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Cabbage Chemistry
This experiment is for all the kids out there who love boiled cabbage! You say you don't like cabbage? Well maybe you will like this amazing color-changing liquid you can make with cabbage. Which solutions around your house can make the cabbage juice change color? Find out while you learn about acids and bases and how to test for them.Objective
Make your own pH indicator and use it to test the pH of various household solutions.
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A solution is a mixture of a soluble chemical dissolved in water. Think about the difference between salt water and tap water. The salt in the salt water has dissolved and the solution looks clear, but the salt is still there and will taste salty if you taste it. Because solutions are made with water, which is made of hydrogen and water, the hydrogen in the water can make a solution into an acid or a base.
You might think about an acid as something that an evil villain uses to trap a super hero, but actually some very common household solutions are acids. Acids are solutions that will donate hydrogen ions in a solution, and usually taste sour. Some common acids are citrus fruit juices and household vinegar. Bases are solutions that accept hydrogen ions in solution, and usually feel slippery. Bases have many practical uses. "Antacids" like TUMS or Rolaids are used to reduce the acidity in your stomach. Other bases make useful household cleaning products.
How do you tell if something is an acid or a base? You use a chemical called an indicator, which changes in color when it goes from an acidic to basic condition. There are many different types of indicators, some are liquids and some are concentrated on little strips of "litmus" paper. Indicators can be extracted from many different sources, including the pigment of many plants.
Red cabbage contains an indicator pigment molecule called flavin, which is one type of molecule called an anthocyanin. This water-soluble pigment is also found in apple skin, red onion skin, plums, poppies, blueberries, cornflowers, and grapes. Very acidic solutions will turn anthocyanin a red color. Neutral solutions result in a purplish color. Basic solutions appear in greenish-yellow. Therefore, it is possible to determine the pH of a solution based on the color it turns the anthocyanin pigments in red cabbage juice.
In this experiment, you can extract your own cabbage juice indicator and use it to test the pH of different solutions around your home. You might be surprised to find out what common items around your house are acids or bases.
Terms and Concepts
To do this type of experiment you should know what the following terms mean. Have an adult help you search the Internet, or take you to your local library to find out more!
- chemical
- acid
- base
- pH
- pigment
- indicator
- This web site at Chemistry 4 Kids has a great tutorial on chemistry, matter properties and mixtures. Go check it out:
Rader, Andrew, 2005. "Rader's Chem4Kids." Andrew Rader Studios. 12/13/05.
http://www.chem4kids.com/files/matter_intro.html - Here is a good website about acids and bases, including information about indicators with very nice pictures:
Carboni, Giorgio, 2004. "Fun Science Gallery: Experiments with Acids and Bases." Pianoro, Italy. 12/13/05.
http://www.funsci.com/fun3_en/acids/acids.htm - Cobb, Vikki, 1972. "Science Experiments You Can Eat." Harper Collins, New York, NY. 12/13/05
Materials and Equipment
- cabbage
- boiling pot of water
- strainer
- small white Dixie cups
- medicine dropper
- a series of household items to test the pH of:
- fruit juice: lemon, lime, orange, apple
- soda pop (dark sodas might be tricky to see)
- vinegar
- baking soda solution
- cleaning products
- anything you want!
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- Grate a small red cabbage and place the pieces into a glass bowl.
- Pour boiling water into the bowl to just cover the cabbage.
- Leave the cabbage mixture steeping until the liquid is room temperature. The liquid should be red in color.
- Place a strainer over a collection bowl and pour the mixture through the strainer to remove the pieces of cabbage.
- Now you should have a clear liquid that will either be purple or blue in color. The color of the liquid will change depending upon the pH. Use this table to figure out the pH of the liquid by observing the color:
pH Color 2 Red 4 Purple 6 Violet 8 Blue 10 Blue-green 12 Greenish-yellow - Set aside your indicator solution, you will use it as your "stock" solution for your experiments.
- Next you will test various household solutions with your indicator. It will be important to use separate containers for each household solution—you don't want to mix chemicals that don't go well together or contaminate your results. SO use a separate Dixie cup for each solution you want to test.
- Fill about half of the Dixie cup with your cabbage indicator solution.
- Add drops of a liquid you want to test until you see the solution change in color.
- Record the pH and a description of the item in your data table:
Item Color pH Lemon Juice 7-UP Add liquids to the table as you test them
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- There are other plants that can be used to make pH indicators as well: red onion, apple skins, blueberries, grape skins, and plums. Experiment with different sources of pigment, to see which produce the best indicators.
- Can you use your pH indicator to conduct other useful experiments? What about testing the acidity of rain on a smoggy day? Or the usefulness of various antacid brands in reducing acidity of a solution?
- You can use an indicator to write secret messages. Just use full strength lemon juice to write an invisible message on paper and let the message dry. To reveal the message, paint indicator over the paper with a paint brush.
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Say goodbye to Crawford Lewis.
The DeKalb County Board of Education severed ties this month with the embattled superintendent. The change occurs nearly two months after he temporarily resigned when police raided his home and office as part of an investigation into possible school district corruption.
"These have been the best (33) years of my life," Lewis said April 16 standing outside the William Bradley Bryant Center for Technology in Decatur after the board vote. "It's been an incredible journey for me. I am proud of the accomplishments made by my administration. … They are heroes in my estimation."
Board members said the April 16 separation was mutual, and Lewis will leave the position he has held for about five years with about $85,000 or four months pay. The agreement, which was hashed out over the last month in executive sessions, was designed to avoid the large severance payout Lewis' predecessor, Johnny Brown, received in 2004. Brown left the district with more than $400,000.
