intensely uncomfortable with the adulation, Lindbergh sought to use his fame to increase public interest in commercial aviation. Instead of accepting the millions of dollars he was offered to endorse products or appear in movies, he became a technical adviser to two start-up airlines—Pan American Airways and TAT, which eventually became Transcontinental and Western Air and ultimately Trans World Airlines (TWA). Working with both to help establish passenger service, he flew all over the country and later the world, surveying possible air routes, testing planes, and playing a key role in creating the first modern airports.
Try as he might, however, this intensely reserved, solitary man was unable to reclaim his privacy and restore equilibrium to his life. His engaging modesty, coupled with his refusal to capitalize financially on his celebrity, only whetted his countrymen's appetite for more information about him. "In his flight, and even more in his fame, he proved that personal heroism, decency, and dignity were yet possible in the world," wrote Kenneth S. Davis, a Lindbergh biographer. Americans were in no mood to leave such a paragon alone, and neither was the press.
Wherever he went, he was besieged. Strangers came up to him to shake his hand or pat him on the back, women tried to kiss him, crowds gathered in hotel lobbies and outside restaurants, waiting for him to appear. At a picnic he attended with members of his National Guard unit in St. Louis, he watched with disgust as several young women crept under a restraining rope to grab corncobs he had just chewed on.
The furor only increased when, in May 1929, he married Anne Morrow, the shy, pretty twenty-two-year-old daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico. The Lindberghs were stalked everywhere by the public and press, even on their boating honeymoon off the coast of Maine, where they were followed by motor launches filled with reporters and photographers. "Like criminals or illicit lovers, we avoided being seen in the world together," Anne Lindbergh later wrote, "and had to forgo the everyday pleasures of walking along streets, shopping, sightseeing, eating out at restaurants."
A loner all his life, Lindbergh was singularly unprepared for all this. The only child of a small-town Minnesota lawyer and his schoolteacher wife, he had lived an isolated, rootless existence since early childhood. When he was four, his father, a stern man with a strong populist bent, was elected to Congress, and for the next ten years, Charles shuttled back and forth between Washington and the family farm near Little Falls, Minnesota.
His parents had an extremely unhappy marriage, punctuated by violent quarrels, and Charles responded by rigidly controlling his emotions and withdrawing into his own solitary world. In school, he had virtually no friends, took part in no sports or extracurricular activities, was silent in class, and did not date. After his flight to Paris, his high school classmates, when questioned by reporters, had few if any memories of him.
As an acquaintance of Lindbergh's later put it, his historic achievement and its aftermath plunged him "into waters that he did not understand and could not navigate." He adamantly resisted the idea that he and his wife were public property. While he readily answered queries from reporters about his flights and aviation in general, he curtly turned aside any questions about his personal life and refused to sign autographs or pose for photos. His recalcitrance only fanned the publicity flames. "Because he kept a distance," Time noted, "the public became more hysterical."
As a result, the Lindberghs lived under constant siege at their secluded home, set in several acres of woods near Hopewell, New Jersey. Tabloid reporters went through the Lindberghs' garbage, pilfered their mail, and offered bribes to their servants for tidbits about their private lives. One journalist even applied for a servant's job with the couple, presenting them with forged references.
Then, on the evening of March 1, 1932, harassment gave way to tragedy: the Lindberghs' twenty-month-old son, Charles Jr.—known as Charlie—was kidnapped from his nursery while his parents were having dinner downstairs. Two months later, the toddler's body was found in the woods near the Lindberghs' home. H. L. Mencken called the kidnapping the biggest story "since the Resurrection," and the extraordinary media frenzy that followed seemed to prove his point.
The grieving Lindberghs were convinced that the excesses of the press were responsible for their son's abduction and murder. "If it were not for the publicity that surrounds us, we might still have him," Anne bitterly wrote in her diary. Even before the tragedy, Lindbergh had come to hate the mass-circulation newspapers, viewing them as "a personification of malice, which deliberately urged on the crazy mob." That conviction was only strengthened when two news photographers broke into the morgue where his son's body lay, opened the casket, and took pictures of Charlie's remains.
The media circus surrounding the kidnapping continued for another four years, with millions of words and photos devoted to the lengthy investigation of the crime, the arrest, trial, and conviction of a German-born carpenter named Bruno Richard Hauptmann, and Hauptmann's eventual execution in April 1936. For much of that period, the Lindberghs took refuge at the Englewood, New Jersey, estate of Anne's widowed mother, Elizabeth Morrow.
