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EISENHOWER, BARBARA: PAPERS, 1951-72. -1 foot.
EISENHOWER CENTENNIAL COMMISSION: RECORDS (a component of Records of Presidential Committees, Commissions and Boards: Record Group 220), 1987-91. 2 feet.
EISENHOWER-DOUD: COLLECTION OF CLIPPINGS AND OTHER MEMORABILIA, 1911-59. 4 feet.
EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D.: Post-Presidential Papers, Christmas Cards from Heads of State and Foreign Dignitaries, 1948-1967. 1.5 feet.
EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D.: DIARIES, 1935-38, 1942, 1948-53, 1966, 1968, 1969. -1 foot.
EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D.: FINANCIAL PAPERS, 1921-69. 23 feet. (closed pending processing)
EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D.: Fiscal Records (a component of the Records of the General Accounting Office: Record Group 217), 1911-61. Less than 1 foot. [R]
EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D.: PAPERS AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 1953-61 (Ann Whitman File). 122 feet. (partly on microfilm) [For further information about this collection, please see Appendix A]
Administration Series
Ann Whitman Diary Series
Cabinet Series
Campaign Series
DDE Diary Series
Drafts Series
Dulles-Herter Series
Gettysburg Farm Series
International Series
International Meetings Series
Legislative Meetings Series
Miscellaneous Series
Name Series
NSC Series
Presidential Transitions Series
Press Conferences Series
Speech Series
Stag Dinner Series
EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D.: PAPERS, POST-PRESIDENTIAL, 1961-69. 935 feet.
1961 Principal File
1962 Principal File
1962-63 Signature File
1963 Principal File
1964 Principal File
1964 Signature File
1965 Principal File
1965 Signature File
1966 Principal File
1966 Signature File
1967 Principal File
1967 Signature File
1968 Principal File
1969 Principal File
Appointment Books Series
Augusta-Walter Reed Series
Christmas Cards from Heads of State and Foreign Dignitaries
Convenience File Series
Cookbook Series | Recipes
Funeral Arrangements and Tributes Series
Record of Western Novels Read
Secretary's Series
Special Name Series
Speech Series
Papers of Unreviewed Series for Review upon Demand
(Correspondence and Greeting Files) 643 feet
Description Identifier: 7408500
Anniversary Cards, 1962
Unused DDE/MDE 50th anniversary acknowledgement cards
Unused greeting cards, Hallmark
Pre-Acc.: 1961 Birthday Cards and Letters
Pre-Acc.: 1961 Christmas and Thanksgiving cards
Pre-Acc.: 1961 Secondary Files (.4 cu. ft.)
Pre-Acc.: 1961 Secondary Files (46.1 cu. ft.)
Pre-Acc.: 1962 Christmas and Thanksgiving cards
Pre-Acc.: Oversized material, 1962-63
Pre-Acc.: 1962-1963 Secondary Files
Pre-Acc.: Correspondence answered by card, 1/61 (NARS)
Pre-Acc.: Oversize material, 1961
Pre-Acc.: Scrapbooks from Mary Ann Tiedje, 1962
A64-26: 1962 Birthday cards and letters
A65-09: Get Well Cards (10/64)
A65-10: 1964 Birthday cards and letters
A65-11: 1964 Secondary Files
A66-02: 1965 Birthday cards and letters
A66-03: 1964 Christmas and Thanksgiving cards
A66-04; A66-04/1; A66-04/2: Get Well Cards (11/65)
A66-10: 1965 Christmas and Thanksgiving cards
A66-15: 1965 Secondary Files
A66-18: Drafts and other material re: The White House Years, 1961-1965
A67-23; A67-23/1; A67-24; A67-24/1: 50TH Anniversary Cards, 1966
A67-31: 1966 Birthday cards and letters, general pubic
A67-32: 1966 mutual birthday cards
A67-33: 1966 Birthday cards and letters, heads of state and friends
A67-39: 1966 Secondary Files
A67-41: Get Well Cards 1966
A67-42: 1966 Christmas and Thanksgiving cards, general public
A67-42/1: 1966 Christmas and Thanksgiving cards, personal friends
A68-03: Get Well Cards (5/67)
A68-08: 51st Anniversary Cards, 1967
A68-09: Gettysburg office, staff memos, personal, etc.
A68-17: 1967 Secondary Files
A68-19: 1967 Birthday cards and letters
A68-20: Get Well Cards (8/67)
A68-21: Get Well Cards (10/67)
A68-24: Material re: transfer of files, etc. from White House
A68-32: 1967 Christmas and Thanksgiving cards
A69-04; A69-04/1: Get Well Cards (5/68)
A69-24: 1968 Birthday cards and letters
A69-29: 1968 Signature Files
A69-37: 1968 Secondary Files
A69-40: Designating Eisenhower Center as final resting place of Gen. and Mrs. Eisenhower, 1963
A70-12: 1968 Christmas and Thanksgiving cards, personal friends
A70-13: Get Well Cards (2/23/69)
A70-14: Get Well Cards (after 3/28/69)
A70-15: 1968 Christmas and thanksgiving cards, general public
A70-22: US Secret Service Manual for DDE
A70-39: Administrative Files
A70-40: Material sent upon request by office of General Eisenhower
A70-44: Printed cards used in answering correspondence
A70-45: Stationery, envelopes, greeting, autograph, calling cards, printed invitation forms
A70-64: 1969 Secondary Files
A70-80: Permanent Bulk File
A70-94: Material removed from DDE's office shortly after his death
A70-95: Appointment books, 1961-63
A70-106: 1969 Signature Files
A70-111: Record of autographs given by DDE, 1962-1968
A70-112: Record of gift copies of Mandate for Change and Waging Peace
A70-113: Pattern letters used by Gettysburg office
A71-54: CBS television interview with Walter Cronkite, Oct. 12, 1961
A71-66: Handbook of protective division; Augusta members; Class of 1915, etc.
A72-15: Get Well Cards (2-3/69)
A73-25: Membership cards and other miscellaneous materials
EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D.: Personnel Records (a component of Records of the Office of the Adjutant General: Record Group 407), 1910-73. 2 feet.
EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D.: RECORDS AS PRESIDENT, DAILY APPOINTMENTS, 1953-61. 13 feet. (partly on microfilm)
EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D.: RECORDS AS PRESIDENT, WHITE HOUSE CENTRAL FILES, 1953-61. 3,171 feet. (partly on microfilm) [For further information about this collection, please see Appendix B]
Alphabetical File
Bulk Mail File
Confidential File
General File
General Files Cross-Reference Sheets
Large Items from Top of Cabinet Cupboard Rooms 65, 68, 71, 74, 98
Legal Sized Case Files
Official File
Permanent File, Office of Executive Clerk Hopkins
Pre-Inaugural File
President's Personal File
Room 98 File Series
Unofficial Annual Reports
Unreviewed Series / Items for Review upon Demand
16.5 Cubic Feet
Description Identifier 1125
Acknowledgements re DDE's speech to UN
Carbons of telegrams re to Housing & Home Finance Agency
Collection of suggestions to DDE upon expiration of his term in office
Copies of Columbine guest book; Citizens for Eisenhower pledges, 1956
Documents issued by International Monetary Fund
Farewell Address
Geographical card index of gifts to MDE
Inauguration materials for 1957
Index to DDE's Press Conferences and Press Releases
Index to Names, Addresses & other Information on Persons and
Organizations with related records
Organizational card file index
Original Drafts, July 1956-August 1959
White House Mail, Weekly Reports
Papers and memorabilia as President of the U.S.
Pay Cards
Presidential Movement Logs, 1953-1961
Reports filed by Miss Hein, 2/18/60
Reports, Studies re: Congress
Social Security bill 1956
Society of American Military Engineers certificate
Washington Legislative Bulletin
EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D.: Veterans Claim and Benefit Records (a component of Records of the Veterans Administration: Record Group 15), 1911-69. -1 foot.
EISENHOWER, EARL D.: PAPERS, 1917-70. -1 foot. ALSO: [98-7; 98-7/1; 99-7] 2.2 Cubic ft. Unreviewed Accretion, Review upon Demand
EISENHOWER, EDGAR N.: PAPERS, 1952. Lawyer; brother of Dwight D. Eisenhower. -1 foot.
EISENHOWER EXECUTIVE OFFICE BUILDING: COLLECTED MATERIALS, c.1927-1990. 1 foot. (closed pending processing)
EISENHOWER FOUNDATION: RECORDS, 1944. -12 feet. (closed pending processing)
EISENHOWER, JOHN S. D.: Drafts and other material re The Bitter Woods, 1944-68. 9.5 feet.
EISENHOWER, JOHN S. D.: Dwight D. Eisenhower Albums, 1911-1961. 9 feet.
EISENHOWER, JOHN S. D.: Letters to Mamie Manuscript Materials, 1942-45 & 1977.
EISENHOWER, JOHN S. D.: PAPERS, 1922 -. 19 feet. (closed pending processing)
EISENHOWER, LOUISE: PAPERS, 1942-52. -1 foot. (closed pending processing)
EISENHOWER, MAMIE DOUD: PAPERS, 1894-1979. 392 feet. [For further information concerning the Mamie Doud Eisenhower Papers, see Martin M. Teasley's "Ike Was Her Career: The Papers of Mamie Doud Eisenhower." Prologue, Summer 1987 (Vol. 19, No. 2), 106-115.]
1961-62 Correspondence Series
1963 File Series
1964 File Series
1965 File Series
1966 File Series
1967 File Series
1968 File Series
1969 File Series
1970 File Series
1969 Birthday and Christmas Cards Series
1969 Secondary File and NFA Correspondence Series
Columbia University Series
Condolence Mail Series
Scrapbooks and Albums Series
SHAPE Series
Tributes on Death of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
White House Series
Papers of Unreviewed Series for Review upon Demand
(Correspondence and Greeting Files) 289 feet
Description Identifier: 7419370
Pre-Acc.: Birthday Cards, 1961
A64-26: Birthday Cards received by Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower
A66-8: Birthday Cards, 1964
A66-9: Birthday Cards, 1969
A68-18: Birthday cards, general public, Nov. 1967
A70-42: "No Further Action" Files, 1967-68
A70-42/1: Additional "No Further Action" Correspondence
A70-52: Sympathy Messages upon Death of Mrs. J.W. Doud
A70-70: 1969 Signature Files
A71-44: 1970 Signature Files
A71-52: 1970 "No Further Action" Files
A72-44: 1971 Signature File
A73-2: 1970 Christmas Cards
A73-11: Additional 1971 Signature Files
A73-31: 1972 Signature Files
A73-46: 1973 Signature Files
A74-22; A74-32: 1974 Signature Files
A75-28: Composite Accession of Additional Papers, FY 1975
A76-15: Composite Accession of Additional Papers, FY 1976
A76-33: Additional Papers (.4 cubic feet)
A76-33: 1972 Files
A76-33: 1973Files
A76-33: 1974 Files
A76-33: 1975 Files
A76-33/3: June 1953 Eisenhower Family Genealogy Chart
A77-4: Letters from the General Public Brought to Library by Mrs. Eisenhower in 1976
A77-4/1: Additional Papers – Cards and Letters
A77-4/2: Additional Papers – Cards and Letters
A77-4/3: Additional Papers – Cards and Letters
A77-4/4: Additional Papers – Cards and Letters and Memorabilia
A77-4/5: Public Mail and Certificates
A77-4/6: Papers, 1952-76
A77-4/6: Personal Files
A77-4/7: Cards, Letters and Memorabilia from General Public
A77-19: Composite Accession of Additional Papers, FY 1977
A78-12: Papers and Memorabilia, 1950 - 77
A78-12/1: Papers and Memorabilia from General Public
A78-12/2: Papers and Memorabilia from General Public
A78-12/3: Papers and Memorabilia from General Public
A78-12/4: Papers and Memorabilia from General Public
A78-12/5: Papers and Memorabilia from General Public
A78-27: Composite Accession of Additional Papers, FY 1978
A79-3: Composite Accession of Additional Papers, FY 1979
A79-5: Papers and Memorabilia from General Public
A79-5/2: Papers and Memorabilia from General Public
A79-5/3; A79-5/4: Papers and Memorabilia from General Public
A79-5/5: Papers and Memorabilia from General Public Pertaining to 82nd Birthday
A79-5/6; A79-5/8: Papers and Memorabilia from General Public
A79-5/9: Papers and Memorabilia from General Public
A79-5/10: Papers and Memorabilia from General Public
A79-5/11: Papers and Memorabilia from General Public
A80-5: Composite Accession of Additional Papers, FY 1980
A80-11: Personal Correspondence and Financial Records
A80-11/1: Appraisal Reports – Personal Property
A81-17; A82-9: Composite Accession – FY 1981-82
A82-10: "Get Well" Cards and Letters Received During the Last Few Months of Life
A83-12: Correspondence from Charitable Organizations
EISENHOWER, MAMIE DOUD: PERSONAL FILES, 1952-76. 0.7 feet.