Interim Superintendent Ramona Tyson immediately took over for Lewis, who has not been seen at any public board functions since. Lewis did make a statement after the separation contract was signed.
The separation ended more than a month of speculation as to whether Lewis would return to the superintendency. He stepped down Feb. 25 after investigators searched his Stone Mountain home and office in a long-term investigation into possible corrupt practices with school district construction contracts. His separation ended a 33-year career with the district.
The school board has not taken any steps yet to find Lewis' replacement, board Chair Thomas Bowen said. The board will no longer cover legal expenses related to the construction investigation, and those expenses were capped at $100,000, all of which has been exhausted, he said.
"We want to do what in the best interests of the system," Bowen said. "The board members wanted to get back to education. … It's a very tough decision but something that needed to be done."
Lewis leaves a district in turmoil. Tyson and the board are grappling with a $115 million budget deficit that will likely lead to the closure of four schools, across-the-board salary cuts and layoffs. And board members say the financial crisis is most likely just a preamble to larger budgetary terrors next year.
The board and the district have also navigated their way through the controversial process of considering four schools for closure without Lewis' public assistance. A residents' committee, created by Lewis and charged with recommending four schools for closure, largely failed, forcing the district to disregard its work and issue its own recommendations.
Former Chief Operating Officer Pat Pope has been the primary subject in the investigation. The district released copies of two search warrants for the district's headquarters on North Decatur Road in Decatur and the Sam Moss Center in Tucker. Items law enforcement officials searched for included:
• All records pertaining to gifts received by Lewis, Pope and other district employees from vendors or contractors
• All records pertaining to the purchase of district vehicles for personal use by Pope and Lewis
• All records of communications between Lewis, Pope and school board members regarding construction projects under investigation and then larger criminal investigation into Pope
• All calendars and journals pertaining to Lewis
The search warrants listed a number of potential charges, including theft concerning programs receiving federal funds, theft by taking, false swearing, bid rigging and R.I.C.O.
Investigators spent hours in Lewis' Stone Mountain home, collecting hard drives and other documents. They searched for documents related to seven school construction projects: Columbia High School, McNair Cluster Elementary School, Mountain Industrial Center, Arabia Mountain High School, Evans Mill Elementary School, Miller Grove High School and Tucker High School.
It was the second round of search warrants in the case. Investigators seized documents from a district building in Tucker where Pat Pope works on Oct. 13. The office of her husband, who has designed several county schools, was also searched.
The school board voted in November to give the majority of Pope's responsibilities to two other construction management firms to protect its building programs from further controversy.
Now that he's retired, Lewis said he plans to travel with his wife.
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by Linda Wendler For his third presentation to HSGP James Richardson, PhD, discussed two humanists, kindred souls separated by 1600 years. The earlier humanist was the Roman poet Lucretius who lived in the first century BCE. The later humanist was the 16th century French essayist Montaigne whose works and life embodied most of the teachings of Lucretius. We know little about Lucretius and it was only by luck that a copy of a copy of his masterpiece, On the Nature of Things, was discovered in a remote monastery in Germany early in the 15th century by a Florentine book hunter. Written in poetic form, this work delineates the philosophy of Epicurus, a Greek active in the 4th century BCE. Lucretius anticipated modern thought by describing all matter as made up of atoms in constant motion. Although this motion is generally toward the center of the earth, atoms are free to move in unexpected directions or swerve, which eliminates determinism and makes possible the concept of free will. All natural phenomena have natural explanations. Religions, on the other hand, arise from men's ignorance and their fears, especially their fear of death. Lucretius is especially concerned to reduce the human fear of death. He believed there was no afterlife or immortality because body and soul need each other and their atoms disperse after death. Death is the end of suffering and its inevitability is to be met with dignity, not terror. He followed Epicurus on what constitutes a good life: one devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain. Epicurus was not a hedonist and believed that excess leads to pain. It is the fear of death that leads humans to pursue wealth and power to excess; it is the resultant pride and envy that poisons human relationships. The Epicurean ideal is a group of friends gathered in a quiet garden conversing amiably on matters of significant mutual interest. Epicureanism is not an activist morality but is better suited to retirees with the goal of a peace of mind that makes one content with what was has without worrying about what others possess. Thus Lucretius' great poem presents a comprehensive account of what it is good for us to believe and contains useful precepts on how we should live. It was under-appreciated in the West for a thousand years and in fact was regarded as sinful. By the time that Florentine book hunter had a new copy made of Lucretius' work, the intellectual climate had changed and the learned of Renaissance Europe were reading ancient works in the original languages. They were not always looking for precursors to Christian beliefs and practices and were more open to the ideas in the original texts. The second humanist, Montaigne, managed to combine a close reading of Lucretius with at least a nominal commitment to Catholicism. The fact that an open assertion of atheism could easily bring in the hangman may have encouraged prudence in his overt religious decisions. A major difference between Montaigne and Lucretius is that the latter believed that our senses were trustworthy although our minds might misinterpret the information. Montaigne was a skeptic among whose favorite sayings was the question What do I know? The Reformation was a period of epistemological crisis in which the problem of knowledge as well as theology were major issues. Montaigne concluded that we cannot have knowledge but that uncertainty is our lot, leading him say that it is better to be guided by custom and established institutions rather than our fallible minds. As opposed to our lack of information about Lucretius, we know a lot about Montaigne because his great subject was himself. He invented the essay form and four hundred years later his writings still hold great appeal to readers. In an early essay, That to philosophize is to learn how to die, Montaigne closely follows Lucretius in saying that death is inevitable, that it is nothing to fear and that such fear makes it impossible for the soul to be at rest and enjoy happiness. Richardson provided numerous quotes from Montaigne that are as applicable today as they were when written. The works of Lucretius and Montaigne continue to this day to influence thinkers, from David Hume and Thomas Jefferson, to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. to the contemporary author Sherwin Nuland, author of a book entitled How We Die. Editors note: In 2012, the HSGP Book Club discussed Stephen Greenblatt's book The Swerve which discusses the rediscovery of Lucretius' work as well as Sarah Bakewell's How to Live or A Life of Montaigne. Both of these books are recommended reading. |
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Koldfront 18 Bottle Dual Zone Thermoelectric Wine Cooler - Black/Silver
The Koldfront 18 Bottle Dual Zone Thermoelectric Wine Cooler (TWR181ES) is in a class of its own, combining all the features you'd find in larger, more expensive wine coolers in a conveniently-sized package. And now, as part of the Koldfront brand, this popular wine cooler joins a high-quality product line that consumers have come to know and love. The highly efficient thermoelectric cooling system provides optimal storage temperatures across two (2) separately insulated zones. Put your favorite white wines in the colder upper zone that's capable of holding six (6) 750 mL bottles in a chilly temperature range from 45-54° F, and keep up to 12 bottles of red wine safe in the lower zone at anywhere between 54 and 64° F. Each zone has its own designated temperature readout on the digital blue LED-backlit display as well as a digitally-controlled thermostat that's quickly adjusted with the push of a button.
