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(Editor's Note: This commentary originally appeared in the December issue of The Freeman, a monthly publication by The Foundation for Economic Education.)
E. E. Cummings is one of the most beloved American poets of the 20th century. He perhaps is best known to contemporary readers for his experimental and playful verse in the Modernist tradition. But he also wrote two important prose works that unfortunately have been relegated to relative obscurity. The first, "The Enormous Room," is a fictionalized retelling of his incarceration in France for alleged treason during World War I. The second, "Eimi," which in 2008 celebrated the 75th anniversary of its first publication, is a reworking of his travel journals to the USSR in 1931.
"Eimi" is a difficult yet rewarding literary exercise, depicting as it does the true nature of collectivist ideology as practiced during the relatively early years of the Stalinist regime. Although Cummings regarded the work as a novel, some critics consider it a travel book, while others consider it a polemic against communism as practiced in the Soviet Union. This reader would argue that Cummings's penchant for coining new words by combining two or more terms — technically referred to as portmanteau words — carried over to his expansion of his coded travel journals for "Eimi," which, like his poetry, is wildly inventive, syntactically jumbled, frequently comic, presented in a fashion that must've given typesetters nightmares, and unmistakably original. In short, "Eimi" is all of the above — a novel, travel journal and polemic. Most of all, however, it is a deeply personal expression of the author's primary thematic concerns of retaining one's individuality in the face of social and political pressures to conform to the collective.
Immensely unpopular with the Western cultural left because of its negative assessment of the restrictive nature and infertile artistic soil inherent under tyrannical rule, "Eimi" burned Cummings's bridges with a host of writers and editors. According to teacher and editor Jenny Penberthy, writing in the "Dictionary of Literary Biography:"
During the writing of "Eimi," Cummings' antagonism to the Soviet Union became an obsession. He grew to despise both Communists and liberals. . . . Before "Eimi" he had been regarded as a voice from the left because of the antiauthoritarian demeanor of his poems and "The Enormous Room." He lost friends and the once unquestioning support of a literary world now increasingly sympathetic to literature fueled by a social conscience.
In fact, the book was briefly out of print after its initial 1933 publication, was reprinted in 1949 and 1958 — the same year Cummings was awarded the Bollingen Prize — then wasn't reprinted again until 2007.
The tenor of the times during which "Eimi" was inspired and written — colored as it was by the remembered horrors of World War I — was rife with leftist political remedies to perceived social ills. Freedom and free markets all took a beating from the New Deal programs of the Roosevelt administration; the rise of Marxist governments in Spain, Eastern Europe, and Asia; fascism in Italy; and national socialism in Germany. The cultural intelligentsia served as useful idiots for centralized governments, from Wyndham Lewis writing of his favorable impressions of early Nazi Germany to Ezra Pound notoriously broadcasting fascist propaganda to Allied troops from Italy during World War II.
Marxism in general and the Soviet experiment in particular, however, held an even greater appeal for the literary cognoscenti, beginning with playwright George Bernard Shaw's work espousing socialist ideas in the early 20th century and blossoming with the Oxford poets Stephen Spender, W.H. Auden and Cecil Day-Lewis in the 1930s and such American writers disillusioned with capitalism as the Group Theatre playwright, folk singers Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and novelist John Steinbeck. Other notable writers immersed in communist folly included Arthur Koestler, Richard Wright, Ignazio Silone, Louis Fischer and André Gide, all of whom repudiated their youthful indiscretions in five individual essays (joined by another essay by Spender) collected in "The God That Failed" (1949). As for Auden, he famously rejected political solutions when he wrote, "[P]oetry makes nothing happen" in his "In Memory of W.B. Yeats," which was written as the world once again prepared for wide-scale war in the late 1930s.
"Eimi" also found disfavor among literary critics and the public at large because of the experimental and sometimes impenetrable nature of Cummings's prose style. Even Pound, not known for writing easily understood poetry, complained that a work exceeding 400 pages could benefit from extended passages of clarity: "BUT, the longer a work is the more and longer shd. be the passages that are perfectly clear and simple to read." Indeed, reading the book does require patience and intense concentration; even then, whole pages can leave even the most dedicated reader scratching his head. Some of this confusion was alleviated by a preface Cummings added for the 1958 edition.
Yet the book's importance as both a literary achievement and exposé of Soviet repression can't be expressed sufficiently. No less a critic than Pound assessed "Eimi" as the final volume of the quintessential Modernist prose trilogy begun with James Joyce's "Ulysses" (1922) and Wyndham Lewis's "The Apes of God" (1930). The poet Marianne Moore declared that "Eimi" wasn't a prose work at all, but "a large poem" in the Modernist tradition of, presumably, T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," Archibald MacLeish's "The Hamlet" and Pound's "The Cantos." Critic Richard Kennedy's close reading of the book contains a fitting depiction of Cummings's attempt to reveal the dehumanizing elements of the Soviet system:
Soviet Russia as pictured in Eimi seems the complete negation of Cummings' philosophy of "Is," that human beings should live so as to express their own individuality — to be "alive"; to place a value on feeling, on growing, on diversity, on "being continually born"; to pursue happiness; to cherish freedom; to rejoice in pleasure; to give and respond to love. Cummings felt that the Soviet system was stifling the life out of its people. Everywhere in Moscow he sensed "nonlife" or mere "undeath." He found fear, guilt, and a dispirited sameness; a "whichness and whatness" instead of a "whoness"; a lack of laughter; a suspicion of pleasure ("in Russia, everybody's leisure is organized," . . .); and emphasis on forced behavior.
Prompted by fellow writer John Dos Passos, Cummings traveled to Russia via Paris to witness firsthand the presumed artists' paradise. Dos Passos, incidentally, also passionately and famously denounced communism as "groupthink" after his extended stint as a fellow traveler — with the concomitant decline in book sales and popularity all too common for writers who failed to adhere to the Communist Party line.
In "Eimi," as in most of his poetry, Cummings was more interested in the ideal circumstances under which an artist could express his or her individuality rather than aligning with one political solution over another. Nowhere is this theme more apparent than in the title of the book, which is Greek for "I am." For Cummings, to live in the "was" rather than the "is" or "am" is a manner of existence that he perceived as subhuman and lifeless.
Appreciating Cummings's idiosyncratic sensibility is critical to understanding the bulk of his art. Cummings's worldview was shaped by his youth in Cambridge, Mass., where his father was a Unitarian minister and sociology professor at Harvard. As a poet and painter, he fully adopted the tenets stressing the artistic freedom and individuality of the New England Transcendentalist and English Romantic traditions, which he later adapted to the Modernist ambition of capturing a moment or movement as espoused by Pound, Gertrude Stein, and the Cubist painters. He also was an ardent follower of popular culture, especially burlesque theater. He wrote in the preface to his poetry collection "is 5" (1926):
My theory of technique, if I have one, is very far from original; nor is it complicated. I can express it in fifteen words, by quoting the Eternal Question and Immortal Answer of burlesk, viz. 'Would you hit a woman with a child? — No, I'd hit her with a brick.' Like the burlesk comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.
An adherent of no specific political stripe, but a staunch defender of his own individuality, Cummings documented the grayness of what he called the un-people populating the Russian cities he visited, as well as what he perceived as the sorry state of art in a country that required its poets, filmmakers, dancers and composers to celebrate the proletariat.
Cummings's first experience with the stifling nature of Soviet rule appears in the book's opening chapter. He approaches a half-bald clerk at a Polish railway station, which leads to the following encounter:
Much as Joyce borrowed the framework for his Modernist novel "Ulysses" from Homer's "Odyssey," Cummings borrows the schematic for "Eimi" from Dante's "Divine Comedy," with his Soviet experience echoing Dante's descent into Hell. As he clarified in his 1958 preface:
eimi, first published in 1933, is the diary (May 10-June 14 1931) which I kept during most of a trip from Paris to Russia, thence to Turkey,& back to Paris. When my diary opens, I'm on a train bound for the Polish-Russian border. At N(negereloe) I enter a 'world of Was'(p 8) — the subhuman communist superstate, where men are shadows & women are nonmen; the preindividual Marxist unworld. This unworld is Hell. In Hell I visit Moscow, Kiev, Odessa. From Hell an unship takes me to Istanbul (Constantinople) where I reenter the World(pp 393-403) — returning to France by train.
In Cummings's novel, the role of Dante's Underworld guide Virgil is filled by the American theater critic Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana. Dana was a longstanding friend of Cummings's from their days at Cambridge and an ardent communist and promoter of Soviet theater.
After falling out with Dana, whom he eventually finds too ideologically hidebound, Cummings abandons him without leaving so much as a goodbye note. Cummings then takes up with Joan London, daughter of Jack London (another American writer with socialist sympathies), and her husband, Charles Malamuth. Cummings, after Dante, nicknames London "Beatrice." By the time Cummings (referred to as Comrade Kem-min-kz in the book) arrives in Moscow, the couple has reached the end of their patience with the Soviet design, as articulated by Malamuth to a Midwestern American tourist couple the trio encounters:
[N]ot all of these knowing millions can tell you a single god damned thing; because they're Russians. Do you understand? Russians. All of them are inside communism; not outside it, as you are. All of them are actually living (or dying) an unprecedented experiment, not merely observing it with an analytic eye; far less dreaming about it with a sentimental brain. . . . Russians in Russia must suffer and shut up. . . . But correspondents in Russia have special privileges. They can't get a really good story past the Russian censor, of course: but they don't have to swallow their tongues while they're here and they're not obliged to be here forever.
By the time Cummings leaves the USSR, he has seen enough to color his view of the collective spirit and government sponsorship of the arts for the remainder of his life. As his train nears the Turkish border, he seethes:
USSR a USSR a night-USSR a nightmare USSR home for the panacea Negation haven of all (in life's name) Deathworshippers hopper of hate's Becausemachine (U for un- & S for self S for science and R for-reality) how it shrivels: how it dwindles withers; how it wilts diminishes wanes; how it crumbles evaporates collapses disappears — the verily consubstantial cauchemar of premeditated NYET.
Throughout "Eimi" Cummings describes the Soviet Union as a shut window. The book opens: "SHUT seems to be The Verb"; and closes powerfully as Cummings returns to Paris with the lines:
Poetry is seldom taught thoroughly in many schools today, and when it is, the canon has become shockingly slight. If Cummings is taught at all, it is only a few of his thousands of poems that remain anthologized: "next to of course god america i," "Buffalo Bill's," and "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls," or isolated incidences of poetic devices such as "anyone lived in a pretty how town" and "the world is mud-luscious . . . and puddle-wonderful." Even sparser in class curricula is the gravity of Cummings's documentation of his brief but memorable visit to the Soviet Union in 1931, which could serve as a beneficial entrée into the oeuvre of a writer who has for far too long received short shrift by cultural arbiters. More important, however, is the value of "Eimi" as a social studies lesson for students, public policy wonks, government officials and artists willing to endure a first-person account of government oppression of the arts disguised as patronage.
Bruce Edward Walker is communications manager for the Property Rights Network at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a research and education institute headquartered in Midland, Mich. He also has worked as an adjunct professor of literature and academic writing at the University of Detroit Mercy, Permission to reprint in whole or in part is hereby granted, provided that the author and the Center are properly cited.
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Curious George "George Measures Up/Something New Under The Sun" George Measures Up - Chef Pisghetti is cooking one up for the records book - a strand of spaghetti that measures 30 feet! When the Chef leaves for an important appointment, George protects the noodle from being destroyed by a playful Gnocchi. Later, the Chef calls to ask George how tall the building next door is, but George doesn't have anything long enough to measure with. or does he? Chef Pisghetti returns and sees a monkey measuring a building with the world's longest noodle. D
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Wild Kratts "Race for the Hippo Disc" When Chris and Martin accidentally lose a Power Disc on the African savannah, the Wild Kratts goes into crisis mode to find the disc before it gets into the hands of Zach Varmitech. D
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Peep and the Big Wide World/Pocoyo "Nosing Around/The Last Straw" The Big Wide World has an unpleasant new smell. Peep and Chirp discover that a drinking straw has many uses. Pocoyo: Table for Fun - When Pocoyo and Elly play restaurant, a very hungry Pato becomes their unwitting guest. D
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Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Seasons - Spring and Summer/Seasons - Fall and Winter" Seasons - Spring and Summer - For Show and Tell at school, Nick and Sally must bring something from their favourite season. But how can they choose which is their favourite? The Cat in the Hat takes them to the magical Garden of Seasons, where they can visit any season they like, any time they like! They meet three young animals and journey with them as they begin to grow up. Sally decides that she has two favourite seasons, and with the pictures taken from the Snaparama camera, she now has a scrapbook of pictures to show why! Seasons - Fall and Winter - It's Nick's turn to choose a favourite season. D
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Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps "Angelina and Alice's Big Night/Angelina and the Giant" Angelina is excited about performing in a recital with her class at Camembert and wants Alice to attend as her special guest - but Alice has an ice skating event at the ice rink on the very same night, and she wants Angelina to come to her performance as her special guest! Angelina and Alice have been given the task of designing the giant prop for Jackie and the Beanstalk. Angelina gets a bit carried away trying to make the biggest and best prop ever.G
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Bob the Builder "Following Clues (Pt. 1)" Scrambler and the Clue - The pillars at Fixham Museum need to be replaced. The museum's curator, David Mockney asks Bob and the team to help with the repairs. Mr. Mockney explains that Fixham was built years ago by Brickbeard the Pirate and legend tells of him burying a Golden Hammer. D
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Thomas & Friends "Busy Days" Thomas' Crazy Day - Thomas promised to play hide and seek with his best friend Percy at the Steam Works. Sir Topham Hatt also asked him to show Bash, Dash and Ferdinand what it takes to be a Really Useful engine. Thomas decides that he has to do everything so he rushes back and forth helping the Logging Locos and playing a game of hide and seek with Percy. D
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Wishbone "Shakespaw" This live-action program follows the exploits of Wishbone the dog and his human friends, Joe, David and Samantha through their adventures intheir hometown of Oakdale. Wishbone's everyday experiences trigger hi s imagination and he finds himself in scenes from classic works of literature. In this episode, David tries to ramain calm at the center of the storm when problems plague his direction of The Temptest, by William Shakespeare. D
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Dialogue "Behind The Scenes at POV" Host Marcia Franklin interviews Simon Kilmurry, executive director and producer of the documentary film series POV, during his recent visit to Idaho. They discuss how films are chosen for the series and the state of independent non-fiction film.G
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BBC World News "News" Honduras has the highest murder rate in the world. Linda Pressly meets the staff of the People's Funeral Service, who deal each day with the fall-out from these extreme levels of violence. D
11:30 am
Consuelo Mack WealthTrack "Key Investment Decision" Guests: Mark Cortazzo, Senior Partner, MACRO Consulting; Founder, Flat Fee Portfolios; Charles Ellis, Founder, Greenwich Associates; Author, "The Elements of Investing". What's the most important investment decision you can make in the New Year? This week's Consuelo Mack WealthTrack features a television exclusive with financial legend Charles Ellis and innovative financial planner Mark Cortazzo, who explain why cutting back on investment fees is the best way to insure higher returns. D
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Painting and Travel with Roger & Sarah Bansemer "Fatty's Antique Auto, Part 1" Sit inside the famous car once owned by silent film actor Fatty Arbuckle. Sarah admires the luxurious interior while hearing its colorful history from the owner. Roger begins a large canvas featuring the 1923 MacFarland on Amelia Island. D
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Sewing with Nancy "Serger Boutique, Part 2" Be inspired to serge boutique style gifts with ease as you learn creative serger stitch applications. Use your serger to make a ruffled tee dress, a vintage stitched or woven fab finished pillow, and a trendy table runner with an innovative cover stitched binding. Nancy and serger specialist Barbara Goldkorn share their expert techniques for serging impressive projects that are timelessly chic, yet simple to make. D
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Quilting Arts "Colorful Illusions" We often explore different ways to create unique surface effects with paints or dyes, and this episode's designers share some very interesting ways to add and take away color. First, Jo Fitsell presents a fabric marbling technique using stencils. Next, Jeannie Palmer Moore is back with a lesson on preserving the white! She shows us how to do resists on fabric using screen printing ink and then she brushes on color using dyes. D
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Hometime "Timber Shed Finishing Touches" The HOMETIME crew finishes the exterior and gets the new shed ready for winter. D
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Woodsmith Shop "Craftsman Coffee Table" The Woodsmith editors share tips & techniques for building a beautiful heirloom-quality coffee table with a glass top. Plus, you'll learn a quick and easy way to make mortises. All you need is a table saw - no chisel required.G
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This Old House "Cambridge 2012/Hearthstone, Waterfall Island Top" Roger is getting the plants in despite the rain; the hearth and woodbox are lined with rustic sandstone. Norm visits Paul Grothouse in Pennsylvania to see how he's fabricating the huge butcher block countertop with waterfall edge and dovetail key detail. Richard installs wall-mounted lavatory faucets. D
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Ask This Old House "Transplanting a Mature Rose Bush/Replacing Old Outdoor Lighting" Landscape contractor Roger Cook helps a homeowner temporarily transplant a mature rose bush while exterior work takes place. Then, Roger, along with host Kevin O'Connor, plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey and general contractor Tom Silva, asks, "What is it? " Afterward, Tom and Kevin replace old outdoor lighting with new fixtures. D
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Growing a Greener World "Sol Mobile Bus (Various Cities Across America)" We follow a group of young gardeners who are traveling the country in a retro-fitted school bus powered on nothing but waste vegetable oil and their own enthusiasm. With a traveling greenhouse, green roof and lots of seeds, they hope to teach edible gardening with sustainable practices in cities and towns across America. D
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Moyers & Company "Rewriting The Story of America" The life and work of Junot Diaz contains many worlds -- and that makes him all the more worth listening to. His books, including National Book Award finalist This Is How You Lose Her and Pulitzer Prize-winner The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, journey between the old and the new, and between the America that was and the America we're becoming. Born in the Dominican Republic, but raised in New Jersey and American to the core, Junot Diaz is a spotter of the future, a curator of the past, a man of the here-and-now. D
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William and Mary William and Mary take Kate to Oxford for her university interview. Mary tries to persuade William not to smother Kate and let her find her own way around.G
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Outdoor Idaho "Hometown Ski Hills" Community ski hills are scattered throughout Idaho, each with its own "field of dreams" story to tell. We profile three of them - Bogus Basin near Boise; Little Ski Hill by McCall; and Pomerelle near Albion - to learn what makes each of these ski areas unique.G
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Call the Midwife Holiday Special In this special, newly married Chummy and Nurse Jenny Lee are hard at work during their first Christmas in Nonnatus House. As nurses and nuns minister to an abandoned newborn and search for the mother, and Jenny tries to find the children of an elderly vagrant, Chummy plans an ambitious nativity play. In true Chummy fashion, mishaps ensue. D
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Masterpiece Classic "Downton Abbey (S2 E7)" In the finale, the family gathers at Downton Abbey for Christmas. D
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New Tricks "Nine Lives" An elderly woman leaves her estate to her beloved cats but when the last of her feline beneficiaries dies, there are still unanswered questions about her death. There also is no shortage of people laying claim to the remains of the estate. The team decides to reopen the investigation into the woman's death.G

