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Bagnold, Enid
Enid Bagnold 1889–1981
English dramatist, novelist, autobiographer, and poet.
Although not a major writer, Bagnold's work is considered important for the insights it gives into the lives of the British. Usually affluent and urbane, her characters are examined from both a comic and a serious point of view. Bagnold's play, The Chalk Garden, for instance, contains a portrait of a young girl's painful acceptance of truth that is alternately humorous and somber. Many of Bagnold's later works, including her Autobiography, portray the mixed pleasures of growing old.
A notable exception to Bagnold's stories of the upper class is National Velvet, a novel about a butcher's young daughter whose childhood dream comes true. Made into an inspiring movie, this book is acclaimed for its realistic depiction of family life among the British working class. National Velvet is also an indication that Bagnold's craft is not limited by her subject matter. Witty, entertaining dialogue and sharp observations of life are characteristic of most of her work.
(See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed., Vol. 103 [obituary]; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 5; Something about the Author, Vols. 1, 25; and Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 13.)
- The Times Literary Supplement
- Katherine Mansfield
- The Spectator
- Raymond Mortimer
- Harriet Colby
- Christopher Morley
- Jane Spence Southron
- Edith H. Walton
- Christopher Morley
- Rosemary Benet
- Leo Lerman
- Anthony West
- Robert Kee
- Walter F. Kerr
- Richard Watts, Jr.
- Brooks Atkinson
- Kenneth Tynan
- Walter Kerr
- Howard Taubman
- Robert Brustein
- Nora Sayre
- Martin Gottfried
- Clive Barnes
- Alan Rich
The Times Literary Supplement
The devastated areas would strike most people as a singularly unpromising scene in which to place an idyll, yet Miss Enid Bagnold has performed this feat with striking success [in "The Happy Foreigner"]. The very incongruity between the little human romance and gloomy, uncomfortable reality in which it is enshrined is pleasing; and one is not sure whether one admires more the author's skill in keeping the love passage—which is the idyll—light, delicate, and fleeting, though poignant, or the descriptive power and poetic feeling with which the ruins left by war and the workers engaged on clearing them up are represented.
On the whole, we should give our vote for the descriptive power, which never flags….
Miss Bagnold seems to see [the postwar action] with a personal detachment which blends with an intense sympathy for others: for the French who starve their prisoners, as they starve themselves, but will not shoot them: for the Americans who are generous with food and ruthless with rifles: for a Scotsman left with pale Chinamen to tidy a vast cemetery: for conquered Germans, and for all suffering and all courage…. If Miss Bagnold is rather irritatingly fascinated by the fragmentary style, for which we have to thank Miss Dorothy Richardson, her power of getting to the heart of things carries her through. She has a splendid equipment for a novelist.
"New Novels: 'The Happy Foreigner'," in The Times Literary Supplement (© Times Newspapers Ltd. (London) 1920: reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission), No. 963, July 1, 1920, p. 422.
Katherine Mansfield
If Miss Bagnold had chosen that her heroine [in 'The Happy Foreigner'] should lead the most sheltered and protected life that is left for a young woman to endure, we are confident that there would have blossomed within its narrow boundaries flowers as rich and as delicate as those which Fanny gathered on the strange roads of France. For she understands how it is vain to seek adventure unless there is the capacity for adventure within us…. 'The Happy Foreigner' exists for a proof of how she ventured, and to tell how great was her reward. (p. 232)
Fanny, an English girl, goes to France at the end of the war and drives a car for the French Army. She falls in love, but it comes to nothing, and the end might be the beginning. That is all. Who Fanny is, what her life has been up till the moment she is discovered for us 'stretched upon the table of the Y.W.C.A.' in Paris, on her way to Bar-le-Duc, we are not told. She remains from first to last an unknown young woman, secret, folded within herself, a 'happy foreigner.' She is almost without fear; nothing can overwhelm her or cast her down, because it is her nature, and unchangeable, to find in all things a grain of living beauty. We have the feeling that she is, above all, unbroken…. Praise be to Miss Bagnold for giving us a new heroine, a pioneer, who sees, feels, thinks, hears, and yet is herself full of the sap of life. (p. 233)
Katherine Mansfield, "A Hymn to Youth" (originally published in The Athenaeum, July 16, 1920, No. 4707), in her Novels and Novelists, edited by J. Middleton Murry (copyright 1930, copyright renewed © 1958 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; reprinted by permission of The Society of Authors as the literary representative of the Estate of Katherine Mansfield), Knopf, 1930, pp. 232-34.
The Spectator
The Happy Foreigner is quite as ingenious as A Diary Without Dates, and has none of the qualities that made that book so curiously detestable. Miss Bagnold has still the same almost uncanny perceptiveness for the things of sight and sound, smell and touch, the same cold desire for experience, the same objective aloofness. But this time she does not display the inhuman lack of sympathy of her first "Anatomy of Nursing."… Nowhere is the new sympathy which Miss Bagnold has found more apparent than in her treatment of the relations between the American Army and the French. She has the courage to affirm what we are all more or less aware of—i.e., the bad feeling which existed between them—and she has insight enough to sympathize with both sides. (p. 278)
The love story that runs through the tale, unlike most of such narratives which are put in to "brighten" what is really a personal experience, is admirably sentimental and most convincing. (p. 279)
"Books: 'The Happy Foreigner'," in The Spectator (© 1920 by The Spectator; reprinted by permission of The Spectator), Vol. 125, No. 4809, August 28, 1920, pp. 278-79.
Raymond Mortimer
[National Velvet] is the story of a girl of fourteen with a passion for horses who obtains in a shilling raffle a piebald gelding, with which she wins the Grand National, owner up. This super-daydream is the skeleton of the book, its flesh is enormously English humour about children, animals and the lower middle classes. I cannot imagine a more repulsive recipe for a novel—and the result is one of the jolliest, raciest, books I have read in years. Miss Bagnold, except in one or two purplish passages, is entirely unsentimental. What amuses her in children is not their naiveté …, but their slyness, their egotism, their terrifying determination. To use the word "Dickensian" about Miss Bagnold would be misleading, for she is not a poet; she always remains in complete control of her characters; and she never lapses into caricature—the trouble is that I don't know how to suggest a mint-sauce and crisp Yorkshire pudding atmosphere, which is conveyed without a hint of offensive heartiness. The fact that books and pictures and musical compositions have to be classified as high and middle and low brow is profoundly depressing. It is therefore with something like a whoop that I recommend National Velvet as a novel calculated to sell by the ton, and at the same time likely to be gobbled up by the most fastidious.
Raymond Mortimer, "Books in General: 'National Velvet'," in The New Statesman & Nation (© 1935 The Statesman & Nation Publishing Co. Ltd.), Vol. IX, No. 215, April 6, 1935, p. 489.
Harriet Colby
In no sense a fantasy, ["National Velvet"] is still the kind of book which it is best not to try to resist; it should be allowed to cast its spell with the full consent of the reader. Rightly and high-handedly allowing no room for quibbles as to whether the events described were probable, the author merely gives them a lucid actuality—saying take it or leave it, here it is. Wise readers will take it and like it….
Velvet does not walk or run; she trots or canters. Her love for horses has the huge single-minded concentration of genius, revealing itself in a passionate concern for the most minute and technical details of care and equipment. It is a fever and a dream….
So fierce a love as Velvet's demands something more substantial to feed on than daydreams and paper horses; Miss Bagnold's obliging world provides it in the shape of the wild and restless Piebald…. On the day of the raffle [for Piebald] she goes to deliver meat to the squire, and something of her consuming passion communicates itself to the tired old man. He shows her his stables, asks for paper and pencil and Velvet's signature, retires behind the corner of the barn and blows his brains out, leaving Velvet heir to five horses. Sick with excitement, she goes home to find she has won Piebald.
But this is too much, you say; this is fantastic. It is only the beginning, and as final argument against all improbability there is the...
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Christopher Morley
With the loveliest humor and feeling, with words that are alive, fresh, simply and unwaveringly accurate, Enid Bagnold puts [the Browns of "National Velvet"] before us…. With never an overplus word, no slackening of pace, with loving magic power, she puts us inside in. We are the Browns. We are Velvet…. I do not know where you would go in recent fiction to find a family interior more superbly captured, made real; every line of dialogue true, moving, progressive, relevant to plot. And this is not accident or a mere gush of charm; Enid Bagnold knows well that if we are to accept and be ravished by the fantastic wish-fulfilment story to come we must be set solidly in the actual. And so we are. Her pages...
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Jane Spence Southron
["National Velvet"] is a book that is rich with life that has been lived amply and with gracious easiness and that has eventually spilled over irresistibly into art. You may speak of it as escape literature if you like, for it in no way impinges on the problems that are tearing the heart of today's humanity; but it will be more fittingly thought of as a reminder of those eternal human amenities that invariably survive political and social cataclysms….