Five months after Charlie's death, the couple's second son, Jon, was born. When Hauptmann was convicted, the Lindberghs received so many letters threatening Jon's life that armed guards were hired to keep a twenty-four-hour watch outside the Morrow home. Several intruders, including an escaped mental patient, were caught approaching the house at various times.
A few months after the Hauptmann trial, three-year-old Jon, accompanied by a teacher, was on his way home from preschool when the car in which he was riding was forced off the road by another vehicle. Several men holding press cameras jumped out of it and ran toward the car containing Jon, taking flash photos of the terrified little boy as they came near.
After this latest press outrage, Charles Lindbergh decided that he and his family had no alternative but to leave America. "Between the . . . tabloid press and the criminal, a condition exists which is intolerable for us," he wrote his mother. A few days before his departure, Lindbergh told a close friend that "we Americans are a primitive people. We do not have discipline. Our moral standards are low. . . . It shows in the newspapers, the morbid curiosity over crimes and murder trials. Americans seem to have little respect for law, or the rights of others." It was not the first time—or the last—that he would equate his personal situation with the current state of American democracy.
The murder of his son, along with the disgraceful behavior of the media, left Lindbergh with a psychological wound that would never heal. Reeve Lindbergh, who was born thirteen years after the death of her eldest brother, recalled that her father never talked about him. The pain, she believed, was too overwhelming. "I can imagine how much this baby must have meant to my father, who had been raised as an only child . . . this Charles, this namesake," she wrote. "I know that the loss was immeasurable and unspeakable."
One day, after piloting a small plane through a violent thunderstorm, Lindbergh turned with a smile to his shaken wife, who had been in the plane with him, and said: "You should have faith in me." Then the smile faded. "I have faith in you," he said. "I just don't have any more faith in life."
Shortly before midnight on December 21, 1935, the Lindberghs were driven to a deserted dock in Manhattan and spirited aboard an American freighter bound for England. Before leaving, Lindbergh gave an interview to a reporter for The New York Times, one of the few news outlets he still respected. The day after the Lindberghs' departure, the Times, in a story that took up much of the front page, described for its readers how "the man who eight years ago was hailed as an international hero . . . is taking his wife and son to establish, if he can, a secure haven for them in a foreign land."
In the English countryside, the Lindberghs did indeed find the privacy they craved. For slightly more than two years, they rented Long Barn, a rambling old half-timbered house in Kent owned by Harold Nicolson—a member of Parliament, ex-diplomat, and author, who had written a biography of Anne's father, Dwight Morrow—and Nicolson's wife, the novelist Vita Sackville-West. During that time, the Lindberghs' third son, Land, was born.
In her diary, Anne observed that the years spent at Long Barn were among the happiest of her life. For the most part, the English press and public left the Lindberghs alone. Jon could play in Long Barn's extensive terraced gardens and roam the meadows beyond without an armed guard shadowing him. Anne and Charles, meanwhile, could take a drive through the countryside with "a wonderful feeling of freedom, [knowing] that we can stop anywhere, that we will not be followed or noticed."
In the summer of 1938, the Lindberghs moved from Long Barn to an old stone manor house on the tiny, windswept island of Illiec, off the coast of Brittany. "I have never seen a place where I wanted to live so much," Lindbergh confided to his journal. Considerably more isolated than Kent, Illiec proved to be another refuge for him and his wife.


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What are the synoptic gospels?
You may have listened to a gospel story, and, while it sounded familiar, you could have sworn you heard it differently before. Perhaps there was a detail you had never noticed. Or maybe the whole story, while recognizable, was not how you remembered it. Don't worry. Your memory is not faulty.
The answer to the discrepancies and similarities you notice in the gospel stories might lie in the "synoptics." Synoptic is a Greek word that means "to see together." It is used to refer to the three gospels that present the life, Passion, death, and Resurrection of Jesus in a somewhat similar fashion. The synoptic gospels are Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
No original copies of the gospels have been found, therefore scholars study and analyze later copies. They rely on internal evidence, or clues within the texts, to determine when each gospel was originally written, by and for whom, and so forth. Studies have shown that of the three synoptics, Mark was the first one to be written, around 70 C.E., while Matthew was probably composed in the late 70s or 80s, and Luke in the late 80s. Knowing the order in which they were written is important because it can shed light on how the different accounts influenced each other.