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ecoyouth needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 24 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
We're looking for a simple, funky logo for the Manitoba Environmental Youth Network as well as a header banner that will set the tone for our new social networking website (http://www.mbecoyouth.org) for environmentally-minded youth in Manitoba. The banner should incorporate the logo and welcome young people to the site, conveying an atmosphere of energy and action.
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We need a logo that represents who we are as the Manitoba Environmental Youth Network. The logo should then be incorporated into a banner designed for our new social networking website (http://www.mbecoyouth.org) that will help environmentally-minded youth and youth groups in Manitoba connect with each other.
The Manitoba Environmental Youth Network is a newly formed network of youth groups in Manitoba that come together to exchange ideas, share skills and resources and plan joint actions and campaigns. We gather once a year for an in-person forum, called Greenspace, and intend to use this website to help us stay in touch in between. (Note that while the current banner reads "Greenspace", banners designed for this contest should read "Manitoba Environmental Youth Network".) This group is affliliated with the Manitoba Eco-Network.
The logo should be roughly square in proportions and have a resloution of at least 200 dpi.
The banner MUST be 955 pixels wide and should be a reasonable height (probably similar to the current banner in height, but not necessarily). PSD and JPEG format files are REQUIRED.
- appeals to youth aged 15-25
- open, bright, colourful
- feels 'natural' or 'green'
- represents communication, networking and collaboration
- has an energetic and action-oriented feel
- banner incorporates the title: "Manitoba Environmental Youth Network" (could also include a tagline)
- something childish, something that 'talks down' to the youthful users
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Congo needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 158 designs submitted by 43 freelance designers.
We require a funky logo to simply yet creatively stand out in the arena of online buzz creation. The name comes from our mission, which is to act like a secret sauce and once added to the mix of an existing business will enhance their brand, word of mouth, value to customers and innovation.
Buzzsauce needs a logo that depicts its ethos. That is the provision of a social media consultancy aimed at corporations who want to add buzz to their business by embracing social networking and their customers to empower brand and innovation improvements.
A Social Networking theme should be obvious with some creative flair. The logo should taking advantage of the already funky name.
This logo will be used for all other forms of communication as well i.e. Website, Letterhead, Business Cards.
The winner will be promoted throughout the Buzzsauce business.
1. Use of the name in the logo
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3. Open to any color and/or images
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Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry tours Iowa to 'Reform the Platform'
August 05, 2014
Starting Wednesday, August 6, Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry - a campaign to highlight and build support for the freedom to marry among young conservatives across the United States - will kick off a three-city tour throughout Iowa as part of 'Reform the Platform.' Learn more about Reform the Platform HERE, and make sure to take the pledge declaring your support for marriage for all.
'Reform the Platform,' launched last month with a similar tour throughout New Hampshire, is a $1 million effort that makes the case for removing anti-gay language from the national Republican Party platform before the 2016 Republican National Convention. Young Conservatives are touring early presidential primary states - including later this month in Nevada - to meet with the press, like-minded GOP advocates, and elected officials to discuss the campaign and encourage young Republicans who support reforming the platform to run for delegate and attend the Convention.
Republican strategist and author Margaret Hoover will headline the marriage tour, hosting and leading meetings with elected officials, conservative activists, and voters across the state. Hoover has close ties to Iowa - her great-grandfather President Herbert Hoover was an Iowa native, and Margaret Hoover now serves on the board of Hoover's Presidential Library Association in West Branch.
Margaret Hoover explained why this effort is important to her. She said:
In the five years since Iowa approved marriage for gay couples, countless families across the state have been strengthened, as has the principle of individual liberty that we conservatives hold dear. The Republican Party stands for freedom and the centrality of family, and that's why I believe so strongly in marriage for same-sex couples. It's time our official party platform reflect the diversity of views on marriage held by rank-and-file Republicans. A greater openness on the freedom to marry will maximize Republicans' chances to appeal to younger voters and win.
Since establishing the freedom to marry in 2009 after a court decision not unlike the 35 consecutive pro-marriage rulings that have been issued since June 2013, Iowans have steadily understood that the freedom to marry has been good for the state: A March 2014 poll by The Des Moines Register tracked that 64% of Iowans felt either proud or indifferent that same-sex couples could marry in their state.
Hoover will be traveling to Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and Davenport this week alongside Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry campaign manager Tyler Deaton and four other representatives. Deaton explained:
Young Conservatives are in Iowa to connect with party leaders who are committed to building a Republican Party that can appeal to younger voters in upcoming elections. Marriage for same-sex couples is consistent with core Republican values of limited government, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.
In at least five states - Indiana, Nevada, Oregon, New Mexico, and California - Republican leaders have already expressed opposition to anti-gay, anti-marriage language in their party platforms - and just this year, Republicans in Iowa's 1st Congressional District removed a section of their district platform that sought to restrict marriage to different-sex couples, replacing it with a statement that government should have no role in marriage.
Voice your support for Reforming the Platform with our new Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry page HERE.
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Replacement: None. Although we don't have a direct replacement for this board, we have many IMUs in the IMU category. This page is for reference only.
The Inertia Measurement Unit Combo Board is now available! This small PCB board incorporates an Analog MEMs gyroscope and accelerometer in a tight footprint. The IMU board uses a standard .1" footprint and includes all outputs from both the ADXRS Gyro and ADXL Accelerometer ICs.
We created this board because of the retirement of the Tokin CG-16D piezoelectric sensors. These cheap sensors are now becoming obsolete and difficult to find. The ADXRS sensors from Analog are a great substitute but hobbyists were hindered by the BGA package. By combining the ADXRS with the ADXL sensors, the IMU board enables students and hobbyists to easily incorporate yaw and tilt measurements into their projects or robots.
Board comes fully assembled and tested with ADXL320 and ADXRS610 (300 degree per second). Units come as shown without headers installed. We recommend right-angle break away headers, straight pin headers, or wire up your own cable!
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Capitol Chat A California state senator is calling for a special legislative session to deal with California's perpetually problematic corrections system while supporters of a prison hunger strike protest outside the State Capitol. In this week's Capitol Chat, we're talking prisons with Capital Public Radio's Capitol Bureau Chief Ben Adler.
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Egypt's State of Emergency Egypt has declared a national emergency following violent clashes this week between protesters and the military-led government that left more than 500 people dead. The state of emergency is expected to last a month and will impose a curfew in Cairo. We're speaking with Sacramento residents with family in Egypt about the escalating unrest in the country, including Imam Mohamed Abdul-Azeez, the religious leader of the SALAM Islamic Center in Sacramento. We're also joined by Tamir Sukkary, Adjunct Professor of Political Science at American River College and Sacramento City College.
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Investing in Energy Efficiency Is it worth the initial investment to upgrade your home or office building to conserve water and energy? The answer is looking more like yes. California utility customers installed a record-breaking amount of solar panels last year and more commercial buildings are becoming LEED certified. This comes as funds from the California Solar Initiative, the nation's largest photovoltaic rebate scheme, are dwindling. We're taking a look at the cost and benefit of investing in energy efficiency and a new financing model called Property Assessed Clean Energy, or PACE, that helps eliminate prohibitive upfront costs of efficiency upgrades.
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Sound Advice: Jazz In our weekly music series, Capital Public Radio's All Things Considered and jazz host Devin Yamanaka joins us with some new jazz releases and a track or two of some select music from her stint as guest host of Blue Dog Jam.
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ast week it was Anthony Skorchod from PA. This week, Joe Mallis produces some high quality images that we can simply slide right in and move along with.
The Turkey Hill Country Classic is one of the best races in the Mid-Atlantic. Not only is the course selective with the inclusion of 'The Gamber Wall', there is free ice cream, hot dogs, and other post race recovery food for racers and spectators.
This fellow was on his way UP the Gamber Wall. It's events like this that remind us that push ups are very important during the off season.
And here we are with some run of the mill droppage. First of all a skin suit?. In a road race? Negative style points for this, especially with 85 degree temps. Negative functionality points as well. We will offset this with his inclusion of Hincapie leg veins. Anyway, if you look at this photo by itself, there really isn't anything to it. In fact, it's quite the awesome. If one were this rider, one might download this and hang it on the fridge.
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Paperboy Style! Homeskillet's bike is almost perpendicular to the yellow line. Ultra severe hurting droppage alert.