EISENHOWER, MILTON S.: PAPERS, 1938-85. 20 feet. ALSO: [A70-2; 86-13; 85-1; 84-1; 82-15; 78-2; 78-2/1; 86-13; 83-14; 87-4] 3.7 Cubic ft. Unreviewed Accretion, Review upon Demand
Collection of 20th Century Military Records, 1918-59. 49 feet.
Map Collection, 1855-1988. 15.9 feet.
Material re the 25th Anniversary of D-Day, June 6-7, 1969. -1 foot.
Material re the Dwight D. Eisenhower Centennial, 1990. 5 feet.
Museum Manuscripts Transferred to Library, 1969-1981. 20.5 feet.
Records: Building and Grounds Files, (a component of Records of the National Archives and Records Administration: Record Group 64), 1959-1985. 6.5 feet
Records: Oral History Program Files, (a component of Records of the National Archives and Records Administration: Record Group 64), 1962-1991. 4.5 feet.
Small Manuscript Collections, 37.8 feet. (partly on microfilm)
EISENHOWER PREWAR DIARIES AND SELECTED PAPERS, 1905 - 1941: Manuscript. Pre-publication proof copy [Published edition edited by Daniel D. Holt and James W. Leyerzapf available in library book collection] -1 foot. Review upon Demand
ELLIS, EDMUND D.: MATERIAL RE U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY CLASS OF 1915, 1949-82. U.S. Military Academy classmate of Dwight D. Eisenhower; Secretary of the U.S. Military Academy class of 1915, 1960 -. -1 foot.
ELLSWORTH, HARRIS: PAPERS, 1956-59. Member, U.S. House of Representatives, 1943-56; Chairman, U.S. Civil Service Commission, 1957-59. 1 foot.
ELSE, JOHN HUBERT: PAPERS, 1925-68. Administrative Assistant for Senators Clyde Reed (1947-49), Harry Darby (1949-50), Frank Carlson (1950-51); National Affairs Counsel, National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, 1951-65. 2 feet.
ELSON, REV. EDWARD L. R.: PAPERS, 1947-1992. Pastor, National Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., 1947-1973; Chaplain of the Senate, 1969-1981. -1 foot.
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, OFFICE OF: PRINTED MATERIALS, 1953-61. 5 feet
ENDACOTT, J. EARL: PAPERS, 1944-74. Executive Secretary, Eisenhower Foundation; Curator, Eisenhower Museum, 1947-71. 5 feet.
ENDACOTT, J. EARL: RECORDS, 1945-70. Executive Secretary of the Eisenhower Foundation and curator of the Eisenhower Museum. 21 feet.
ENGELS, ROBERT V.: CORRESPONDENCE AND POLITICAL MATERIAL, 1952. Montana alternate delegate and delegate, 1952 Republican National Convention. -1 foot.
ERICKSON, THURMAN C.: PAPERS, 1941-45. Businessman; interned by Japanese in Manila, Philippines, 1941-45. -1 foot.
ESKIND, DAVID B.: PAPERS, 1940-73. -1 foot.
EWALD, WILLIAM B.: PAPERS, 1953-85. Special Assistant to the President (speech writer), 1954-56; Assistant to the Secretary of the Interior, 1956-61; assisted Dwight D. Eisenhower in the writing of The White House Years, 1961-65; author of several books on the Eisenhower administration and the McCarthy era, 1967-85. 22.5 feet.
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Where do those stories go?
I've been reading a fantasy novel recently by a certain author who, out of courtesy as I think the book is bad, shall remain nameless. However, it's called to mind a question which I feel a little too old to answer.
Reading the book, which was very Mary Sue, I found myself continually muttering 'keep it in the maths book' - or math book, I suppose, for my American friends. Now, I know what I meant by that. I said it to my boyfriend, who's the same age as me and also knew what I meant by it. (Mind you, he's used to my ramblings.) I'd guess that it would be possible for someone my age to work out if they'd heard my complaints about the book. But would it make sense to a Teen of Today?
When I was in my early teens, y'see, the Internet hadn't quite kicked in. It was there, but you had to be very techie to know about it; it only caught on when I was at the end of my teens and into my twenties. In any case, there was a recurring figure in schools that I think many people would recognise: the kid who sat quietly in class writing what was usually a fantasy novel in a spare math(s) notebook when they were supposed to be paying attention to the teacher. I wasn't one of them, but I remember reading over shoulders and hearing them discussed. Now, given that these were early attempts at writing, naturally they weren't as polished in style as the work of an experienced forty-year-old pro would be, and they tended to have a fair bit of wish-fulfillment in them. The bad fantasy book I was reading felt wishful and rather immature for a book by an adult writer, hence my complaint that the author should have kept it in the maths book. (I would have been bloody impressed if I'd seen a thirteen-year-old with a book of that standard in their maths book, mark you. Writing like a thirteen-year-old is fine when you're thirteen.)
But does that idea mean anything any more, or has the Net outmoded it? What I'm really wondering is whether tomorrow, teenagers who feel the urge to write fantasy stories for their own amusement will do what we did and scam a spare notebook from the store cupboard, using it as cover during their least-favourite class, or whether they'll simply go off to the computer room at school or go back home and type up stories under the pretence of doing their homework, and then stick them on the Internet. Has the Net killed the notebook? What's going on? I feel a little old and out of touch, so if anybody feels like enlightening me I'd be most grateful.
Come to that, I'd also be interested to hear where the maths-book novels led. The stories I got to see in my school were written by people who are now of the doctors-and-lawyers persuasion, rather than writers. I, on the other hand, am the one who's just jacked in a perfectly sensible job to be a full-time writer - but my maths book contained nothing but badly-done mathematics. I wrote when English teachers set writing assignments, and I read everything I could get my hands on, but my first novel was begun in my early twenties, not my early teens, and certainly not begun quietly at the back of the classroom. I don't think it would have worked, for one thing - I tend to zone out when I write, on a time-ratio of pretty much exactly three to one. If I think I've been writing for ten minutes, half an hour has passed; if I think I've been writing for half an hour, then it's an hour and a half; it's gotten to the stage where I automatically correct my estimate, saying 'I just need another five - excuse me, another fifteen minutes.' With this time frame, I generally need more time than I'd think; there was a point when I had a commute that lasted an hour and three quarters in each direction to my job, and I was trying to write on the train - but the train journey was only half an hour, and everything I wrote was rubbish: it just wasn't enough time to work up the concentration. I suspect attempts to write during a half-hour class, while keeping one eye on the teacher, would have been subject to similar laws, in my case at least. But then again, other writers have entirely different concentration patterns, and maybe that train setting would have been perfect for them.