We do not have to be scholars to notice that in the gospels of Matthew and Luke there are passages almost identical or similar to those found in Mark. Since Mark was written first, we can conclude that one of the sources that Matthew and Luke used in writing their gospels was the already written Gospel of Mark. This would explain some of the similarities.
There are also other stories and sayings common to Matthew and Luke that are not found in Mark. This suggests that these two evangelists used yet another source which Mark did not have access to. We suspect that certain stories and sayings about Jesus, as well as some sayings of Jesus himself, were held dear by the early Christian communities. This common source, which appears not to have survived, is referred to as the "Q" source (from the German word for source, quelle.)
Despite the likeness among the synoptics, comparing them could feel like comparing apples and oranges. Though each gospel was written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, each is unique because it was written by a different author who had his own specific sources, who reflected theologically on the story of Jesus as he knew it and lived it, who wrote in a given year, for a unique audience, with a specific message in mind. Each gospel complements the others with differences and similarities, giving us a better and more complete understanding of who Jesus the Christ was and is for us today.


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Jason Aldean Interview: Star Reveals Favorite Song on 'Night Train,' His Ringtone and His Issues With Feet
Jason Aldean says the hardest part of being one of the hottest artists in country music is adjusting to the glare of the spotlight. He tweets, but lately it's just been to talk about his new album, 'Night Train,' or to cheer on his Atlanta Braves. He'll mention his daughters or his wife, but you won't find pictures of them on Instagram. You may see the 'Take a Little Ride' singer on television, but only if he's behind a guitar on a talk show, or at the podium accepting an ACM or CMA Award. When it comes to being famous, Aldean tells Taste of Country Nights radio host Jeremy Robinson: He's not a natural.
"Like once this all started to happen," he begins, speaking of the early days of his career when fans only knew him for 'Hicktown,' "you're so used to life being a certain way and all of a sudden in a blink of an eye it changes and it changes not only you but it changes the way everybody around you looks at you and it's been a learning experience. It's something I kind of still deal with and still try to figure out on a daily basis."
Lately that spotlight has been hot, but Aldean took the controversy surrounding racy internet pictures head on, apologized, explained himself once and then made it clear further details of his private life wouldn't come from him. With his highly-anticipated fifth studio album's release just days away, there was plenty more for Aldean and Robinson to discuss anyway, so Taste of Country agreed before the interview to focus on the music... And maybe his fear of feet.
'Night Train' is available in stores and online on Oct. 16.
Jeremy Robinson: There are 15 tracks on this album!
Aldean: You know what, I know a couple of years ago everybody was trying to stop doing full-length albums. Everybody was doing this six or eight song CD thing and I didn't get into that. It's hard enough for me to narrow down the songs to 15. I don't wanna try to narrow it down to eight, you know. So my thing, I figure give people more songs for the same money (instead of) less songs for the same money. That just doesn't make sense to me.
Glad to see the Jason rapping is back on this album. Talk about working with Luke Bryan and Eric Church on 'The Only Way I Know.'
I love those two guys, I'm a huge fan of what they do and Luke and I are extremely good friends. And we've talked about working together for awhile now and this song came about… so I called him and the more I listened to the song I thought, 'Man we could bring somebody else in, who would we want to do that with?' And Eric was the first one that popped in my head and I called Eric to see if he was on board.
These are questions from listeners. Sara says, "My ringtone is 'Take a Little Ride.'" What is your current ringtone?
[thinks] I think it is… ummm …
Can you have someone call you and hear the ringtone right now?
OK, hang on… you ready for this?
Yeah, we're ready.
Listen here:
Note for mobile users: Jason Aldean's ringtone is Bon Jovi.
What is your absolute favorite song on the album. And which one means the most?
The song that I find myself listening to more than any other song is 'Staring at the Sun.' There is something about that chorus that just… I don't know. Even me hearing the song as much as I have it still kind of just draws me in.
But the line is 'She gets under your skin like a tattoo.' When that part of the song comes in it's just a really cool thing. One of my favorite songs on the record by far.
Last question: Do you get pedicures?
[long pause] Hell no! I don't even know where you go to get one of those.
Here's the thing… I'm also like a foot freak, too. I hate gross feet.
You don't like people to put feet on you? Even the wife?
No, the wife is fine. If they're good feet, they're clean, whatever I'm fine with that. But if there all knotted up and dirty, not a chance.


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A new study has found that almost a quarter of teenagers are online for four or more hours a day on non-school-related work.