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Nov. 24, 2007
Lipscomb Lady Bisons (1-4) vs. UAB Blazers (1-3)
Rainbow Wahine Classic
University of Hawaii, Stan Sheriff Center
Nov. 24, 2008
The game: The Lady Bisons will be out to rebound from an 85-51 loss to host Hawaii Friday. This is the second trip to Hawaii for the Lady Bisons in the last four seasons. They had beaten Hawaii 69-63 in 2003 in the Waikiki Beach Marriott Classic.
Saturday the Lady Bisons face UAB, (1-3), an 83-74 loser to Hartford in the first round. The Lady Bisons have lost their last two games.
The tournament ends Sunday.
Junior forward Rachel Davis led the Lady Bisons with 10 points against Hawaii. Center Kaleigh Gossman, playing in her second game of the season, led with six rebounds.
On the air: The Lady Bisons game will be heard on WAMB-Am (1200) with Craig Hartline handling the play-by-play.
The starters: The expected starting lineup is Catie Woods and Miaca Bowman at the guard spots, Jilian Partin and Kaleigh Gossman at the forward positions and Katie Rollins at center.
Bowman, Woods and Partin have started all five games this season.
Forward Miriam McAlister has started four. Rollins has started three.
Tiffany Arnold, Cree Nix and Gossman have each started one game.
The leaders: Five different players have led the Lady Bisons in scoring.
Jilian Partin scored 14 at Tennessee-Martin. Valerie Bronson finished with a team season-high 20 points against Fisk. Cree Nix scored 13 against Bowling Green State. Jenna Bartsokas hit five-of-five 3-point shots for 15 points at Arkansas. Rachel Davis scored 10 points in nine minutes at Hawaii.
On the boards Nix has tied for the lead twice with four at Tennessee-Martin and seven against Bowling Green State. She led with five at Arkansas.
Partin also had seven rebounds against Bowling Green State. Miriam McAlister finished with four rebounds against Tennessee-Martin.
Bronson grabbed a team season-high 15 against Fisk.
Kaleigh Gossman finished with six rebounds at Hawaii.
Doubling up: Freshman guard Jenna Bartsokas has scored in double figures in two games with 15 at Arkansas and 10 against Fisk.
Junior forward Jilian Partin has double figures in pair of games with 14 at Tennessee-Martin and 10 against Fisk.
Freshman forward Cree Nix scored 14 against Fisk and 13 against Bowling Green State.
Freshman forward Valerie Bronson scored 20 against Fisk. Junior center Katie Rollins scored 14 against Fisk. Junior center Rachel Viehmann scored 10 against Fisk.
Bronson is the only player with double-double this season with 20 points and 15 rebounds against Fisk.