The book abounds in wit and in scores of passages that the reviewer would have liked to include here for their startling appositeness. There are delectably funny bits, like that midnight scene when the mountainous Araminty "rose like a sea monster...
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Edith H. Walton
Except for its sharpness of observation and its delicate humor, there is little to connect the author of "National Velvet" with this informal diary, written when Miss Bagnold was 19. For reasons which now seem incomprehensible, the publication of "A Diary Without Dates" produced a flurry in wartime England and caused Miss Bagnold's dismissal from the military hospital where she was working as a V.A.D. It is true that her book … shows a certain hostility to the sisters who were Miss Bagnold's superiors, but otherwise it could only have been offensive in that it was too clearheaded and realistic to please contemporary patriots.
Considering her youth, considering the feverish emotions of the period,...
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Christopher Morley
[In "The Door of Life"] Enid Bagnold gives us, with candor and subtlety, an inward-gazing study of the companionship between a woman and her child, in the days just before and just after birth. At a time when so much of the world's attention is upon the destruction of life, this tender and explicit revelation of lifegiving is a thrill to enjoy. But I fear it probes too clinical, too frank, too tender, to please maternal readers. A deep and I daresay a wise instinct usually withholds the creators of life from articulate comment on the dreamy strangeness of its process.
For fathers, however, this is superb. Hardly since the famous childbirth in the Shandy family has the drama of a household in...
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Rosemary Benet
Readers who complain that the shadow of futility and frustration hangs over the modern novel, should read "The Door of Life". Here is no wishy-washy inhibited heroine, but a vigorous lady, full of zest for life.
She rules her own world, the typical large English household…. She has four strong and interesting children, and is awaiting the birth of the fifth with a brooding pleasure that verges on ecstasy. It is around the idea and the expectancy of birth that the whole household revolves during that warm, still summer….
Though the core of the book is the birth, the background is clear and well drawn. The four other children are very alive for Miss Bagnold has a rare gift for...
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Leo Lerman
Miss Bagnold's special talent has ever been the telling of stories set in the milieu which she seems to know best; and this milieu has several faces. One is that of the world dedicated to high life, the haut monde still to be found in the mondaine places, be they Manhattan, Morocco, or a villa upon some conveniently remote island. This world has a painstakingly assembled face.
Another of the Bagnold faces is the weathered and seamed one of outdoor folk: sportsmen, racing people, county gentry. And, naturally, she knows her servants, the people up in the garrets, down in basements, behind counters. She even knows those anonymous persons in streets, undergrounds, on omnibuses—those who make...
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Anthony West
[Insofar as "The Loved and Envied"] is about people and emotions, it is a very good book…. "Serena Blandish," [Miss Bagnold's second novel, was] an extraordinarily exact, lucid, and, in a wholly feminine way, strong account of the experiences that turn a girl into a woman. It was a brilliant start, which promised at least an English Colette. What followed, however, was a long silence, broken, finally, by ["National Velvet,"] an agreeable middle-brow comedy. (About her next novel, "The Door of Life," which was concerned largely with the glories of motherhood and the maternal instinct, the less said the better; it might have been written by a man.) But now, after more than twenty-five years, Miss Bagnold has abruptly...
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Robert Kee
The central character of [Enid Bagnold's The Loved and Envied] is Lady Ruby Maclean, a beautiful, rich, 33-year-old Parisian socialite, who "for a quarter of a century has been more fun than anyone else," and who is now making the transition from that quarter of a century to the next. "The old," she says, "are a bit sad, but it's like rheumatism—one can do nothing about it and they grow used to it." This sweet creaking of joints is the main theme of the book…. One should not let oneself be too much put off by the woman's magazine ring of the names or some of the sentences, or the slightly unreal atmosphere of a moneyed closed shop which pervades the book. These are merely the points at which the disguise is...
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Walter F. Kerr
The dramatist who would convey one of the essential secrets of her play by having two of her characters sit down in the second act and simply ask one another twenty questions is quite a daring one. The dramatist who can, while engaging in this pretty game, make us all lean forward and hang suspended on every curious word must be a very good one.
I say "must be" because … ["The Chalk Garden" is] baffling on quite a few counts….
Gleams of some kind of truth flash back and forth across the stage somewhere between the words that are spoken and the glances that are evaded. Tea goes on being served, flowers go on being transplanted, the conversation grows brighter and brighter. Spurts...
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Richard Watts, Jr.
It was my disturbing impression [while watching "The Chalk Garden"],… that Enid Bagnold, its author, had perhaps written the wrong play. She introduced some odd and interesting characters, provided them with a provocative situation, revealed signs of an original sense of humor and demonstrated that she is the possessor of a graceful and intelligent prose style, but it seemed to me that the resulting drama … rarely came to life in the fashion it kept hopefully suggesting….
Since Miss Bagnold seemed to regard all of [her characters] with freshness of humor and to write about them with amused appreciation, I thought it appeared likely that she was going to offer us an entertainingly, mad comedy...
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Brooks Atkinson
Enid Bagnold is "the lady of quality" who once wrote a novel from which S. N. Behrman wrote a drama of quality, "Serena Blandish." It was warmly admired by a few people in 1929.
The episode is recalled here because she has now written another drama of quality, "The Chalk Garden."… It has been put together in the same off-center fashion, witty lines popping off at tangents, non-sequiturs rambling brightly through the dialogue, everything more or less upside down, nothing leading directly into the next point of the story.
Miss Bagnold gives the impression of being a severe writer with a sharp mind who disdains pencil, paper and all the materials of her craft, and has small patience...
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Kenneth Tynan
Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden … may well be the finest artificial comedy to have flowed from an English (as opposed to an Irish) pen since the death of Congreve. Miss Bagnold's style recalls Ronald Firbank's The Princess Zoubaroff; it has the same exotic insolence, the same hothouse charm. We eavesdrop on a group of thoroughbred minds expressing themselves in speech of an exquisite candour, building ornamental bridges of metaphor, tiptoeing across frail causeways of simile, and vaulting over gorges impassable to the rational soul….
Miss Bagnold evokes a world full of hard, gem-like flame-throwers, a little room of infinite riches…. [There] is nothing affected, or snobbish, about...
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Walter Kerr
I find myself touched by "The Chinese Prime Minister" and I don't think it is because [the play is] … about the end of things coming so soon after they have just begun. I am touched, I think, because I have seen one whole play in which there is not a single careless line.
There are careless scenes, oh, yes. Quite a large portion of the middle act is taken up with a crossfire of family quarreling that has as its purpose the badgering of [the main character] until [she] is pushed into a vital, and mistaken, decision. The sequence is ratchety enough to badger you, too, and to make you wonder whether the silken strands of the evening can be gathered into one steady hand again. But even here...
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Howard Taubman
Grow old along with Enid Bagnold. The last of life, like the first of it, is full of crotchets and ironies as she contemplates both parts in "The Chinese Prime Minister."
In this new comedy,… the author of "The Chalk Garden," that model of elliptical humor and wisdom, is writing again with civilized wit and the kind of mature understanding that forgets little and forgives nearly everything. In a theater accustomed to simplemindedness, if not downright barrenness, it is exhilarating to hear an urbane, yet affirmative voice that can be both teasingly subtle and joyously direct.
There are eight characters, and they have, after a fashion, identities. All but one, the main one, have...
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Robert Brustein
A play about old age should not itself be tired, but the writing in The Chinese Prime Minister is sometimes more enfeebled than its subject matter. Enid Bagnold, I am informed, was seven years about it. That's too long, especially when the work still lacks plot, or focus, or clear intention. I would guess that the author spent the major portion of those years honing up her dialogue, for each line has been sharpened to a fine edge. But she has grown too sage, and the epigrams tend to come out homilies. Take, as typical, this sentiment, which I assume to be the theme of the play: "The only way to enjoy death is to exhaust life." Note how Miss Bagnold has structured the thought; note the Latinate balance, the...
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Nora Sayre
Almost everyone's childhood is boring—except one's own and Enid Bagnold's. At 80, she has written a splendid memoir ["Enid Bagnold's Autobiography"], which seethes with a fledgling's energy, lunging back and forth among the decades….
Gleefully aware of her own "self-delight," greedy for praise, she hurtled into experiences that were scarce for girls of her generation….
Eventually, she was bullied into marriage by Sir Roderick Jones, the head of Reuters…. The evocations of their brawling marriage—"the truces, the fun, the love, the rage"—and her years with four children, two houses, stacks of servants, infinite (often unwanted) guests, and the necessity of writing for...
