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Effect of winter temperatures on corn rootworm eggs
BROOKINGS — An upside to the extraordinary cold temperatures South Dakota experienced this winter is the negative impact the extreme temperatures may have had on egg mortality of corn rootworms (CRW).
"Combined with lower than expected CRW numbers last year and increased mortality of overwintering eggs caused by long spells of cold temperatures this winter, we may see even lower numbers of CRW this year," said Ada Szczepaniec, SDSU Extension Entomology Specialist.
Szczepaniec explained that the lifecycle of 2014 CRW began when mated females laid their eggs in the soil last summer. Laid deep in the soil the eggs depend upon residue and snow cover to insulate them from cold. Western CRW lay eggs at 4-inches or deeper in the soil, while northern CRW lay their eggs in upper 4-inches of the soil. After spending winter in an egg stage, CRW will hatch in late spring/early summer. Larvae feed on the roots, complete their development in the soil, and start emerging as adults from about mid-July in our area. These insects are well adapted to our winters, and can do reasonably well if winter temperatures hover around normal lows.
"What happened to them this winter? Because we had long periods of below normal temperatures, it is possible that a lot of eggs did not make it through the winter," she said. "This is especially likely in areas with little to no snow cover."
How do these predictions affect management decisions?
Because winter mortality is likely to be higher than normal Szczepaniec said extreme measures, such as combining insecticide treatments with Bt corn with anti-CRW traits, may not be necessary.
"Specific factors such as field history and previous levels of CRW populations will affect management strategies in a particular field. A good management practice is to use crop rotation, and to avoid using the same anti-CRW Bt corn for more than three years," she said.
Managing CRW will always be more challenging in a continuous corn production because nothing controls CRW as powerfully as rotating to a non-host crop such as soybean.
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Agreement expands background checks only to gun shows in Minnesota
ST. PAUL -- Gun control backers have given up controversial proposals in an effort to pass some measures aimed at curbing gun violence in Minnesota. The House Public Safety Committee chairman dropped a plan to expand background checks to virtuall...
ST. PAUL -- Gun control backers have given up controversial proposals in an effort to pass some measures aimed at curbing gun violence in Minnesota.
The House Public Safety Committee chairman dropped a plan to expand background checks to virtually all gun sales that was set for a vote Tuesday evening. He said there is a new agreement that will include only checks for purchases at gun shows.
Chairman Michael Paymar of St. Paul said he and fellow Democratic Rep. Debra Hilstrom of Brooklyn Center agreed to kill Paymar's bill but include background checks for all gun show firearm sales in a new proposal they said will be ready later this week.
"Like any compromise, I think people will be disappointed on both sides," Paymar said. But "we have an agreement the gun show loophole will be plugged," which he called "a big step."
Hilstrom's plan, backed by the National Rifle Association, also would increase penalties for illegally possessing a firearm or buying weapons for those who cannot have them, known as straw purchases. It would add more to the existing background check system as well.
The lawmakers said the new bill needs to be ready for a committee hearing sometime this week to meet deadlines.
Paymar also lost a provision allowing law enforcement officials to deny gun permits to those who are a danger to themselves or others.
A Senate committee passed a bill last week that included expanded background checks.
Paymar's original plan to do that drew significant criticism and likely would not have passed his House committee.
"I was prepared to actually lose the bill today," Paymar said. Republicans and some Democrats on the committee had said they opposed the measure.
Paymar said House Speaker Paul Thissen, DFL-Minneapolis, urged the lawmakers to find some kind of solution.
"This is the best we could do," Paymar said.
Rep. Tony Cornish, R-Vernon Center, said he still is not satisfied with the apparent compromise announced Tuesday night.
"The only way we can put an end to this thing is to fight it all the way," he said. He added that the gun show "loophole" is an intentional exclusion from some gun control provisions.
"We need to look at crime control versus gun control," NRA spokesman Chris Rager said Tuesday.
Opponents have said the background checks and other increased controls threaten Second Amendment rights.
Paymar disagreed.
"I think this is a minor inconvenience for a civilized society," he said earlier Tuesday.
Rural Democrats have said they would have trouble supporting significant gun control legislation, including background checks.
Paymar said this agreement hopefully will garner more support.
No proposals that remain on the table include the more contentious measures banning assault rifles or high-capacity magazines discussed in Paymar's committee earlier in the legislative session.
Lawmakers talked over a number of proposals and heard hours of testimony during the first few months of the session before the overall gun control bill was introduced.
The House committee discussed Paymar's proposal Tuesday morning and planned to return in the evening to further talk about and vote on the bill. Cornish warned that the break was to allow for "bullying" and "twisting arms."
"They're desperate to get something passed," he said of Democrats.

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Why 'Blue Like Jazz' Won't Save Christian Cinema
The Kickstarter sensation tries to show an authentic struggle with belief in God but can't commit.
Religious people rarely get a fair shake at the movies. Mainstream films usually seem bent on portraying faithful people as joyless hypocrites: Think of the shrill Hilary Faye in Saved or the stern principal/nun in Doubt. Movies produced by overtly Christian companies are no more nuanced. Films like Courageous and Fireproof show firemen and police officers in straightforward moral dilemmas with straightforward Biblical solutions, while the pro-life subgenre is filled with stories that distort and oversimplify the way a woman decides whether or not to keep an unwanted baby.
A year and a half ago, a project emerged that seemed like it could be a solution to this problem: Blue Like Jazz, the movie version of Donald Miller's bestselling memoir about his struggles with the conservative evangelical church. By affirming rather than mocking faith, the script departed from typical Hollywood cynicism. But it also broke with Christian film's pious status quo: The characters in Blue Like Jazz curse, put an oversized condom on a church steeple, and drink and do drugs with cheerful abandon.
The promise of an authentic, unsanitized Christian film resonated with people. When Blue Like Jazz ran into budget trouble in fall 2010, it raised $345,992 on Kickstarter—then a record for the crowdfunding site. The 4,000-plus backers believed the movie could offer a still better way: a heartfelt depiction of the Christian life as lived not by a heroic fireman or abortion survivor but a real, flawed human being.
"Most of my movie-going friends are ready for a different representation of their faith beyond what the Christian Movie Establishment is currently serving," Blue Like Jazz director Steve Taylor wrote recently. This film, which was released last week in selected cities, was supposed to change that.
Unfortunately, in its attempt to be a more honest voice of evangelical Christianity, Blue Like Jazz the movie ends up saying barely anything at all. It tries to navigate a middle course between mainstream Hollywood and mainstream evangelical movie-making, and in the process loses everyone. The film doesn't show skeptics anything distinctive about Christianity. And it tells believers not to share what they know, but instead to apologize for it.