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Weightman's story is one of astounding American ingenuity and steadfast ambition chronicling the founding and growth of the ice industry by Frederic Tudor of Boston in the early 1800's. Born to a well-to-do Boston family, his inheritance was lost by his father's poor investments in land and commodities. Determined to find a use for the fresh water ice that formed on ponds, lakes and rivers of the Northeast, he learned through trial and error the best t...


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Photography is a huge passion for thousands of people who are ready to give it all up just in order to dedicate their time and effort to this field. It is easy to understand the reason why so many people are so addicted to photography: it really is amazing. The feeling you get when you transform an event into a lifetime memory and when you show others what only you saw is fantastic. This is one of the reasons why so many people are ready to make the passing from amateur photographs to professional ones. They know that by getting their passion to the next level, they get the chance to even make a living by doing what they like best.
What is very important to know about the professional photographers is that they always use some tricks in order to transmit their messages without any problems. What do these specialists do? It is easy: they add effects to photos. They take advantage of the fact that there are so many free photo effects that stand at their disposal and that they can use in order to transform a good photo shot into a perfect one. Those who don't have a formed eye, can't even tell that the photo shot was actually a little bit modified with the help of some cool photo effects, so there is nothing wrong in taking advantage of the existence of such tools.
However, there are some professional photographers who don't use the photo effects that stand at their disposal in order to simply better transmit the photo's message to the viewer. They take everything to the next and last level and use these tools in order to add the personal touches that will transform the perfect photo into a work of art. People have to understand that a photo can't be called a work of art as long as the personal touches of the photographer are not highlighted. These personal touches represent the personal signature of the photographer and they definitely play a very important role.
A professional photographer has to know how to use cool photo effects, as their role is very important. No matter how much experience or talent you have in the field, there are situations in which errors occur and you are the one responsible for making them disappear if you want to publish that photo shot and to even make a lot of money with it. This is the reason why, as a professional in the field, you need to know how to work with the cool photo effects that stand at your disposal. If you don't do this, you lose, as you are not taking advantage of them! By using the photo effects, you take advantage of them as tools and this is a great thing! If you are not using photo effects, then you can only call yourself an amateur, not a professional. Make sure that you understand their role and their importance when you enter the field.