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Martin Gottfried
It is not often these days that a play is written with grace in pursuit of intelligence. Both seem out of fashion. "A Matter of Gravity" … is hardly in the class of her wonderful "The Chalk Garden," or the lesser "The Chinese Prime Minister," but time spent with even an untidy Enid Bagnold play is time spent in the company of intellectual finesse….
["A Matter of Gravity"] is about a very rich, very aristocratic and devastatingly bright old English lady who is living alone in a grand country house. She is alone, that is, except for a cook who has the disconcerting habit of rising into the air now and again….
[Mrs. Basil has] outgrown faith in science and so the choice between...
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Clive Barnes
They say that to understand is to forgive, but I am not sure that I understood Enid Bagnold's new play "A Matter of Gravity."…
An eccentric Englishwoman, with bird's-nest hair, glittering eyes, a forthright tongue that can never quite decide whether to be blunt or forked, and a style of dress that froze immediately after World War I and never thawed—we know the type. We know also the fat cook with a taste for liquor and an ingratiating manner, but there are differences….
Mrs. Basil is, for all her vigor and animal vitality, an old woman and she fears death as passionately as she has embraced life. She does not believe in God, or in a future. She is a materialist with humor....
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Alan Rich
[A Matter of Gravity] is not so much a play … as a series of patches from several plays that connect only in having the same cast in each. One patch concerns an elderly woman, crusty and conservative (in all but her apparent passion for heavy green eye shadow), going somewhat to pieces at her grandson's marriage to a girl of partially black parentage: proposition, conflict, and, need we add, reconciliation. Another concerns the housemaid of said grandmother, a slovenly sort, but given to levitation, and the grandmother's decision to join the maid in a mental institution so that she, too, can learn to levitate. (I am not making this up.) A third concerns the breakup of two homosexual matings, one male...
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Rents are out of control
Kimberly Sheridan, Minot
Rentals in Minot are becoming outrageous and folks like myself are being priced out of the area.
IMM has continued to increase rents quarterly. Initially, it was $10 to $20 and the past two years has jumped $50 to $75 each time the envelope arrives in the mail. Their justification is an increase in property tax, cost of operating and maintaining apartments (isn't that what I pay rent for?), increased demands from lenders, vendors. Yet services have been cut back dramatically.
The past two years my rent has jumped a total of $350. It appears that each time something broke or needed repair…within a few weeks that letter came in the mail for the increase. If the rent jumps again I will not be able to afford it and will be forced to move. At this time have no place to go. I have cut services like home phone, internet and recently cable in order to afford the increase. I do not work in the oil industry nor does my employer provide a housing allowance. What about us? When will the rates drop or stop rising? The apartment is far from new yet IMM wants to charge rates of the newer apartments/condos. I have even looked into purchasing a home but the prices are outrageous compared to southern states.
Suggestions? Direction? I am disappointed they are taking advantage of folks.

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Babies are cute. But can playing with a visiting baby teach empathy? Five Washington D.C. elementary schools are bringing babies into classrooms "to hep students recognize and deal with emotions," reports the Washington Post.
A Canadian program called Roots of Empathy is being tried in the U.S. "amid growing concern about classroom bullying and growing conviction that teaching certain character traits — such as persistence, self-control and self-confidence — is just as crucial for students' futures as teaching academics."
Roots is built on a simple notion: When babies such as June bring their huge eyes, irrepressible smiles and sometimes unappeasable tears into the classroom, students can't help but feel for them. The idea is that recognizing and caring about a baby's emotions can open a gateway for children to learn bigger lessons about taking care of one another, considering others' feelings, having patience.
A baby, with a parent, visits each classroom once a month.
A volunteer instructor asks questions related to one of nine themes, from the reasons babies cry to the emotions they feel. The classes — which range from 30 to 50 minutes, depending on the baby's mood — are mostly a chance for students to watch the baby as it responds to songs and games and to ask questions and share observations about whatever comes to mind.
With discussions before and after the baby's visit, students spend 20 hours a year on the program. Some D.C. elementary schools don't offer a full year of science or social studies, the Post notes.
Children do better in school when they learn social-emotional skills, argues Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia. "Children who participate in Roots tend to show declines in aggressive, bullying behaviors and growth in sharing, cooperative and helping ones," her research shows.


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Skip to comments.Lost Freepers: What ever happened to FReepers such as... NativeNewYorker
Posted on 02/22/2013 7:47:40 PM PST by JoeProBono
Lost Freepers: What ever happened to FReepers such as...
One Who Knows...aka OWK.
FReepers have always been known for doing research and digging for facts. They can sniff out stuff that's just unbelievable!
Allegra is 100% genuine and a better person than most people realize or give her credit for. She has spent more time in the dust bowl than many OGA 'operators' and she does it by choice.
I wish I could find a picture I took of a sign one day, outside a small pharmacy in Salem, MA...it said "Allegra is Here!"
I pulled over when I saw it, snapped a shot of it and posted it to her...:)
The problem with logical discussion is that no one wants to think themselves 'illogical'. So you get garden variety unsupportable BS hammered to death in the name of logic. Case in point, the recent 'abortion for votes scam several 'freepers' were running on behalf of the GOP.
To them, it was completely 'logical' to give ground on the abortion issue if that meant building a bigger tent for the 2014 elections.
Now if anyone can explain how it's logical to kill babies for votes I'm all ears. But you can't twll them any more than tell Dem/libs that 'No, this is contrary to everything we believe in and so is not logical for us to adopt as a position'.
"We", you see, were the illogical ones. Now apply this to many of the discussions you see here. Plenty of infiltration by leftist/moderates shouting down people sticking to their guns in the name of 'logic' and 'pragmatism'....which are two very different things....which also escapes them entirely.
I posted with him on a start up forum maybe a couple of years ago. I believe it was True Blue Liberty or something like that, but neither of us lasted very long. Don't know where he went from there.
Willie had much experience with smartass disorder, he looked at one every morning in the mirror.
He was warned in no uncertain terms by Jim but just couldn't be nice and that's what got him the Zot. :-)
Great tag line!
Heh, I agree. I likened logical discussion on FR to a bell shaped curve, and there are those tapering "tails" on either side that make you look askance at some discussions.
As in..."Ok. This thread is over for me, I can't take it seriously anymore..."
Kind of like the Internet in miniature. You have to have your filter active all the time.
I wish all the old posters were still here. So many good posters and thinkers have disappeared. I used to love TheGreatSatan. Not sure if he got banned or just went away.
"I used to love TheGreatSatan"
Now there's something you don't see every day ;)
Wee Willie even got the boot at Liberty Post.
-— And who was that guy who posted about trains all the time?-——
LOL I was just going to post about him. Willie..... Green? I used to call him Boxcar Willie.
He should have posted with a disclaimer (not a paid spokesperson for the American Railroad Association).
Yes, I didn't think about that as I typed it! (:
"Some people dont really want people to analyze what they say. They just want to say it."
Aint that the truth! The analysis of what you post here can be brutal and so it should be.If you don't consider your words your credibility could die the death of a thousand cuts.
It tends to make one really really carefull if they want to be heard or read.Still,sometimes it can be gut bustingly hilarious watching know-it-alls implode.
Cooler heads on that site eventually turned it over to me and the antifreeping ex-freepers went underground on fb.
The "official" freeper site on fb is now back in our hands:
Does anyone know what happened to Doctor Raoul? I've searched everywhere for him. He shut his phones off, snail mail to him was returned with the note, moved, no forwarding address.
He was always one of my favorites-—we had a group that gathered in DC once in a while to "Freep the Creep" aka Bill Clinton. Kristinn, Doctor Raoul, Clinton's a Liar—I know I'm leaving several out, but can't come up with their names right now.........
Hm, do you have any specific stories?
Hey, I resent that. We aren't all, all the time.
I personally know a few freepers who don't post much (if at all) anymore, and when I asked them why, they said it was too depressing to have the decay and destruction of this country by the left shoved into their faces in thread after thread.
I know how they feel. It is why I stopped listening to Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin, both of whom I enjoyed listening to, but...there are only so many ways to state the truth without being repetitive.
The White House.
It's a microcosm of how the collective 'we' got to this mess to begin with.
The net 'freed' people to spout whatever as holy writ and then the PC of 'Thou shall not offend" gave them cover. We say that displayed best in "How dare you question my patriotism" by the libs in the Iraq war.
Same stuff, different day.
Hahaha...I walked by a window with t-shirts in it the other day, and one of them said:
"So, two Irishmen walk out of a bar..."
(Yes, that does happen)
'Where Are They Now?'
I had forgotten about Liberty Post. Just looked in over there and saw that I'd been featured in a post in the Biker Bar section. I'm so proud of myself, I'm tempted to add a tag line "As featured on Liberty Post"
You mean the guy that lowered the oceans and made Islam love us?