So where are those maths-book stories now? How many professional writers started with notebooks tucked between a science book and a Bunsen burner? How many classroom novelists decided to call it a day once they left school and no longer needed to make their own entertainment during dull classes? And if you're thirteen years old in 2006 and have a yen to write your own story, where do you go to write it? I intend to conduct an informal survey (just because I wasn't writing fiction during science classes doesn't mean I was any good at them, so a formal survey is a bit beyond me), and I'd love to hear from anyone who has an opinion. I'm going to keep asking this question at intervals, I think . . .
I never wrote in class, I tended to doodle, usually people with large teeth and visible gums. Maybe I was meant to be a cartoonist. Or a dentist. I think in my early teens I was reluctant to write anything, really, keeping my stories tucked in the folds of my brain. Whether this was shyness or some kind of perverse selfishness I can't be certain, as most of my childhood memories fell off the back of my head years ago, pushed out by movie trivia and Simpsons episode synopses.
I did a lot of story-telling in my head, too. Partly due to lack of confidence, but mainly because the stories were my escape from the real world so writing them down would have been like putting up a huge signpost to my private bolt-hole. I didn't make serious attempts at fiction-writing until I was in my twenties, although (I squirm to remember it) I did write poetry in a school exercise book, and let people read it.
That sounds familiar. I remember writing one poem in a notebook and finding it years later ... it was an earnest debate between burning it to ensure no one ever saw it, and keeping as a stark reminder in case I ever started getting above myself. I think I kept it for a while, but threw it out in the end. At least, I hope it's not still hanging around somewhere. If anyone ever saw it, I'd have to change my name and go into hiding, and I've only just finished repainting my bathroom.
Funny though, if I'm doodling away with a story in my head, it's a pretty safe bet that it won't make it to the page. It tends to have gotten stale by the time I write it down. I have to do all my thinking with my pen if it's going to be any good at all. Or my keyboard. Too much of a temptation to skate over the difficult bits when I'm daydreaming stories, I think, and it's grappling with the difficult bits that forces me to come up with better writing. If I can't write those bits down, they tend to be difficult not to lose track of. I just get confused.
That's very true. A story raised in the zero gravity environment of the imagination often turns out to have hollow bones that get crunched to shards in the real world. I need to keep reminding myself of that.
The bolt-hole situation is also familiar to me. Some of the most successful fantasy novels are ones that give you the feeling that you're being taken to the author's secret treehouse.
Agh, simile overdose...
Which can be either a very cool thing or a rather embarrassing one. The book that ticked me off enough to start this whole chain of association was rather like looking into somebody's treehouse and finding they'd forgotten to tidy away their stack of Playboys: I kind of found out more about the author's fantasy life than I was comfortable with knowing. Comes back to the idea that there's a difference between daydreams and artistic imagination; I think some of the worst fantasy feels like daydreams written down rather that capital-R wRiting. Though in a well-constructed and nicely appointed treehouse, of course, the view is just beautiful - and up there in someone's private space, you can see things you'd never have seen from the ground. What do you reckon, Claire? Was the instinct to hide the in-head stories because you felt the treehouse needed tidying before you could show it, or was it just that you wanted your own private space that didn't have anyone else's personality in it? Or, come to that, is that none of my darn business? :-)
It was mainly the idea of private space. I have three siblings and the house we grew up in was small so the only space I had that wasn't being constantly invaded was the bit between my ears. Also, though, it never occurred to me that I could write. My parents always told me I had no imagination and until I was 18 everyone thought I was going to be a music teacher.
You're absolutely right about daydreaming and imagination. Most of the stories I dreamed up as a child wouldn't stand up to scrutiny now, even if I could remember them. I'll still 'daydream' scenes just to get a feel for how characters are behaving but I generally never know if a story is going to work until the first draft is on paper.
Aha. Did any of those stories feature tiresome siblings meeting a well-deserved fate? I have fond memories of my father making up stories about a character called 'Lady Lizard' for me when I was about four - the starting adventure involved her elder brother being rude to her and then a much bigger lizard coming along and beating him up until he was really, really sorry he hadn't been nicer. Man, I loved that story. As a four-year-old, that is; I think I'd prefer my brother not to get beaten up nowadays.
(It was about lizards because we were on holiday in a house in France that had these cute little lizards in the garden, which I was fascinated by. Those were some great lizards.)
Ah, the revenge on siblings scenario. I wish I'd thought of giant lizards. Another reliable stand-by was the story in which it was suddenly discovered I was the secret child of spies/assassins/explorers and whisked off to a glamorous new life. The irony is that most people think I really do have a glamorous life now and refuse to believe my assertions to the contrary.Post a Comment
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President Barack Obama, in what the White House described as a major speech on the economic state of affairs in the U.S., made no significant new policy announcements, instead saying broadly he will focus on initiatives that help the plight of the struggling middle-class.
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The president blamed political gridlock – specifically Congressional Republicans – for stalling many of his administration's economic proposals.
"With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball," the president said during a speech at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., the site of his first major speech on economics eight years ago.
Obama said he will take his message outside Washington, D.C., and directly to the American people, traveling around the U.S. in the coming weeks to address what he described as the "erosion of middle-class security."
"I will lay out my ideas for how we build on the cornerstones of what it means to be middle class in America, and what it takes to work your way into the middle class in America," the president said in prepared remarks. "Job security, with good wages and durable industries. A good education. A home to call your own. Affordable health care when you get sick. A secure retirement even if you're not rich. Reducing poverty and inequality. Growing prosperity and opportunity."
The White House, ahead of the address, said the president hopes through Wednesday's speech to shift the focus away from partisan bickering and toward bi-partisan solutions.
Speaking broadly on several areas of the economy, Obama said he would focus on bringing back manufacturing jobs to the U.S.
"Over the past four years, for the first time since the 1990s, the number of American manufacturing jobs hasn't gone down; they've gone up. But we can do more. So I'll push new initiatives to help more manufacturers bring more jobs back to America," Obama said.