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Animation master Hayao Miyazaki has become the Walt Disney of Japan.
He is the director and driving force behind the Oscar winning"Spirited Away" and the acclaimed "Ponyo." Both of those fantasy films had intriguing issues appealing to adults and older children on many levels.
"The Secret World of Arrietty"is a much more simple and gentle approach to the hidden worlds that Miyazaki loves to explore.
As in his previous films, there is a brave and resourceful young girl at the center of the action. Arrietty is a member of a race of tiny people called Borrowers. They lead a concealed life in the gardens surrounding a large country home.
They conduct forays into the home at night to "borrow" small amounts of food and supplies to sustain their existence. These exploits lead to tension and danger from marauding crows, cats and insects. When a sickly boy comes to stay at the home, his sighting of Arrietty brings new challenges to her entire family.
The depictions of their many adventures are beautiful and captivating. This lovely film is sweet and subtle, but may be too slowly paced to keep younger children fully entertained. Nevertheless, it's sure to be a nominee for Best Animated Feature at next year's Oscars ceremony.
Surrender and enjoy 'This Means War'
"This Means War" is part spy thriller, part buddy comedy, part naughty chick flick. While not completely successful, it's the perfect date movie with something for everyone.
It's the battle of the blue eyes as FDR (Chris Pine) and Tuck (Tom Hardy) are absurdly handsome, well-tailored CIA agents. After a slick shootout in the Far East, the guys come back to L.A. to sit around and tap their pencils in an absurdly slick, high-tech office.
Tuck wants to find a nice woman and settle down. What luck his first Internet date should be with Lauren (Reese Witherspoon), an absurdly beautiful blonde. Their blue eyes meet, and Tuck is smitten. But that same night, FDR has an accidental meet cute with Lauren, and he's smitten too.
Ms. Witherspoon, ever perky, is playing a variation on her "Legally Blonde" character but without a sense of purpose. The real chemistry is between FDR and Tuck, friends who would take a bullet for each other but have no qualms trying to outdo the other when it comes to love (and cyber stalking, ick).
Laugh-out -oud hilarity is casually tossed out by Chelsea Handler as Lauren's married, harried BFF (who carries "special juice" in her own sippy cup). Handler's crude commentary about sex and dating kept the movie's juices flowing between bullets.
JOHN DEPKO is a retired senior investigator for the Orange County public defender's office. He lives in Costa Mesa and works as a licensed private investigator.
SUSANNE PEREZ lives in Costa Mesa and is an executive assistant for a company in Irvine.


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International Conference on Nanotechnology, Renewable Materials Engineering & Environmental Engineering (ICNRMEEE) will be held in Chandigarh, India during May 20th, 2018. ICNRMEEE is organized by Industrial Electronics and Electrical Engineers Forum-ieeeforum.
ICNRMEEE provides an international forum for researchers, developers, engineers and academicians who are involved in research projects to exchange and share their valuable ideas and research concept leading to the innovation of new and relevant technology. We are going to provide an opportunity to exchange new ideas, advances and technologies for all registered participants. We hope that this will become a strong technological and academic community for worldwide engineers, scholars ,academicians , industrialists and students in fields of relevant areas.


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Produced by Prairie Public Television, Fargo, North Dakota, 2002, 60 minutes
Uff da! Ya. Did you hear? Prairie Public Television has produced a documentary about the cultures of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark showing how those cultures are thriving today in our area communities. Producer Kim Stenehjem traveled the region to interview artisans, folk singers, dance troupes, hardanger fiddlers and just regular folks who are avidly involved in their Scandinavian heritage. The result is a colorful and heartwarming documentary that exemplifies the art, handcrafts, music, storytelling, food traditions and people of the Scandinavian culture.
In the late 1800s, one out of every six adults living in Scandinavian countries emigrated to North America, Stenehjem said. It's not difficult to find their descendants in this area. Many are actively carrying on the traditions of their homeland celebrating Syttende Mai and August the 2nd, sending their children to language camps. And they are quite willing to share nostalgia and childhood memories. Participants in the production contributed family movies from private collections, family photographs, diaries, and immigration records.
Stenehjem and the Prairie Public film crew also went on location to gather footage from museums, art galleries, community celebrations, and heritage centers. The profusion of material collected is spilling over onto Prairie Publics Web site (at www.prairiepublic.org), which will provide supplementary resources and educational materials to accompany the television production. This organization feels a responsibility to act as one of the regions cultural and educational institutions, Stenehjem said.
Scandinavian Traditions is a lot of fun, but its also an important record of our heritage that deserves to be preserved.
Scandinavian Traditions feature performances by folk musician Ross Sutter, the mother and daughter duet of Mary and Kaia Klockeman, hardanger fiddle composer Dan Trueman, and the Scandinavian dance band Foot-Note of Decorah, Iowa.
Scandinavian Traditions will be distributed to public television stations across the United States and will air on Twin Cities Public Television on December 5 and December 11. Previous Prairie Public Television heritage documentaries have been well-received internationally. For instance, The Germans From Russia: Children of the Steppe, Children of the Prairie premiered on Prairie Public Television in 1999, and has since aired on 70 public broadcasting stations in 26 states and four Canadian provinces. It won the top prize for historical documentaries at the 1999 Telly Awards and a bronze plaque award in humanities at the Columbus 47th Annual International Film and Video Festival.
Prairie Public Broadcasting, headquartered in Fargo, is a non-profit organization and community licensee that provides public television services throughout North Dakota, northwestern Minnesota, southern Manitoba, and parts of Montana and South Dakota, and public radio service to North Dakota. In addition to broadcasting services, Prairie Public Broadcasting provides a wide range of educational and technological services to communities and individuals across its coverage area.
Scandinavian Traditions
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Simone Veders needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 35 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
11 voor Limburg
Roda JC is a professional football organisation. We play in the Eredivisie; the highest football league in the Netherlands.
Roda JC is developing a social responsibility programme '11 voor Limburg'. 11 voor Limburg translated: eleven for Limburg (Limburg is a region in Holland). 11 stands for the eleven footballers / the organisation Roda who does something in return for the society.
With this programme we focus at 'Youth, Movement (sport), and Health (encouraging children to move, eat healthy etc.).
The audience can be described as 'people (young and old), companies (for sponsoring) and public authorities'. We would like to use the logo in the communication of every social project Roda JC.
We are looking for a unique logo designed like a stamp (not a post stamp). We don't want you to use the Roda JC logo in the stamp. The stamp will be used next to the logo of Roda JC (projects are organized by Roda JC, and will be 'stamped' by the 'logo' of 11 voor Limburg). The logo must be suited to the logo of Roda JC (black & yellow). Please check our website for the house style of Roda JC; http://www.rodajc.nl
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Live Nation Gifts Lady Gaga a 757 Jet
Lady Gaga was gifted a 757 jet by Live Nation. It was likely just a loaner to get her from A to B in luxury, and to express their appreciation at working with her, but who cares? She had her own darn jet for at least a night, complete with her name embroidered on the towels/head rests on the seats. While it was may not have been good for the environment, it was good for Gaga and her ego! She works hard for her money!
She shared internal and external photos of the jet and the catering on her Facebook page, and even shared a photo of herself, in red, white and blue sequins, with statement, bold eyebrows.
She posted: "Thanks for believing in Born This Way. Thank you Live Nation and monsters. hope u feel like I'm sharing this w u."
Well, yeah, she was sharing the photos with us, but she wasn't exactly sharing the experience with us. Now maybe if we had a seat on the plane, a bite of the eats that were being served and a backstage pass to Born This Way Ball tour, we might feel totally included but realize that's not exactly realistic. We get it. We can dream though, right?
What do you think PoPCrushers? Is a jet excessive? Or does Gaga deserve it for all of her hard work?
Watch the Lady Gaga 'Born This Way' Video


