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First day of school tomorrow - and I'm not sure I should even bother going to bed tonight. The night before the first day has always been sleepless for me. I end up laying there, wide-eyed, tossing, turning, making lists in my head, giddy and nervous.
I also tear up a bit on this night every year - about the end of summer, the end of free time, over the beginning of what is always a stressful season, and the realization that I might not have spent enough quality time with my son. It's always my regret on this night. He's growing and changing so quickly. Jeans and sneakers up a size. Mind and personality... amazing, curious, beautiful, quirky. There's heartache in watching him.
Before this treasure went to bed tonight, with his own mixed thoughts of what tomorrow will bring, he came to kiss me goodnight. "Thanks for a great summer Mom. I had the best time with you. Thanks for everything."
This kid. He ties my heart up in knots.
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Monday, September 7, 2009
Back to school we go...
Labels: growing up, motherhood, school
4 comments:
- Sarah Alaoui said...
He will love your blog posts when he grows up :)
I also stay awake the night before first days! I hate it :(
- September 8, 2009 at 2:41 AM
And life as we know it comes to an end.
Have an awesome school year!
- September 8, 2009 at 6:37 PM
hope the new year is off to a great start for all of you.
- September 10, 2009 at 9:12 AM
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Fava beans , also known as known broad beans, have been part of the human diet from time immemorial. They were probably one of the staples in ancient Israel, since they are mentioned more than once in the Mishnah. Archaeologists even found charred samples in Israel near Nazareth, dating back to 4900 BCE! They were also cultivated in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, and remained for a long time the only bean available in Europe – until other types were brought from the Americas in the 1500's.
In Central and Southern Italy, fava beans announce the warm season, and people wait excitedly for their arrival at the local markets. When purchased fresh, the beans need to be removed from their pods, blanched, and then popped out of their skins, which is something I look forward to doing while watching the latest Mad Men episode. If you are not so patient, you can skip all these steps by buying them frozen. I never ate fava beans at home in Venice, they were always a treat that I enjoyed when visiting my grandmother in Tuscany: she gave them to me right out of the shell and dipped in olive oil, accompanied by a slice of fresh Pecorino cheese – a match made in heaven! In the winter, Nonna would also make a puree from dried fava beans with escarole, which she served with simple Tuscan bread.
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- 12 oz peas (fresh or frozen)
- 12 oz fava beans (fresh or frozen)
- 1 packed cup arugola
- 1 qt vegetable stock
- 4 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 red onions
- salt and pepper to taste
Mince one onion.
Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a pot and cook the onion in it for 2 minutes.
Add the peas and fava beans and the chopped arugola.
Cook for 2 more minutes, add the stock and cook for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Season with salt and pepper.
Cut the second onion into thin slices and sauté' them in the remaining oil until slightly crunchy. Serve the soup hot, drizzle with more oil to taste, and decorate with the sautéed onion and some fresh arugola.

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Police in Spencer and Shelby counties are looking for information regarding a blue and gray dual-wheeled pickup truck with a white door.
Taylorsville Police Chief Toby Lewis was contacted Wednesday by Detective Sgt. Bruce Gentry of the Shelbyville Police to inquire if the TPD had a similar pickup truck as a patrol unit. Neither TPD or the Spencer County Sheriff's Department has such a vehicle.
Gentry went on to explain that a woman was stopped between Little Mount and Southville last night on Ky. 44 by a white male, apparently in his 20s, Lewis said. The vehicle only had emergency lights on its dash, he said.
"We know of no one in law enforcement in either county that has a vehicle like this," Lewis posted on the TPD Facebook page.
If you see this vehicle, attempt to get a tag number and call 633-2323 if you're in Shelby County or 477-5533 in Spencer County.
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The international torch relay for the Beijing Olympic Games has been besieged in almost every city it has visited so far by protesters against repression in Tibet and human rights violations in China. But what is the human rights picture really like in China, and how has it changed over the past quarter of a century?
As with so much else in China, the situation is mixed, sometimes confused, and often hard to make out with precision. Some observers like to point to the progress China has made toward international norms; others prefer to stress how far it still is from reaching them.
The imminence of the Games, and the Chinese government's effort to use them as a showcase for its achievements, have polarized the debate. Here, the Monitor tries to cut through the rhetoric with an outline explanation of the key issues.
What kind of freedoms do Chinese people enjoy in their personal lives?
"Nothing we do today was possible 25 years ago. Compared with then, the human rights situation in China has improved like never before."
And that enthusiastic assessment comes from a man who was fired from his job in 2006 as editor of a Communist youth newspaper for publishing an article thatcontradicted the party line, Li Datong.
But the baseline, he points out, was pretty low. "In 1983, I would probably have been arrested."
Twenty-five years ago, Chinese citizens were not free to choose their jobs: The authorities assigned them work for life. Farmers were forbidden to live anywhere but the village where they were born. Nobody was allowed to travel abroad, except on government-authorized business. Nobody could dream of owning a car, let alone a house. Food was rationed. Nobody was allowed to set up a business. Western movies and books were banned.
Today, all that has changed. And as the state has relaxed its control over the minutiae of daily life, citizens have also felt freer to express themselves to each other. Among friends and neighbors, Chinese say what they think about everything, from their political leaders to rising prices to their country's medal chances at the Beijing Olympics.
So where's the problem?
The boulevard of freedoms that Chinese people enjoy may have widened, but it is still lined with precipices. You may be able to criticize the ruling Communist Party over dinner with friends, but airing such views in public – for example on the Internet – can earn you years of prison time.
You would not get a chance to run that risk anywhere else: all newspapers and TV and radio stations are owned by the government and edited by men and women who know where the red lines are drawn. Each time a new issue comes up, the Communist Party propaganda department sends them a directive telling them the line to take.
Freedom of speech is guaranteed in the constitution. But it is upheld only for those who do not challenge Communist Party rule. Communist Party security agents decide what constitutes a challenge.
Certainly you cannot call for free elections or a multiparty state, or criticize party leaders by name. Nor can you advocate independence for Tibet, or Taiwan's right to self-rule. Nor can you try to set up an independent trade union.
On other issues, "it's like crossing the stream by feeling where the rocks are," says John Kamm, a human rights advocate who heads the San Francisco-based Dui Hua Foundation.
Citizens who have slipped off the rocks, and ended up in jail, include land rights activists, practitioners of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement, tenants protesting eviction from their homes by developers, defense lawyers, and Tibetan Buddhists and Muslim Uighurs demanding more respect for their cultures and religions, members of Christian churches not authorized by the state, and anticorruption campaigners, among others.
Often they are convicted of endangering state security by inciting subversion or separatism: Mr. Kamm estimates that 4,000 prisoners are serving sentences for such crimes, of which outsiders know the names of only a few hundred.
Has China's role as Olympic host this year encouraged the authorities to improve their human rights record?
No. If anything it seems to have made things worse, as the Chinese government tries to ensure a "harmonious" event.