The president said his administration would continue to promote jobs related to alternative energy sources such as wind and solar power. He said he will also push toward opening "manufacturing innovation institutes" to create "cutting edge jobs."
The president also said his new economic focus would target infrastructure improvements.
"As a share of our economy, we invest less in our infrastructure than we did two decades ago," Obama said. "That's inefficient at a time when it's as cheap as it's been since the 1950s to build things. It's inexcusable at a time when so many of the workers who do this for a living sit idle. The longer we put this off, the more expensive it will be, and the less competitive we will be."
Obama added: "The businesses of tomorrow won't locate near old roads and outdated ports; they'll relocate to places with high-speed internet; high-tech schools; systems that move air and auto traffic faster, not to mention get parents home to their kids faster. We can watch that happen in other countries, or we can choose to make it happen right here, in America.
With polls showing American disapproval of Congress at an all-time high, Obama said political gridlock in Washington, D.C., has blocked proposals such as immigration reform, which the president said would have a positive economic impact totaling more than $1 trillion.
"I am here to say this needs to stop. Short-term thinking and stale debates are not what this moment requires," Obama said. "Our focus must be on the basic economic issues that the matter most to you – the people we represent. And as Washington prepares to enter another budget debate, the stakes for our middle class could not be higher."
Obama said he would his administration will push for education programs that will train Americans for changes in the global workforce.
"If you think education is expensive, wait until you see how much ignorance costs in the 21st century. If we don't make this investment, we'll put our kids, our workers, and our country at a competitive disadvantage for decades," he said.


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Updated: Scott Weiland Denies TMZ's Meth Arrest Story
8/22 Update No. 2: Scott Weiland was NOT the man arrested for meth possession, the Police and therefore the press were fooled by an imposter. Full details here.
Update: Two conflicting reports have emerged since this story broke earlier this evening. First, Scott Weiland posted the following video to his Facebook page, denying he was in jail and telling TMZ they would soon be hearing from his lawyers:
However, TMZ responded by updating their own story and stating they had spoken to a representative for the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, who reportedly told them that "He [Weiland] is definitely in custody. We did a physical check on that inmate and he is currently in custody."
Furthermore, our friends at Loudwire have obtained an Inmate Information Center document from the L.A. Sheriff's Department showing a July 26, 2014 arrest for someone with Weiland's same name and birth date. The cause of arrest is not stated on this form, which you can see here.
TMZ is reporting that former Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland is in jail, unable to post the needed $95,000 bond after being arrested on a charge of methamphetamine possession.
Weiland, who has waged a lengthy and public battle with substance abuse, was allegedly picked up after stealing razors from the Rite-Aid in Beverly Hills, TMZ says. Police then reportedly found meth, as well as an insulated bag meant to prevent alarm censors from detecting stolen merchandise. That was a month ago, according to the report, which says Weiland remains behind bars.
His Twitter account has been silent since early June. Weiland's last posted concert on Setlist.fm is from July 25. Meanwhile, there have been a series of posts to his Facebook page, but they are all throwback photos from Weiland's youth.
Meanwhile, Weiland was quoted in Chill magazine on August 1 criticizing Stone Temple Pilots' decision to move on without him. The group has issued a new EP titled 'High Rise' featuring Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington. Earlier in July, Weiland was lobbying for a Velvet Revolver reunion hoping to "make easy money."


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Report: Ghostbusters 3 May Incorporate Female Ghostbusters
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Who you gonna call? A group of lady Ghostbusters, if the upcoming third film goes as planned. Ghostbusters 3 may focus on female ghostbusters, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Our favorite child actors Sources close to the film say … Read more


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Ellen DeGeneres & Oprah Star in Hilarious "Magic Mike" Spoof
It's the year of the all-female reboot - Ocean's Eleven and Ghostbusters we're looking at you - and Ellen DeGeneres is determined not to be left out.
And if that involves stripping, so be it.
The chat show host introduced the hilarious sneak-peek to her "new movie" Magic Michelle, an all-singing, all-dancing, all-girl version of Channing Tatum's blockbuster hit Magic Mike during the programme this week and it looks like a film we would DEFINITELY go and see.
Striding across the stage in a pair of strategically unzippered utility overalls (side note, are those the same fake boobs she used the Halloween she dressed up as Sofia Vergara?!), Ellen is joined by Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Olivia Munn and Chrissy Teigen as a squad of well-equipped but ill-prepared exotic dancers.
But nothing, not even Ellen dancing provocatively with a whipper-snipper, tops the moment Oprah appears, dressed in a sparkly corset and thigh-high leather boots and executes a perfect split.
No, we're being serious.
Now that is a movie we need made.
After the trailer wrapped - and Ellen had stopped giggling - she explained to her audience that she had actually gone to the trouble of having Jenna, an award-winning dancer and Channing Tatum's wife, whip her into shape for her moment in the spotlight.
"For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to have Jenna teach me some dance moves," she said.
"And she kept telling me to drop it way down low and so now my down low hurts really, really bad.
"My knees are black and blue and I dunno how many times I... it was just a bad idea.
"I have new respect for strippers - give them more than singles, guys."
If you need us, we'll be getting those moves down for tomorrow night.


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Editors note: Get Growing, written by the La Plata County Extension Offices Master Gardener Program, appears every other week during the growing season. It features timely tips and suggestions for your garden and landscape.
By Jennaye Derge
I am a landscaper. For some reason, people glorify this particular occupation.
Oh, that must be nice! You get to work out in the sun! Which is true, I get to work in the sun for 40 hours a week, developing more tan lines than anyone should ever have. Really, what these people are romanticizing about is the same stuff that your partner slaps on the honey-do list just as youre dreaming about that unopened beer in the fridge.
It is yard work, glorified.
At a previous landscape job, making a landscape look good apparently meant making shrubs round the rounder the better. This entailed pruning them constantly, no matter what season. But those particular wooded shrubs never looked very happy and since then, I have concluded it was death by pruning.
So at what point do aesthetics and health coincide? When it comes to pruning, this can be quite challenging. There are many reasons for pruning promoting new growth, encouraging flowering, developing structure, allowing increased airflow and for shape. Pruning encourages growth where the shrub is cut, but can also remove the newer wood where new blossoms could otherwise form.
So every time my Edward Scissorhands made a shrub round, only those outer edges of the plant were encouraged to grow and the chance for flowering shrubs to actually develop flowers was greatly reduced. Additionally, the more I took off the bottom, the less sun and water was directed toward that base part of the plant. So what was left? A lot of area on the shrub that was not getting sun and a lot of dead wood left behind.