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Paul Ryan Stumps for Small Government in West Chester
Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan made a campaign stop in West Chester Tuesday at the American Helicopter Museum.
West Chester resident Bob Gross served in the military. He's a former Marine, and he's tired of the nonsense.
"Where do you begin," Gross said. "The country is $6 trillion in debt. We're socializing and nationalizing our businesses, and we're wasting billions on companies like Solyndra that go bankrupt in a couple of days."
Gross added, "I am tired of the nonsense in Washington."
Gross echoed the sentiment expressed by Vice Presidential Nominee Paul Ryan who visited the American Helicopter Museum in West Chester Tuesday.
"Government is important to a society," Ryan said. "But it is not the nucleus. The nucleus is 'we the people.'"
Ryan added, "Government's job is not to pick winners and losers in the economy. That job is for our entrepreneurs, our investors, our risk-takers."
Ryan also said that the Obama adminstration is out-of-touch--that Obama doesn't understand the needs of the American people.
"Remember last time around when Obama said people in states like Pennsylvania cling to their guns and their religion," Ryan said. "Well as a catholic deer hunter consider me guilty as charged. That's what freedom really is."
Ryan shared the stage Tuesday afternoon with several southeastern Pennsylvania Republicans including Congressmen Jim Gerlach and Charlie Dent as well as Chester County Commissioner Ryan Costello.
"I know you all believe in hope and change like I do because I hope for a change in the White House this November," Costello said.
Ryan and the other speakers said that this election could define a generation, and that the idea of what America would be in the future was at stake.
"America is not just a place," Ryan said. "It is also an idea."
Ryan added, "The idea of America is that our rights come from nature and God, not government."
Besides the several thousand Romney supporters that attended the event, there was a small contingent of about 25 protesters at the rally Tuesday.
"As Paul Ryan prepares to roll in here, I'm proud to stand here too," said West Chester Mayor Carolyn Comitta. "Obama and Romney represent two separate visions for seniors, for students and for the poor."
Congressman Jim Gerlach said that because of his stance on Medicare, the Democrats like to portray Paul Ryan as "the man who would push grandma off a cliff in her wheelchair."
"By picking Ryan, Romney shows that he is serious about turning the country around," Gerlach said.
"I want to earn your support," Ryan said. "I want to reaffirm our nation's founding principles so that we can get people back to work."
"Our duty is to save the American dream for our children," Ryan added. "We will not replace the country's principles. We will reapply those principles."
"I like what Romney and Ryan represent," said West Chester resident Bob Whetstone who attended Tuesday's rally. "Small government, a controlled economy—all the things I'm concerned about."
Ryan did not mention abortion or the much talked about inflammatory comment from Rep. Todd Akin's (R-Mo.) that "legitimate rape" victims rarely get pregnant. The topics were brought up on protesters signs.
Did you attend the rally? What did you think of the speech? Share your thoughts in the comments area below.
Steve Maher
7:01 pm on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
I hope someone asks Paul Ryan about Todd Akin! The Akin-Ryan Bill is one of the most anti-choice pieces of legislation out there! Two words that should never be used together in the same sentence: legitimate and rape. In defending his extreme anti-choice position – that a woman who is raped and becomes pregnant should not be permitted to have an abortion, Akin said, "First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."
Akin and Ryan were the original co-sponsors of the controversial bill H.R. 3, "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act," which initially included language which changed the definition of "rape" to "forcible rape," until public pressure forced the bill's supporters to remove that unacceptable and narrow definition.
Ryan was against abortion in all cases including rape until Team Romney's statement. Romney has said he would get rid of Planned Parenthood and has been moving further right on women's issues since he was a pro-choice governor of Massachusetts. This could be a huge problem for the Republican ticket in November.