Blue Like Jazz follows a year in the life of a young man named Don—a fictionalized version of Miller himself—who grew up in Bible-belt Texas and ends up at Portland's ultra-progressive Reed for college. The catalyst for Don's flight to the Northwest? He discovers his mother is having an affair with a married pastor at his church (tired religious stereotype No. 1: Evangelicals are deeply hypocritical about sex).
It doesn't take Don more than a few hours at Reed to realize he's not in Texas anymore. Extracurricular activities include Malaysian cocktail tennis and Jews for Jihad. The bathrooms are co-ed. There's a guy who roams around campus in an ecclesiastical robe, calling himself the Pope and burning books that profess an imperialist or religious worldview.
In other words, the Reed of Blue Like Jazz is a place where every orientation and every philosophy, no matter how outlandish, is accepted, except religion. Though Don retains some of his Texas trappings, at least at the beginning—his perfectly combed hair, his tucked-in shirts—he ditches his faith almost immediately.
"Get in the closet, Baptist boy, and stay there," a friend warns Don early on, after telling him about her Mormon ex-roommate who lasted just two days at Reed.
And he does. Don spends the rest of his freshman year drinking, cracking jokes about religion, and pursuing the ultimate in Reed College cool: presidency of the Tall Bike Club. When a friend from home who has kept the faith shows up unexpectedly for a visit, Don shoos him away as quickly as possible, for fear his cover will be blown. All this—the cartoonishly liberal college, Don's swift denial of his faith and subsequent embarrassment at any reminder of his upbringing—also recycles a tired storyline, one that shows up all the time in religious books and movies: that the godless university will turn the faithful servant into a prodigal son.
The movie's lone out-of-the-closet Christian is a girl named Penny, who goes to church and spends her vacations in India serving the poor. Though Penny, too, embodies a stereotype (evangelicals are goody-goodies!), she represents the movie's greatest hope for an articulate message of what it means to be a Christian in a secular society. But the film squanders the opportunity to let Penny say something meaningful about what she believes. When a classmate asks her how she can trust God when there's so much suffering in the world, Penny precedes her reply with a disclaimer: "Not to go all Mother Theresa on you..." Then she rattles off a quote about the perils of Western material excess. Her riff on the oppressiveness of wealth could have just as easily come from a Buddhist or a Marxist or a subscriber to Good magazine. There's nothing distinctively Christian about it.
Blue Like Jazz makes another quasi-attempt at a statement of faith later in the movie, in the middle of Reed's drug-fueled annual festival, Renn Fayre. After a wild night that ends with Don sleeping in an overturned Porta-Potty, he declares: "I spent the school year trying to ditch God, but I can't. It's like he's following me around." It's a rather simplistic explanation of who God is, and again, it's not exclusively Christian—plenty of other religions worship an omnipresent god. Plus, it's not even clear how wholeheartedly Don buys into it. When a friend asks him if he really believes "all this stuff," Don replies, "I think...I do."
The movie's hesitant embrace of Christianity continues to the end. In the last scene, Don decides that the best way to respond to his renewed belief in God is to apologize to the Reed student body for everything bad Christianity has ever done. "Maybe I'll start with the Crusades and then work my way to U.S. foreign policy," he says. (Another stereotype: Evangelicals are war-mongers!) The impulse reflects a specific, possibly misguided understanding of what skeptics want to hear. Is a college student apologizing for the Catholic sex-abuse scandals a meaningful stand-in for a heartfelt apology from the Catholic Church itself? Probably not.
But more importantly, in a movie that's supposed to depict an authentic walk of faith, it just doesn't feel real. From what I've witnessed—in the Bible, in my own life, and in the lives of those around me—an encounter with God elicits a desire to share the good news, not to say sorry for it. This is something Miller himself seems to understand, or at least he did, at one point. Blue Like Jazz the book does not end with an apology. It ends with an exhortation. "I want you to know Jesus too," Miller writes. That's what knowing Jesus does—it makes you want other people to know him, as well. It's a truth as old as the Bible itself, but it's entirely absent from Blue Like Jazz the movie. Instead of "I want you to know Jesus," we hear, "I want you to apologize for Jesus." It's a message that Hollywood itself could have delivered.


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Ask Trooper Keith: MSP has longtime presence in Ionia County
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The Michigan State Police celebrates its 97th birthday during the month of April. Its official birthday is today, April 19. To continue with the birthday theme this month, I wanted to share some local history of the MSP presence in Ionia. Below you will find several interesting facts about the history of MSP within Ionia County.
- 1921: The first formal presence of MSP in Ionia. MSP responded to a prison riot at the Ionia Reformatory (now Michigan Reformatory) on West Main Street. Following the riot, Major Robert Marsh served as the temporary acting warden of the prison
- 1926: MSP responded to Ionia due to a prison incident. Several inmates escaped, and all were located.
- 1955: The MSP established a permanent post in Ionia. It was housed in an administration building south of the city at the airport. The official dedication was on Sept. 9, 1955. The original post commander was Sgt. James Kiomento. Five troopers were assigned to the post: Glenn Foster, Donald Linn, Robert Beach, Anton Sobolewski and Marvin Teshka.
- 1976: The Ionia Post moved into a newly built facility at 3140 S. State Road. The move-in date was May 17, 1976, and dedication was on June 30, 1976.
- 1994: On Jan. 1, the Ionia Post changed from being part of the 1st District to become part of the 6th District. The post number changed from #13 to #68.
- 2007: The Ionia Post moved again on Nov. 26, this time to the facility at 779 W. Riverside Drive.
- 2011: Due to a major department re-organization, the Ionia Post was closed on Oct. 16. The facility now operates as a detachment office of the Lakeview Post #64. The MSP still maintains a strong presence in Ionia County and has several troopers working from the Ionia Detachment.
Keith Disselkoen is a Community Service Trooper for the MSP Lakeview Post. If you have a question for Trooper Disselkoen, you can email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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In addition, EMC said in a joint announcement that it plans to ship in May a Smarts connector for SCOM that would add root-cause analysis to the Microsoft suite. Root-cause analysis is the ability to detect the actual catalyst of a network problem. A single problem in a network often cascades into many other problems, making it difficult for an IT department to manually figure out the root cause. The EMC connector would be bought separately.