The international human rights watchdog Amnesty International says in a recent report that "the crackdown on peaceful activists has intensified as a direct result of China's hosting of the Olympic Games. Several of the activists ... have been targeted because they have explicitly linked human rights and the Olympics, and have been among the most harshly treated."
The government's own statistics show that 742 people were arrested for "endangering state security" last year – more than double the 2005 figure, and the highest number since 1999.
What chance of a fair trial do you stand in China?
Companies with commercial cases before the courts say Chinese judges are becoming more professional and fairer – unless a state-owned business is involved, in which case it can generally expect favorable treatment.
In criminal and political cases, however, sentences are decided not by judges but by a court committee named by the Communist Party. Verdicts sometimes appear to have been reached before the formality of a court hearing: human rights activist Hu Jia's recent trial lasted only four hours, and his defense lawyer was allowed to speak for just 30 minutes.
At least he had a lawyer, which would have been unthinkable for a dissident 25 years ago. But lawyers taking such cases have to be brave: Advocate Gao Zhisheng was beaten up and abducted for a month last year – apparently by plainclothesmen – after writing an open letter to the US Congress denouncing "China's ongoing human rights disaster." Two other prominent rights lawyers, Teng Biao and Li Heping, have suffered similar fates in recent months: others have been jailed or put under house arrest.
The Chinese police are not always very particular about how they extract confessions: A United Nations report in 2006 found that torture in police stations was declining but still "widespread."
The police do not always bother to go to court with their suspects. The law allows them to sentence anyone to up to three years of "reeducation through labor," an administrative punishment against which there is no appeal. Local authorities often use it against land rights activists, petitioners drawing Beijing's attention to injustices, and other troublesome types.
How many people do Chinese courts condemn to death each year?
Nobody knows for sure because the government keeps the figure a secret, but foreign experts with good contacts in the Chinese judiciary estimate that between 5,000 and 6,000 people were given the death penalty last year. Though 25 countries today practiced capital punishment in 2006, China was by far the heaviest user – it was responsible for two-thirds of the world's confirmed executions, according to Amnesty International.
The Chinese Supreme Court is making an effort to bring the numbers down, by insisting on reviewing all death penalty sentences imposed by lower courts. Ten years ago, as many as 15,000 people a year were being sentenced to death, according to foreign estimates.
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Spring Sweets
Though it already feels like summer down here in sweltering ol' Florida, I'm determined to make the most of this "Spring" thing. (So long as it doesn't involve leaving the house, of course. Have you SEEN the pollen levels out there? HAVE YOU? Poor John is a one-man sneeze machine.)
So, yeah, in honor of Spring I plan to revel in sweet pastels...
And cutey-patootie lady bugs...
And even a little gardening!
Made by Jean D.
FYI: Oreo crumb "dirt" is my favorite kind of dirt.
Oh, and I couldn't decide which gardening cake I liked better, so here, have two:
Mmmm...edible garden tools.
I don't wear heels very often, and to be honest I'm not all that fond of shoe cakes...but this is the exception:
Open mouth: insert shoe.
Seriously, this sweet Jimmy Choo shoe makes me think sugar and spice and everything frilly, girly, and nice. Perfect for a garden party where everyone's sipping tea out of delicate porcelain teacups like this:
Submitted by Emily B. and made by All About Cake
Except these teacups aren't porcelain; they're sugar. WOWZA.
And what garden is complete without a birdhouse?
(I can't get over that weathered "wood" fence and the "metal" roof. Amazing.)
And we can't forget Spring's main attraction: the flowers!
Just when you thought a cake couldn't get any better, you go and learn that the butterflies are made of chocolate. I repeat: THE BUTTERFLIES ARE MADE OF CHOCOLATE.
Man, I love Spring.
And you'll never believe it, but these flowers are made of sugar paste:
Submitted by Alison M.; baker unknown. Spotted at the Sydney Royal Easter Show 2011.
And this is actually cake!
Submitted by Isabella, made by Williams-Sonoma
Well, ok, the missing slice helps make it a bit more believable.
If you follow me over on my other blog, Epbot, then you know I've had cherry blossoms on the brain lately. So naturally, I couldn't resist this slice of heaven:
By the way, for all of you in the DC area admiring the cherry blossoms right now: I am so jealous.
Spring weddings always have the cleanest, freshest style:
Made by Julie D.
And finally, let's go out with a Sweet Spring-splosion!
Those flowers may look freshly cut, but they're actually painstakingly hand crafted from sugarpaste. The cake itself is fondant-free, though, and I have to say I'm really digging that texture. Absolutely gorgeous.
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Dreamweaver CS6: Adding Text Shadows with CSS3
In Dreamweaver CS6, you can enhance your designs and give your pages greater depth by adding text shadows with CSS3 rules, the latest in web technology. Adding text shadows makes your words easier to read, especially if your design has a complex background or if your background and text colors lack contrast.
Dreamweaver CS6 includes support for CSS3 text shadows when you use the Properties pane in the CSS Styles panel. You can create class or ID styles with text shadows, and you can add text shadows to existing HTML elements by defining a tag style, such as the heading 1 style used in the image.
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I want to learn in America. But i know English no good. So i learn English. If i have a mistake will write me about it :)
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I want to learn in America. But i know English no good. So i learn English. If i have a mistake will write me about it :)
I have never studied abroad.I'm high school student currently I'm interested science. I have not had a chance to go to foreign country to study science so far , but I want to go foreign country.I would like to study computer science in college.If I have a chance to study at foreign country, I would like to go America. I also interested in online course provided by college .Is that worth for college student? I want to know reputation for that.
I haven't had any chance to study abroad yet; but I wish to have a journey to Germany or the USA to study and get my PhD. degrees.
I am a high school student but haven't had a chance to study abroad. if it is ever possible for me to do so, I would rather study engineering at MIT, USA or English literature at Cambridge University.
I had never been abroad, I would like to go to one of the countries of the UK. I really like the culture of those nations and I'd like to learn more information about them.
Unofrtunately, no.
I've never had time to leave my home town. Well, If I have the chance in future, I'd like to study in the real world! ;)
Actually, I am in England right now! Studing abroad! It is so exciting to make new friends and learn different things! Now I love English!
I have never studied abroad, but I really want to. I think it is an amazing possibility to built your future and make new friends:) If I have chance in the future to study abroad, I would choose England))
I've never studied abroad before.If I had a chance I would study abroad in Germany.
No, I haven't. I'd like to study in Basque to learn cooking.
No, I haven't studied aboard but I would love to study in America.
no, I haven't.I'd like to study in Singapore
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no,i've never studied abroad.if i have the chance,i'll study in UK because it's my dream !! and i really want to fulfill it
Unfortunately short English courses don't give you enough experience. They're more about adventure and good chances to meet new people but a have doubts about significant improvements of your English level. The short time courses in foreign country simply don't give you enough time.
No, I've never... But my dreams is would like study in france's university.