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These are the dog days of winter. Here in the northernmost tier of North America, as as we slog through the snow and measure the temperature by windchill factor, the simple pleasures are what carry us forward as we patiently await spring's arrival.
Before leaving the house in the morning, consider 'correcting' your coffee. Spiking it, that is, with a shot of liquor that will warm you up and give you the kick you need to brace the cold outdoors. Caffè corretto is an Italian coffee tradition. Any time of day, but most commonly in the morning, Italian gentlemen will ask their barista to 'correct' their espresso with their liquor of preference – Grappa, Cognac, Sambuca, or bitters such as Fernet or Cynar.
It is a tradition that may have originated in Naples, among the working class, who were looking to begin the workday with just a bit of extra forza. Like all good ideas, the practice spread and is now common in all parts of the Italian peninsula.
So, the next time you are in Italy and wish to try an espresso with some fortitude, stop in a bar and ask for a caffè corretto alla grappa, or a caffè corretto al cognac. Don't sugar it, either. That will throw off the 'correction.'
Here in the States, unfortunately we cannot go into our local coffee shop and and ask for a a little brandy in our single shot espresso. You could ask for one at the end of your meal in a good Italian restaurant, however. In fact, that would be an excellent measure of authenticity – ask for a caffè corretto, and if they know exactly what you mean, then you're at a true Italian restaurant.
Some correct their coffee by putting a shot of liquor in the espresso cup and then adding the caffè. Others drink the two side by side. Either way, it will add a warm boost to the start of your day.
Since we are on the topic, we should mention another Italian merging of flavors involving both coffee and liquor. Gelato affogato, which means 'drowned' gelato is a simple and brilliant ice-cream dessert. A bit of bitter espresso poured over a scoop of ice cream – gelato affogato al caffè – adds complexity of flavor and sophistication to an otherwise plain dessert.
Or, for an adult twist, try gelato affogato al Borsci, also a bitter, or gelato affogato al whiskey. In Italy, you would use gelato alla crema, a plain, cream-based gelato. If you are not so lucky to be able to find that, a nice natural vanilla ice cream will substitute just fine.
So, until the sun shines hot again, stay home and stay warm!


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When an athlete is "lucky" to come away from an accident with only a broken ankle, you know it must've been frightening.
And that is surely the case with Australian drag racer Chris Matheson. During the Sydney Dragway's 2013 Nitro Champs event, Matheson was speeding at around 230 miles per hour when he took a nasty tumble off his bike.
Matheson, a former Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) Top Bike champion, makes it one quarter of the way through his run when he appears to be knocked off his bike by the force of the wind.
He rolls on the ground for what appears to be about 100 feet before finally coming to a stop. And according to reports, he hobbled away with only a broken ankle along with some bumps and bruises.


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Shawn Marion and Elton Brand scored 17 apiece, Vince Carter again provided a spark off the bench and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Orlando Magic 111-96 on Wednesday night.
The victory snapped a nine-game winning streak for the road team in the series, and the Magic lost for the 26th time in 29 games despite a third-quarter surge that put them in front.
The Mavericks put away an Orlando team playing on the second night of a back-to-back with a 17-0 fourth-quarter run that restored the double-digit lead they had in the second quarter.
Carter finished with 14 points and had another burst of key 3-pointers to help Dallas retake the lead. Dirk Nowitzki had 12 points and a team-high nine rebounds.
Arron Afflalo led Orlando with 21 points.
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Every day, we get news of yet another horror perpetrated in America — of yet another murder in the crime-ridden streets of a nearby city, of senseless acts like an argument in a New York subway station escalating to the pushing and death of a family man under an oncoming train….
America is no longer a country we recognize.
Yesterday, a new unimaginably EVIL horror was perpetrated in an elementary school in prosperous Newtown, Connecticut.
A young man first killed his mother, then drove in her car to Sandy Hook Elementary School. Calmly, without saying a word, he shot to death 20 little children and 6 adults.
Sandy Hook now has the distinction of being the second worst school shooting in U.S. history — second in the number of victims only to the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, which left 33 people dead, including the gunman.
Before we even found out the name of the mass murderer, the usual voices on the Left already had started making political haystack out of this latest evil with their usual denunciations of private gun ownership and their usual calls for gun control. To them, I have this question:
"China has had a rash of incidents of lone men going into schools and killing and wounding little children — with a knife. The most recent incident took place just a day before the Sandy Hook massacre. Should America also ban the private ownership of kitchen knives?"
And predictably, the usual Leftist trolls came onto this blog, Fellowship of the Minds, to spew their hateful and very confused accusation, such as this gem by Tmaz123:
"Gun control need to be reviewed. No one needs an assault rifle. The blood of these innocent children are on your hands. Hope you are all happy."
To Tmaz123 and her ilk, I say:
"No, neither guns nor gun owners are responsible for the Sandy Hook killings. The person who is responsible, who has blood on his hands, is the killer himself — and his parents."
This is what we know about the Sandy Hook mass murderer, thus far:
- He is Adam Lanza, age 20.
- He lived with his mother, Nancy, in a well-to-do part of prosperous Newtown, a picturesque New England community of 27,000 people about 60 miles northeast of New York City. The Lanzas' neighbors are doctors or hold white-collar positions at companies such as General Electric, Pepsi and IBM.
- Adam Lanza's parents, Peter and Nancy, had filed for divorce in 2008. Peter Lanza remarried and lives in Stamford, Conn.; works as a tax director for General Electric; and found out about his son's murderous rampage from a reporter. ABC News says Nancy was a kindergarten teacher. The AP says at least one Sandy Hook parent said Nancy Lanza mother was a substitute teacher there, but her name did not appear on a staff list. Police official said investigators were unable to establish any connection so far between her and the elementary school.
- Adam has an older brother, 24-year-old Ryan, whom some reports had initially but mistakenly identified to be the killer. Ryan Lanza lives in Hoboken, N.J., and was at work when his brother committed the massacre. Law enforcement officials said they had questioned Ryan and do not believe him to have been involved in the shootings at Sandy Hook. Ryan told police he had not been in touch with his younger brother since about 2010.
- Police first said they don't have a motive for the killer, Adam Lanza, but later indicated they do have evidence for a motive although they refuse to say what it is. Investigators believe Adam had attended Sandy Hook several years ago but appeared to have no recent connection to the school. Daily Mail reports that Adam had "fought with" four Sandy Hook teachers the day before. He killed 3 of the 4 teachers; a fourth teacher wasn't at the school that horrible day.
- Adam Lanza was highly intelligent. People who knew him describe him as "brilliant but remote." He was an honor roll student at Newtown High School, but was living at home instead of attending college or working at a job.
- Adam Lanza showed signs of being mentally ill. An unnamed law enforcement official who was briefed on the investigation said Adam is believed to have suffered from "a personality disorder." Neighbors described him as "odd" and displaying characteristics associated with mental illness. His brother Ryan reportedly described Adam as having Asperger Syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism that in some clinical studies has been shown to have a causal link to violence. But Adam's aunt Marsha Lanza, of Crystal Lake, Ill., said her nephew was raised by kind, nurturing parents who would not have hesitated to seek mental help for him if he needed it. "Nancy wasn't one to deny reality," Marsha Lanza said, adding her husband had seen Adam as recently as June and recalled nothing out of the ordinary.
- Adam Lanza was a Goth. Catherine Urso of Newtown said her college-age son knew Adam and remembered him for his "alternative style": "He just said he was very thin, very remote and was one of the goths."
- Adam Lanza played video games. He was a member of a technology club at Newtown High School that held computer gaming parties.
- Adam Lanza killed his victims execution-style, shooting each child up to 11 times. The children were all 1st grade students, about 6 years old.
- Adam Lanza hated his mother. Before he drove his mother's car to Sandy Hook elementary school to massacre innocents, Adam had shot his mother in the face — which, criminal psychologists will tell you, is indicative of a lot of rage and hate.
- The guns Adam used belonged to his parents. Three guns were found — a Glock and a Sig Sauer, both pistols, inside the school; a .223-caliber high-powered rifle was in the back of the car driven by Adam. CNN reports that all three guns had been purchased by Nancy Lanza. In other words, no amount of psychological screening would have prevented Adam from getting hold of those guns. His access to those guns is his parents' responsibility.
[Sources: Associated Press; ABC News; FoxNews; CNN; Reuters; The Sun; Daily Mail]
Like Adam Lanza, the killers at Columbine, Virginia Tech, Tucson AZ, and Aurora CO (Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold; Seung-Hui Cho; Jared Lee Loughner; James Holmes) are all young males from middle or upper-middle class homes.
There is something very wrong with our society and with American families. We are breeding heartless, soul-less, evil psychopaths.