Tom Bartman
11:24 pm on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Paul Ryan is for low government control, low taxes, low spending, and minimum government handouts. Who is against that? How many people who believe in lower taxes, personal responsibility, and less government control are staying home on Election Day because they feel that none of the candidates represent them? -- http://www.threatcore.com/problem-with-romney/
Morgan King
1:57 am on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
I am against those things, totally. Your 'government handout' is my 'economic stability measure' and I'm more than happy to pay taxes, and to have that money spent, to provide universal, necessary public services to all Americans, covering the whole spectrum from food stamps to Social Security to Medicare to the Army. 'Government control' is fundamental to the any non-anarchist social construct - look back at our Declaration of Independence, which clearly espouses a government 'deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.'
8:39 am on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Tom if you spend some time doing some research on Paul Ryan you will soon realize that he is absolutely NOT for low government control. He ascribes to pure social Darwinism with respect to society and big government control with respect to personal rights.
Personal responsibility? Paul Ryan has benefited his entire life from the good graces of everything he condemns and would deny other U.S. citizens.
- 1) His college education - paid for by Social Security benefits. Did he go to an in state school to keep costs down? No. Ryan went to an out of state school.
-2) His professional career - Government worker with a gold plated healthcare plan that he will have for the rest of his life as well as a well padded pension plan. Where do his pay checks and benefits come from? The American people.
Lower taxes? Ryan is only in favor of lower taxes on those of us that are already financially well off. He is gutless when it comes to addressing the root causes of our economic problems...The financial sector, tax loopholes, corporate welfare a.k.a. "subsidies" the American peoples tax dollars being handed in fistfuls to multi-billion dollar corporations who should be using their own profits to re-invest, not the American peoples money.
Ryan's votes on government spending during President Bushes eight years makes him a hypocrite.
I will not be staying home on election day, because the United States must remain a civil democratic society, not an Oligarchy.
Mohandus Frieri
9:27 am on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Paul Ryan = Right Wing Social Engineering - "Newt Gingrich"
3:22 am on Thursday, August 30, 2012
i feel like im living in a third world communist country now i cant wait to vote for romney / ryan all that they need to do is lower the corporate tax rate to 5ppp
Mike Brango
7:01 am on Thursday, August 30, 2012
Wait...Paul is full of his own self interest..all you need to do is look at his voting record. Yes bills he helped pass under Junior is the problem with today's deficit. To get a true gauge of how much of the debt is on Obama's watch you have to remove all the holdover policies that have not reached an expiration date or the 9% approval rating loser house will not pass bills proposed to get rid of many of these Bush era policies that have caused the debt to rise. Any one who is willing to take time and due true fact checking will see the truth.. By the way look how much Paul Ryan helped add http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/187865/no-bullshit-paul-ryans-votes-created-6-8-trillion-in-deficits-under-bush/
Mike Shortall
8:25 am on Thursday, August 30, 2012
The absolute most stupid criticism of Paul Ryan I have heard to date is that he "went to college at an out-of-state school" as some sort of counter-argument to personal responsibility. Did Ryan - or his family - eventually pay off his college debt. That's all that matters!
What a reach ...
If that's the best the Dems can do, this should be a walk in the park.
Can't wait to watch Ryan eviscerate Biden in the VP debate! Funny that no one ever talks about the very scary fact that Joe Biden is just a heartbeat away from The Presidency!
Dave Hoag
11:33 pm on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Where was Bob Gross's outrage when the GOP was increasing spending and reducing revenues during the Bush years -- a plan Ryan voted for as a Congressman? Where was his outrage when Dick Cheney crowed "deficits don't matter"? Where was his outrage when the GOP embraced unfunded wars that added trillions to our national debt -- something Ryan also voted for? Where was his outrage when the GOP cut taxes for the wealthy, adding four trillion to our national debt -- a plan Ryan also voted for?
David Curran
12:17 am on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
I am with you Jim, Gerlach is like the invisible man. I watch CSPAN probably to much; and he is never on there, and I mean never. What is he doing down there except collecting a check?
Tony Campisi
7:10 am on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
When Paul Ryan says he's for "small government" he means that the government should get out of your business and into your bedroom. He definitely had small government in mind when he voted for hundreds of billions in deficit spending for Medicare Part D, hundreds of billions for bank bailouts in 2008, hundreds of billions in stimulus funds in 2002 and when he co-sponsored the Akin Bill which would force women to give birth to their rapist's children. Definitely a small government conservative.
7:51 am on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Romney picked Ryan because he's the total opposite. He has convictions where Romney changes with the office he runs for. Ryan's convictions are very frightening, particularly to women.
McCain blew it with I can see Russia from my house Palin and Romney blew it with Women are to be kept down and ruled Ryan.
Nathaniel Smith
9:20 am on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
How things have changed: Gerlach used to be a "moderate" and "environmentalist"; then he began standing with Joe Pitts and the Tea Party, and now with Paul Ryan. Talk about lack of convictions!
Steve Barbone
10:13 am on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Paul Ryan voted FOR every spending bill passed during the Bush administration. Including:
1) The Unfunded war in Iraq.
2) The Unfunded war in Afghanistan.
3) The Unfunded Medicare Drug Bill.
4) The TARP program.
He also voted to Decrease revenue via the Bush Tax Cuts which added another trillion to the Debt.
More than 3 Trillion dollars added to the current national debt because they we borrowed the money to pay for them. And now since we are still spending money on the first 3 above because of the Bush / Ryan legacy Obama gets the blame,
Yet Ryan says he is a fiscal hawk, And folks believe him? Get real. Considering all of his lies and his current attacks on women, you have to be a fool to support him.
glorua witt
1:06 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
I think its high time we seperated religious beliefs --- like abortion rights for women --out of the governnents hands. Its a personal choice, one that as a women I should be able to choose. would I choose it? No...