I have never studied abroad.If I have the chance in future, i would like to study in U.S.A or Singapore
I have never studied abroad. My school offers them every year but I don't have enough money. If I have the chance in the future, I would like to study in UK or Japan.
well, i have never studied abroad but if i can in the future i will choose england
I have never studied abroad .If I have a chance, I would like to study in UK. Bcoz I am a big fan of Wimbledon :)
I have never studied abroad .If I have a chance, I would like to study in UK. Bcoz I am a big fan of Wimbledon :)
No, I haven't studied anything abroad, but my school offers them in the higher grades, so I guess I might get a chance to do that. But if I do get a chance to, I would go to the NASA, or USA at least, 'cause I need to know what things I need to expect as an astrophysicist. Anyone knows what are the courses offered for astrophysics?
I have not studied abroad, but if I were from my city. I would like to go to study automotive engineering in the USA because I think they have more advanced technology
I have never studied abroad. And in the future, i would you like to study in England and Germany.
I have never studied abroad. If I have a chance in future I would like to study in England.
Hello, I'm from Mongolia. I've been exchange student in Arizona, USA for 8 months. It's almost time to go. I'm going back in 3 months. I learned a lot stuff here. I've been in Grand Canyon and Casa Grande and my hostparents are planning to go Las Vegas. I'm looking forward it. Also I've been in Korea. Because my stepfather is Korean. I learned there for 4 years. Korea was fun too. After exchange student program I'm going Korea.
I have never studied abroad jet, but next year, I'll go to the USA.
I haven't been never studying abroad yet. I'd like to study in the UK, to improve my english.
I've never gone to study abroad . If I'd go , I prefer an islamic country to be easy for me to live without any sort of the problems that muslims face in the non muslim countries but if it wouldn't be like what I wanted I'd choose a society which accepts the differences
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SOLON– The family of Kurt and Victoria Shover has been selected as the recipient of the Solon Community Habitat for Humanity house to be built in 2012 at 413 S. Dubuque St. in Solon. A meeting will take place at the Solon United Methodist Church Family Life Center on Sunday, Jan. 8, at 7 p.m. to set goals and create a plan to raise funds for the build. A groundbreaking ceremony is to be held in May. This is a community project and all are welcome to attend.


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A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda is the first chapter in a fully-featured episodic hardcore action packed side-scrolling platformer series. Set in a traditional retro-classic scenario, you play as Ares, a combat robot created for the sole purpose of saving humanity. Can you live up to the task or will you be reduced to nuts and bolts?
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YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. - The Georgia Southwestern Lady Hurricanes couldn't overcome a hot shooting Young Harris squad Saturday afternoon as the Blue & Gold dropped a 67-50 contest to the Mountain Lions.
Young Harris got off to a quick start as the Mountain Lions jumped out to a quick 9-0 advantage five minutes into the first half.
GSW responded with an 18-9 run to tied up the contest at 18 with just under five minutes remaining in the period.
The Mountain Lions finished the half strong as they used a 10-5 run to take a 28-23 lead into intermission.
In the second half Young Harris was simply on fire. The Mountain Lions used 62.5 percent shooting (15-24) and a 17-5 run over the last eight minutes of the game to run away from the Lady Hurricanes for a 67-50 win.
On the game, Young Harris shot 52.4 percent (22-42) compared to just 32.1 percent (18-56) from GSW.
YHC also held a commanding 41-24 rebounding advantage over the Blue & Gold.
Freshman forward Jasmine McSwain paced Georgia Southwestern (3-17, 1-12 PBC) with 15 points, five rebounds and four steals. Danisha Green also chipped in eight points for the Lady 'Canes.
Young Harris had three players who finished in double figures led by the guard duo of Lauren Smith and Keta Robinette who both tallied 15 points for the Mountain Lions (11-8, 5-7 PBC).
Southwestern returns to the court February 7th for a 5:30 p.m. matchup against Columbus State in the Storm Dome.


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Harlan County Haunts explores the unknown with over 60 tales of spooky encounters and weird occurrences. Although the focus is on Harlan County, there are stories from around the southeastern Kentucky region as well as other states. Featured in Harlan County Haunts is the novella, "Caroline," which highlights one of Harlan County's most compelling unsolved crimes. Jackson, a lifelong Native of Harlan County, takes you on a ghostly journey through the mountains of Appalachia and beyond. Harlan County Haunts contains ghosts, monsters, angels, and many personal accounts of encounters with the unexplained. Harlan County Haunts was over two years in the making, with Jackson compiling well over 100 true accounts of experiences with the paranormal. After many interviews and research, the stories in the book are what she considered the best and most credible.
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Oct 15, 2009"Harlan Haunts" Harlan Haunts is really something. I just couldn't put it down. As I read the first story, I had to stay with it and see what the next was about, and I had to keep reading. It brought back happenings that I saw. And memories of stories that I was told about from my Grandparents, and other family members ! Darla let us all see that we all see things that we cannot explain. But that it is Ok. And that what we experienced helped make us who we are. Congratulations ! Darla Jackson on a Wonderful Book !
Mar 24, 2008""Harlan County Haunts"" Darla, I feel privileged to have several stories included in your book! My stories will forever be preserved for others to read and enjoy. I well remember sitting along with my siblings at my parent's and grandparent's feet, as they skillfully told stories of strange happenings. I loved listening to those stories of the supernatural. Those particular stories always left my hair feeling as if it stood straight up on its ends. As I listened, I knew those stories were true, and never doubted that they weren't! You have done an excellent job with "Harlan County Haunts!" I have spoken with many people who have read your book, and I've heard only positive comments. I have been told by many people that once s/he began reading your book, s/he couldn't put it down! There are many people out there who share the same interest, and love reading and hearing stories about the strange and unusual. As we are well aware, there are also many people... More > whom have had experiences with the supernatural. The fear of ridicule may have kept some of these people from ever speaking of the unexplained event. Perhaps your book will encourage others to finally open up and talk about what s/he experienced. I encourage anyone reading this review, to purchase "Harlan County Haunts." The book is masterfully rendered. It will draw you in by leaving you feeling compelled to continue reading until you have finished the last page! The novella "Caroline" is spine tingling, and will completely capture your heart. It would be great if people are inspired to document stories past down in their families, or their own personal accounts. This way a person could preserve storys and/or personal accounts for future generations, and wouldn't be lost with time. I encourage you to order "Harlan County Haunts." You will enjoy each and every story. I promise that you will absolutely love it! Congratulations Darla on a great job, wonderfully done! Darlene Steele< Less
Mar 12, 2008"Harlan Haunts" Interesting read, lots of different stories to chose from. Best Wishes To You Darla
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Africa Who?
Since September 11, the world's obsession with the war on terror has pushed many issues of crisis proportion onto the back burner. In particular, social and political upheaval on the continent of Africa has been largely ignored. (There was little mention of it during George Bush's quick trip to Africa in July.) We hear daily media reports of insecurity in Iraq, but very little coverage of the challenges facing African nations.
Reports released in June by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that the need for food aid in southern Africa remains substantial despite efforts in 2002 to avert famine. Food production in Zimbabwe has dropped by 50 percent as a result of the debilitating drought and economic and social turmoil, and 5.5 million of the country's people are hungry. And, nearly two decades after the musical fundraiser Live Aid, around 14 million Ethiopians-one fifth of the entire population-will require food aid this year.