The report found 85 per cent of respondents used social networks, with 75 per cent accessing sites such as Twitter and Facebook on a daily basis.
On the issue of unsolicited contact, 43 per cent of teenagers who had first met someone online later met them in real life.
However, teenagers are aware of the risks of interacting online – 60 per cent said they would tell someone before the meeting, usually a friend (82 per cent) or a parent (70 per cent).
The Tech Use and Safety Projectwas conducted by Dr Julian Dooley and Dr Adrian Scott from ECU's Sellenger Centre for Research in Law, Justice and Social Change. They collected data from nearly 800 West Australian high school students.
The release of the study's results coincides with international Safer Internet Day on Tuesday, 7 February 2012. The day aims to raise awareness among parents and young people on how to safely navigate the internet and interact online.
Sellenger Centre Associate Director Dr Dooley hopes that this research will inform safe internet use strategies in Australian schools and households.
"This study is the first of its kind in Australia to examine issues around social networking use and privacy. Through this research we now have very clear idea about how teenagers use technology, the risks they engage in and the safety strategies they possess," Dr Dooley said.
Results from this study found:
- 23% are online for four or more hours on a weekday not for school work. This increases to 40% on weekends
- 85% use social networking sites (SNS)
- 75% are on these sites 4-7 days a week
- 66% have 200+ friends on their SNS. 46% have 300+
- 73 % uploaded pictures to SNS
- 71% have set their SNS to private
- 41% have shared personal details online (mobile phone numbers, home phone numbers or email addresses)
- 85 % said that privacy was important to them
- 24 % shared their SNS passwords
"Although many students indicated that privacy was important to them, the high percentage who shared their password shows that we still have much work to do in this area," Dr Dooley said
"Technology is advancing rapidly and children are often more advanced than their parents in accessing and using technology."
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"We need to guide the younger generation and the choices they make. Importantly, any safety approach must be a combination of evidence-based behavioural strategies supported by cutting-edge technological solutions."
The Tech Use and Safety Projectis one of several innovative research initiatives currently being undertaken by the newly created Social Wellbeing and Technology Laboratory (SWAT), part of the Sellenger Centre based at the ECU's Joondalup Campus.
SWAT will carry out research that focuses on social and group processes in the context of technology use, to further understand impacts on psychological and social health, wellbeing and safety.
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Thanksgiving stinks for vegans. The holiday has lost its national significance, serving mostly as a prelude to Black Friday fervor. The festivities involve family interactions that often result in a six-word stage play of sorts: "Eat pray love drink fight slap." And the best part of the holiday, its accompanying break from school, needs to be longer.
These are just a few of the Thanksgiving-themed perspectives college students have shared in recent days within their campus newspapers and magazines.
Rachel Arlin at the University of Massachusetts Amherst asks the big-picture question, seemingly on behalf of many students: "Does Thanksgiving matter anymore?"
As she writes in The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, "It is a known fact that America has turned into a materialistic country. . . . Black Friday is a significant factor in this materialistic movement. People are frantically worried about Christmas while Thanksgiving is pushed to the side, or in some cases, even ignored. . . . I was looking up 'Thanksgiving' under Yahoo's search box and the first result that came up was 'Walmart Thanksgiving Sale 2012.' I don't know about you, but this sickens me."
State Press columnist Jonathan Fortner at Arizona State University agrees, noting, "Sandwiched between Halloween and Christmas– the two most greedy and selfish of our nation's pastimes– Thanksgiving is but a few days away. In the upcoming days, shopping stores will open their doors as the sun peaks above the horizon. Hordes of consumers will stampede their way up and down shopping aisles, fulfilling the wants of their loved ones and even some of their own. . . . Over time, Thanksgiving has been reduced to a mere gluttonous affair where we stuff more than turkey. There's more to this shortened work and school week than gorging on pumpkin pie and cranberry sauce– at least there should be."
Meanwhile, DePauw University sophomore Ryan Konicek specifically takes issue with the shortness of the Thanksgiving school break. As she writes in The DePauw, "[W]e are allotted a total of five days for our Thanksgiving holiday– three school days and a weekend. I do not believe that the amount of time given to us is enough. . . . I believe having a week off of classes to honor the Thanksgiving holiday is fair, especially for those that have to travel."
Konicek's strongest point in her push for a longer holiday respite: Many students, faculty, and staff are already checking out during the shortened pre-Thanksgiving week anyway.