Tim Lewis
9:25 am on Thursday, August 30, 2012
Since when is abortion about religious beliefs? Protecting innocent life is a universal moral imperative.
Joseph Robert
9:30 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
How could anyone trust Romney-Ryan to lead the country since they both like to distort and lie so much?
For instance, look how much Paul Ryan avoids telling the truth....
According to a recent analysis by Politifact, a nonpartisan watchdog and Pulitzer Prize winner, Ryan rarely gives true information in his public comments. Politifact reviewed 14 statements that Ryan has publicly made over recent months and found that of those statements:
Four were "mostly false."
Four were "half true."
Two were "pants on fire" (equal to incredibly false)
Two were "true."
Two were "mostly true"
In total, that means 10 statements were inaccurate, and 4 were true or mostly true. In other words, he was accurate 28 percent or less than one-third of the time.
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7:52 am on Thursday, August 30, 2012
It's official! After last nights convention speech Ryan's new moniker is Ly'n Ryan.
Do the fact checking this morning on Ryan, who has spent his entire career in Washington D.C., did not let facts get in his way.
"We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checker." - Romney Pollster, Neil Newhouse.
Tim Lewis
9:22 am on Thursday, August 30, 2012
So gullible. What makes you think that Fact Checkers are any more reliable? They may not be "partisan", but the surely have a bias!
7:58 am on Thursday, August 30, 2012
"The idea of America is that our rights come from nature and God, not government." Evidently this man hasn't actually read any of those pesky history books about why America was actually founded. Again with those pesky facts getting in the way of Ryan's "truth."
Tim Lewis
9:20 am on Thursday, August 30, 2012
Tara, can you really be that mis-informed? Direct from the Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" . Apparently, the truth is no longer self-evident ....
Mike Shortall
10:16 am on Thursday, August 30, 2012
You beat me to it, Tim. Amazing how little some people know about our country's origins and how the FFs structured our government!
David Curran
9:43 am on Thursday, August 30, 2012
I know, I know he lies; but he has exquisite taste in wines and charming dinner companions. This is what a Washington insider looks like people. Don't be fooled by the "aw shucks"hometown boy act.
Marc L.
11:03 am on Thursday, August 30, 2012
Wow...even Fox News is calling Paul Ryan a liar this morning. I guess even the fact-checkers at Fox News must be biased, huh? Does this officially make Fox News part of the liberal media?
"[To] anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts, Ryan's speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech."
11:46 am on Thursday, August 30, 2012
From Twitchy.com:
"The Paul Ryan-deranged Left developed a strange new respect for Fox News overnight.
Progressives lavished praise on Fox for publishing a "fact check" of Ryan's GOP convention speech that called it "an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies." Naturally the highly retweeted column included too-good-to-check falsehoods like this one:
While Ryan blamed President Obama for the shut down of a GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, the plant was actually closed under President George W. Bush.
The plant closed in 2009 while Obama was in office.
What these genius libs failed to note is that the piece was an opinion column written by progressive activist Sally Kohn."
So much for your comment about the FACT CHECKERS at Fox!!
Marc L.
12:15 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012
Bill: Please tell me that you understand the different between an Opinion and a Fact. Please also confirm for me that you understand that an OpEd piece can indeed contain facts.
If you're disputing any of the facts that Sally Kohn posted in her article, by all means -- show me where those details have been proven false.
I won't hold my breath.
Morgan King
12:18 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012
Wait - are you actually proudly flaunting that FOX itself didn't bother to fact check this? "Don't worry everybody - the fact-checker was a liberal! You can now resume blissfully paying no attention to the veracity of this speech!"
Marc L.
12:23 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012
And FYI... the decision to close the Janesville, WI plant was made in 2008 when Bush WAS in office. And then in October 2008, GM announced that the plant was going to be idled as of December 23, 2008 (which was when the SUV production ended). While minor assembly work continued (for work on a remaining contract that wasn't completed when the plant shut down the year before) at the plant into April of 2009, it was in essence closed down in 2008. When Bush was in office.
When the last bit of remaining work from 2008 was completed in 2009, it was decommissioned.
Mike Shortall
1:14 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012
Now, now, Marc ... Sally Kohn, while indeed a Fox contributor, is as Liberal as they come. So let's not kid ourselves as to where her loyalties lie. Saying Fox News was calling Ryan a liar is more than a little disingenuous; and I'm sure you knew that.
In the meantime, maybe your fact checkers can tell me where the "lie" was in this part of Ryan's speech:
"President Barack Obama came to office during an economic crisis, as he has reminded us a time or two. Those were very tough days, and any fair measure of his record has to take that into account. My home state voted for President Obama. When he talked about change, many people liked the sound of it, especially in Janesville, where we were about to lose a major factory.
"A lot of guys I went to high school with worked at that GM plant. Right there at that plant, candidate Obama said: "I believe that if our government is there to support you … this plant will be here for another hundred years." That's what he said in 2008.
"Well, as it turned out, that plant didn't last another year. It is locked up and empty to this day. And that's how it is in so many towns today, where the recovery that was promised is nowhere in sight."
Ryan makes no accusation; places no blame; and doesn't even claim that then-candidate Obama made a promise he couldn't keep. Factually, everything Ryan said was truthful.
The claim that a lie is in there somewhere is an amazing over-reach, even for a bunch of Democrats!
Marc L.