In the licensing deal, Microsoft plans to add through EMC the ability for SCOM to monitor routers, switches, servers, and other network infrastructure, capabilities it doesn't have today, Jon Siegal, senior manager of product marketing for EMC, said. Today, SCOM monitors and reports on application servers, Web services, clients, and software.
EMC's technology would feed the additional data to the SCOM interface, which will also show the relationships between all the network components. The licensing deal doesn't include root-cause analysis, which would be sold as a bundle with two other EMC Smarts modules, IP Availability Manager and Service Assurance Manager, Siegal said. The entry-level price for the package is $20,000.
While Microsoft gets a broader network management offering from EMC, the latter company is hoping the partnership will boost sales. "This is an opportunity for us to reach into a vast pool of customers that we're not currently serving today," Siegal said in an interview. Customers of Microsoft's management software, including previous versions, are in the thousands.
The companies also have a co-development deal and have agreed to work together with the rest of the industry in developing standards for model-based network management. Current efforts revolve around service modeling language, which is an XML-based specification that defines a consistent way to describe, or model, computer networks, applications, servers, and other IT resources. EMC has used its own proprietary approach for years.
Microsoft and EMC plan to continue working on SML and to incorporate the technology into their respective products as it becomes available, Siegal said. Other companies participating in SML development include BEA Systems, BMC Software, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, and Sun Microsystems. Version 1.0 of SML was released last week.


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Ohio is the home of The Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame, The Football Hall of Fame, major art museums, zoos, theme parks and ball parks, Hocking Hills, Seneca Caverns, Mohican and other state parks, Amish country, major cities and beautiful countrysides.
Tiffin and Surrounding Counties:
Tiffin is located in Seneca county and surrounded by Sandusky, Erie, Crawford, Wyandot, Hancock and Wood counties. Most of the following attractions can be reached in less than 40 minutes.
Explore these lists to help plan your visit to Tiffin University.
Seneca County
Attractions: Historic architecture (Ritz Theatre, courthouse, hexagon house, court street), parks, scenic Sandusky river, etc.
Entertainment: Ritz Theatre (big-bill acts, concerts, shows, group tours, etc), Attica Raceway, golf, swimming, bowling, arcade, sports, camping, etc.
Events: County Fair, fairground events year-round, festivals (Heritage, Art, cities, schools & churches, Railroad, Oakridge), glass show, garden & home tours, Flea Market, relays, etc.
Museums: Seneca County (Fort Ball site), Tiffin Glass, Fostoria Glass Heritage, Fostoria Historical.
Findlay and Hancock County
Arts: Coffee Amici – bands and arts, concerts, playhouse, art galleries.
Museums: Mazza – 3000 original children's book illustrations, Black Heritage & Multicultural Center, Hancock Historical Museum
Entertainment: Comedy Club, Sports Clubs, Night Clubs, Bar & Grills, Fairground Events, Sports Parks, Golf, Boating, Swimming, Nature Parks, Flag City, etc.
Downtown: Salons & Spas, Shopping Malls, Tours, Restaurants, Cinemas, Antiques, Boutiques, etc.
Events: Tennis & golf tournaments, car shows, horse shows, food samplings, festivals, concerts, art walks, tours, farm and harvest events, etc
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Entertainment: Cedar Point Amusement Park, Kelley's Island (Theme Park, State Park, Glacial Island & Ferry), Mad River Railroad, African Safari Wild Park, Ghostly Manor Thrill Center, arcades, water parks, speedways, horse races, wineries, restaurants, shopping, tours, etc.
Outdoor: Scuba diving, boating, fishing, bike trails, camping, parks, etc.
Museums: Hayes Presidential Center, Maritime, Veterans, Historical(s), Meri-Go-Round, Art.
Crawford County
Attractions: Scroggs House, Seccaium Park, Lady Liberty Mural, etc.
Entertainment: Golf, camping, outdoor sports, theater, etc.
Events: Bratworst Festival, County Fair, Libery Remembers Mural Graffiti Cruise, etc.
Wood County
Entertainment: Perrysburg Symphony Orchestra, large shopping malls & specialty shops, plays & various theaters, sports events, historic walking tours, restaurants, etc.
Museums: National Construction Equipment, Snook's Dream Cars Automobile, Wood County Historical Center & Park, The Lunatic House, American Civil War, Little Red Schoolhouse, etc.
Events: Festivals, garden, home & city tours, concerts, etc.
Wyandot County
Entertainment: Community theater, campgrounds, restaurants, etc.
Museums & Historic Sites: Indian Mill State Memorial & Museum, Wyandot County Museum, Old Mission Church, Courthouse, Harrison Smith Park, stepping stones across Sandusky river, etc.
Events: Festivals (Harvest & Corn, Winter Fantasy of Lights, Family Fest, Carey Fest, Sycamore Summer, Tree Town), County Fair, church socials, etc.
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Longfellow Bridge rehabilitation to begin Saturday
Cambridge-bound traffic closed on bridge, Red Line weekend closings
Many businesses in Boston and Cambridge are raising concerns about a $255.5 million construction project on the Longfellow Bridge, scheduled to begin Saturday, which will result in traffic changes and detours on each side of the bridge.
The iconic "Salt and Pepper" Bridge, which connects Boston and Cambridge, will be closed to Cambridge-bound traffic beginning Saturday for the next three and a half years to address current structural deficiencies, upgrade capacity and meet modern codes, creating an overall safer structure for bridge users, according to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT).
"We're concerned that it's going to make an already difficult traffic flow more difficult," said Gary Strack, chef and owner of Firebrand Saints, a restaurant on Broadway, just over the Longfellow Bridge in Cambridge.
In addition to traffic changes, Strack also worries about the MBTA Red Line service, which will be closed on a select 25 weekends over the next three and a half years.
Images: The Longfellow Bridge over the years
"The closing of the T at various times is another concern since most of my employees use the Red Line to get here," said Strack. "So the idea that it's not going to be running on the weekends will be difficult."
During the Red Line interruptions, T passengers will take buses between the Kendall/MIT and Park Street stations.
Scott Cooper, owner of Meadhall, a restaurant in Kendall Square, expressed concerns about the weekend Red Line closures with regards to his staff.
"Our employees, like everyone else, are creatures of habit," said Cooper. "Taking their train away and asking them to ride a bus is enough incentive for them to find employment elsewhere."
Cooper said he will "unquestionably" be losing business due to the planned detours and Red Line cancellations.
"I think the construction is overdue, but at the same time, I think it will negatively affect business," he said. "The more difficult it is to get in and get out, the higher the incentive to take your business elsewhere."