By any measure, this is a crisis. So where are the stories? Have the media simply become used to the idea of a starving continent, as suggested by WFP head James Morris? A more depressing thought might be that the epidemic of ignorance surrounding Africa in the Western world has, in fact, hastened that continent's downward spiral. What Africa needs from the international diplomatic community are sustained engagement and a can-do attitude. What it gets instead are floundering rescue efforts that usually come too late.
Take the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The conflict in the Congo has raged for five years, causing displacement, economic collapse, malnutrition, and disease. It claimed the lives of approximately 3.3 million between 1998 and 2002, making it the deadliest conflict since World War II. Every passing day brings the death of another thousand people or so. A small UN peacekeeping unit has been there since 1999, but in a country that is more than five times the size of Iraq, it has had little effect. Reports of genocidal attacks in the Ituri district in eastern Congo spurred the Security Council in May to authorize the deployment of a multinational force to the main town of Bunia. But, this force was given a minimal geographic mandate (limited to Bunia, its airport, and camps for displaced persons) and a strict departure date of September 1, calling into question its ability to achieve anything beyond maintaining the status quo.
Very simply put, these kinds of piecemeal approaches to ongoing crises in Africa are destined to fail, especially when they come so late in the game. If the only time any attention is paid to African affairs is after millions die, it is no wonder that hopelessness about the continent's future seems so pervasive. The first step to changing this course would be consistent media coverage of political and social developments across the African continent. That could at least foster the foresight that is needed to encourage policy prescriptions that do more than simply postpone disaster.
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K.S.A. 2002 Supp. 22-2902(3) does not violate the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Appeal from Mitchell County; THOMAS A. TUGGLE, judge. Opinion filed December 19, 2003. Affirmed.
Korey A. Kaul, assistant appellate defender, for the appellant.
Rod Ludwig, county attorney, and Phill Kline, attorney general, for the appellee.
Before PIERRON, P.J., GREENE, J., and JONES, S.J.
PIERRON, J.: Robert S. Bradley appeals the district court's summary dismissal of his K.S.A. 60-1507 motion. We affirm.
Bradley was convicted by a jury of one count of rape, two counts of aggravated criminal sodomy, one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, and one count of aggravated solicitation of a child. He was sentenced to 224 months. An appeal followed and Bradley's convictions were affirmed.
Bradley filed a K.S.A. 60-1507 motion asserting that K.S.A. 2002 Supp. 22-2902 had been violated at his preliminary hearing. Furthermore, he asserts counsel was ineffective for not objecting at his preliminary hearing to the State's violations of the Kansas statutes and rules of evidence. This argument was premised upon the fact the 8-year-old victim did not testify at his preliminary hearing. Bradley argued evidentiary rules were violated when the victim's mother and the officer who interviewed the victim testified at his preliminary hearing. He contends his counsel should have objected to the admission of hearsay evidence.
The district court judge who had presided over the jury trial denied Bradley's 60-1507 motion. The court concluded that Bradley's arguments were without merit because "there is no federal or state constitutional right which precludes the admission of hearsay evidence at a preliminary examination as there is no constitutional right to confront witnesses at this stage of the proceedings." Furthermore, the court stated: "files and records . . . including the transcript of the preliminary examination of the trial show that movant's two attorneys acted competently."
On appeal, Bradley argues counsel was ineffective for allowing the victim's mother and Deputy Newquist to testify at his preliminary hearing. He asserts his counsel did not object to the testimony or challenge the constitutionality of K.S.A. 2002 Supp. 22-2902(3). He contends that without their testimony there would not have been sufficient evidence to establish the probable cause needed to bind him over for trial. These arguments fail and the district court did not abuse its discretion in summarily denying his 60-1507 motion.
The current standard of review when the district court fails to appoint counsel and summarily denies petitioner's motion is abuse of discretion. See Lujan v. State, 270 Kan. 163, 169, 14 P.3d 424 (2000); Estes v. State, 221 Kan. 412, 414, 559 P.2d 392 (1977); Supreme Court Rule 183(h) (2003 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 213) (district court has discretion to ascertain whether claim is substantial before granting full evidentiary hearing).
Bradley must show that his counsel's performance was deficient and that the deficient performance prejudiced him, depriving him of a fair trial. See Sanders v. State, 26 Kan. App. 2d 826, 828, 995 P.2d 397 (1999), rev. denied 269 Kan. 934 (2000).
Bradley argues counsel should have objected to hearsay evidence at his preliminary hearing. He also argues K.S.A. 2002 Supp. 22-2902(3), allowing the admission of hearsay evidence given the facts of this case, is unconstitutional. They are, essentially, the same argument.
In State v. Cremer, 234 Kan. 594, 598-99, 676 P.2d 59 (1984), the Kansas Supreme court held that the rules of evidence, including K.S.A. 60-460, are to be applied in a preliminary hearing except where relaxed by other rules or statutes. In State v. Sherry, 233 Kan. 920, 931, 667 P.2d 367 (1983), (citing Gerstein v. Pugh, 420 U.S. 103, 43 L. Ed. 2d 54, 95 S. Ct. 854 [1975]), the court discussed this premise in more detail: "The requirement that the rules of evidence apply at the preliminary examination was incorporated by our legislature, and not mandated by the Constitution of the United States. The Constitution does not forbid the states from authorizing the use of hearsay evidence in determining probable cause at the preliminary examination."
Hence, hearsay is allowed in preliminary hearings when a statute authorizes it. State legislation relaxing the rules of evidence is not unconstitutional. See also State v. Crow, 266 Kan. 690, 703-07, 974 P.2d 100 (1999) (hearsay evidence admitted by authority of K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 22-3437 held not violative of United States Constitution or Kansas Constitution).
K.S.A. 2002 Supp. 22-2902(3) provides in pertinent part:
"The defendant shall be personally present and except for witnesses who are children less than 13 years of age, the witnesses shall be examined in the defendant's presence. . . . Except for witnesses who are children less than 13 years of age, the defendant shall have the right to cross-examine witnesses against the defendant and introduce evidence in the defendant's own behalf. . . . When the victim of the felony is a child less than 13 years of age, the finding of probable cause as provided in this subsection may be based upon hearsay evidence in whole or in part presented at the preliminary examination by means of statements made by a child less than 13 years of age on a videotape recording or by other means." (Emphasis added.)
Therefore, Bradley's counsel would have had no grounds to object to the admission of the hearsay testimony at the preliminary hearing. Additionally, Bradley ignores the general standard for reviewing alleged errors at a preliminary hearing after a defendant has stood trial and been convicted. "'[W]here an accused has gone to trial and been found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, any error at the preliminary hearing is harmless unless the error caused prejudice at trial.'" State v. Henry, 263 Kan. 118, 129, 947 P.2d 1020 (1997) (quoting State v. Butler, 257 Kan. 1043, 1062, 897 P.2d 1007 [1995]).