1:24 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012
Mike: The full quote from Ryan is this-
Especially in Janesville where we were about to lose a major factory. A lot of guys I went to high school with worked at that G.M. plant. Right there at that plant, candidate Obama said, ``I believe that if our government is there to support you,
this plant will be here for another 100 years.'' That's what he said in 2008. Well, as it turned out, that plant didn't last another year. It is locked up and empty to this day. And that's how it is in so many towns where the recovery that was promised is no where in sight.
His crystal clear insinuation is that Obama was to blame for not only the plant closing but for that promise to keep it open not being kept.
There are quite a number of other lies and untruths that peppered his speech.
David Curran
1:38 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012
Let's all believe what Mike says and not what are "lying eyes" saw. You cannot put perfume on that pig Mike, he lied and he did it more than once.
Mike Shortall
1:42 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012
Oh, I get it now ... It's not WHAT he said, it was how you INTERPRETED an insinuation that somehow equates to a lie.
How convenient!
David Curran
1:43 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012
At least Mitt just whips his Etch-a-sketch out and tries to recreate himself as a conservative. Ryan is just a bald-faced liar--end of story!
Morgan King
2:41 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012
Mike, if not that, then how do you interpret it? If there's no correlation and he's just rattling off facts, then why say it at all if not to conflate the two? And how, then, is that not actually dishonest?
Mike Shortall
11:06 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012
Morgan: From the text of the speech, I took Ryan's riff on the Janesville plant as a commentary on the failure of "Hope & Change" as it was sold by candidate Obama. There realy is no accusation made by Ryan. And to say he was "blaming" the plant closure on Obama is an interpretation requiring a lot of reading into Ryan's words.
To me, Ryan's point was that the people of Janesville was told that Government involvement would make everything all right - economically speaking. Of course, after four years an improved economy with more jobs for the working class didn't happen. It's time for a change.
That's what I think Ryan was saying.
Anthony Wayne
12:25 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012
The unbalanced condition among our three branches of government, sanctioned by eighty or so years of the American voters continually electing people who place emphasis on federal government solutions to state issues has resulted in the huge crisis we now find ourselves in. The American voters got us in to this mess and are the only ones who can get us out. The republicrats will never relinquish their power and show us time and again that anything goes when it comes to keeping it. Way too much money has changed hands. It's up to us as citizens to select a congress and executive who will return to the Constitution as the way forward and who are not wholly owned subsidiary's of corporate America. Funding for these brave men and women will need to come directly from the people. The good news is that a few exist. Will Americans wake from their slumber and smell the coffee or continue to drink the kool aid? The real power is in the vote, all we have to do is use it.
David Curran
12:53 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012
A.W., that is the precise reason the Reps are striving to suppress legitimate voters. They just do whatever it takes to keep power (lie, misrepresent, and where possible deprive people of their Constitutional rights); it really is shamefull.
David Curran
2:20 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012
I know this is not from Fox but here is another dissection of Ryan's lies Mike. Care to comment?
David Curran
8:49 pm on Saturday, September 1, 2012
Now he's lying about his athletic prowess. This guy is incapable of telling the truth.
David Curran
9:02 pm on Saturday, September 1, 2012
I guess he will say it was an honest mistake. The only honest mistake will be the votes for him and his buddy. Now the buddy is more clever with his lies-he is more into reinventing himself and missinterpreting history. These guys the most untrustworthy canidates I have ever saw.
3:15 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012
I'd say this was misleading since the same cuts are part of the Ryan Medicare plan
"You see, even with all the hidden taxes to pay for the health care takeover, even with new taxes on nearly a million small businesses, the planners in Washington still didn't have enough money. They needed more. They needed hundreds of billions more. So, they just took it all away from Medicare. Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it."
And PolitiFact doesn't seems to agree with this comment either...
"He (Mitt Romney) was the Republican governor of a state where almost nine in 10 legislators are Democrats, and yet he balanced the budget without raising taxes. Unemployment went down, household incomes went up, and Massachusetts, under Mitt Romney, saw its credit rating upgraded.
State spending rose 22% (double the rate of inflation) and Romney increased corporate taxes and state fees by $750 million a year, outstripping his tax cuts.
Also 49 out of 50 states in the US balance their budget every year because it's in required their State Constitutions.
10:23 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012
Mr. Shortall, the point that you are conveniently leaving out is that it was the "big government program" (Social Security) that paid for Ryan's education as well as raising the cost of the money paid out of that "big government program" by going to a college out of state.
That education provided by the "big government program" opened the doors so he could turn around and work for the government and receive a government pay check.
Mike Shortall
11:19 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012
So what, Earnest?
I can believe that Social Security and Medicare are going to be the death of American society, yet still take the full measure of benefit afforded by a system I have paid thousands into for decades, as Ryan's parents certainly did. I claim benefits my family justly deserves ... and paid for. I'd be stupid not to.
But just because Ryan benefitted from all that his parents "paid in" does not mean that he is now so beholding to those programs and unable to suggest corrective action, especially when everyone can see the economic peril they pose to everything else the Government does that's good.
11:34 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012
The Affordable Care Act makes important changes to the Medicare program and substantially improves its financial outlook. - Medicare Actuary, April 23, 2012
David Curran
12:27 am on Friday, August 31, 2012
Your correct there Earnest about the Affordable Healthcare Act (ACA), or what is commonly known as Obamacare. My problem is I do not see Obama, who is trying to expand access to health care, would take measures that would specifically target senior citizens(Medicare) , and deprive them of care. Does not this whole Rep. Fairytale just not make sense? Are people not capable of seeing the obvious anymore?