So, before your backyard is a landscape full of bowling balls, consider the health of a pruned shrub, and then sit back with your beer and enjoy the life of a landscaper.
Jennaye Derge is a 2012 Colorado Master Gardener graduate. She lives in La Plata County.


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Talks still ongoing with land developer
Talks with developer Brian Weidendorf will continue, said Superintendent Robert Indihar at the meeting of the Moose Lake School Board on Monday, November 18. Weidendorf has stated his intent to purchase 24 acres of school district property along south Highway 73 for development.
"His intent is to invest in $600,000 of infrastructure (water, sewer and other utilities) on the property," said Supt. Indihar. "But he is not interested in performance conditions."
The school board had planned to sell the land to the city, along with the conditions that Weidendorf develop businesses on the property within certain time periods.
The city would place its own covenants and zoning on the property before it was sold to Weidendorf.
The Land Committee will meet with City Administrator Pat Oman on December 9 at 4:30 to discuss the pros and cons regarding the resolution to sell the land and spur development.
Supt. Indihar stated that Widendorf has said that he will wait until spring to hear what has been decided.
"If we work it out, fine," reported Supt. Indihar. "If not, he'll move on."
School building
A structural engineer has been called in to examine cracks in the walls, Supt. Indihar said.
"We had noticed cracks in the walls and wondered if they were the result of the flood," he added. "The building is 80 years old. Why are we seeing them now?
"The engineer said that, because there was high humidity in the building for a long period of time, now it is starting to dry out. The cracks are vertical, not diagonal, which would be more serious."
Supt. Indihar said that McNeil Environmental will also be called for further examinations.
Board member Jamie Jungers of the Facilities Committee reported that the roof has been fixed.
Supt. Indihar added that the bill for the roof repairs came in less than what was expected, although more problem areas had been found.
"At some point in time we have to make a decision about replacing the roofs," he said. "We only have four years on some of the roofs. The roof on the high school is shot."
Student representative
A student has expressed interest in serving as the student representative to the board, it was said.
High School Principal Billie Jo Steen said that she will talk to her and invite her to the December school board meeting.
Other business
In other business, the board:
• Approved an Art Club student activity account,
• Approved the 2013-2014 Staff Development plan,
• And nominated board member Julie Peterson to the Northeast Service Co-op Board.
The working meeting of the board to discuss a five-period day was set for Monday, December 9, at 6 p.m., and the next regular meeting of the board was set for Monday, December 16 at 5 p.m. The Truth in Taxation portion of the meeting will be held at 6:01 p.m.


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If you want to buy an autographed and stamped copy of CONFRONTIER by Kai Wiedenhöfer – A book about eight borderwalls worldwide.
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WALLONWALL was a photo exhibition on the Berlin Wall about walls that separate people worldwide.
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Berlin Wall, Mühlenstraße – 12043 Berlin-Friedrichshain
Since 2006 Kai Wiedenhöfer has photographed eight border and separation walls:
Baghdad [700 km]
The concept of the exhibition is simple: on the longest remaining part of the Berlin Wall at Mühlenstraße we will glue 364 m of the wall with 36 huge panoramics. Its on the side of wall which points towards the river Spree. The other side of the wall is known as East Side Gallery and one of the touristic hotspots of Berlin.
A World between Walls from Martin Mostert on Vimeo.
Each picture measures 3 m x 9 m. The height is determined through the distance between the base of the wall and the lower part of the tube on top of the wall. All photographs are executed with large format cameras which makes the big enlargements possible. The pictures 1080 sqm and are printed with an inkjet printer on blueback paper and than mounted on the wall with normal wallpaper glue. The panorama photographs are only interrupted by a grey sheet with a caption in English and German.


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The Denver Broncos are riding a wave of bad publicity following the revelation that two prominent front-office executives have been arrested on driving under the influence charges in the past month.
It's unclear how the team will choose to discipline director of pro personnel Tom Heckert and director of player personnel Matt Russell, but Broncos president Joe Ellis said Thursday that any apologies from the two men are not enough.
"We're not perfect. We've made our errors. We admit," Ellis told The Associated Press. "You can say we apologized for it -- but I think an apology rings hollow when you run into the back of a police car or you're blowing a blood-alcohol limit that's three times the legal limit. I don't think fans, I don't think the public, I don't think anybody wants to hear an apology."
"So, I think you have to acknowledge your mistakes and you have to fix them and you have to do that the right way," Ellis said. "There's a lot of things we do. We offer programs, we offer a lot of help, there's a ton of stuff the National Football League makes available to all the teams in an effort for them to avoid this kind of thing. In this case, we had two guys that couldn't do it. And that's just sad. That's too bad. But we're going to move on, and our hope is that you won't see this kind of incident from an employee again."
Ellis defended the Broncos' decision not to publicize Heckert's June 11 arrest, which wasn't revealed until this week.
"Well, we handle those things internally," Ellis said. "When they become external, then we deal with them. But we're not in the business of announcing those kinds of things before they need to be addressed. And we were in consultation with the league all along, and in terms of internal communication, everybody understood it. Everybody that was involved. Everybody that needed to know."
Both Heckert and Russell should consider themselves lucky if they escape this mess with their jobs.
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Battling Seditious Libel in Croatia
Two journalists with the satirical newspaper Feral Tribune were acquitted in September of charges that they defamed Croatian President Franjo Tudjman in an article critical of his decision to rebury the remains of World War II fascists alongside their victims. The defendants faced up to three years in prison if convicted.
As part of the international campaign launched on behalf of editor in chief Viktor Ivancic and reporter Marinko Culic, CPJ board member James C. Goodale traveled to Zagreb in June to present a legal brief, reprinted below, on the opening day of the trial. The brief condemned the proceedings and the criminal libel statutes upon which they were based. The Feral Tribune case was the first application of a law passed in March that makes it significantly easier to criminally prosecute journalists for critical reporting or satirical commentary on the president, the prime minister, and other high-level government officials.
The victory for Ivancic and Culic may be a temporary one. On Oct. 10, the prosecutor filed an appeal against the acquittal. At year's end, the appeal was still pending.
June 14, 1996
Preliminary Statement
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), represented by James C. Goodale, Esq., a member of the CPJ Board and its former Chairman, presents this brief in support of the defendants, Viktor Ivancic and Marinko Culic of the weekly newspaper Feral Tribune. CPJ is a private, nonpartisan organization based in the United States and devoted to the defense of the professional rights of working journalists around the world.