....could be.......
They were driven off by the Palinistas.
The Swordman guy used to spam FR with multiple posts a day about the glories of Apple products and had very thin skin when anyone made fun of AppleBoyz. Never recall seeing him post on any thread dealing with politics or conservatism, so I can only assume he was a troll here only to promote Apple stuff that no one asked about. His constant threats to hit the abuse button are not missed.
Some just died.
Most freepers are what, 70 and up?
The activism is now limited to just sternly worded vanities or calls for donations.
I am not very quick in conversation, I don't have that gift of being able to do on-the-fly analysis and formulation of a response.
I enjoy writing, and I feel that it gives me time to formulate and think through what I really mean, which is good for this environment, because people will readily poke holes, and that is fully expected.
Hey, I have my own sacred cows that have been slaughtered and put on a spit over the Free Republic coals here. It makes me realize just how fallible my opinions can be on occasion. It is humbling.
Only the misogynists and MSM believers.
A trully amazing thing that.
I was drawn here because I wanted to hammer my new faith at the time.FR will certainly burn the fat off of your world view.If you can keep your feelings in check.
And we Palinistas apparently failed miserably...since there are still several PDSers haunting the Palin threads.
HIS property? Oh, you mean the property that he asks us (ALL the time) to pay for???
It's real. Harder to see without the hat, though.
Yes! Good Old Doctor Raoul! Great guy, I met him on more than a few occasions with that great DC Chapter gang!
I loved seeing him wear that Halliburton baseball cap. Just the sight of it was enough to drive the Moonbats into a spittle-lipped rage!
I swear, he would incline and turn his head just to be sure they got a good view of it!
Man, that was great!
Always had someone to blame when FR server took dump, but MiaT is no longer chewing up bandwidth.
Yeah. Some are still here. And STILL spouting talking points from the MSM.
LOL! MiaT's posts would give me nightmares!
Well, "feeling' is the new way for a lot of 'conservatives' these days. They seem to share that with their supposed enemies. The greatest thing about FR is as you said, the ability to burn through the BS. Lord knows there's plenty of that lately.
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Debates of April 27th, 2009
House of Commons Hansard #46 of the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was relationship.
- Question Period
- Infrastructure
- Business of Supply
- Tourism
- Leadership Initiatives
- Martin Gray
- Health Care
- Identity Theft
- Arts and Culture
- Warren Goldring
- Copyright
- Victims of Crime
- Search and Rescue
- Taxation
- Northern Ontario Communities
- Firearms Registry
- National Victims of Crime Awareness Week
- Atlantic Ballet Theatre
- The Economy
- Health
- Sri Lanka
- Goods and Services Tax
- Forestry Industry
- Health
- Automotive Industry
- The Economy
- Health
- Arts and Culture
- Public Service
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- Justice
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- Foreign Affairs
- Canada-U.S. Relations
- Afghanistan
- Justice
- Chalk River Nuclear Facilities
- Government Expenditures
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Taxation
- Health
- Government Response to Petitions
- Cree-Naskapi (of Quebec) Act
- Interparliamentary Delegations
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Identity Theft
Statements By Members
April 27th, 2009 / 2 p.m.
Tom Lukiwski Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK
Mr. Speaker, I rise in the House today to congratulate the government for introducing its recent legislation to combat identity theft in Canada.
Organized crime and modern technology are changing the criminal landscape with new and rapidly-evolving technologies, making identity theft easier than ever. It has become a more serious problem for Canadians than ever before.
In 2004 I introduced a private member's bill to target this very problem. That bill would have made it an offence for a person to be in possession of or to transfer, without lawful excuse, any information or document that could be used to identify another person.
I commend the government for Bill S-4, which will help in combating the complex and serious problem of identity theft. I call on all parties to support this important piece of legislation that stands to benefit all Canadians.
Arts and Culture
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Hedy Fry Vancouver Centre, BC
Mr. Speaker, B.C. has taken over Ottawa in a bloodless coup and the citizens love it.
From April 21 to May 3, British Columbian artists, singers, musicians, actors, dancers, vintners and chefs will hit the boards and the art galleries, the libraries and the pubs bringing with them some of the most innovative and avant-garde talent this city has ever seen.
People should see the critically acclaimed aboriginal musical, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, or BIOBOXES and the Wen Wei Dance. or listen to Jim Burns, Ndidi Onukwulu and Alex Cuba, or view exhibits by Marina Roy, Abbas Akhavan and Brendan Tang.
If that is not enough to fill people's soul, they can drink exquisite B.C. wine, taste delicious Pacific cuisine and be mesmerized by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
Though we are young, the diversity of our arts and culture in B.C. shimmers with innovation and fusion bands, like Delhi 2 Dublin and DJ Spoon, testify to that.
Ottawa is agog with delight. Events are packed. I urge members to go and be a part of the B.C. scene. It is a happening event.
Warren Goldring
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Peter Goldring Edmonton East, AB
Mr. Speaker, a descendant of five Goldring brothers who arrived in Upper Canada from England in the 1820s passed away April 14.
Warren Goldring epitomized all that Canadians aspire to. In 1957 he founded AGF, American Growth Fund, stewarded today by his son Blake. Warren was Ernst & Young's Ontario Entrepreneur of the Year for 2002 and recipient of the Queen's Jubilee Medal.
Warren Goldring continued the belief in education of his father, who was Toronto's Director of Education. Warren's interest in national and international issues led him to sponsor the Goldring Chair in Canadian Studies at the University of Toronto, support the Canada Institute at Washington's Woodrow Wilson Center and be the founding director of Operation Dialogue to support Canadian nationalism and unity.
Distinguished business leader, author, visionary and avid trout fisherman, Warren Goldring lived a truly full life. He leaves his wife, Barbara, and his children, Blake, Jane, Bryce and Judy, and 11 grandchildren. His contribution to family and country will long be remembered.
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Roger Pomerleau Drummond, QC
Mr. Speaker, illegal downloading is hurting artists. They get nothing for their work, while Internet service providers benefit from it.
The Copyright Act does not contemplate the impact of new technologies, such as the Internet, and it should be amended as quickly as possible. Everyone deserves to be compensated for their work, so we must ensure both that creators receive their due and that consumers can take advantage of this new way to access their work.
Bill C-61, which the Conservatives introduced in June 2008, demands no accountability from the industry. Instead, it attacks consumers, who pay Internet service providers for access.
In honour of World Intellectual Property Day, which was yesterday, the members of the Bloc Québécois will ensure that the new Copyright Act is fair and does a decent job of protecting creators' work.
Victims of Crime
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Sylvie Boucher Beauport—Limoilou, QC
Mr. Speaker, this is National Victims of Crime Awareness Week and this year's theme is "supporting, connecting, evolving". It presents a perfect opportunity to raise awareness about victim issues and about the programs, services and laws in place to help victims of crime.
I know one party in this House that will not be taking part in the events to mark this national week, and that is the Bloc Québécois. For purely ideological reasons and because of its narrow-mindedness, it systematically refuses to support any motion or bill that could help victims of crime. The Bloc votes for criminals and against victims.
Barely a week ago, the Bloc voted against Bill C-268, which would establish minimum sentences for people convicted of certain offences committed against young people, particularly, sex-related offences and trafficking of children. That is unacceptable.
The Bloc has the interests of criminals at heart, not the interests of Quebeckers.
Search and Rescue
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Siobhan Coady St. John's South—Mount Pearl, NL
Mr. Speaker, the safety of those who make their living on the sea is an ever-present concern and a personal priority for me.
The recent tragic loss of 17 lives in a helicopter crash en route to offshore oil operations off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador has returned the question of the need for a dedicated search and rescue unit to be located in St. John's, to the forefront of public awareness.
Recommendations made in the wake of the 1982 Ocean Ranger inquiry included the introduction of such a dedicated helicopter, fully equipped to search and rescue standards to be operated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
I ask the government to take action on the issue and begin by conducting a full review of the search and rescue coverage in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. A review is the appropriate first step to ensuring the continuous and comprehensive coverage needed is in place to safeguard those who work on the sea.
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Chris Warkentin Peace River, AB
Mr. Speaker, $20 billion of additional tax cuts by the Conservative government will leave more money in the hands of Canadians. It will assist to help the economy to grow during these tough economic times.
However, the Liberal Party has a plan for dealing with the economic situation as well. It plans to raise taxes on Canadian families. The Liberal leader recently said, "We will have to raise taxes".
Anybody with a basic understanding of economics knows that cutting taxes, like our Conservative government is doing, encourages economic growth, while raising taxes, like the Liberal Party is pushing for, discourages economic growth. This is not the time to be discouraging economic growth.