"The Monday and Tuesday before Thanksgiving break are usually days where not much is covered in class because the teachers are just as antsy as the students to leave," she writes. "Papers may be due and then discussed, attempts at having an engaging lesson may be tried, but both the students and teachers know that it is useless. People's minds are not focused on what is being taught in the classroom, instead their thoughts are about the holiday ahead and all the other people who are already out of school and on vacation."
Yet, as Daily Trojan columnist Nick Cimarusti at the University of Southern California contends, the vacation itself is not entirely stress-free– often becoming "a cause of worry for many college students reluctant to discuss their college experiences."
As he writes, "The communal aspect of the Thanksgiving meal invites us to share with others ideas and thoughts along with stuffing and cranberry sauce. For this reason, going home for Thanksgiving break invites the dreaded question: 'So what have you been up to all semester?'"
To this end, Rocky Mountain Collegian reporter Bailey Constas at Colorado State University presents the following advice as part of a larger "Thanksgiving Survival Guide": "Come up with three topics that you've learned in class to convince your parents you're not just spending all their money on beer. It could be a new word you picked up when you didn't understand that prompt on your midterm, that concept in philosophy that will go over your parents' heads or a topic in sociology that you know your dad will disagree with."
Speaking of sheer survival, Rochester Institute of Technology student Nicole Howley provides the vegan perspective on Thanksgiving. As she writes for RIT's Reporter Magazine, "I like the whole 'giving thanks' thing, but Thanksgiving seems to have become more about stuffing your face with dead things, animal products, and pie than being thankful. And if you don't want any of those foods, then what's even the point? Eating a few plain, steamed green beans and some pasta with mushroom gravy isn't really a good celebration either."
Happy Thanksgiving!


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- The head section is used to put things not immediately shown on the page.
- The body section is used to put the things immediately shown on the webpage when loaded.
<html> <head> </head> <body> </body> </html>
Now, let me explain something:
document.write() is a function of Javascript. In Javascript you have "objects", and "functions." To keep it simple now, "document" is the object, and "write()" is a function.
"Document" is the object, which represents the entire webpage. So, in other words, the webpage is a "document." Now, you can probably take a pretty good guess as to what write() is, but I shall tell you anyway. "write()" is a function that will "write" text onto the document, the webpage. Now, in order to tell document.write() what to type on the screen, you'll have to insert quoation marks inside the parentheses and type whatever you want inside of them. For this example, we'll use "Hello World." Try typing up the Javascript code that it will write "Hello World."
Completed Javascript code:
Now that you have that code, we don't know exactly where to put it. In Javascript ALL (so far) code goes inside script tags. For script tags, type the following:
<script type="text/javascript"></script>
As you may have noticed, the javascript script tags are very similiar to the style tags in CSS:
<style type="text/css">CSS</style>
Now that you know what script tags are, it's only logical that we put our Javascript in the script tags, and then insert that into the body sections, as planned. Please try to do that now.
The correct answer:
If you understand this, you can advance to Javascript 2 - Functions and Event Handlers.
~Taken from my Javascript blog.


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Ordinary Time: June 19th
Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
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Old Calendar: Sacred Heart of Jesus
"I promise you in the excessive mercy of my Heart that my all-powerful love will grant to all those who receive Holy Communion on the First Fridays in nine consecutive months the grace of final perseverance; they shall not die in my disgrace, nor without receiving their sacraments. My divine Heart shall be their safe refuge in this last moment" (Jesus to St. Margaret Mary).Sixteenth century Calvinism and seventeenth century Jansenism preached a distorted Christianity that substituted for God's love and sacrifice of His Son for all men the fearful idea that a whole section of humanity was inexorably damned.The Church always countered this view with the infinite love of our Savior who died on the cross for all men. The institution of the feast of the Sacred Heart was soon to contribute to the creation among the faithful of a powerful current of devotion which since then has grown steadily stronger. The first Office and Mass of the Sacred Heart were composed by St. John Eudes, but the institution of the feast was a result of the appearances of our Lord to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in 1675. The celebration of the feast was extended to the general calendar of the Church by Pius IX in 1856.
Close to the Heart of the Son is the Heart of the Mother
The Church, in this month of June, giving us the solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, wishes us to understand the consequential devotion to Our Lady traditionally lived in the Marian month par excellence: the month of May. The Heart of Jesus is the See and Throne of Divine Mercy, revealed to the world in the passion, death and resurrection of Christ.