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...then get that little fucker off my lawn..."
I found it funny, but I found the comment reproducing my thoughts during that Tour, when Cadel would be seen walking around, hugging this little dog as if he was a sad little boy lost in the crowd and looking for his mum (possibly Chiara).
"I hope he doesn't get on the podium with the dog!" I thought then...
Now, I kind of understand why Cadel had so many issues gaining respect from his peers, including team mates. How could anyone? We never saw the Cannibal walking around with a poodle in his arms and looking all teary after a stage of the Tour.
Shit, I am going to be hated for this and I don't even dislike Cadel Evans but I do think he could really make a worthwhile statement by repeating his efforts of Beijing, when he broke the rules and wore an under shirt with Free Tibet painted on it. Even, if he likes, every now and then, not to take life too seriously.
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Region 7 will host the conference on October 29 from 8:15 am to 2:15 pm at the Education Service Center located at 1909 N. Longview Street in Kilgore. The conference is free for those who would like to attend, and the registration deadline is October 25. To register for the conference, parents and educators may call 903.988.6700.
Conscious Discipline is a comprehensive program that is designed for parents who are faced with the daily challenges of raising children and for teachers who struggle with managing discipline in the classroom, both of which can oftentimes be overwhelming.
Utilizing major components such as the Seven Powers for Conscious Adults, the Seven Skills of Discipline, The Connected Family and The School Family, the program provides parents and educators with the conscious awareness and skills needed to create safe, connected, problem-solving homes and schools.
Region 7's director of federal programs, Cinda Farrell, said the conference is a great way for participants to gain valuable resources and knowledge that lead to successful discipline.
"This conference allows us to bring experts in the field directly to our parents and schools so they can gain the tools they need first-hand at no cost to them," said Farrell. "In addition to highlighting ineffective behavioral patterns that can prevent success, this program serves as a 3-in-1 powerhouse by allowing parents and educators to learn how to discipline children so that they become self-disciplined, improve their relationships with adults and peers, and become successful in a career."
This year's conference will feature guest speakers Donna Porter and DJ Batiste who are products of the Conscious Discipline transformation. Porter has implemented the Conscious Discipline skills in her role as an educator over the last 10 years. The pair will share their story in how Porter helped former student Batiste turn his life around through positive discipline.
"Conference participants will have the opportunity to meet our guest speakers who are living proof that the Conscious Discipline program can work," said Farrell.
In addition to the featured speakers, representatives from other parent organizations and advocacy groups will be present at the conference to provide additional resources for parents and teachers.
One such organization is the Partners Resource Network (PRN), which operates the Texas statewide network of Parent Training and Information Centers (PTI's) supporting federally funded programs that provide training, education, information, referral, emotional support, and individual assistance in obtaining appropriate services for parents. Jennifer Everett, a PRN regional coordinator for the PATH Project, will attend the conference and said it is important to utilize positive disciplinary techniques so that children lead healthier and more successful lives.
"When a child feels comfort, inclusion and acceptance by teachers and peers, they are more likely to exhibit positive behaviors," she said. "A child will be more willing to embrace a teacher's direction and will be more willing to engage in healthy age-appropriate relationships if appropriate disciplinary action is taken."
Everett also said this conference can help bridge the gap between the school and home in providing positive discipline for students.
"The number one concern or fear parents have is their child being punished for their behavior without support being in place at school," she said. "Parents want their children to be successful in an educational setting with peers and teachers, as well as to be able to have the emotional strength to become productive citizens. At this conference, parents can expect to gain more confidence in learning how to create structure for their children so that they function responsibly across all settings."
Farrell said she encourages both parents and teachers to register for the event.
"Research shows that discipline has a direct impact on a child's ability to learn and to be successful, and discipline takes place both at home and at school," said Farrell. "We all need to have a positive approach into how we handle behavioral problems so that our students are more productive and successful at home and at school. This conference will teach participants not only how to achieve that approach, but will also allow parents and educators to network together to see how it can be successfully implemented both at home and in school."
For more information about the conference, please contact Region 7 Special Education Specialist Susan Lay at 903.988.6700. To learn more about the Conscious Discipline program, please visit www.consciousdiscipline.com.


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Last year saw little movement in terms of salary levels, with middle management getting the best moves (average 7.5% increase), while the junior and senior end saw their average salary levels decrease.
It seems this year, the greatest trend is that at all levels, the highest salaries have come down. However, remarkably at all levels, the average salaries have increased.
Taking a closer look, we begin with entry level. Here we see that there has actually been a very little movement. As we move into the next level of six to12 months' experience, we witnessed a slight increase in average salary, but the top level has come back down by £1.5k which brings it more in line with previous years.
This is due to the market rectifying itself and now having the usual flow of grads into the industry, so supply has risen. Candidates have therefore had less power to negotiate higher pay packets.
This has been similar for the people with one to two years' experience, with again negligible changes in average salary levels. What is interesting here is that the lower end has actually decreased, with salaries starting at £21,000 for this level. Again, this is due to the market having an increase in entry level candidates.
The two to three years' level of experience has seen an 8% increase in average salaries, bringing the level over the £30k mark once more. The top level has only come down by £1,500 to £33,500. This highlights the lack of candidates at this level (due to the reduced intake of grads in 2009/2010), which gives the candidates more power when negotiating salaries.
Moving on to the three to four years' level, we see the trend continuing as the high and low level are squeezed (low level up by £4k from the previous year, with the high level down by £2k.) This rise of almost 17% at the lower level shows clearly the massive lack of people in the market. Again this is a knock-on effect from the reduced recruitment several years ago.
Managers with four to six years' experience have probably seen the least benefit in the last 12 months. Their average salaries have only shifted up by a fraction, with both the low and high levels coming down. (At the top end this was by 13%). So on average employees are doing OK, though the top salaries are no longer being offered. This may be a reaction to their increases from the year before.
As we observe the next few bands of experience we again see averages rising, and the high and low level being shifted closer together. The average salary at the group head/director level (six years' experience) has increased more than any other level by 9%.
With this squeeze, fairer salary brackets are introduced as similar levels of experience are being paid equally. The high salaries that were being handed out to people with specialist skill sets (e.g. social / mobile) are no longer being offered. This is because there has been an increase in people with these skills, so again supply goes up, salaries come down.
Overall, the market has acted in the way we had predicted, with most salary levels experiencing an average increase, though not by much (the highest average increase being 9%).
The knock-on effect from the recession is still being felt at the middle-manager level, and it appears agencies are looking to bring people with similar levels of experience closer together in terms of pay.
Looking ahead to this year, we expect 2013 to see continued growth, with more opportunities arising whilst good candidates are continuing to be snapped up quickly.
The marketplace is certainly experiencing an increase in candidates available though, whilst different opportunities are being created due to the rise and rise of technology. As new types of roles emerge with new skill sets being sought, those that can offer employers these skills will remain the highest -paid industry professionals.
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Time and again in his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI spoke out against the scourge of child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests, using words that would have been scarcely imaginable by his predecessors.
It was, he said, "evil," "gravely immoral," "a terrifying sign of the times." He spoke of the "deep shame" and "humiliation" the scandal had brought on the Catholic Church. He apologized to victims.
Not long into his tenure, Benedict essentially banished an influential Mexican priest, Father Marcial Maciel, who had long been suspected of sexually abusing seminarians and boys in his care and had fathered at least three children. Benedict ordered investigations into sexual abuse and issued guidelines in 2010 that made it easier to punish abusive priests.
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For all that, there were those who were ultimately disappointed by the pope's record on the issue. Benedict never acquiesced to demands that he open Vatican records to outside scrutiny and almost never took action against those just below him — his bishops and cardinals — who failed to protect children from abusive priests.