Canadians have a right to know how many taxes the Liberals want to hike, how much they will raise them by and which Canadians they will go after to get more money under the new Liberal tax grab.
Northern Ontario Communities
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Tony Martin Sault Ste. Marie, ON
Mr. Speaker, my riding of Sault Ste. Marie, like many places, is facing hard times with this recession: layoffs, questions about pensions and belt-tightening. While we work hard to recover, I was reminded while attending a number of events this past weekend of the resiliency of our people and our communities.
Friday night, a full hall turned out for the United Way volunteer recognition banquet. Saturday night, the city's highest honour, the Medal of Merit, was presented to four recipients: Celia Ross, Patti Gardi, Dennis O'Reilly and Don Watson, and the Police Association honoured its retirees at a dinner.
Tonight, in Sudbury, Sir James Dunn music teacher, Mark Gough, will receive the Best Engineer award at the sixth annual Northern Ontario Music and Film Awards. Another nominee is fellow Saultite, Rusty McCarthy.
As New Democrats work for real solutions to this recession, I also want to celebrate the resiliency of our people and those making outstanding contributions.
Firearms Registry
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Bradley Trost Saskatoon—Humboldt, SK
Mr. Speaker, the NDP MPs who all campaigned passionately against the long gun registry failed their constituents last week.
For example, NDP members representing the Western Arctic and Timmins—James Bay say that they want to end the gun registry when they are back home but here in Ottawa they cannot help but feel the pressure of their own NDP leader and colleagues and decided to sit on their hands and continue punishing rural Canadians, duck hunters and farmers.
Canadians should know that these MPs tell their constituencies what they want to hear when in their constituencies and then come to Ottawa and do the exact opposite.
NDP members for the Western Arctic and Timmins—James Bay may have avoided the wrath of their party leader but now their constituents know that on issues that matter their MPs cannot be counted on to stand up and vote.
National Victims of Crime Awareness Week
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Johanne Deschamps Laurentides—Labelle, QC
Mr. Speaker, National Victims of Crime Awareness Week runs from April 26 to May 2 this year. It is a time to reflect on victims' issues and the programs and measures that are in place to help their families and friends.
That is why I would like to take this opportunity to call on all the members of this House to support Bloc Québécois Bill C-343. Like the legislation already in force in Quebec, this bill would amend the Canada Labour Code so that relatives of victims of crime could receive financial support for up to 52 weeks, which would give them time to work through their grief and get on with their lives.
If passed, this initiative, which is supported by the Murdered or Missing Persons' Families' Association of Quebec and its chair, Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu, would provide an opportunity for this government to set aside political partisanship and show sensitivity, compassion and solidarity towards the friends and families of these victims.
Atlantic Ballet Theatre
Statements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Brian Murphy Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe, NB
Mr. Speaker, the Atlantic Ballet Theatre, based in Moncton, New Brunswick, grew from the dream of one woman, Susan Chalmers-Gauvin, in 2001. Since then, it has toured the world to critical and audience acclaim. In fact, the troupe just got back from rave reviews in Brooklyn, New York.
Atlantic Ballet Theatre performs nationally and internationally and is known for its high level of professionalism. It is also the only professional ballet company in Atlantic Canada. The company is committed to forging ties with the community, especially young people and seniors.
They have created seven full feature works and over twenty shorter works. Now the company is looking forward to the future with optimism.
The arts are a gauge for where our citizens are in mind, spirit and body. This is why we all need to do what we can to support arts organizations like the Atlantic Ballet Theatre. Its commitment to artistic excellence moves us all and creates a better society for everyone.
The Economy
Statements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Mike Wallace Burlington, ON
Mr. Speaker, our Conservative government understands Canadian families. Our Conservative government delivers results for Canadian families.
With our economic action plan, we are reducing the tax burden on Canadian families. We are providing stimulus spending that will create jobs. We are helping Canadians who are hardest hit by this global recession.
In contrast, the Liberal Party has promised to impose a job-killing carbon tax, to raise the GST and to end the universal child care benefit. In a pattern of announcing policies that will hurt Canadian families, the Liberal leader recently said, "We will have to raise taxes".
We appreciate his honesty but Canadians want to know how much this new policy will cost them. The Liberal leader should stand in this House and tell Canadians which taxes the Liberals will raise, by how much they will raise them and who will be forced to pay these higher taxes. Canadians deserve to know.
Oral Questions
2:15 p.m.
Michael Ignatieff Leader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, Canadians are worried about swine flu. There are six confirmed cases in Canada: four in Nova Scotia and two in British Columbia. Two Quebeckers may be infected and other cases might be confirmed shortly.
What measures is the government proposing in response to this situation?
Oral Questions
2:15 p.m.
Leona Aglukkaq Minister of Health
Mr. Speaker, before I answer the question, I would like to offer my sympathies to people in Mexico on the impact of the earthquake. My thoughts and prayers go out to them.
Canada is well positioned to deal with this issue. We have a national plan for disease outbreaks and we are following it. I am having regular discussions with our international partners, including Margaret Chan, who is the director-general of the World Health Organization; the U.S. Secretary of Health, Charles Johnson; and Jose Cordova, the Mexican health minister.
I have also spoken with my provincial and territorial colleagues over the weekend, our counterparts across Canada, and provided them with updates on the situation. Our departments are working very closely together. We have--
Oral Questions
2:15 p.m.
The Speaker Peter Milliken
The hon. Leader of the Opposition.


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Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Judith McHale delivered remarks at the Exchange 2.0 Summit. Under Secretary McHale spoke about the State Department's commitment to promoting opportunities for exchange, and strengthening and expanding personal connections in the 21st century.
She said, "...I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak with you today about the State Department's unwavering commitment to promoting opportunities for exchange through every possible venue -- face-to-face and using connective technologies. We want to find new ways to interact with one another and use technology to augment the reach and retention of our exchanges. But the underlying principles of international exchange remain unchanged. In all we do, we must strive to create the sense of shared belonging and mutual respect that is so critical to lasting peace and understanding.
"We know that stand-alone, government-to-government diplomacy is no longer enough. More so now than ever, public diplomacy is a vital component of the foreign policy of the United States. Engaging with and telling our story to people around the world both advances our national interests and enhances our national security.
"As we do this, facilitating exchanges and face-to-face interactions between individuals is the bread and butter of our public diplomacy work. Our Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs works around the clock to maintain a wide range of high-quality exchanges between youth, students, educators, artists, athletes, and emerging leaders in the United States and more than 160 countries. Exchange participants quickly become citizen ambassadors. They create spaces for conversation and opportunities for cooperation while traveling abroad. And they build even larger communities of understanding when they return home.
"We have over one million alumni of State Department led exchanges living and working around the world today. It is a network that includes more than 50 Nobel laureates and more than 350 current or former government leaders. This is an invaluable asset to help us engage with countries at every level and inform our policy objectives -- if we harness it correctly.
"Expanding and strengthening our people-to-people relationships is a major pillar of our public diplomacy framework at the State Department. It is a commitment that guides our strategic outreach in every region of the world. And exchanges are the human heartbeat holding it all together. But we must also navigate this new world of global connectivity and the never before known opportunities it provides. The Internet has made it possible to reach more people in more places. But it has also shifted power and influence to such an extent that it is necessary to engage with more people. So we need to do more to connect with people -- all 6.9 billion of them -- to better ensure the stability and security of our world.
"Operating in this new world also means recognizing that people themselves are different from previous generations with whom we sought to engage. Today, more than 60 percent of the world's population is under the age of 30. These young people are savvy, connected, and increasingly well educated. They will be the drivers of change in their countries and throughout the world in the coming decades. We are already seeing it across North Africa and the Middle East as a rising wave of young activists demand their rights and remake their world. This is a critical inflection point for these newly empowered youth, which makes this a critical moment for the United States to redouble our efforts to support and engage them."
She continued, "...Connective technologies can provide the first introduction between two people that sparks a curiosity to learn more about one another. Or they can be the second contact that helps cement and build a relationship over time and distance. Each interaction leaves a different impression and shows a person he or she is important to us. That too is a core function of exchanges. And Exchange 2.0 adds several elements that help us better achieve our goal of strengthening and expanding personal connections in the 21st century.
"First, connective technologies allow us to scale up and adapt our exchanges to reach a wider, more diverse audience. With social media, we can maintain a connection to communities we have never before had the resources or opportunity to engage. If our goal is to engage with everyone, particularly communities and populations that may have been marginalized in the past, online exchanges make that goal a real possibility for the first time.
"Second, social media provide a platform to sustain our meaningful engagement with alumni once they have completed an international exchange program. Setting up an online group for alumni allows us to continue the conversation long after participants leave their host countries. And it keeps the network alive for participants to more easily share ideas and best practices among themselves as well.