2:31 am on Friday, August 31, 2012
my taxes are just like another mortgage payment this is a disgrace who the heck can afford this crap
7:05 am on Friday, August 31, 2012
- Ryan's most recent budget known as the "Path to Prosperity" keeps most all of the spending cuts to Medicare as in the ACA.
- The ACA calls for a (Reduction in future growth) of Medicare spending (over 10 years).
- It is Medicare Part A's trust fund that is set to be insolvent by 2024 and without the spending cuts proposed by the President (about $415 billion) in Future growth payments to hospitals through Medicare Part A, the trust fund won't be able to fully pay the projected benefits for 2016. - This comes directly from the Medicare trustees estimations. - This is exactly why Ryan's "Path to Prosperity" keeps the reductions, which Romney himself approves.
The plans are almost exactly the same. The difference is in who will pay for the $716 billion reduction that keeps the trust fund for Seniors, solvent for a longer period of time.
- Romney and Ryan places the financial burden on Seniors patients who use Medicare Part A, which was set up as a "trust fund".
- The Presidents plan, ACA, slows the future growth of payment to hospitals, without putting the financial burden on Seniors, thus keeping Medicare Part A solvent for Seniors through 2024.
Scott Weekley
10:19 am on Monday, September 3, 2012
How in "God's" name could Paul Ryan and/or Mitt Romney be "stumping" for small business and/or large American-based businesses who "employ" Americans? The lobbyists & campaign contributors to The Republican Party are "growing" extremely wealthy by owning Businesses in America, while "sending" most of the potential American jobs to foreign nations such as China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Lesotho in South Africa, Ski Lanka, etc. Mitt Romney and/or Paul Ryan must believe in W.C. Field's remark, "There's a sucker born every minute!" If you "believe" Paul Ryan or Mitt Romney are "stumping" for American business & American workers, please try to find out who is paying for their "campaign." Small American steel companies cannot compete with "imported" steel girders coming into this United States from China! Paul Ryan can "stump" until he turns blue, but American businesses need him to "stop" taking lobbying & campaign contributions from Republican "friends" who profit by having their denim jeans, fall sweaters, NFL sporting apparel, hunting & fishing equipment, Christmas decorations, computers, tools, etc. IN Foreign Countries! How can American small business compete with China or Lesotho who manufacture these goods for a fraction of our American minimum wage? Paul Ryan's Tea Party friends refuse to legislate Laws so you could see "Made in The United States" on the aforementioned products!
V. Scheurich
12:51 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
Can anyone tell if this photo has been photo-shopped or is it the real deal?
Morgan King
1:20 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
There's a lot of pixel noise so it's hard to tell - the limitations of the camera confuse the issue. There's definitely some blurring and out of place cut-and-paste-ish lines running through the crowd to the left of Farrakahn's head, but that could just be the result of a smeary low quality digital camera. If you were going to fake it, though, that's about the perfect shot to do so - the crop from the railing and the hard lines of the collars at the neck, black suits are common attire, and stadium lights are everywhere so unusual shadows would be hard to pick out. It seems likely that if this were a real occurrence there would be other photos from other angles.
8:06 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
The comment right below the photo states that it is not from the olympics, but was from an event in Jamaica, where you can see another photo that provides more detail:
You can see that the organizers set the seating arrangement and for security reasons (I have put on larger events like this) you sometimes have to clump your "celebrities." And given that this took place in Jamaica, which can be specifically dangerous and also probably a lower security budget, there would be nothing unusual at all about this.


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Beating the top-ranked team in the country last week didn't give Connecticut much momentum to build on.
One game after upsetting Texas to reclaim a spot in the rankings, the Huskies fell to Providence 81-66 on Wednesday night when Jamine Peterson had 23 points and 14 rebounds.
Peterson scored eight of the Friars' 14 straight points as they completed their comeback from a 10-point, first-half deficit.
"We just took our foot off the gas. We thought that we had the game won already," said UConn forward Gavin Edwards, who scored 17 points. "Everybody was just resting on their laurels from the Texas game, and as a result, nobody really came out to play, and we got beat."
The second-half collapse was all-too familiar to Providence (12-8, 4-4 Big East), which led South Florida by 12 with 2:05 left on Saturday night before losing in overtime. But this time the Friars were on the other end, and the crowd at the Dunkin' Donuts Center celebrated by storming the court even as the final seconds ticked off the clock.
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Graham, who began Green Team America when he was 16, recently started attending UC Davis and is majoring in Environmental Policy. He hopes to one day bring renewable energy to the residents of impoverished nations.
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Q: What were some of the projects you were able to do in Green Team America?
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We had 500 of the bags and we went to farmers markets in Rancho Cucamonga and Ontario in the spring of last year.
We also worked with the city of Rancho Cucamonga and planted trees along the Pacific Electric Trail. We had about 330 students helping with that. That was in February last year.
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100 cemeteries and counting: A local man's genealogical journey
MIDDLETOWN - Local genealogy hobbyist and Godfrey Memorial Library Board of Trustees Member Ed Laput achieved a milestone for many people both living and dead. He began his journey in November 2007 with the idea of making a special donation for Godfrey's online resources. He has been photographing gravestones and recording their vital information throughout Middlesex County, Connecticut and beyond. Not only does Laput take the photos and create the table of information, he also handles the tedious work of linking the photos to the surnames on the web pages that patrons view. Recently, Laput submitted data and photos to Godfrey Memorial Library for his 100th cemetery.
"My primary motive," Laput said, "began after I found a family member that came from Russia in the early 1900's and vanished with no one in the family having any idea where she went." On line he found a transcription of cemetery stones in West Virginia recorded in 1940 and it documented that her death happened in 1939. "I broke through a wall and completed that lost section of our family history."