All criminal libel statutes are pernicious, and CPJ condemns their use anywhere, at any time. Seditious libel statutes are especially pernicious, because they are used exclusively to silence dissent against the governing regime. Croatia's new amendments to its Penal Code, Articles 71 and 72, constitute seditious libel statutes because they shield only high government officials from criticism. Such laws have no place in any country, and are especially to be condemned in a self-proclaimed democracy such as Croatia.
Democratic societies do not criminalize critical reporting-they tolerate and protect it. The right to speak freely without fear of government reprisal is at the very heart of democracy. Freedom of speech rests upon political dialogue, not upon a monologue of orthodoxy.
Through this prosecution, Croatia-a country aspiring to join the community of Western democracies-flouts this tradition. No journalist in any Western democracy is in prison as a result of a conviction of seditious libel. The European Court of Human Rights and the United States Supreme Court have crowned freedom of the press regarding political officials as the most powerful of the rights of free expression.
First, we respectfully urge the court to dismiss the indictment proposals against Mr. Ivancic and Mr. Culic, because this prosecution represents a grave threat to freedom of the press in Croatia. Second, we appeal to the executive and legislative leaders of Croatia to repeal the statutes in question, as well as any other law that sanctions the use of seditious libel doctrine to muzzle free expression.
CPJ is gravely concerned about freedom of the press in Croatia. We repeatedly have expressed our concerns to President Franjo Tudjman and other officials regarding the Penal Code, the use of these statutes against Feral Tribune, and other harassment of the independent press. In a meeting last month with CPJ board chairman Kati Marton, President Tudjman himself raised Feral Tribune's coverage as an example of what, in his view, was a misuse of the rights of the press. President Tudjman showed Ms. Marton a copy of Feral Tribune with a cover featuring a caricature of himself, and asked: "Would any other world leaders put up with this?" Ms. Marton replied: "All leaders in democracies."
Statement of Facts
On April 29, 1996, Feral Tribune published an article titled "Bones in the Blender" and a photo montage, "Jasenovac-The Biggest Croatian Underground City." These pieces commented upon President Franjo Tudjman's plans to create a single monument in the former concentration camp of Jasenovac that would put the bones of Croatian Fascists alongside those of the Jews and Serbs they massacred during World War II. The montage depicted the Fascist dictator Ante Pavelic handing Tudjman a miniature version of the Jasenovac monument. An accompanying text titled the "Other Side of Satire" drew a satirical parallel between Tudjman and the late Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain.
The government now intends to prosecute Mr. Ivancic and Mr. Culic under its newly amended criminal libel statute, threatening them with a maximum penalty of three years in jail for allegedly injuring the President's honor and his personal integrity.
This prosecution is only the latest in a disturbing series of governmental attacks upon Croatia's free press. The government also has instigated civil libel suits, shut down newspaper offices, and levied punitive taxes against prominent independent newspapers critical of the Tudjman regime.
Croatia's attempt to impose criminal penalties directed against journalists who criticize political leaders is completely at odds with norms of democracy and Western practice. These prosecutions of Mr. Ivancic and Mr. Culic for their publication of satirical commentary on President Tudjman's controversial plan to commingle the remains of Croatian Fascists and World War II concentration camp victims represents an unacceptable intrusion into the freedom of expression that is guaranteed by international and European law.
The prosecution today of journalists for the dissemination of political views in Europe is a rare and startling event. No journalist is in prison today in any Western democratic nation as a result of a conviction on charges of seditious libel based on published criticism of a political figure. Croatia's law is particularly egregious because it targets only critics of five top government officials, and therefore has no legitimate basis in the protection of private reputations.
As the European Court of Human Rights has recognized, the press has a unique responsibility in democratic societies to impart information enabling the electorate to "discover and form an opinion of the ideas and attitudes of political leaders."1 To enable the press to fulfill this critical responsibility, democratic nations afford especially stringent protection to speech concerning political issues and to the expression of value judgments and opinions. The Croatian law does not merely fail to respect democratic principles and international norms; it inverts them by threatening the unprecedented sanction of imprisonment as punishment for the exercise of the most important form of free speech: political opinion regarding a ruling official.
A.International, U.S., And European Law Recognize That Freedom Of Political Debate Lies At The Core Of Democracy
Freedom of expression and opinion are guaranteed under the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights,2. the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,3. to which Croatia has acceded, and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.4. Moreover, these universal principles have passed into customary international law.5 As the European Court of Human Rights has acknowledged, acceptance of these principles requires the toleration even of speech which is shocking or offensive.6.
The Court has further indicated that the prosecution of journalists who criticize politicians or government officials is an interference with free expression that is never "justified in a democratic society."7 The Court has held that "freedom of expression is an essential element for the formulation of political opinion."8 For this reason, the Court has afforded a particularly high degree of protection to speech of a political character and has held that the appropriate response of the criticized government is to engage its opponent in further debate rather than to impose criminal sanctions.9
The United States Supreme Court similarly has acknowledged that political debate lies at the very heart of the protection of free speech. In the landmark case of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, the Supreme Court reversed a jury finding that The New York Times had libeled a state official, holding that in order to obtain libel damages for publication of a defamatory falsehood, a public official must meet the heavy burden of proving that the defamatory statement was made with knowledge of its falsity or with reckless disregard of whether it was true or false.10. The Court reiterated the words of James Madison: the power to prosecute libel of public officials "ought to produce universal alarm, because it is leveled against the right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication of the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right."1. Later, in a case striking down a criminal libel statute, the Court stressed that speech concerning public affairs is "more than self-expression; it is the essence of self-government."12
Feral Tribune's satires fall squarely within the tradition of rigorous protection for political speech. The European Court of Human Rights has recognized that politicians-particularly those who are presently in office, as President Tudjman is-must tolerate more criticism than a private individual.13 The President's Jasenovac proposal aroused national and international debate. By commenting on that proposal, Feral Tribune exercised "the very function of the press in a democratic society, to participate in the political process by checking on the development of the debate of public issues carried on by political office-holders."14 Criminal prosecution of Mr. Ivancic and Mr. Culic for fulfilling this critical function violates international law and contravenes democratic principles.