"Third, social media allow us to engage with youth where they live -- whether online or on their mobile phone. We cannot remain wedged in a model of engagement that requires youth to come to us. There are too many streams of information competing with us for influence, and important conversations will happen with or without us. If we do not enter the marketplace of ideas and join forums where youth are already active, we risk marginalizing ourselves permanently.
"And finally, social media allow us to keep up with the speed at which our world happens. We have to be able to respond to rapidly changing environments. I recently returned from Tunisia, a country that is changing minute-to-minute. Journalists were asking for assistance to learn the basics of how to question their politicians in an open media environment. So we are setting up an online, rapid mentorship program to connect journalists in Tunisia with their counterparts in the United States and France and throughout the Middle East. With Tunisia's first democratic elections in over two decades less than three months away, our support must not be too late or too little.
"Added to these assets is a bonus advantage: Exchanges using social media technology cost relatively little to implement but can return large benefits. Soliya's Connect Program is an excellent example of combining technology tools with the core principles of exchange to produce impressive results. Soliya tracks the before and after attitudes for each participant in their Connect Program. Nearly twice as many students, both Arab and American, strongly agree that they have a lot in common with their counterparts after participating in the semester-long virtual exchange. Even better, the Connect Program has a viral impact as 93 percent of participants say they shared what they were learning with others in their community. No miles are traveled. No one meets in person. But attitudes are changed.
"We need to explore more ways to strategically and consistently incorporate connective technologies into our exchange efforts. As President Obama has said, we need to "create a new online network, so a young person in Kansas can communicate instantly with a young person in Cairo." With the help of many of you in this room, we have already started down this path at the State Department. Our Global Connections and Exchange Program has been in operation for ten years. This landmark public diplomacy initiative connects students who may never share a lunch table or walk home together. But with online classrooms, there are no limits on sharing their ideas. Together, they learn to be positive forces for change in their local communities."
In conclusion, Under Secretary McHale said, "...Secretary Clinton has challenged us to think of ways we can make the special experience of international exchange available to the greatest number of people possible. To figure out how we can sustain interactions and turn passing encounters into permanent friendships. Connective technology undoubtedly has a central role to play, and I challenge each of you to find new ways to incorporate it into the great work you are already doing.
"Let us build momentum toward a near future where online exchanges are a baseline expectation for our citizens in a globalized world. Let us work together to harness the power of networks and apply them to our people-to-people exchanges. And let us never doubt the universal ability of dialogue in any form to promote intercultural good will.
"The path to understanding always takes a different route. It can be a long haul or an uphill climb. But without fail, in every country and across every culture on earth, it starts with "hello" and ends with "go in peace, my friend."
You can read Under Secretary McHale's complete remarks here.
Buket E. in Turkey writes:
Dear all,
First of all lots of thanks for this great opportunity of Exchange 2.0 Summit. We are looking forward to more connections,more friendship and more developments.I do agree with the remark of 'Expanding and strengthening people-to-people relationships'.I n my school I encourage my students to participate in Video Conferences, Student Exchange Programs and iEARN Projects. My student used to be shy at first but now we've been taking part in various collaborative, project based,student centred and self motivating projects of iEARN with the great support and help of the U.S. Embassy Ankara. Lots of thanks to your contributions to make great difference on the lives of our students. We are looking forward to more webcast events.
Kind regards,
Buket E.
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@ Buket E. -- Thank you for your comment! We are glad to hear of your participation in these projects and will pass along your feedback to our colleagues in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.


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Clorice 'Casey' (Case) Otis
SARANAC LAKE – Clorice "Casey" (Case) Otis, 89, of 78 Will Rogers Drive, Saranac Lake, died Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, at her home in Saranac Village at Will Rogers.
Born Clorice Harper Case in Little Valley on April 15, 1923, Casey was the daughter of Dean Joseph Case and Clorice Clothilde Harper Case (nee Shannon). Little Valley, known as the "Valley of Knives," was the founding home of Case Cutlery and Kinfolks Incorporated, of which Casey's father Dean was the major shareholder.
Casey graduated with a BA in English from the University of Michigan and was a member of Kappa Delta Sorority, which resulted in a number of lifelong friendships. At Michigan she met her husband, Maurice "Maury" Bromley Otis of Horseheads. In 1944 they were married in Sioux Falls, S.D., where Maury was stationed with the U.S. Army Air Force prior to deployment to the Pacific Theater during World War II. They remained husband and wife for 66 years, until his passing on Jan. 3, 2011. Casey and Maury were both very proud of being a part of what Tom Brokaw hailed as "the Greatest Generation."
Casey also lived in Lake Clear and in Slingerlands, where she was an active member of her community. A devoted stay-at-home mother to her four children, Casey later worked for 10 years as office manager for Robert King, DDS. She was active in PTA, Home Bureau and the Women's Rosary Society of St. Thomas Church in Delmar, and served as a Cub Scout den mother. Her hospitality committee of the Rosary Society grew into a group of couples that called themselves the Happy Group, which got together on a regular basis throughout the years.
In 1973 Casey and Maury moved to Lake Placid while building Windfall, their dream house on Lake Kiwassa in Saranac Lake. After moving to Kiwassa, Casey worked in the office of William Sweeney, CPA, until her retirement in 1985. Thereafter, she remained active in the community, delivering Meals on Wheels for 12 years and serving as a volunteer at Adirondack Medical Center. For fun, she joined the Red Hat Society. In recent years, Casey contributed considerable historic reference for her nephew Dean Elliott Case's book, "Kinfolks Knives – A History of Cutlery and Cousins," which was published in 2010. She also contributed information to cousin Brad Lockwood's book, "The Case Cutlery Dynasty," published in 2005. A superb cook who loved to entertain, Casey's cocktail and dinner parties were renowned. Not surprisingly, even during this past year, her nutritional training and culinary art skills were enlisted to consult on menu improvements at Will Rogers.
She is survived by two sons: Fitz-Edward Otis II (Edit) of Sarasota, Fla., and Michael Case Otis (Mary Elizabeth "Bee") of Gallupville; two daughters: Judith Ann Otis (Richard Wilson) of Elizabeth City, N.C., and Mary Pamela Otis (Richard A. Curreri) of Voorheesville; eight grandchildren: Janet Nielson (Stanley), Fitz-Edward III (Susan), Michelle Brantley (Leonard), Deborah Stone Breen (Mark), Kellie Fredericks (John), Kate Otis (Eli Rabinowitz), Allison Curreri and Richard J. Curreri; and eight great-grandchildren.
Calling hours will take place from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 9, at the Fortune-Keough Funeral Home, 20 Church St. in Saranac Lake. A Mass of Christian burial will take place at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 10, at St. Bernard's Church in Saranac Lake. Burial will take place in the spring in the town of Harrietstown Cemetery outside Saranac Lake.
Friends wishing to remember Casey may make memorial contributions to the Saranac Lake Free Library, Adirondack Medical Center or the Association of Senior Citizens (for the Meals on Wheels program in Franklin County) in care of the funeral home. Family and friends can also share their memories and sign the online guestbook at fortunekeoughfuneralhome.com.


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Minnesota forward Dante Cunningham is in serious trouble.
Friday morning Cunningham was arrested and eventually was charged with felony domestic abuse.
Sunday he was arrested again — this time on suspicion of making terrorist threats. That according to what the Medina police told the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Medina police officer Chris McGill on Sunday confirmed Cunningham's arrest, but declined to give details. He said that the department would issue a news release Monday morning.
The Timberwolves released this statement:
"The situation with Dante Cunningham is very fluid and we continue to monitor all available information. We reiterate that the Minnesota Timberwolves do not condone the behavior described in the accusations. We continue to wait for the legal process to run its course and will have further comment when appropriate."
Cunningham was already due in court Monday related to last week's domestic abuse charge. The Star-Tribune has more details on that charge.
In that case, he is accused to trying to strangle a woman in his Medina home. According to the complaint, the woman told authorities that the two have been living together for eight months, but having problems lately, including an argument about 3:30 a.m. Thursday after which Cunningham left in anger and she then locked the bedroom door.
A short time later, the complaint stated, Cunningham returned, kicked in the bedroom door, slammed her against the wall and choked her for about 15 to 20 seconds before letting her go and leaving the home.
Cunningham was out on $40,000 bail when the second incident occurred.
Cunningham, 26, is in his fifth NBA season. He has averaged 6 points and 4 rebounds a game in about 20 minutes a night off the bench for the Timberwolves this season.
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Pacers throwing in the towel while looking for excuses.