The victim testified at trial. Her brother, who was present at the time of the crimes, testified at trial. Bradley was found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Therefore, Bradley's argument related to the preliminary hearing fails and the district court did not abuse its discretion by not holding an evidentiary hearing or denying the 60-1507 motion.
Next, Bradley attempts to cloak the same argument as a violation of his Sixth Amendment right to confrontation. This also fails.
The Kansas Supreme Court has held that "the Sixth Amendment right of confrontation is satisfied if the accused was once confronted by the witness at any stage of the proceedings in the same case and has had an opportunity of cross-examination." State v. Zamora, 263 Kan. 340, 342, 949 P.2d 621 (1997). Bradley cross-examined the victim at trial. Moreover, in Crow, the court discussed the public policy involved in cases without any face-to-face confrontation. The public policy is an attempt to limit additional psychological harm to a child victim. 266 Kan. at 703.
In this case, however, Bradley did have a face-to-face confrontation with the victim at some time during the proceedings. His Sixth Amendment rights were not violated. Furthermore, because the statute Bradley had hoped his attorney would challenge is not unconstitutional, the arguments set forth in his 60-1507 motion did not require an evidentiary hearing. The district court did not err in summarily dismissing Bradley's 60-1507 motion.


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Lawyers for Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Thursday asked a federal appeals court to reverse a judge's decision to block key portions of SB 1070, the state's controversial immigration law.
The lawyers want a three-judge panel of the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San Francisco, to take up the case on an expedited basis.
At issue is whether US District Judge Susan Bolton was correct when she ruled that major sections of the Arizona law would have impermissibly interfered with the federal government's authority to decide how best to enforce immigration laws. A stripped down version of the Arizona law took effect Thursday.
In authorizing the appeal, Governor Brewer said the problems prompting the Arizona law were caused by lax enforcement of immigration statutes by the federal government.
"America is not going to sit back and allow the ongoing federal failures to continue," she said. "We are a nation of laws and we believe they need to be enforced."
Brewer added, "I will not back down."
On Wednesday, Judge Bolton issued a temporary injunction blocking enforcement of key parts of the new law, including a provision requiring law enforcement officials to check the immigration status of anyone during a routine stop whenever police had reasonable suspicion that the individual was an illegal immigrant.
Critics of the law, including President Obama, said the provision would likely lead to illegal racial profiling. The Justice Department joined other plaintiffs in a lawsuit and urged Bolton to block implementation of the new law.
But rather than press the racial profiling issue, Justice Department lawyers argued that the Arizona law impermissibly intruded into areas of authority (immigration and border security) reserved to the federal government.
State officials countered that the Arizona law was written to complement federal immigration statutes, not supplant them.
Bolton disagreed, ruling that several provisions in the state measure were preempted by conflicting federal laws and the policies of the Obama administration. The judge issued a temporary injunction, meaning that she would temporarily block implementation of parts of the law pending a full trial.
Under normal circumstances, the legal challenges to the Arizona law would now be subject to a trial before Bolton. But because of the importance of the issue, state officials took the somewhat unusual step of asking the appeals court to hear their appeal even before a trial has been held.
"This appeal involves an issue of significant importance – the State of Arizona's right to implement a law its Legislature enacted to address the irreparable harm Arizona is suffering as a result of unchecked unlawful immigration," the Arizona lawyers said in their brief to the Ninth Circuit.
They urged the appeals court to speed up its consideration of the case in light of the "serious criminal, environmental, and economic problems Arizona has been suffering as a consequence of illegal immigration and the lack of effective enforcement activity by the federal government."
The governor's lawyers asked for the court to embrace a schedule that would call for the state's opening brief by August 12, a response by the Justice Department by August 26, and a reply by Arizona by September 2. They asked that the court schedule the case for oral argument the week of September 13.
If the Ninth Circuit declines to take up the case, or takes it up and upholds Bolton's ruling, Arizona could then still file an expedited appeal to the US Supreme Court.
At the center of the case is a dispute over the intersection of federal authority to set immigration policies and enforce immigration law versus state government efforts to protect the health and safety of local residents threatened by a large influx of illegal immigrants by making passing a state law that mirrors several unenforced federal laws.
"If the federal government wants to be in charge of illegal immigration and they want no help from the states, it then needs to do its job," Brewer said. "Arizona would not be faced with this problem if the federal government honored its responsibilities."
She added, "Illegal immigration is an ongoing crisis the State of Arizona did not create and the federal government has refused to fix."


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Mushroom duxelles is one of those simple dishes that can fill a kitchen and surrounding rooms with its intoxicatingly rustic aroma. I first made this dish way back in culinary school, where we paired the buttery mushroom and shallot concoction with steak. Since then I've made variations for other meat dishes, omelets, and pastas.
Yesterday I decided to tweak the original French preparation to have the mushrooms go with rice. Sort of like a vegetarian version of Cantonese minced pork with rice. Fearing that stewing the mushrooms in butter would be too heavy for rice, I decided to use olive oil instead, then mount a bit of butter towards the end. Turns out, because mushrooms soak up oil a lot faster than butter, I kept having to add more and ended up with rather oily mushrooms.
Tonight I went back to good ol' butter. Not only was it was perfect for the slow caramelizing of shallots and mushrooms, it also didn't overwhelm the rice at all.
Mushroom Duxelles with Rice
Serves 2 as a side dish
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 large or 2 medium-sized shallots, minced
2 cloves garlic, minced
8 to 10 medium-sized button mushrooms, finely chopped
45 mL (3 tablespoons) red wine or sherry
Salt and pepper to taste
1 stalk scallion, thinly sliced
2 cups cooked rice
Melt 1 tablespoon of the butter in a medium-sized skillet or small pot over medium-low heat. Add the shallots and garlic. Sautée until fragrant, about 2 to 3 minutes.
Add the mushrooms and the rest of the butter; stir to melt the butter and have it coat the mushrooms. Reduce the heat to low and let the mushrooms simmer in butter for about 15 minutes, stirring frequently to avoid burning.
Turn the heat to medium. Add the wine/sherry and swirl it around the pan to deglaze. Reduce the heat to low again and simmer until the alcohol has reduced. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Turn off the heat, pour the mushroom duxelles over rice or mix into rice. Garnish with scallions and serve immediately.


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At Thursday's health summit, President Barack Obama is almost certain to highlight the importance of reining in skyrocketing health care costs.
But in his own health care bill, it's a different story.
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Obama has put off a tax on high-cost health plans until 2018 — long after he's out of office, even if he's a two-termer. And in doing so, he's essentially neutered the last significant Democratic push to control health costs.
When Obama launched his health care project, the case for reform rested on two pillars. One was helping people who had no insurance or were otherwise struggling with the current system. The other was taking dramatic steps to halt the growth in costs. As the debate lurches toward a close, the emphasis in Obama's plan now rests overwhelmingly on the first pillar — with only the most modest and preliminary measures being embraced for cost control.
"They thought [the tax] was a major part of their ability to slow the growth in private-sector premiums. And now, at least until after 2017, it doesn't look like they will bend the cost curve," said Ken Thorpe, an Emory University professor and Democratic health policy adviser.