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Research Areas
Ultrahigh Pressure Mineralogy, Experimental Petrology, Ultra-High Pressure Metamorphism and Deep Subduction, Deep Earths Mineralogy and Geophysics
Research Interests:
The focus of my researches is on solid Earth geophysics. I use mineralogy as tool for studying ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks from collisional orogenic belts, their microstructures, compositions and mineral phase transformations at very high pressures and high temperatures in order to provide understanding of the architecture of the Earth's interior and its geodynamics. It includes also experimental modeling of the ultra-deep metamorphic process and mineral phase transformations utilizing Walker 's style multianvil apparatus and diamond anvil cell devices. Origin of diamonds from ultra-high pressure metamorphic terranes, deep subduction of continental crust. Experimental synthesis of diamonds from different source of natural carbon in presence of H2O at high pressures and high temperatures and their implication for geology, geophysics and materials science. My researches combine geological observations and analytical studies of minerals with advanced electron microscopy and synchrotron assisted micro X-ray and micro IR and Raman spectroscopy and experimental modeling of mineral behaviors at extreme conditions.
Current projects and research opportunities:
1. Nitrides in terrestrial rocks: A window into the geodynamic history of the Earth.
2. Fate of continental crust subducted to Earth's mantle transition zone: experimental studies.
3. Diamond formation in subduction zones; diamond synthesis from a supercritical COH-fluid
4. Nanoscale geological materials – from mineralogy: Focused Ion Beam, nanoSIMS, synchrotron IR and Raman spectroscopy, Scanning and Transmission electron microscopy.
Departmental activity: Freshman Discovery Seminar; Geo 190, Geo 122
International Activity: Chair of Task Force IV, International Lithosphere Program International Collaborations
Scientific Editor of books and Special Volume in journals
- Doctor of Sciences Degree – Supreme Committee of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Ph.D., Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology
- B.S., Saint Petersburg University, Russia
- Fellow of Mineralogical Society of America
- Fellow of Geological Society of America
- Fellow of American Association for Advancement of Science
- Fellow of Japan Society for Promotion of Science
- Yang, J., Dobrzhinetskaya, L.F ., Bai, W.-J., Fang, Q-S., Robinson, P., Zhang, J-F. and Green, H.W., 2007. Diamond - and coesite-beraing chromitites from the Luobasa ophiolite, Tibet. Geology, 35: 875-878.
- Dobrzhinetskaya, L.F., Wirth, R., Green, H.W., 2007. A look inside of diamond-forming media in deep subduction zones. Proceedings of National Academy Sciences of the United States of America 104 (22): 9128-9132.
- Dobrzhinetskaya, L.F. and Green, H.W., 2007. Experimental studies of mineralogical assemblages of metasedimentary rocks at Earth's mantle transition zone conditions. Journal of Metamorphic Geology , 25 (2): 83-96.
- Dobrzhinetskaya, L.F. Liu, Z, Cartigny, P., Zhang, J., Tchkhetia, N.N., Green II, H.W. and Hemley R.J., 2006. Synchrotron infrared and Raman spectroscopy of microdiamonds from Erzgebirge, Germany, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 248 (1-2): 340-349.
- Dobrzhinetskaya, L. F., Wirth, R, and Green II, H.W., 2005. Direct observation and analysis of trapped COH inclusions in Kokchetav diamonds (Kazakhstan). Terra Nova, v.17, n.5, p.472-477.
- Dobrzhinetskaya, L. F., Green II, H.W., Renfro, A. P., Bozhilov, K.N., Spengler, D. and Van Roermund, H. L. M., 2004. Precipitation of pyroxenes and olivine from majoritic garnet: simulation of peridotite exhumation from great depth. Terra Nova ,16 (6), 325-330.
- Dobrzhinetskaya, L. F., Renfro, A. P. and Green II, H.W., 2004. Synthesis of skeletal diamonds: implication to orogenic belts microdiamond formation. Geology , v. 32, no.10, p. 869-872.
- Jung, H., Green, II, H.W., Dobrzhinetskaya, L.F., 2004. Intermediate-depth earthquake faulting by dehydration embrittlement with negative volume change. Nature, v.428, p.545-549.
- Dobrzhinetskaya, L.F., Green, H.W., Bozhilov, K.N., Mitchell, T.E., Dickerson R.M. 2003. Crystallization environment of Kazakhstan microdiamonds: evidence from their nanometric inclusions and mineral associations. Journal of Metamorphic Geology , 21:425-437.
- Dobrzhinetskaya, L.F., Green, H.W., Weschler, M., Darus, M., Wang, Y.-C.,. Massonne, H.-J and Stöckhert, B., 2003. Focused Ion Beam Technique and Transmission Electron Microscope Studies of Microdiamonds from the Saxonian Erzgebirge , Germany . Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 210:399-410.
- Bozilov, K.N., Green, H.W. and Dobrzhinetskaya, L.F., 1999. Clinoenstatite in the Alpe Arami peridotite: additional evidence of very high pressure. Science. 284:128-132.
- Green, H.W.,II, Dobrzhinetskaya, L.F. and Bozhilov, 1997. Determining the origin of ultra-high pressure lherzolites,. Science. 278 : 704-707.
- Dobrzhinetskaya, L.F., Green, H.W.,II, Wang, S., 1996. Alpe-Arami: a peridotite massif from depth of more than 300 kilometers. Science. 271: 1841-1845.


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On December 10th, the UN celebrated International Human Rights Day, highlighting "the rights of all people — women, youth, minorities, persons with disabilities, indigenous people, the poor and marginalized — to make their voices heard in public life and be included in political decision-making".
The rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, and to take part in government (articles 19, 20 and 21 of the UDHR) are vital to democratic change, and have been impacted in new ways by the internet and online communication.
In partnership with members and networks, APC's Internet Rights project is working to protect and promote these rights online, engaging States and relevant non-State actors through a variety of UN processes including participating in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
In May 2012, APC supported participation in the 13th session of the UPR by members and networks from Ecuador, India, Brazil, South Africa and the Philippines, following stakeholder submissions made in late 2011. Engaging national government and local stakeholders to promote internet rights these submissions make strong recommendations on freedom of expression and association, the right to information, privacy, and participation in public life. Many of these submissions also raise discussion about the internet in the context of women's rights and the rights of marginalised groups.
Working in Ecuador, Valeria Betancourt from APC and Cesar Herrera from CIESPAL have been invited to join the national UPR Working Group, and to propose a set of indicators to monitor internet-related human rights issues. In India, DEF has continued its advocacy on Right to Information legislation, and is working to build regional support and develop strong written statements demanding due process for content removal and allegations of defamation. APC and its members have also been active in South Africa, including discussion with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on how to respond to new cases of abusive speech online. In Brazil, activists were able to highlight the Brazilian government's commitment to implement the recommendation of Estonia that Brasil "consider freedom of expression concerns with drafting cybercrime legislation".
In September and October 2012, APC continued its global advocacy at the 21st session of the HRC and the 14th session of the UPR, where Bytes For All, Pakistan's advocacy led to a number of recommendations on freedom of expression online at the review of Pakistan, including a recommendations made by the Netherlands to: "remove restrictions on accessing internet in the country, which runs counter to the criteria of the ICCPR and the principle of proportionality."
APC has also contributed to joint submissions on internet-related human rights issues for the reviews of Colombia, Canada, Cameroon and Azerbaijan, taking place at the 16th session of the UPR in April 2013. Looking at both the opportunities and threats posed by new technology, these submissions demonstrate the diversity and intersectionality of internet rights issues. Recommendations to combat violence against women are made in the submissions to Cameroon and Colombia, while the Azerbaijan submission focuses primarily on the threats posed to journalists and bloggers. These submissions also discuss proposed and recently passed legislation on intellectual property rights, including Bill C-30 in Canada, and the Lleras Bill in Colombia.
While 2012 has seen increasing engagement on internet rights issues by States, more work is needed to encourage multi-stakeholder discussion. APC will continue to work in this area in 2013, and look for opportunities within the UN system to find strategic entry points for advocacy and support.


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AMERICUS - The Lady Hurricanes soccer team had one more available game slot for the 2013 season. Head Coach Snow has filled this slot with a game against Palm Beach Atlantic.
The last time the Lady Hurricanes competed with Palm Beach Athlantic score resulted in a tie 1-1 game. Palm Beach Atlantic's Kasey Wyer was able to get the first score of the game from a deflection off a corner kick. The next goal came in the next three minutes. Senior Courtney Simpson responded with a goal of her own off a pass from sophomore Catarena Arrant. The teams continued into double overtime without any more goals.
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