After the most recent Pacers loss coach Frank Vogel said he thought his starters looked tired. This was a team that put a premium earlier in the season on getting the No. 1 seed in the East and they have faded lately, they have looked mentally disinterested (save vs. Miami) so maybe there is something to the burnout talk.
So, with four games left, the Pacers are going to rest guys – Paul George David West specifically asked for it. You can bet Roy Hibbert will be in that mix.
That's what coach Frank Vogel told media members Tuesday, including Scott Agnes of pacers.com.
I agree with Vogel that this is not the lone problem, the Pacers have a series of overlapping issues that have led to their recent collapse.
However, rest — physical and mental — is part of what is needed. The Pacers need to step back, catch their breath and then come at their problems. There is a reason Gregg Popovich, Erik Spoelstra, Doc Rivers and a host of other quality NBA coaches rest guys down the stretch (or at various points during the season).
The Pacers should do it if that means accepting the No. 2 seed in the East.
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Miami... Keeping Indy in the race
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Maybe that is.
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Indy gets taken to the buzzer by Milwaukee but wins and Memphis beats Miami...... What is going on?


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ANAHEIM, Calif. (Jan. 5, 2008) -- Coaches of the eight volleyball teams participating in the 2008 NORCECA Men's Continental Olympic Qualification Championship on Jan. 6-11 in Caguas, Puerto Rico, participated in a press conference on Saturday at which they expressed their thoughts about the tournament. The U.S. Men's National Team will play its first match of the tournament on Sunday at 9 a.m. PST against the Dominican Republic.
Ludger Niles (BAR): "It is a privilege to play in such prestigious tournament. We are basically here to take more technical and tactical points from the more experienced teams. Our long term goal is to improve the volleyball in the Caribbean and elevate the sport in that area to another level."
Glenn Hoag (CAN): "Obviously this is an important part of the life of every player and every team, with the Olympic cycles of four and eight years. To be in the major sport event like the Olympic Games is the goal of every athlete and coach. We will try our best to be in Beijing."
Orlando Samuels (CUB): "We are here to battle for the qualification to Beijing. We have a very young team but with good potential. We will do our best trying to qualify. I don't have any favorite team to beat because I think there are a lot of teams with good chances, so you have to beat all them."
Jacinto Campechano (DOM): "I think the three teams from each pool advancing after the preliminary round have a fair chance. Anything can happen after that because those teams are very similar. I can guarantee that we are going to be fighting until the last second of every single match."
Jorge Azair (MEX): "We are coming here looking for the qualification to the Olympic Games. It is going to be tough because the best teams of our continent are here also with the same purpose. I think it is a dream for us and we are going to play trying to make that sweet dream to come true."
Carlos Cardona (PUR): "I consider the level of volleyball in NORCECA has grown a lot the past few years. Puerto Rico has achieved some things like playing with more consistency. There is a blend of good experience with young talent. I think there are five or six teams with chances to make it to Beijing."
Augusto Sabbatini (TRI): "Trinidad & Tobago is participating for the first time in such strong competition. For us is a great pleasure because of the experience we are going to obtain due to the great technical level of all the teams. I think there are at least four teams with good chance to qualify and represent the zone in the Olympics."
Hugh McCutcheon (USA): "We have had very short time of preparation because some of our players were competing overseas but they are in good condition and all we need from them is to play up to the best of their ability. This is a very important tournament and we are ready to start competing. I agree with my colleagues regarding the quality of the teams participating in this qualifying tournament."
U.S. Men's Tournament Team Released:
U.S. Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon has released the names of the 12 players who will represent the United States at the qualification tournament.
(No., Name, Position, Height, Hometown, College)
1 Lloy Ball (S, 6-8, Woodburn, Ind., Indiana-Purdue, Fort Wayne)
2 Sean Rooney (OH, 6-9, Wheaton, Ill., Pepperdine)
4 David Lee (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Calif., Long Beach State)
5 Rich Lambourne (L, 6-3, Tustin, Calif., BYU)
8 Reid Priddy (OH, 6-5, Richmond, Va., Loyola Marymount)
9 Ryan Millar (MB, 6-8, Palmdale, Calif., BYU)
10 Riley Salmon (OH, 6-6, League City, Texas, Pierce College)
12 Tom Hoff (MB, 6-8, Park Ridge, Ill., Long Beach State) 13 Clay Stanley (OPP, 6-9, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Hawai'i)
14 Kevin Hansen (S, 6-5, Newport Beach, Calif., Stanford) 15 Gabe Gardner (OPP, 6-9, San Clemente, Calif., Stanford)
18 Scott Touzinsky (OH, 6-7, St. Louis, Mo., Long Beach State)
There is more information on the qualifier is available on the NORCECA web site at www.NORCECA.org.


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Thanks for the tip! I will avoid those. So far it seems like everything operates under the adage, "A Law Student and his money are soon parted." My next big expense will be books. I already have my first assignments, but I wasn't able to purchase books today because the bookstore hasn't unpacked them yet.Originally Posted by Puffy
So far this summer, I've been trying to get in as much non-law reading as possible. The only "law" book I've read this summer is "One L", which I gather is a kind of ritual that those who have gone through Law School like to pass on to those entering. I enjoyed it a lot, even if it did make me wonder what I was getting myself into a few times.


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According to data from research firm Jon Peddie Research, the year 2005 was very good for workstation systems market as well as companies who serve it. The primary winners were Dell, HP, Intel and Nvidia, however, producers of RISC/Unix workstations as well as 3Dlabs, a maker of professional graphics accelerators, saw their shipments declining.
Workstation Market – 2.1 Million Systems Per Year
Workstation vendors shipped roughly 2.089 million units in 2005, up 22.6% from 2004. Revenue hit $5.3 billion for an 18.4% gain, according to JPR. The got boosted significantly from the mobile workstation segment, which remains growing at a 72% per annum.
The market is benefiting from higher IT budgets allowing system replacements to catch up with newer technologies, such as dual-core, 64-bit and next-generation graphics. That allowed average selling prices (ASPs) for x86 based workstations to improve slightly while ASPs for traditional (RISC/Unix) platforms fell at a much slower rate than previous years.
AMD Grabs 2.6% Workstation Market Share
Dell continues to dominate the workstation market with a share of about 39% in Q4 2005, down from 46% in Q1. HP follows with 27% and has steadily closed the gap with Dell in recent quarters. Lenovo, IBM, Fujitsu-Siemens and Sun round out the top six.
At least in part, HP can credit its support of AMD's Opteron, which slowly but surely is stealing share from Intel's Xeon as well as legacy RISC/Unix platforms. With Opteron's 2.6% market share (units), AMD is still dwarfed by Intel, Dell's only supplier, but the trendlines are clearly in AMD's favor. Nevertheless, an analyst from JPR claims that once Intel launches highly-competitive processors and platforms, the situation may change for AMD.
"If you extrapolate Opteron's better near 350% growth rate, then AMD is in the teens in a couple of years and putting a big dent in Intel's share," said Alex Herrera, JPR senior analyst and Workstation Report author. "But in 2006, with the new Woodcrest processor and Glidewell platform promising dramatically improved system bandwidth, Intel should dramatically close the performance gap with Opteron, especially in dual-socket applications".
ATI, Nvidia Gain, 3Dlabs Looses
Nvidia continues to dominate the professional graphics market, which in 2005 saw 2.8 million total units (including mobile) and $909 million in revenue (add-in card only), both up substantially from 2004. Nvidia shipped 70% of units, but more significantly thanks to its attention to the high-end segments, the company has grown its share of revenue to a commanding 79%, JPR claims.
ATI has increased its unit share over the past two years, now up to 23%, while Matrox Graphics and 3DLabs have seen their shares decline. 3DLabs market share drop to just 2% overall was particularly painful, no doubt leading to its departure from the market earlier this year.


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The Fredonia Shakespeare Club held its 11th meeting of the 2012-2013 year on Jan. 17, hosted by Mrs. Homer Garretson. The topic for this year is "Authors as Social Commentators."
Members heard a paper on Adam Hochschild by Mrs. Louis Richardson, which she summarizes as follows:
Hochschild is a best-selling author whose many publications demonstrate his life-long dedication to human rights. Having chosen the 1998 publication of his book "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa" to illustrate these concerns, the means were explored by which King Leopold II of Belgium uniquely became the sole owner and took control of the Congo for his solitary personal gain. Leading to the first major human rights protest of this past century, Leopold's plunder of the natural resources of the Congo from 1885-1908 was initiated through a calculated and systematic campaign of deceit, shrewd political manipulation and sham organizations, his true motives concealed behind a smokescreen of purportedly philanthropic and humanitarian endeavors. Once having finally secured diplomatic recognition for his colony at the Berlin Conference in 1885 – under its contradictory designation the "Congo Free State" – Leopold enforced a brutally tyrannical regime of slave labor for the lucrative ivory and rubber trades, one that sacrificed the lives of 10 million inhabitants and brought him staggering wealth.