In fact, the delay raises questions about whether the tax will ever return. Obama's punted the decision to some future president and some future Congress that would have to let a brand-new tax come into effect on their watch.
Chalk it up to politics.
Some of Obama's biggest supporters, labor unions, hate the tax because it hits their members with so-called Cadillac plans. Liberals don't like it either. And Obama badly needs their support if he still hopes to get his $950 billion health care plan through Congress after Thursday's summit.
Obama had already agreed to push the start back to 2018 in a special deal for labor union members. Now he's giving that deal to all Americans and boosting the threshold from $24,000 to $27,500 for family plans that will be hit by the tax.
"This was designed to get more support from the Democratic Caucus. Not surprisingly, there's higher overall costs and fewer steps to get the savings necessary to pay for those costs," said Mark McClellan, a former Clinton and Bush administration official who is now a health care economist at the Brookings Institution.
The Cadillac tax is "really the main piece of getting down the cost of health insurance," and Obama's changes make it "significantly weaker," he said.
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The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Volume 2: Medieval Meets MedievalismJan M. Ziolkowski
Prof. Ziolkowski also featured in a podcast for Medievalists.net, called the Medieval Podcast hosted by Daničle Cybulskie. To listen to this podcast for free, visit here. You can also watch the talk he delivered about this study at the American Philosophical Society here.
A lifetime's knowledge has been poured into these pages with passion and dedication, and the reader feels, and shares, the author's enthusiasm along the Juggler's journey from the Middle Ages to the present. From medieval French manuscripts we follow the tale through early modern religious literature, post-Romantic editorial endeavours, anthologies of national literature and children's fiction, to modern adaptations in ballet, opera, and the visual arts. Such wide-ranging enterprise is matched by a fluent, witty narrative which succeeds in making complex terminology and concepts accessible to non-specialist readers. As such, the work is a major achievement.
—Prof. Barbara Ravelhofer, Durham University
Funny, erudite, compelling, The Juggler of Notre Dame stretches every boundary of what an academic book is. It has given me—and will give all its readers—further permission to extend the definition of the scholarly book. Imaginative, well-researched, genre-bending, this book makes multiple contributions to the fields of medieval history, philology, art history, performance studies, reception theory, and medievalism.
—Prof. Kathryn Rudy, University of St Andrews
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life.
Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of the tale on Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented with lavish and inventive illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the explosion of interest in The Juggler of Notre Dame in the twentieth century and its place in mass culture today.
Volume 2: Medieval Meets Medievalism deals with the influence of the tale in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Europe and America, and the development of literary medievalism at this time.
Presented with great clarity and simplicity, Ziolkowski's work is accessible to the general reader, while its many new discoveries will be valuable to academics in such fields and disciplines as medieval studies, medievalism, philology, literary history, art history, folklore, performance studies, and reception studies.
|The Juggler of Notre Dame comprises six volumes:
Vol. 1: The Middle Ages
Vol. 2: Medieval Meets Medievalism
Vol. 3: The American Middle Ages
Vol. 4: Picture That: Making a Show of the Jongleur
Vol. 5: Tumbling into the Twentieth Century
Vol. 6: War and Peace, Sex and Violence
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The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Volume 2: Medieval Meets Medievalism
Jan M. Ziolkowski | July 2018
354 | 190 colour illustrations | 7" x 10" (178 x 254 mm)
ISBN Paperback: 9781783745067
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Categories: BIC: ACK (History of art: Byzantine and Medieval art c. 500 CE to c. 1400), JFHF (Folklore, myths and legends), D (Literature and literary studies); BISAC: LIT022000 (LITERARY CRITICISM / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology), LIT011000 (LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval), LIT025040 (LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Religion)
Note to the Reader
1. Tumbling Back into France, by Way of Philology
2. Notre Dame: The Virgin in Nineteenth-Century France
3. Franglais Juggling
4. Anatole France
5. Le Jongleur de Notre Dame
List of Illustrations
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Among other steps, the federal government has been interviewing as many as 800 Libyans currently present inside American borders. At least some of them were working for the Gadhafi regime prior to the United Nations-backed Western intervention. Others may still be serving the regime as part of Libya's foreign-intelligence apparatus. And some may be operating under various covers.
"We want to make certain that we are on guard for the possibility of terrorist attacks emanating somewhere out of Libya, whether it be [Gadhafi's] forces, or in eastern Libya, the opposition forces who may have amongst them persons who in the past have had associations with terrorist groups," Mueller told a House appropriations subcommittee.
The Bureau is conducting what it calls an "outreach effort" to speak with Libyans in the United States, including students at American universities. So far all the interviews have been "voluntary," according to officials cited in news reports. Mueller told lawmakers,
There are individuals who were previously affiliated with the Libyan government who happen to be in the United States — they may have been here representing Libya and at various international institutions and the like. [T]o the extent that they have renounced or denounced [Gadhafi] and are willing to be interviewed and to give us information as to what may be happening in Libya, we will proceed with those interviews.
Mueller also said the FBI wanted to make sure that it identified Libyan intelligence operatives working in the United States to "ensure no harm comes from them." Agents from at least 10 different field offices are reportedly involved in the interview campaign, which the FBI chief said "may alert us to any attempts at retaliation within the United States or elsewhere by [pro-Gadhafi] individuals."
But Mueller is not the first high-ranking official to express concerns about the possibility of retaliatory terror strikes following U.S. military intervention against Gadhafi. Obama's Terror Czar John Brennan warned about the possibility weeks ago.
"Gadhafi has the penchant to do things of a very concerning nature," Brennan told reporters as the U.S. government was beginning its "humanitarian" bombing campaign. "We have to anticipate and be prepared for things he might try to do to flout the will of the international community."
And the use of chemical weapons such as mustard gas, according to Brennan, was one of the threats. Gadhafi is known to possess weapons of mass destruction and has used terror attacks in the past.
Outside of government, analysts have been warning of the threat, too. Forecaster Gerald Celente, president of the Trends Research Institute, became unusually agitated when discussing the possibility. And he's been right about a lot over 30 years in the industry.
"Does anybody think Gadhafi is just going to fold?" he asked during a recent Trends in the News video update. "When they bomb London and France, and they hit New York, let's not cry about 'oh, they hate our freedom and liberty.' "
Celente said any attacks carried out against the United States, France, or the United Kingdom would be retaliation for the military campaign against the Libyan regime. "Your lives are on the line and so are your children's — so are your nation's," he exclaimed, urging listeners to "do something."
"Guess what? If they bomb me, I bomb 'em back," he said, becoming visibly upset. "Don't you think that's not what the Libyans want to do? Stop the wars!"
Ironically, a high-level U.S. delegation visiting Libya in 2009 concluded that the Gadhafi regime was a good U.S. ally in the "War on Terror," secret State Department cables released by WikiLeaks show.
"[U.S. Senator Joe] Lieberman called Libya an important ally in the war on terrorism," one cable stated, describing a meeting between the U.S. delegation and the Libyan regime. Senator John McCain, meanwhile, "assured [Gadhafi's son] Muatassim that the United States wanted to provide Libya with the equipment it needs for its security."