B. Expressions of Opinion and Value Judgments Also Merit The Highest Legal Protections
Mr. Ivancic and Mr. Culic are facing prosecution for the expression of a value judgment regarding President Tudjman's proposal. The European Court of Human Rights has noted that "a careful distinction has to be made between facts and value judgments" and has prohibited a state from requiring a libel defendant to prove the truth of his opinions.15 Such a requirement is impossible to meet, and therefore "infringes freedom of expression to a degree incompatible with the fundamental principles of a democratic society."16 In a case closely analogous to this one, the Court held that the prosecution of a journalist who had drawn a parallel between the position of an Austrian Liberal Party official and the platform of the Nazi party violated the journalist's right to "express clear value judgments."17 The Court of Human Rights has recognized that expressions of value judgments can never present legitimate grounds for a libel prosecution, because they cannot be either true or false: "the truth of value-judgments is not susceptible of proof."18
American constitutional law similarly embraces the principle that statements of opinion, having no provably false factual connotation, should be accorded the full protection of the law.19 In the line of cases most relevant to the Feral Tribune trial, the U.S. Supreme Court has jealously guarded the right of a satirical publication to engage in political or social commentary of a biting or harsh nature. The Court has noted that public officials in a democracy must tolerate "vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks."20 In various cases the U.S. Supreme Court has held that "rhetorical hyperbole," "vigorous epithet" or "lusty and imaginative expression[s] of contempt" used in a "loose, figurative sense" are not libelous because they can never be objectively false.21 Protection of such speech "provides assurance that public debate will not suffer for lack of 'imaginative expression' or the 'rhetorical hyperbole' which has traditionally added much to the discourse of our nation."22
Likewise, the use of epithets in political debate enjoys strong protection because such language constitutes nothing more than strongly worded views that are neither provably true nor false. The U.S. Supreme Court has been especially vigilant in using constitutional law to shelter strong, even outrageous, political speech. Thus the Court has repeatedly found that the use of political labels (e.g., "blackmail," "traitor," "scab") during spirited debate is not actionable because the allegations are offered in the exchange of public discourse.23 Recognizing political invective as part of the democratic process, the Court has afforded it strong protection. Public officials do not need the special protections of the libel laws, because they have "sufficient access to means of counter-argument to be able to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies of the defamatory statements."24 As the U.S. Supreme Court has said, in a case that is particularly instructive on the plight of Messrs. Ivancic and Culic: "[T]o use loose language or undefined slogans that are part of the give-and-take in our economic and political controversies-like 'unfair' or 'Fascist'-is not to falsify facts."25
Mr. Ivancic and Mr. Culic have not told lies, they have expressed opinions. Whether one agrees or disagrees with their views-and CPJ does neither-their expression of political opinion, far from exposing them to criminal sanction, merits the fullest protection of the law.
The law under which Mr. Ivancic and Mr. Culic face prosecution is an intolerable interference with freedom of expression. It criminalizes exactly the type of political speech that international, European, and U.S. law have recognized to be essential to an informed democracy. Mr. Ivancic and Mr. Culic should not be put at risk of criminal prosecution by the very regime they seek to criticize, simply because they have exercised their responsibility to impart opinions and engage in debate. Under the European Convention, a nation may regulate free speech only to the extent necessary to a democratic society.26 Croatia cannot possibly meet this standard if it insists on prosecuting these or any journalists for what they publish. Croatia's criminalization of libel based on political opinions is fundamentally antithetical to the values of a democratic society. Because these prosecutions of Mr. Ivancic and Mr. Culic are in flagrant violation of democratic principles, the Municipal Court should dismiss the indictment proposals.
Respectfully submitted,
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1. Lingens v. Austria, Eur. Ct. H.R. (Ser. A., No. 103)(1986) ¶ 42.
2. G.A. Res. 217 (III 1948), art. 19.
3. 999 U.N.T.S. 171 (entered into force on March 23, 1976), art. 19.
4. 213 U.N.T.S. 221 (entered into force on September 3, 1953), art. 10(1).
5. Karel Vasak, The International Dimensions of Human Rights 106 (1982) (emphasizing the authoritative force of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and stating that "no responsible member of the international community may disregard an appeal to the rights enshrined in it").
6. Handyside v. United Kingdom, Eur. Ct. H.R. (Ser. A, No. 24) (1976) ¶ 49.
7. Castells v. Spain, Eur. Ct. H.R. (Ser. A., No. 236) (1992) ¶ 72; Lingens ¶ 1(d).
8. Castells ¶ 68.
9. Id. ¶ 68, 72.
11. Sullivan, 365 U.S. at 274, citing 4 Elliot's Debates.
12. Garrison v. Louisiana, 379 U.S. 64, 75 (1964).
13. Lingens ¶ 42, Castells ¶ 65.
14. Oberschlick v. Austria, Eur. Ct. H.R. (Ser. A., No. 204) (1995) ¶ 67.
15. Lingens ¶ 46.
16. Id. 2.
17. Oberschlick 70.
18.Id. ¶ 69.
19. Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co., 497 U.S. 1 (1990).
20. Sullivan, 365 U.S. at 270.
21. Milkovich, citing Greenbelt Coop. Publishing Ass'n, Inc. v. Bresler, 398 U.S. 6 (1970) & Old Dominion Letter Carriers v. Austin, 418 U.S. 264 (1974).
22. Milkovich, 497 U.S. at 20.
23. Greenbelt, Letter Carriers, supra.
24. Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts, 388 U.S. 130 (1967).
25. Cafeteria Employees Local 302 v. Angelos, 320 U.S. 293, 295 (1943).
26. The Sunday Times v. United Kingdom, Eur. Ct. H.R. (Ser. A., No. 30 (1979) ¶ 65.
Prepared with the assistance of Jeremy Feigelson, Shannon Conaty, Lorraine Ford, and Maura Monaghan of Debevoise & Plimpton; Catherine A. Fitzpatrick; and William A. Orme, Jr.
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Thank you! These are awesome! :)
thanks for these so summery
Would love it if you could share this on my link party Serenity Saturday @ www.serenityyou.blogspot.com
Love them! Thank you! :D
Could you do a chevron print with Mint green???
I've just installed your navy/peacock one and I love it! How should I credit you?
How do I download these? I would love to use them but when I click on them, I just get taken to a picture and no place to download.
Hi Natalie,
When I try to print your neon green chevron background...it is dark green and not neon - same result when I sent it to Staples to print. Suggestions?
How do I go about downloading one of your freebies? I really love and NEED the rainbow one!! How do I give you credit?
Can you make one the colors of brown,red, and Green please? I would really want to use it as my wallpaper for my iPhone. I don't know how to create these and you do a great job making these . Please if you can send to email@example.com
Thanks for sharing