Throughout construction, one lane of traffic will carry vehicles into Boston using the current Cambridge-bound lane. In September 2014, the one-way traffic will shift from the current Cambridge-bound lane to the current Boston-bound lane; however, the bridge will not allow vehicles to travel from Boston to Cambridge in either lane for the next three and a half years.
"There will be no access to our parking lot coming from Cambridge because they're funneling traffic in one direction," said Strack. "There won't be a way to access our parking lot coming from Boston either."
Representatives from the nearby Massachusetts General Hospital have also expressed concerns about the removal of Cambridge-bound traffic on the bridge.
"While we are specifically focused on access to and from the hospital for emergency vehicles, patients, visitors and employees, we also are quite concerned about the impact on residents and businesses," MGH officials, Joseph Crowley and Bonnie Michelman, said in a written statement.
Michael Verseckes, a spokesman for MassDOT, said that a one-way inbound lane is the safest and most efficient way to provide for all the transportation needs of the bridge while still allowing access for construction.
There will be a detour for Cambridge-bound traffic from Charles Circle to Leverett Circle and over the Craigie Bridge on Charles River Dam Road.
"While we understand the detour may be an inconvenience, our plan seeks to optimize the use of the bridge for the Red Line, cycling, walking and driving," said Verseckes.
Verseckes said his advice for avoiding traffic-induced stress is, "Plan ahead: allow for extra travel time, consider shifting modes of travel to the MBTA or cycling."
While many are expecting slow business and a difficult commute over the next few years, the MIT Press Bookstore, on Main Street in Kendall Square, looks forward to an increase in sales.
"We're right next door to Kennedy Station, so the shuttle buses from Kendall to Park Street pick up right in front of our store," said the store's manager, John Jenkins. "So it might actually help us with all of those people milling around. We'll do our best to drag people inside -- free air conditioning!"


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Girl Rising Documentary Premieres Ahead of On-Demand Release
Girl Rising, a documentary spotlighting the impact of education on underprivileged girls, held its world premiere Wednesday ahead of its groundbreaking, on-demand theatrical debut.
Held at New York's Paris Theatre, the premiere drew the likes of Girls star Allison Williams, Blue Bloods actress Sami Gayle, Grimm's Claire Coffee, Jeff Zucker, Lauren Bush Lauren, and journalists John Hockenberry, Connie Chung, Lesley Stahl, Holly Peterson and Cathie Black.
The film will open in theaters across the country with the help of Gathr, a company that crowd-sources film distribution, allowing moviegoers to request a screening of a film at a local theater. Thus far, 438 Girl Rising screenings are being organized nationwide, with more than 37,000 tickets pre-reserved. New screening requests for Girl Rising are coming in at about 40 per day. Click here for more details.
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Girl Rising will also have a traditional theatrical run through March 15 in New York and Los Angeles.
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The executions are a "major step backwards," a U.N. official says
The Gambian president wants all death-row inmates to be executed by mid-September
The small nation is surrounded by Senegal
The United Nations Tuesday urged the tiny West African country of Gambia to refrain from executing 39 more death-row inmates, after nine others were recently put to death.
"I strongly condemn the executions that took place last week in the Gambia, and call for a halt to further executions," said Christof Heyns, the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. "This stream of executions is a major step backwards for the country, and for the protection of the right to life in the world as a whole."
The country once had been at the forefront in the region's efforts to abolish in law and practice the death penalty, with a moratorium on the death penalty for 27 years and the abolition of capital punishment for drug offenses in April 2011, Heyns said.
In fact, the sliver of a nation – surrounded by Senegal and bordering the Atlantic Ocean – had last executed a prisoner about 30 years ago.
But President Yahya Jammeh announced the new execution policy in a speech on state media Sunday that was rebroadcast Monday.
"All punishments prescribed by law will be maintained in the country to ensure that criminals get what they deserve: that is, that those who kill are killed," he said. "By the middle of next month, all the death sentences would have been carried out to the letter."
Citing what it deemed "reliable sources," Amnesty International reported in a statement that eight men and one woman were taken from their prison cells Thursday and killed. Three of those allegedly executed had been sentenced for treason, and two of the nine were Senegalese, said the group.
Jammeh took power in a military coup in 1994 and was elected president two years later. Gambia's human rights record has drawn steady criticism since his election, but the president has won supporters by building new hospitals, schools and other infrastructure.
Heyns said the executions "undermine previous steps towards the abolition of capital punishment in the Gambia."
"I am concerned that death sentences were imposed in violation of major international standards, including the most serious crimes provisions. According to available evidence, the trials did not meet due process safeguards," Heyns said. "The executions were carried out in secrecy, away from the public and from the families, and do not meet the requirements of transparency."


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Here's a scene you didn't see in Oscar-nominated film "Zero Dark Thirty": Osama bin Laden is ranting and waving his AK-47 automatic rifle as he denounces the great Satan in a video broadcast on Al Jazeera. The video is recorded by U.S. intelligence and analyzed by a new technology that can pinpoint the location where a video was shot with an accuracy of 10 meters, and the orders go out to the drones. You know what comes next.
That didn't happen, of course. But a new technology currently cooking in a lab in Berkeley, Calif., could make that fantasy a reality. And we may regret it. Researchers at the Unversity of California's International Computer Science Institute are building a location-centric database by analyzing videos downloaded from the Web. By comparing a video whose provenance is unknown to the database of known videos, it can then make an informed guess about where the video was shot. And thus where anyone in that shot was when.
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The technology I saw during a visit to ICSI last week is exceedingly cool, and it has the potential for all sorts of nonlethal uses. But it raises disturbing questions about privacy on the Web and what you might call the tagging of America. Facial recognition long out of the lab, warrantless cellphone snooping that can pinpoint your location at every turn, and the use of cookies that track your every move on the Web have all left us as exposed as one of the "Naked Guys" who walk around San Francisco's Castro District sans pants.
How video-location detection works
You've probably used speech recognition software that requires training. The software learns by making guesses about what you're saying, then comparing it to the corrections you make in the text. Pretty soon it knows that a Bostonian saying "Cuber" means Cuba and not cucumber. The video location software learns in a similar manner.
Jaeyoung Choi, the lead researcher on the project, downloaded thousands of videos from Flickr that contain embedded geographical information. That data may include location tags (aka geotags), visual cues such as textures and colors, time stamps, and sounds such as birdsong. The attributes of a test video are then compared against these profiles, and its location is estimated. As more videos with embedded geographical information are downloaded, the researchers will use them to train the software to recognize more and more locations.