While his regime operated largely without any international oversight for a protracted period of time, disclosures of the true nature of Leopold's instruments of terror and intimidation toward the enslaved (hostage taking, torture, mass murder, maimings, and starvation) began to emerge around 1900. Smuggled out by missionaries and courageous employees, these revelations gradually became known on an international scale, with E.D. Morel, a journalist and former government shipping agent spearheading the journalistic attack on Leopold's horrific abuses. Morel became the greatest British investigative journalist of his time and by virtue his establishment of the Congo Reform Association and the international firestorm of protest that it ignited, Leopold found himself in a largely untenable position. Despite spending hundreds of millions bribing editors and correspondents, these efforts were in vain and he had to turn over his colony to the Belgian government in 1908.
Unfortunately for the Congo, this heroic campaign for human rights lost momentum due to the onset of WWI and although the worst abuses were mitigated, conditions of enslavement continued for many decades under the Belgian governmental authority. Belgium's official policy to conceal its highly embarrassing past for three quarters of a century did further disservice to its role in this region's history. Hochschild is to be highly commended for revealing what had actually occurred and in a form accessible to the general population.
Garretson was assisted at the tea table by Mrs. Victor Jonus. The next meeting of the club will be held at the 21 East Bookstore, Literacy Volunteers, on Thursday when they will hear a paper on Ayn Rand presented by Mrs. John VanScoter.


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Well iam moving to Nebraska from California i got into paintball about 5 years ago. I was asked to play for the Marine team in San diego California and i was gonna play but I had bad grades so my parents would not let me play. When i play speedball for fun with friends and people i meet i shoot alot if there are any spots open for a 14 year old on your team get back to me thanks.
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What part of nebraska are you moving to?
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omaha nebraska
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We are based out of Omaha. Feel free to drop by our forums and say "hi". You are more than welcome to come out and play with us, get to know the guys, etc.
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sick iam gonna be going next weekend wat field should i go to
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TO DO: Coming events around Warren County …
The following is a list of upcoming local entertainment events. The Times Observer welcomes additions to the list that are of community interest. Club meetings and closed gatherings are not included. To add an event, call features editor Diana Paddock in the newsroom at 723-8200 by noon Monday.
Through Dec. 9: Toddler Time, 10:30 a.m. each Monday, Warren Public Library Children's Department, ages 1 to 4, stories, songs, crafts, creative play. Preregistration not required.
Oct. 3-5: Rummage Sale, St. Luke's Catholic Church, 420 N. Main St., Youngsville, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m. -1 p.m. Saturday?(items $1 per bag Saturday).
Oct. 4: Harvest Dinner, old fashioned Thanksgiving dinner, Lottsville United Methodist Church, 4:30-7 p.m. (donation)
Oct. 4: Book signing/reading with author Reg Darling, Authors Books & Music, 227 Liberty St., Warren, 6 p.m.
Oct. 4-5: Rummage Sale, First Presbyterian Church, 300 Market St., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m.-noon Saturday.
Oct. 5:?Blessing of the Animals, Sleepy Moon Farm, Scandia Road at Cole Hill Road, Scandia, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. (757-8780).
Oct. 5-Nov. 15: Pennsylvania Watercolor Society 34th Annual International Juried Exhibition. A return of this venerable show to the Crary, for the third time. Public opening reception Saturday, Oct 5, 1-4 p.m. Crary Art Gallery, 511 Market St., Warren www.crarygallery.org
Oct. 7: Book Bingo for Kids, 6:00 p.m., Warren Public Library Children's Department, ages four to seven, children under four welcome with help from parent. Children learn to listen, learn, play as they mark bingo card in conjunction with stories read. Prizes for winners. Preregistration not required.
Oct. 10-13: Warren Players presents: "Chemical Imbalance: A Jekyll & Hyde Play" (8 p.m. Oct. 10, 11, 12 and 2 p.m. Oct. 13) Rated PG-13, a darkly comic adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous novel, Library Theatre, 723-7231.
Oct. 11-12: Haunted House & Trolley Tours, Warren County Historical Society, 210 Fourth Ave., Warren, 6-8:30 p.m. (trolley tickets are limited; warrenhistory.org or 723-1795).
Oct. 11-13: Johnny Appleseed Festival, Sheffield.
Oct. 12: SuperKwik Challenge Marathon, 9 a.m.
Oct. 12: Elk Township Historical Society Open House, former Scandia School, 1-4 p.m.
Oct. 17: Bicentennial Program with the Western Pennsylvania United Methodist Ministers' Chorus, Youngsville First United Methodist Church, 7 p.m.
Oct. 18: "Dr. Zoot," Warren Concert Association, Library Theatre, 7:30 p.m. (723-6505).
Oct. 19: Open House, Rouse Home, 701 Rouse Ave., Youngsville, 10 a.m.-noon www.rouse.org.
Oct. 19: Spooktacular Story Time, 11:30 a.m., Warren Public Library's Slater Room. Halloween stories, songs, crafts, snacks. Geared to ages three to eight, but all are welcome. Preregistration not required. Children and adults encouraged to dress in costume.
Oct. 19: Yankee Bush Productions presents "Captain Fantastic's The Magic of Elton John" by Walt Wise, Struthers Library Theatre, Warren, 8 p.m. (489-3110).
Oct. 19: Writers and Poets Open Read Night, Authors Books & Music 227 Liberty St., Warren, 6-8 p.m. (aspiring writers and poets invited to read their works for an audience; listeners also encouraged to attend).
Oct. 23: Annual Meeting and Peoples Choice Photo Contest Awards to be announced at the library day soup tureen supper, Elk Township Historical Society, 6 p.m.
Oct. 24-25: Books Are Fun Sale, 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday and 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday in the Warren General Hospital outpatient lobby. Benefits the WGH Auxiliary and its many programs
Oct 24-26: Warren Public Library Book Clearance Sale, Slater Room of the library.
Oct. 25: 2012 American Idol Finalist Colton Dixon sponsored by the DeFrees Family Memorial Fund (his song, "Never Gone," debuted #1 on the Christian Digital Songs and the Christian/Gospel Digital Songs charts). Opening Act: Good Little Giants, a musical venture with three accomplished musicians, Scott Phillips, Shane Maze, and Kira Spencer, each lending unique style and experience to the band, Library Theatre, 723-7231, 8 p.m.
Oct. 26: Rouse Make & Take Day, Rouse Home, 701 Rouse Ave., 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Learn to make a variety of new crafts, then take them home with you!
Oct. 27-28: Community Pumpkin Carving Contest, Rouse Home, 701 Rouse Ave., Youngsville. www.rouse.org.
Oct. 28: "Macbeth," Library Theatre, 7 p.m. (723-7231).
Oct. 31: "Fall Harvest Festival," carnival games, food, balloons, fun (kids may come in costume), Calvary Chapel, 8160 Market St., Russell, 6-8 p.m.
Nov. 2: Yankee Bush Productions presents "A Tribute to Creedence Clearwater Revival" by Green River, Struthers Library Theatre, Warren, 8 p.m. (489-3110).
Nov. 2: Holiday auction, First Church of God, 1111 Madison Ave., Warren, refreshments, browsing, 10-11 a.m. and auction, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Nov. 2: Warren Players presents a Holiday Extravaganza to raise funds and awareness, TAWC bus garage, Clark St., Warren, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. (726-1081).
Nov. 4: Window Box Christmas Open House at Warren General Hospital.
Nov. 4: Book Bingo for Kids, 6 p.m., Warren Public Library Children's Department, ages four to seven, children under four welcome with help from parent. Children learn to listen, learn, play as they mark bingo card in conjunction with stories read. Prizes for winners. Preregistration not required.
Nov. 5: Elk Township Historical Society Election Day Open House, former Scandia School, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
Nov 9: Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department Annual Turkey Party and Gun Raffle, 40 Fuller Ave., free admission with gun ticket, doors open, 6 p.m.; raffles start, 7 p.m.


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Poland's prime minister, Donald Tusk, announced Wednesday that the government would attempt to cut government debt by taking money from its citizens' private pension funds. Poland currently has a two-fold pension system: mandatory contributions are made to the state pension fund and then to private funds. It is the state funds, known as ZUS, that the Polish government plans to "transfer" money from. According to Reuters:
…Prime Minister Donald Tusk said private funds within the state-guaranteed system would have their bond holdings transferred to a state pension vehicle, but keep their equity holdings.
He said that what remained in citizens' pension pots in the private funds will be gradually transferred into the state vehicle over the last 10 years before savers hit retirement age.