- From the Catholic Culture Library read Enthronement of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: Sacred Scripture by Bishop Raymond Burke.
- Bake a heart shaped cake or cookies in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.


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DocEmrick wrote:Terminator 2 was a cash-in cheesy action flick with horrible lines like "Let me try mine," and the others. Furlong's acting is horrendous. Terminator ends perfectly, with the viewer to draw their own conclusions about judgement day, etc.
That being said, I still enjoy all of the films (yes even 3), I just think Terminator would have worked fine as a stand-alone movie.
Froggy wrote:Cracked.com had a video a couple months ago pointing out why T2 was a great movie, but a terrible sequel because it broke the rules established by the first movie. pretty interesting observation.
eddysnake wrote:tifosi77 wrote:Shyster wrote:Highlander 2.
I'd say all three film sequels were crap, but the TV series was actually pretty cool.
When I saw the 4th film in theaters, the female lead was in the crowd with a bunch of her girlfriends. Every time she was on screen they'd cheer. It was cute the first time, and maybe the second time. By the 45 minute mark of the film, it was a bit of a different story.
tv show was pretty cool. first highlander is one of my favorites, the Kurgan is such an awesome bad guy (clancy brown is so cool, him and Brian Thompson (slasher in Cobra) always terrified me). The sequels were terrible (although I did like Endgame somewhat). I've always thought the concept could create a lot of great stories, but here we are.
bhaw wrote:The Marine 2 because The Marine 1 should never have been made or released for human eyes to see to begin with.
Rylan wrote:Mighty Ducks 3 shouldn't have been made.
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LITTLE ROCK — Two proposed constitutional amendments already endorsed once by the legislative Joint Committee on Constitutional Amendments were rejected Monday after their sponsors proposed changes.
House Joint Resolution 1009 by Rep. Warwick Sabin, D-Little Rock, which was endorsed by the joint committee April 5 and approved by the House on April 9, was before the Senate last week when the sponsor agreed to add amendments.
The measure would ban corporate and union gifts to political campaigns, ban most gifts to public officials and allow legislators to serve up to 16 years. It also would increase the minimum period between when a legislator leaves office and is allow to become a lobbyist from one year to two years and would create a citizens' commission to set the salaries of legislators, constitutional officers and judges.
Among the amendments presented Monday to the joint committee was one that would prohibit members of the salaries commission from receiving gifts.
Speaking against the proposal during the meeting was Tim Jacob, who helped spearhead a successful drive for term limits in 1992.
The proposal, which needed five votes by the Senate members of the joint committee, received four.
Afterward, Sabin said he was disappointed with the vote, but felt his decision to return the proposal to the committee for amendment was the right one.
"Our intentions were the right ones," he said. "We were trying to make the amendment the best it could be … we took a risk, and it's dead right now."
Sabin said the changes proposed by Scott Trotter, a Little Rock lawyer and former director of Common Cause in Arkansas, were "good observations and we wanted to address the points he made to address the amendment."
"Those all would have made the amendment better law," he said.
Sen. Jon Woods, R-Springdale, a co-sponsor of the proposed amendment, said two senators who supported the measure were unable to attend the joint meeting.
"We thought we had the vote," he said.
The proposal had received support from Regnat Populus, a ballot question group that tried last year to get an ethics reform proposal on the November ballot but could not gather the required number of signatures.
David Couch, an attorney for Regnat Populus, said after the committee meeting Monday that his group will continue collecting signatures toward qualifying its proposal for the 2014 general election ballot.
The name and ballot title for Regnat Populus' proposal was recently certified by the state attorney general's office.
Couch noted that the Regnat Populus proposal is stricter than the one rejected Monday by the joint committee.
The group's proposal would ban all gifts to legislators in addition to prohibit corporations and labor unions from making political contributions and establishing a two-year "cooling-off" period between when a lawmaker leaves office and is permitted to start lobbying.
Also rejected by the joint committee was Senate Joint Resolution 16 by Sen. Bill Sample, R-Hot Springs. The measure was endorsed by senators on the committee, but received just nine of the 11 votes needed from House members.
The measure would have required a group collecting signatures in support of a ballot initiative to submit a number of valid signatures equal to 90 percent of the total number of signatures required to place the measure on the ballot in order to qualify for extra time to make up the deficiency.
The proposal was rejected by the Senate last week and rejected by the joint committee after Sample amended it to lower the percentage to 75 percent.