Currently, only 3 to 5 percent of the videos uploaded to the Internet contain geographic information revealing the location where they were shot, which means that a database containing more than selected test videos will take some time to build. Even so, the nascent system is remarkably accurate. By comparing the information in the database to some 5,000 "wild, unfiltered" videos, Choi was able to pinpoint the location where 14 percent of the videos were shot to within 10 meters, or about 33 feet.


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In a memorial service today for four American diplomats assassinated in Libya earlier this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid tribute to Sean Smith, a consular officer for the United States who also served as a diplomat in EVE Online and as a member of that MMO's real-world governing body.
In her eulogy, Clinton directly referenced Smith's work in that video game's community.
Clinton, in a service attended by President Obama today at Andrews Air Force Base, said that Smith was survived by "a loving wife, Heather, two young children—Samantha and Nathan—and scores of grieving family, friends and colleagues.
"And that's just in this world," said Clinton, "because in the virtual worlds Sean helped create, he is also being mourned by countless competitors, collaborators and gamers, who shared his passion."
Smith died Tuesday in Libya in an attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission there, an attack apparently responding to a hate-filled, anti-Islam video produced and promoted by private American citizens and uploaded to the Internet earlier. Rioting continues across the Middle East in the aftermath of the attacks and the video's notoriety.
Smith was known as "Vile Rat" on the Something Awful forums and in Eve Online, and likewise fulfilled the role of a Diplomat in that game, as he did in his real world duty. He also served on the Council of Stellar Management (CSM), a panel of players voted into place by their peers, which represents community concerns in meetings with developer CCP.
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Last week, Americans of all nationalities celebrated Cinco de Mayo; some, like me, acknowledged the day by partaking of margaritas and carne asada.
Others, like the Mexican students at Live Oak high school in Northern California, observe the day by wearing the Mexican colors of red, white, and green. In a gesture meant to display American pride, five Live Oak students--Daniel Galli, Austin Carvalho, Matt Dariano, Dominic Maciel, and Clayton Howard--decided to wear American flag t-shirts and bandannas. After receiving complaints from some Mexican students, Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez asked the boys to turn their shirts inside out. The boys refused, were threatened with suspension, and were asked to leave the campus.
I am old enough to recall a time when wearing the American flag on a piece of clothing was seen as disrespectful to Americans. Even images of the flag worn as fashion were viewed as a vulgar desecration of a cherished symbol. But times have changed.
Over the years, attitudes have not only relaxed, but they have completed a 180 degree turn. The flag has become an oft-used element in fashion design, and wearing the flag is now considered a display of patriotism. An image burned into my memory is one of the actress Halle Berry wearing a form-fitting gown comprised of small American flags. Disrespectful or not, if that image doesn't make you stand up and salute, nothing will.
Yes, times have certainly changed. I doubt that anyone ever imagined a time in this country when American children would be criticized for wearing the American flag not because it offended traditional American sensitivities, but because it was seen as disrespectful to Mexicans.
Principal Rodriguez said that the request was made in an effort to prevent fights from breaking out. What remains unclear is why wearing an American flag on one's shirt would provoke violence--even amongst testosterone-filled teen boys. Daniel Galli and his buddies were minding their own business. If it is the opinion of the principal that just the sight of an American flag on Cinco de Mayo will produce conniption fits among Mexican children, it seems clear to me that he does not have a very high opinion of the Latino students that attend the school.
If it is an educator's job to promote critical thinking among his students then the administrators at Live Oak failed miserably. Here was a "teaching moment;" here was a real opportunity for Rodriguez and Principal Nick Boden to provide a lesson in patience, priorities, and the true meaning of tolerance. But multi-culturalism has turned people into thin skinned grievance junkies—babies that cry at every cross-look or unkind word and must be coddled lest they toss themselves on the floor and begin kicking and screaming. So, rather than suggest to the aggrieved students that they ignore the red, white, and blue t-shirts, enjoy their day, and get back to class, Rodriguez and Boden indulged the multi-cultural temper tantrum, which ironically, played into the worst stereotypes of Mexican people. "You had better take those shirts off. You know these Mexicans; they will pull their knives at the drop of a hat!"
The following day some 200 Mexican students walked out of class in protest. As they marched down the street waving the Mexican flag they demanded the boys' suspension. And once again, rather than demand maturity from the Mexican students, the protest was greeted by the district superintendent with promises to hold a rap-session, where the students would be encouraged to express their feelings. I would like to suggest that rather than encouraging cross-cultural understanding, the school district should instead encourage a cross-cultural Algebra tutoring session. Given that Live Oak is underperforming the state average on both the California Standards test and the California High School Exit Exam, such an endeavor seems far more necessary and certainly more practical.
Responding to the ongoing drama at Live Oak, a young Latina declared that wearing the American flag on Cinco de Mayo was akin to Mexicans wearing the Mexican flag on the Fourth of July. The essential point that this young woman misses is that should she be strolling the streets of Mexico City on July Fourth her donning of the Mexican flag would indeed not raise many eyebrows. We are, as it happens, not in the country of Mexico; rather we reside in the United States of America.
The sight of the American flag in America—even on Cinco de Mayo—should not be a source of offense to Americans of Mexican descent, but pride, providing of course that one sees him or herself as an American first. And here is the point that this young woman, the school administrators and a handful of sympathizers seem forever not to grasp. Americans do not want to be an extension of Mexico! Indeed many of us have had a peek south of the border and do not like what we see. The political culture and the values that support it hold little interest for those proud of our flag and "the republic for which it stands."
Among many Americans, there is a growing sense that immigrants to this country have no interest in becoming Americans. Illegal immigrants are largely seen as people who disrespect our laws, our language, and our traditions. More significantly, they are viewed as taking advantage of everything this nation has to offer and yet refusing to assimilate into our American culture. The political class says that these fears are unfounded, and the elite label such thoughts as bigoted. And yet we are treated to stories like this one, wherein American children are sent home from school for wearing an image of the American flag. Should we believe the political elites? Or our lying eyes?


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Students praise the family business courses as the most valuable of their school careers. The family business coursework synthesizes learning from other core subjects with practices that are common to successful family businesses.
Each year, the Family Enterprise Center teaches and advises approximately 100 students from all over the world. Past years' courses have included students from Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Chile, China, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Venezuela, and the United States.
The Center offers two foundational Family Business courses to MBAs, undergraduate business students, MACs, and select UNC undergraduate and graduate students with family business interests. Both courses are built upon Steve Miller's research: "Developing Next Generation Talent in Family Businesses." The research was focused on factors that influence next-generation leader development. This research is incorporated into class discussions and assignments, leading to practical ways students can apply the findings to support successful transition from one generation to the next.