The U.S. military and NATO have been enforcing a U.N.-mandated "no-fly zone" over Libya since mid-March as a group of rebels attempts to overthrow the government. According to news reports, the conflict appears to have reached a sort of stalemate for the moment. But the opposition has already established its own central bank and oil company to compete with the government's.
Gadhafi is currently backed into a corner, having no way out besides death, a trial at the international criminal court, or victory against the rebels and their Western allies. So analysts fear that in his desperation, it is increasingly likely the dictator could lash out against the governments waging war against him. Unconventional strikes including terror attacks or even the use of weapons of mass destruction could become increasingly appealing to the embattled ruler, who has few options left and nothing else to lose.


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We accept Visa, MasterCard, JCB, AMEX and Diners.
This method of payment is do a examination of your credit card by Rakuten KC co,.
It may take time to examination. In addition, we are not informed your credit card information from Rakuten KC.
Please understand that we will not accept cancellation in any case for international orders.Use of this service is subject to our shop's compliance with the terms of use. We apologize in advance for until your order.
STEP 01 Shopping
Right after your order, an automatic reply will be sent to you. Please note that the shipping fees mentioned in this e-mail are for orders to be delivered to an address within Japan and not applicable for delivery outside of Japan.
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When ordered from an english page, the automatic reply will be sent in English, with the shipping fees applicable for delivery to an address within Japan. Please wait for the shop to contact you with international shipping fees to be delivered to your address.
STEP 02 Order confirmation
Within 3 business days after receiving your order,we will separately email you an order confirmation with a total cost, including the shipping charge.
We deliver the items ordered from you by EMS.
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International shipping service do not apply. Please be careful!
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Palestine (and Beyond) Live Coverage: Two Detainees in Israel Prisons End Long-Term Hunger Strikes
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Wednesday's Israel (and Beyond) Live Coverage: Pressure Builds Over Settlements
1656 GMT: Bahrain. After a five-day visit, Human Rights Watch officials have declared that "rulers have made no progress on key reform promises, failing to release unjustly imprisoned activists or to hold accountable high-level officials responsible for torture".
Human Rights Watch also declared that a draft association law "significantly undermines what few rights independent non-governmental associations have under the country's current law".
In the visit, the first permitted to Human Rights Watch in almost a year, three representatives met with the Minister of Interior; the Attorney General; leading police officials; John Timoney, the British adviser to the Ministry; and representatives of the Ministries of Social Development and Human Rights.
1650 GMT: Iraq. Two car bombs near a football field in north Baghdad have killed at least 11 people and wounded another 30, security and medical officials said.


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Part 2 of the movie trilogy of Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged is, by turns, eerie, chilling, disappointing, and affirming. With twice the budget of Part 1, Atlas Shrugged Part 2 is broader in scope and adheres more closely to the original book. It also has a new cast. Many had high expectations. In some respects it succeeded; in others it didn't.
Opening like a James Bond thriller, Dagny Taggart (Samantha Mathis) is driving her private jet at maximum velocity in an attempt to follow another pilot over the Colorado mountains. She cries out in exasperation the theme that appears throughout the movie: "Who is John Galt?" The implication is that the other pilot has the answer.
The film flashes back to her frustration nine months earlier when she is unable to learn who invented, and how to make work, an energy generator that operates on static electricity, yielding essentially free energy with no pollution. The story line is simplicity itself: Creative entrepreneurs are deemed to be enemies of the state and their capital (including their patents, ideas, and inventions) must be forcibly relinquished — "gifted," as government officials put it — to the state, all in the name of egalitarianism.
But why should these entrepreneurs continue to create and produce? Why not simply disappear? One by one that's exactly what they do — leaving behind the message "Who is John Galt?" Without their hard work and creative juices, the economy, already weakened by government intervention in the marketplace, can only get worse. How could it be otherwise when Atlas, battered and bleeding while still straining under the burden of the world on his shoulders, finally shrugs?
With six protagonists and five antagonists, the film could have been simple to produce. But with 56 other secondary characters, some assuming major but brief roles in the film, the story line is interrupted frequently, sometimes unforgivably so.
The film was eerie as it showed gasoline selling for $42.50 a gallon, costing Taggart nearly $865 to put 20 gallons into her truck. The film also managed to show downtown streets nearly deserted except for some on bicycles.
It had chilling moments, such as the "star chamber" scene where Hank Rearden (Jason Beghe) is being charged at a Unification Board Meeting — essentially a Star Chamber — with violating the latest of draconian regulations: doing business with a friend. His penalty: a $50 million fine and 10 years in jail.
And another when incompetence meets politics: the head-on collision between two trains deep inside the Taggart Tunnel in Colorado, killing all aboard.
It was disappointing in that Rand's stiff dialogue, carefully softened in Part 1, was allowed to control the conversations in Part 2, leaving the characters flat and bland and largely uninteresting. Lillian (Kim Rhodes), Rearden's jilted and jealous wife is evil incarnate but is not allowed to develop fully in the film. In general, the film seemed to be put together in a rush, in an attempt to meet some deadline. (The producer said that investors in the project were hoping to have an impact on the upcoming election, and that obviously hurried the project, to its detriment.)
There were great moments of clarity and affirmation for the Randian faithful. In his Star Chamber rebuttal, Rearden challenged the judges with having no authority to charge him with doing anything wrong. He accused them of being in the employ of looters – of "stealing their power from our freedom." This brought huzzahs from the court's audience. But even in that moment of challenge by an individual to the power of the state to steal under the guise of law, the film fails to present the real agony Rearden is suffering: How can such vermin have such influence? What has happened to morality in a world gone mad? He asks, as he leaves the courtroom: "How can such small people do so much damage?"
Another moment of affirmation about how the free market works to solve problems that government cannot, while providing for the needs and wants of unknown participants in that market, came when Taggart confronts Ken Danagger (Arye Gross), the owner of Danagger Coal in Pennsylvania. She urges him not to give up but to stay and fight the tentacles of overweening government. Danagger's coal is purchased by Rearden, who uses it to make his special metal rails, which is purchased by Taggart to build her railroad, which hauls Danagger's coal. Danagger says that it's a "perfect balance." But it's a balance that is thrown inevitably into disarray by government bureaucrats — the looters and moochers and cheaters, as Rand calls them.
Two characters especially stand out: the perfect arrogant government bureaucrat with too much authority, Wesley Mouch (Paul McCrane), and Francisco d'Anconia (Esai Morales), the poor little rich kid playboy who destroyed his family's copper mines to keep them from being looted by the government. Each brought life and breath and color to an otherwise staid and cold and uninteresting series of characters.
To make a fine point: In an attempt to make the film appear to be relevant and current to today, two current idioms were jarringly inserted into the dialogue: "catchy," when Rearden learned that the government was going to rename his Rearden Metal into "Miracle Metal"; and "How's that workin' for ya?" when d'Anconia confronted James Taggart.