Just one proposed constitutional amendment has passed the Senate — SJR 7 by Sen. Jonathan Dismang, R-Searcy, which would require legislative consent for state agencies to put new rules into effect. It is pending before the House. If approved, it would be the only proposed constitutional amendment referred by the Legislature to the 2014 general election ballot.
The Legislature can refer three proposed constitutional amendments to voters during each regular session, or four if one changes salaries, but no such proposal was filed this year.


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For everything you need to know about natural medicines and therapies for pets (and we even treat people too!).
Holistic and homeopathic vet in Herts
The NMC was set up in Potters Bar over twenty years ago to specialise in natural treatments for pets. Its director, Richard Allport BVet Med. Vet MFHom MRCVS, has thirty years' experience in treatment with homeopathy, acupuncture and herbal medicines for pets.
Holistic and homeopathic vet in London
Richard also sees patients in West London on Wednesdays each week at the Bayswater Referral Centre.
Treatment for dogs, cats and rabbits
Does your dog suffer from eczema, colitis, arthritis or epilepsy? Is your cat affected by asthma, cystitis or viral disease? Has your rabbit got dermatitis or chronic snuffles? These are just a few of the conditions that often respond well to natural medicines.
For information on how natural therapies can help your pet, for details on consultations at the centre or by 'phone, to find information about natural medicines online, or to contact us for advice, click on the relevant section. For a history of the centre and more information about Richard Allport read more below or browse our site to find out more about homeopathy and other holistic therapies for pets.
The Natural Medicine Centre was opened in July 1996 in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, UK and was one of the first veterinary centres to specialise in natural therapies for pets. The director, Richard Allport, qualified as a veterinary surgeon from the Royal Veterinary College, London, UK in 1973. After ten years as a veterinary surgeon in general practice, he began to take a special interest in holistic medicines. In July 1996 he opened the NMC as a referral centre for pets, offering treatments with acupuncture, homoeopathy, flower essence and herbal medicine for pets. Richard has been joined by other therapists so that the centre now offers osteopathy, nutritional advice and healing for pets.
The NMC now also offers natural treatments for people. Healing only is available at present but watch this space for therapsts in other disciplines coming soon.
Richard also visits a referral centre in Bayswater, London, UK once a week; and consultations are also available by telephone for those unable to travel to Potters Bar or Bayswater, if there is no other holistic vet within reasonable travelling distance.
Richard is a past president of the British Association of Homoeopathic Veterinary Surgeons, and holds the qualification of Veterinary Member of the Faculty of Homoeopathy (VetMFHom). He is a member of the Association of British Veterinary Acupuncturists. Richard has written several books on natural medicines for pets, writes a regular column in Dogs Today magazine, and has appeared regularly on radio and TV programmes.
Advice about your pet's health
You can consult Richard Allport at Potters Bar or Bayswater, or by telephone if you have no qualified holistic veterinary surgeon available within reasonable travelling distance. For ethical reasons, your own veterinary practice will need to provide a copy of the medical records of your pet to Richard and agree to him treating your pet.
This agreement and the records may be posted, faxed, or e mailed.
We will also need you to complete a patient record form - a questionnaire about your pet – this can be e mailed to you or you can download it HERE. Richard can then give advice on natural remedies and supplements which are likely to help with the problems from which your pet is suffering.
All necessary natural medicines will be supplied by the Natural Medicine Centre. Meeting the patient in person is always preferable to a consultation by 'phone, however, many patients have been successfully helped by such 'long distance' advice. For consultation fees see details in 'Consultations for pets'
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WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon said Tuesday it will take a "second look" at how it goes about accounting for missing Americans on foreign battlefields, following the disclosure of an internal assessment that the work is "acutely dysfunctional" and at risk of failure.
"We have a sacred obligation to perform this mission well," Pentagon press secretary George Little told reporters, referring to the Joint POW-MIA Accounting Command, or JPAC, which is based in Hawaii and run by a two-star general.
The U.S. estimates there are more than 83,000 Americans missing from World War II, Korea and Vietnam.
Over the past three years, JPAC has reported an average of 69 identifications of recovered remains per year, down from 85 per year over the previous three years. Congress is demanding that it make at least 200 identifications per year starting in 2015, a target it is widely expected to miss.