Laput's other motivation is he wants to make sure that some of these old stones will have a record and a photo before they are either stolen, destroyed or deteriorate from old age and that people in the future will be able to see and have at least a copy of that nonexistent stone.
Initially, he focused on cemeteries where some of his relatives were buried. He started with St. Nicholas Cemetery in Norwich, then to Colchester and St. Bridget in Moodus. East Hampton came next, and then Middletown, Haddam, Marlborough and Portland. Many times he worked on multiple cemeteries at the same time, putting them all through their steps toward completion.\
"Now, I try to complete a town beginning with the smaller cemeteries and then get to the larger cemeteries before going to the next town. Salem, Berlin and Meriden are high on my list to be completed." He's done some cemeteries in Middlefield, Cheshire, Lebanon, Bozrah, Hebron and Marlborough.
When asked about his plan for the coming year Laput said, "I'd like to finish Meriden, Middletown and Lebanon. I plan on keeping the database up to date as new people are being added to the completed cemeteries. Lebanon is important as that was the headquarters during the Revolutionary War and has a high historical value. I have about 85,000 names at this point and I should reach 100,000 by the fall of this year."
"The biggest challenge with photographing cemeteries," Laput said, "is the weather and, of course, the time of day to get the best photo." Light and shadows have been frequent obstacles for a good photo as is the direction of the stone in relation to the sun. He has seen most everything that can get in his way from mammoth overgrown vines and trees in cemeteries long forgotten, to grass-covered, sunken, flat stones and statues or potted plants to the occasional threatening black snake. He has developed and honed his own method and routine for getting his task accomplished. He said he tries not to make too many return trips to a cemetery, "that slows down my available time to get to the final product, the finished web page."
You might think "creeping" around cemeteries with a camera in hand would attract some negative attention. Laput said, "I haven't gone to a cemetery in the last year without someone stopping me and asking what I'm doing, why I'm doing it and what I'm going to do with the information. I've had many caretakers help me with my project. At St. Sebastian Cemetery in Middletown, they came out with their mowing tractors last fall to mulch and blow the leaves so that the ground stones could be visible for me. Many people think that what I am doing is great and they sometimes tell me stories of their own. The only place that the police talked to me was at the new St. John Cemetery in Middletown. There had been some vandalism at the cemetery in the past and they do patrol it. After talking to them I just get a wave as they go through." Because of Laput's passion for cemetery stone preservation, he is grateful to the officers who protect them.
Completing the web page has many challenges as well. Laput tries to get the most up to date information on a person, (i.e., the exact death date, birth date, place of birth and death, spouse's first name and, for the women, their maiden name).
"This is what makes the information that I provide more accurate and thorough than other cemetery sites." It takes time to gather this information and build the HTML file for the website. He linked almost 85,000 surnames to a photo (accounting for those with no stone remaining or not yet placed). "After a while the eyes do go buggy," Laput said. Continued...
His devotion to his hobby has infiltrated many days and parts of his life these past two and a half years. The staff at Godfrey Memorial Library chuckles when Laput and his wife Bonnie go on vacation and Laput reports that he's bringing his laptop and will have a cemetery finished when he gets back. "On vacation I choose a cemetery that I can complete and they are included in my lists." This is why you'll see a few out of state cemeteries that are a part of the Ed Laput Collection. Laput has photographed and recorded cemeteries in California, Arizona and Florida while on vacation. He said, "Bonnie is very supportive and sometimes finds a cemetery for me to do. Our friends even get involved and have introduced me to a man that is now helping me with the Salem cemeteries. Without this contact I would have never found some of these."
After having the opportunity to see so many thousands of stones dating back to the 1700's and those being produced today, Laput views some of these as amazing works of art. "The sculpture works of the stones at St. Sebastian in Middletown are the most ornate. However, Cove Cemetery in East Haddam along with Old Burying Ground in Cromwell display some great tabletop stones. While in Ormond Beach, FL. at Pilgrims Rest Cemetery I photographed some honeycomb graves that are gorgeous and interesting."
Some of the stones Laput speaks of have a big curiosity factor like one from an Arizona cemetery where a single cowboy boot protrudes from the top of the casket-shaped cement grave covering. The stone reads: "If you want the other one, you'll have to come down here and get it!" Another is at Ormond Hillside Cemetery in Florida where the founder of the Daytona Racetrack is buried and just this past year the owner of the world's largest chain of Harley Motorcycles was buried there after he was killed riding his bike in Montana.
Laput is committed to documenting as many cemeteries and their occupants as he has the strength and time to do. He told his wife this was something he wanted to get involved with when he retired. His happiness comes from knowing that his efforts preserve history and makes it easier for relatives of the deceased to locate their ancestors' final resting place. But if you ask him what he enjoys most, he'll tell you, "It's the people that I have met who stop and talk to me about what they know about the cemetery and the people buried there. They have interesting stories to tell. That is precious."
Look for the complete Ed Laput Collection of cemeteries online at www.godfrey.org. Full access to all cemetery databases requires the purchase of an online subscription (starts at $45). To view cemeteries on the Free Search page; go to our home page and put your cursor over the Search tab at the top, the click on Search Free! to view the current list of free resources.
Godfrey Memorial Library is the recipient of a grant from the Middlesex County Community Foundation to assist in making our cemetery databases in Middlesex County more accessible to the general public. All Middlesex County Cemeteries have been put on the Search Free! page and will remain free to view for one year.
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