The faithful will applaud the message in Atlas Shrugged Part 2 and will want to see the final installment when it comes out. But how about the uninitiated? Regular moviegoers who just happened to buy a ticket for an evening of entertainment will likely be bewildered and disappointed — and left wondering what all the fuss was about. Any impact on the election in November is dubious at best.
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HAVELOCK � A child may be scared of the dark at a young age and grow out of it. But true traumatic events can have such an impact on children that they can last a lifetime.
HAVELOCK � A child may be scared of the dark at a young age and grow out of it. But true traumatic events can have such an impact on children that they can last a lifetime.
Dr. George �Tripp� Ake, a licensed psychologist at the Center for Child and Family Health in Durham, spoke at the annual State of the Child Conference held last week at the Havelock Tourist and EventCenter.
The conference focused on childhood trauma and its effects as well as how Social Services workers, daycare employees and others who work with care of children can build resiliency in children.
About 150 people attended the event, which featured speakers, informational displays from organizations and businesses that focus on children and singing from First United Methodist Church preschool children in Havelock.
Ake said trauma can take all types of forms, from child neglect or abuse to growing up with domestic violence, substance abuse or mental illness in the home. However, he said just because a child experiences such situations does not necessarily mean he or she has experienced trauma.
�So many kinds of things can happen to children,� he said. �They can witness violence or disasters or war.
�But what we�re not saying is if a child experienced that, they�ve been automatically traumatized. Sometimes a child can be broken and they will carry that with them the rest of their lives, but you have to be careful. Two kids can see the same thing, and one could really have trouble with it and the other won�t.�
He pointed to statistics that show 25 percent of children by the age of 16 experience at least one traumatic incident. He also said a study showed that 50 percent of school-age children in domestic violence situations exhibited symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder.
He said that parents who think they hide such instances from their children should think again.
�If you ask the parents, they will say the child was asleep in the room and didn�t know anything,� he said. �But if you ask the kids, they can give you play-by-play of what happened.�
Ake pointed to a study on adverse childhood experiences that indicate the higher number of such experiences, the higher the rate of attempted suicides during adolescence.
He said the study also showed a link between adverse childhood experiences and smoking, depression, drug use, obesity, alcoholism and early sexual activity.
He said that is why childhood caregivers need to help build resiliency in children.
�If we can predict these things earlier, we can help prevent them later,� he said. �The more adverse childhood experiences, the more problems they will have. It really, really connects to how we live our lives every day.�
He said parents should keep an eye on behavioral changes in their children to help identify potential problems.
�That�s how kids show us what�s going on because they don�t have the words to tell us what�s going on,� he said.
Ake said the key is to get help for children who are showing effects from a traumatic event.
�Children are still growing up and they are not broken,� he said.


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PARIS – Migrants flowing into Europe in unprecedented numbers are causing a tense summer in France, as clashes break out among asylum-seekers in overcrowded camps and police fire tear gas to quell the chaos.
Sudanese and Eritreans battled in the sweltering heat in France's port city of Calais, frustrations rising as the Africans jockey for space while trying to sneak into Britain — the dream destination some 30 km (20 miles) away.
British police were on site in Calais trying to make sure they don't cross over. Their French counterparts fired tear gas Tuesday to break up the latest of three battles that left 51 injured, one seriously, the Calais prefecture said.
Migrants fleeing poverty and war in Africa and the Middle East arrive in Calais with hopes of crossing the channel on a ferry or on trucks laden with cargo. Their numbers in the city at the edge of the English Channel have swelled to up to 1,300, overwhelming the city, aid agencies and police.
Up to 40 extra riot police were brought into Calais to start duty Tuesday night, bringing the number of police officers to 600, the city said.
"There are migrants who arrive each day and each day some who succeed in getting to Britain," said Deputy Mayor Philippe Mignonet, in charge of security. He refused to say how many migrants outsmart the scanners, CO2 detectors and other technology used on trucks and planted through the Channel Tunnel.
"Calais has been taken hostage," Mignonet said, blaming in part a Franco-British cooperation accord that he says puts the brunt of the burden on Calais. Like other officials, the deputy mayor complains that the British police presence effectively extends Britain's border to France.
Most migrants in Calais start the European portion of their treacherous Mediterranean journeys in Italy, arriving on boats in the island of Lampedusa. Last year, total arrivals in Italy tallied 42,000 — which was already surpassed by spring. With the year far from over, over 60,000 migrants have arrived on Italian shores.
Overwhelmed, Italy is increasingly waiving European rules to fingerprint migrants, allowing them to move on. Those looking to go to Britain often end up in Calais.
Britain is seen by many migrants as Europe's Shangri-La, with a more humane treatment of migrants than continental neighbors like France, where there are only 22,000 living units for some 60,000 asylum seekers.
Clashes among migrants are a new phenomenon.
Those Monday night and twice Tuesday were a culmination of a months-long tug-of-war between Calais and migrants. The city bulldozed makeshift camps in May. The migrants then occupied a food distribution center but were expelled. Now, authorities threaten to expel hundreds in two abandoned factories. Under pressure, the migrants turn on one another.
"There are lots of people, so there is lots more tension," said Noemie Bourdet of aid group Secours Catholique in Calais.
Migrants often are forced to pay small-time smugglers for a place in line in a parking lot where trucks leave for Britain. The clashes may have been over a place at a parking lot that didn't have smugglers demanding payments, according to Bourdet.
Within France, there is a divergence of views about how well Calais and France cope with the migrant issue.
"They expel them without solutions," said Bourdet of Secours Catholique, echoing the charge that Calais migrants have been reduced to a security problem.
Mignonet disagrees.
"It is a doubly catastrophic situation for us," he said, explaining that the migrants suffer and Calais suffers, too. "People only talk of Calais for its migrant problems. … This seriously hurts the city's image."


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Just another Sunday paddle boat ride
On a man made lake with another lady stranger
If I remain lost and die on a cross
At least I wasn't born in a manger
I can sense somewhere right now I'm being prayed for
Seems like I always arrive on the same shore
From where my sails set maybe with one less lady than my vessel left with
Is that a threat?
Oh I've stayed scarce this last year yes, but be assured and unrest
I'm unavoidable like death this Christmas is this twisted?
Why be upset
I never said I didn't have syphilis, miss listless
Hard like the bricks I pound my fists with
I mean she's hard like the bricks that I pound with my fist
This is the fall of Mr. Fifths
Forged for the hordes and the ladies and lords
Set with fat chords in modern English
I know I know
There's nothing more appealing
Than the sound of high heels
Down the marble tiled hallways of your district's one allotted city-funded
Steiner school bilingual or montessori
Followed by a single high pitch scream followed by breaking glass
But could your anger be mapped into an interpretive dance
To a trip-hop track?
Could it be bowed out on strings?
Or strung into a pattern for a god's eye to bring
To your alma mater's holiday fundraiser boutique thing?
My god
God I'm sorry, I'm just being crazy
I'm sorry, I'm just being crazy, I know
Don't pay attention to me okay?
Look at the fire
Everything's totally fine
I feel a lot better now!


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