The Associated Press reported on Sunday that a 2012 internal assessment of JPAC's field operations -- including the search for and recovery and identification of remains -- found it suffers from ineptitude, waste and mismanagement. JPAC leaders suppressed the study but the AP obtained a copy after it had been denied to others who requested it under the Freedom of Information Act.
"We're going to review the concerns raised in the report to see how JPAC is or isn't functioning well," Little said. "And if steps need to be taken to remedy what's happening inside JPAC, then we'll take action. This is an important mission."
The Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, also has examined JPAC. A Pentagon spokesman, Lt. Col. Jim Gregory, said the Pentagon has responded to the GAO's findings and recommendations and expects the results to be made public shortly.
Separately, members of Congress pressed the Pentagon and JPAC for answers. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., wrote to JPAC's commander, Maj. Gen. Kelly K. McKeague, to request a copy of the internal report and other documentation.
"We've got a responsibility to make sure this program is being run in a responsible manner, and I will not rest until we have answers," McCaskill said. She is chairman of a subcommittee that focuses on government waste and fraud.
Little said the Pentagon's review would be undertaken by the office of James Miller, the undersecretary of defense for policy, who oversees JPAC and other aspects of the Pentagon's efforts to resolve the cases of missing service members. He said he could not yet spell out the exact parameters of the review.
Asked why Miller acted now, Little said not all of the problems cited in the internal JPAC report had been brought to the attention of senior Pentagon officials until after the AP wrote about them.
"Some of these concerns, quite frankly, didn't bubble up," Little said. "And it's important when these concerns are raised to take a look, so I think it's the prudent thing to do."
The issues were not fully aired because the report, which was written by Paul M. Cole, a JPAC employee who studied the organization's inner workings for more than a year, was essentially buried by JPAC commanders.
In an internal memo to his staff, the JPAC commander at the time, Maj. Gen. Stephen D. Tom, wrote on Feb. 3, 2012, that his organization would "not consider any allegations, findings or recommendations from the report," which he said would "not be considered in future planning efforts" aimed at improving operations. He "disavowed" the study and said it was "rejected in its entirety."
Tom said some parts of the study were "poorly written, reflect a bias and contain findings and recommendations that go beyond the intended scope of the report." He demanded that it not be further shared or even copied.
Little was asked whether JPAC's handling of the contentious report will be part of Miller's review.
"This review hasn't even been initiated, but it will be started shortly. And I would imagine that those and other questions will be asked as part of it," he said.


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On last night's "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," the plucky host who stole Larry Sanders' show out from under him mocked the NBC SundayNightIsFootballNight crew for analyzing how the NFL and the Atlanta Falcons would deal with Michael Vick's guilty plea. We understand the easy joke — Who cares about football? He tortures dogs! — but we're not sure what Costas and Co. were expected to talk about. It is, after all, a football show.
Anyway, to risk continuing to be Insensitive Bastards by actually discussing Ron Mexico's impact in football terms, but Lion In Oil brings up a great point: It turns out that the Chargers' trade of Vick's draft slot might have been one of the NFL's great trades.
[The late John] Butler, who built the Buffalo Bills teams of the early 1990s and went onto San Diego before dying of cancer in 2003, however, was weary of signing a top pick with top pick money at quarterback right after the disastrous pick of Ryan Leaf by the Chargers in 1998. So Butler, after being unable to come to terms with Vick before the end of the draft, made the shocking move of trading an instant superstar and got a player he was very high on, Tomlinson along with a third-rounder that year, a second-rounder the following year, and Tim Dwight.
Remember, too, that the Chargers picked Drew Brees in the second round that year, who turn out pretty great himself, albeit not for the Chargers. Wherever you are, Mr. Butler, we salute you. We hope you have some pit bulls as pets up there.
A Look Back At One Of The Great Trades Of All Time [Lion In Oil]


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Friday, June 05, 2020
May 27, 2011FridayPet HealthThe flea and tick season is literally heating up. HearSay's favorite veterinarian Dr. Phyllis Neumann joins host Cathy Lewis to tackle your troubling pet problems. Send your questions in advance by e-mail to email@example.com, post them on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/hearsaywithcathylewis, or send us a Tweet at www.twitter.com/HearSayWHRV. You can also call in live with your questions during the broadcast at 757-440-2665 or 1-800-940-2240.
Scheduled Guests:Dr. Phyllis Neumann - veterinarian, Todds Lane Veterinary Hospital, HamptonRebecca Frankel - deputy managing editor of ForeignPolicy.com - author of the photo-essay, War Dog
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