The courses explore and analyze family business continuity challenges and common practices for successfully leading family-owned businesses. The focus is on developing pragmatic, action-oriented management, governance, and family business leadership skills. The courses are taught using live cases, assigned readings, class discussions, lectures, and student research on a family business of interest.
Family Business I: Introduction to Family Enterprise
Mod 3, Wednesdays, 2:00-4:50 p.m.
The purpose of this course is to prepare students to be more effective in their own family enterprise (as an employee and/or as an owner), as a non-family executive in a family business, or as an advisor to a family business.
Students will examine their own family enterprises through the lens of family history and values, as well as through the lens of business strategy. Students will benefit from observing live case studies of successful family businesses, hearing lectures by multiple family business experts, and interacting with other next generation family business leaders.
This course provides an understanding of the evolutionary stages in the life of a family business and the challenges and opportunities that must be managed at each stage. Topics covered include:
- Next Generation Leadership
- Family Systems, Relationships, and Communication
- Entrepreneurship and Growing the Family Business
- Succession
- Strategy and Change
- Professionalizing the Family Business
- Non-Family Management
Family Business II: Governance & Ownership*
Mod 4, Wednesdays, 2:00-4:50 p.m.
This course outlines the specific ownership, stewardship, tax, transition and wealth management issues that affect family enterprises.
Topics covered include:
- Family Governance and Communication
- Business Governance and Boards of Directors
- Ownership & Stewardship
- Financial Considerations and Valuation
- Transfer, Estate, and Gift Tax Planning
*Family Business I: Introduction to Family Enterprise is highly recommended as a prerequisite.
MBA students can elect to pursue an MBA Family Enterprise Focus. Undergraduate Business students can select Family Business as an Area of Interest (AOI).
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Cherokee hits the big time: Top U.S. anglers to sample reservation waters
This little slice of Western North Carolina just landed the big one when it comes to competitive fly-fishing.
The 2011 U.S. National Fly Fishing Championship will be held this spring from May 19 to 22 in Cherokee. In addition to fishing in tribal waters, about 60 of the nation's top fly-fishing experts will test their angling skills along nearby stretches of water: the Tuckasegee River below Western Carolina University, the upper and lower sections of the Nantahala River, and a to-be-determined area lake.
This marks the first time the competition has been held in the Southeast.
"It's a really big deal," said an unabashedly excited sounding Matt Pegg, executive director of the Cherokee Chamber of Commerce. "This events puts fishing in and around Cherokee on a national stage. It puts us up with the big boys."
Not to mention the corresponding upward spending bump expected at area hotels, restaurants and shops. Hundreds of spectators from the U.S. and from other countries are expected to attend.
The anglers will be tested in a variety of water — low, high, fast, slow.
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"We're putting them in places where we know there's great fishing, but they have to be skilled," Pegg said. "And these guys are the best."
If, for instance, a raft full of tourists paddles through, or a kayaker drifts by, the competition on the lower Nantahala, so be it, Pegg said. That's fishing, and so goes on many days the experience of fishing that particular stretch of water.
The tournament organizers and hosts are the N.C. Fly Fishing Team, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Fish and Wildlife Management Department and the Cherokee Chamber of Commerce, with River's Edge Outfitters in Cherokee a supporter of the effort.
Cherokee is well known as a trout fishing destination, due in part to the stellar stocking of creeks and rivers by its own tribal hatchery. Robert Blankenship, director of the Cherokee fish hatchery and stocking operation, said putting Cherokee on the map as the best fishing destination in the Southeast has been their goal.
They raise and stock 400,000 trout, including trophy-sized, in 30 miles of stream. Compare that to the state of North Carolina, which puts 800,000 trout on 1,000 miles of stream.
"We are putting half that into only 30 miles," Blankenship said.
Cherokee has gotten a great response from designating a 2.2-mile stretch of the Oconaluftee as catch-and-release, fly-fishing-only waters, a move that has lured new fishermen to the area.
Blankenship agreed it was quite a coup to land the tournament.
"It's normally held in Vale, Colorado, or Jackson Hole, Wyoming, or somewhere out West," Blankenship said.
Fishermen watching the nationals might decide to book their next fly-fishing trips here instead, further enforcing the region's growing reputation.
"It will be good for Cherokee and the surrounding area and the local economy," Blankenship said.
Another factor that puts WNC on the national fly-fishing map: fishermen from the western counties regularly dominate spots on the N.C. Fly Fishing team, and a couple of them usually go on to claim spots on the U.S. team each year. The tournament held here will determine who gets a spot on that coveted national team this year, said Paul Bourcq of Franklin, vice president of the N.C. Fly Fishing Team of Franklin. Those who make Team USA have a shot at the world team.
Bourcq is one of the big reasons the U.S. National Fly Fishing Championship is coming to WNC. He's hosting the Southeastern Regional Qualifier for anglers this weekend (Feb. 19-20) with venues on the lower Nantahala, upper Nantahala and Queens Creek Lake in northwestern Macon County. Bourcq said this qualifier would serve to help polish organizational skills the sponsors need to pull off a great national championship competition.
Fly-fishing has long been a hotly competitive and avidly followed sport in Europe, and it enjoys a level of popularity there comparable to that of bass fishing in this nation.
"This will help make the Southeast a destination for fly fishing," Bourcq said, who added that an angler is only as good as the water he fishes, and in WNC some of the best fly-fishing in the nation can be enjoyed.
Get involved
If you can read a ruler and measure a fish, then you have exactly the skills necessary to be a judge in the U.S. National Fly Fishing Championship, scheduled for May 19-22 in Cherokee.


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I enjoy reading The Onion, even more so when those it lampoons don't get the joke. But while satire is meant to be amusing, it quite often reflects a more serious state of affairs. A recent Onion post on a captive breeding program designed to save the critically endangered moderate Republican had me laughing, before it had me thinking.
Because, actually... they're right - the Republican Party truly is dying. For all intents and purposes, it's already dead, the only impression of life being the lurching about of animated zombies eating their own brains, leaving the traditional mainstream moderate Republican conservative embarrassed and frustrated. The traditional mainstream moderate conservatives aren't even in reality Republicans any longer, as the party itself has deteriorated from the rot of tea party fanaticism, and Koch Brother corruption, and the constant barrage Fox propaganda posing as journalism, and hate-filled blustering talk shows spewing hydrophobic nonsense, and the jaw-droppingly atrocious bunch of incompetent idiots posing as GOP Presidential candidates. All that is left of a once a respectable political party is the name "Republican" for nostalgic conservatives to cling to.
Which is so not good for our country. If disaffected Republicans ever managed to purge themselves of the zombies and the tea partiers and the Limbaughs and Fox and regrouped as something else, much like New Labour rebranded itself in the UK (although New Labour turned out to be just Tory Lite rather than any sort of improved Labour party), Democrats might finally have genuine opponents again - which would be both a bit scary and a bit hopeful. A nation runs best when there's an honorable opposition to keep the ruling party honest, regardless of what party is in power. An honorable opposition represents a very large proportion of the nation's citizenship, and gives that citizenship a strong voice. An honorable opposition works harder at designing and proposing alternative ideas in the hope that the good they can do will garner them enough votes next go-round at the polls. I'd like to see an honorable opposition again.
Right now, that just doesn't exist, and it's not good for either side. Right now, we have a Republican party usurped by loons and goons whose only goal is to bring down President Obama, regardless of the cost to the country, regardless of the damage. Oh, they have a few other ulterior motives, like imposing an authoritarian religious regime on the country that would give hardline Sharia law a run for its money, revoking decades of progressive advancement and what little civil liberties we've got left after the Bush administration was through. But repairing our badly damaged and crumbling roads, our airports, bridges, dams, levees, schools, hospitals, national parks, our electrical and water grids? Creating badly needed jobs and strengthening an economy teetering on the edge of collapse? No, that's not even a blip on their radar, too busy preaching tax cuts for the rich and "austerity" and "sacrifice" for everyone else, like a fat man telling someone dying of starvation the way to get better is to eat even less. And as a result, we have a Democratic Party gradually starting to lose its way as well, rife with DINOs and Blue Dogs and the incompetent or lazy or co-opted. Without an honorable opposition, we have very little with which to keep our party honest. We need a strong, healthy, honorable Republican Party to stay strong, healthy and honorable ourselves.
The Republican Party was once a champion of civil rights, personal responsibility and a regulated government, and engendered people like Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower. Today, Mitt Romney's father would not recognize the Republican Party his son would like to head, Ronald Reagan's son says his father would be furious with what the Republican party has become - a party utterly dominated by the rich, the religious fanatic, the psychotic, and the jingoistic bigot. The last remnants of the decent, honorable Old Time Republican party are either senile or dead, what's left is vitriolic, mean-spirited and downright stupid.
There is no Republican Party any longer. It has the name, but it long ago lost its mind before it lost its soul. And I, for one, truly do mourn its passing.
Cross-posted at Mouse Musings


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Hello Advent and paper crafting fans! I'm excited to be part of Taheerah's grand event for the third year, and thrilled to have found a new stamp company as a result! If you've been following along this season, or the last few years, you know that each day there are sponsors and gifts to be had, and it is the season for giving! So on with the show!
Advent Calendar Extravaganza is -the- festive event of the season! This 'hop with a twist' was dreamed up by Taheerah Atchia and features surprise destinations each day!
Joining in the fun with Taheerah are ONE HUNDRED special guests – each serving up some fantastic Christmas inspiration! Just like an Advent Calendar, you'll never know where you're going to be visiting next until you 'open the door'!
And that's not all! With 25 *amazing* sponsors taking part as guests as well, your crafty wish list is bound to get a boost with a chance to win a prize EVERY SINGLE DAY!!
Join in the fun every day at taheerah-atchia.com to see what special surprises await behind the door!
Our sponsor today is The Stamp Market, a company that speaks to my modern and graphic heart! I've used three of their products for today's pieces and will soon feature more holiday and packaging goodnesss from them, so check out my instagram for updates!
First up, a dynamic duo with one with alternative holiday colors– perfect for someone who lives in Hawaii or is having a tropical Christmas. I stamped so many of these flowers from the Botanicals Stamp & Cut set, playing with a variety of pinks and reds, so it became the focal point of all my designs.
My card also features the large Stemmed Leaves Die cut from gorgeous green bokeh paper. This die mirrors the stamped leaves in the Botanicals set.
Finally, the sentiment is part of the Holiday Hellos set, which is a fabulous mix of graphic lettering and sentiments for many occasions. Here I stamped the Merry on thick linen vellum and heat embossed, then fussy cut.
Since it is an advent extravaganza after all, I decided to wrap these cards up in Neat & Tangled's lacy envelope die which takes any card to the next level. What's behind door number two?
This version features more traditional colors and a bit of a retro feel.
The Botanicals set comes with a die to cut the flower, so I added a vellum layer over the stamped image. Again I've included the large Stemmed Leaves die cut.
I included this close-up so you could see the gorgeous shimmer of the red paper on which I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from Julie Ebersole's Modern Christmas, available through Ellen Hutson (as is the #110 Woodgrain Cardstock I feature in many of my pieces here).
For my final two pieces, I created some wine tags, as I recently had booths at an art show and night market here in Seattle. Holidays are a time for bubbly and fine festive drinks, alcoholic or not, so why not adorn a bottle at your table or as a gift! I love this wine tag die which is quite old and no longer available.
Thank so much for stopping by to see what was behind the door today!
But before you go– remember to comment!
It's not a party without a prize – and with prizes every day there are several chances to win! Today's prize is generously supplied by The Stamp Market so you'll definitely want to win! How to win?
- Simply leave a comment on my post – then head back to taheerah-atchia.com and leave a comment there too!
- You must leave a comment on Taheerah's blog as well as mine in order to be eligible to win!
- Don't forget to grab the other surprise destinations from Taheerah's blog and head over to them to leave comments there as well to improve your odds even more!
- You have until 23:59 EST on 31st December 2017 to enter.
The Advent Calendar Extravaganza runs from 1st-25th December inclusive, so make sure you visit taheerah-atchia.com every day for fabulous inspiration and amazing prizes every single time!
A merry season to all who celebrate a variety of holidays or in various ways this time of year– wishing you a peaceful, reflective and artful time! And a Happy New Year, too!


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Alfred Jensen: Concordance
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In an imaginative merging of abstraction and personalized iconography, Alfred Jensen's bright paintings elaborate his cosmological speculations, drawing on astronomy, physics and mathematics, and frequently implicating Mayan and Chinese calendrical systems. Included in Concordance are large-scale multi-faceted paintings that span the artist's mature career from 1960 onwards. Concordance includes many rarely seen works from the artist's estate as well as a late 12-panel work, "The Great Pyramid," executed in 1979 and never before published.
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- Publisher
- Dia Art Foundation
- 9780944521434
- Publication date
- 2003
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 110 pages
- Publication credits
- Edited by Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly. Essays by Lynne Cooke, David Anfam, Michael Newman, and Maria Reidelbach.
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Alfred Jensen was born in Guatemala City in 1903. He died in Livingston, New Jersey, in 1981.


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Spring 2009 Dean's List
Covenant College congratulates the following students on their academic achievement for the Spring 2009 term. These students are included on Covenant's Dean's List because they have earned a term grade point average of 3.30 or higher as a full time student taking twelve or more credit hours. We are proud to recognize the following students and their dedication to Covenant's history of academic excellence.
Rose Acquavella of Westlake Village, CA
Jordan Agate of Monroeville, PA
Maggie Ahrenholz of Chicago, IL
Tiffany Alexander of Winston-Salem, NC
Lisa Allen of Braselton, GA
Julian Allgeier of Augusta, GA
Alex Anderson of St. Louis, MO
Nathaniel Anderson of LaFayette, GA
Grace Andrews of Monroe, NC
Leslie Andrews of Suwanee, GA
Margery Arnold of Enterprise, AL
Rebecca Austin of Decatur, GA
Anna Bacheldor of Winter Haven, FL
Ben Baldwin of St. Louis, MO
Courtenay Barclay of Carrollton, TX
Chris Barker of Maplewood, MO
Heidi Barker of St. Louis, MO
Susannah Barker of Swannanoa, NC
Lisa Barnes of Wakiso District, Uganda
Zach Barnett of Fairview, NC
Josh Barrett of Las Cruces, NM
Leah Baugh of Valley Center, CA
Amy Beachley of Marriottsville, MD
Evan Beauchamp of Bainbridge, GA
Stuart Beauchamp of Bainbridge, GA
Sophy Beers of Miami, FL
Sam Belz of Walker, IA
Lara Berger of Cary, NC
Tim Blumenstein of Portage, MI
Nathanael Booth of Hanceville, AL
Brett Borland of Saint Cloud, FL
Shayna Borland of Saint Cloud, FL
Karin Bosma of Walnut Creek, CA
Michael Bowser of Angier, NC
Blake Bozarth of Owensboro, KY
Jane Brandon of Lynchburg, VA
Laurel Brauer of County Dublin, Ireland
Lauren Braun of Bow, WA
Jenna Brock of Suwanee, GA
Annie Brown of Quarryville, PA
Aubrey Brown of Lexington, SC
Audrey Brown of Signal Mountain, TN
Ghia Brown of Lith, IL
Hannah Brown of Ashland City, TN
Steve Brown of Ringgold, GA
Lindsay Burkholder of Pfafftown, NC
Sheryce Butkowski of Roland, AR
Elizabeth Cain of Tuscaloosa, AL
Christina Canche of Holland, MI
Kirsten Capitano of Ocala, FL
Nate Carl of Las Cruces, NM
Rachel Carson of Coral Gables, FL
Jenny Carter of Ooltewah, TN
Jon Casselberry of Bartlesville, OK
Katie Casselberry of Bartlesville, OK
Jonathan Cate of Asheville, NC
Zach Causey of Huntsville, AL
Rebecca Chambers of Gastonia, NC
Alicia Chatterton of Boca Raton, FL
Jessica Chen of Oviedo, FL
Laura Childers of Altamonte Springs, FL
Calli-Jade Cleary of Lexington, NC
Jonathan Cobb of Jackson, TN
Casey Cochran of Madison, AL
Philip Codington of Franklin, TN
Hannah Cohen of Jackson, MS
Mel Coiner of Wakiso District, Uganda
Joshua Coleman of Augusta, GA
Lauren Conrad of Roanoke, VA
Janel Corbett of Chickamauga, GA
Jessica Counts of Greenback, TN
Lisa Coward of Thomasville, GA
Jesse Cowell of Duncansville, PA
Reed Crosson of Roswell, GA
Kari Crouch of Lookout Mountain, GA
Jeremy Crute of Panama City Beach, FL
Karin Dahl of Springfield, VA
Rachel Dahl of Springfield, VA
Kelley Daniel of Chattanooga, TN
Shelmun Dashan of Middlebury, IN
Elise Davidson of West Point, GA
Hunt Davidson of Rome, GA
Megan Davis of Brush Creek, TN
Nathan Davis of Brush Creek, TN
Britney Dehnert of Lander, WY
Jonathan DiGioia of Lilburn, GA
Charlie Dickson of Suffolk, VA
Julie Drexler of Chattanooga, TN
Will Dyer of Savannah, GA
Priscilla Ector of Athens, TN
Emilie Edwards of Morganton, NC
Josh Ehle of Springfield, MA
Virginia Elder of Tucson, AZ
Enoch Elwell of Woodstown, NJ
Chris Elwood of Chattanooga, TN
Sarah Fairchild of Flowery Branch, GA
Bethany Faraone of Mayfield, KY
Kaitlin Fender of Martinez, GA
Luke Ferguson of Ocala, FL
Lori Fesperman of LaFayette, GA
Alyssa Fikse of Woodstock, GA
Todd Fleming of Fern Park, FL
Brandon Flynn of Ocala, FL
Erika Forland of Huntington Station, NY
Lauren Fritz of Wesley Chapel, FL
Luke Furuto of Birmingham, AL
Becky Galage of Midlothian, VA
Molly Gardner of Signal Mountain, TN
Wesley Garey of Decatur, GA
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Predictable History:
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
- Sir Winston Churchill
Since the Left usually writes most of history...Tails: Walter Duranty wins; Heads: Millions of Ukrainians lose...for a long while anyway.
(No, of course, Churchill wasn't a leftist. You'll see my point in a sec...)
Unpredictable Past:
"Russia is a country with an unpredictable past."
- Sir Winston Churchill
Stalin used to "disappear" his enemies and simply airbrushed them out of photographs and history. Has anyone see Nakoula Basseley Nakoula or the Benghazi survivors lately?
"We live in a country with an unpredictable past."
- Iurii Afanasiev, Russian historian and political figure
"I've always been in favour of the Patriot Act, indefinite detention, assassination of American citizens, the individual mandate, meddling in the affairs of other countries and did I mention that we've always been at war with Eurasia?" - President Barack Obama
"What we remember is not what actually happened, not history, but those hackneyed impressions they tried to hammer into our memories by constant repetition."
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, GULAG Archipelago
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, GULAG Archipelago