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Editor's note: Kelly Wallace is CNN's digital correspondent and editor-at-large covering family, career and life. She's a mom of two girls and lives in Manhattan. Read her other columns and follow her reports at CNN Parents and on Twitter.
(CNN) -- When Betty Draper of "Mad Men" lit a cigarette on her son's school bus during a class trip, I cracked up. After all, the prospect of a 2014 mom smoking around her child's classmates is about as likely as teens giving up their smartphones.
Motherhood has changed a lot since I grew up in the 1960s.
Back then, women smoke and drank during pregnancy. (My mom says she even smoked in the hospital after delivering my sisters and me.) Today, expecting women add sushi and lunch meat to their alcohol and smoking bans.
Back then, Dr. Spock was the only guide for child-rearing. Today, there are too many manuals to count and Google is just a click away from parental questions answered.
Back then, we didn't have playdates. "You went out in the yard or you went out in the street and played," my mom told me with a chuckle. Today, my kids have piano, soccer, basketball, gymnastics and hip-hop dance. How do you spell overscheduled?
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In conversations with moms raising children today and moms who had kids in the 1960s, '70s and '80s, they all agreed that motherhood is a whole lot different nowadays. The question is, has it changed for the better or worse?
'Less of that judgment'
Lyz Lenz, a mom of two in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, says part of her wishes she was raising children in the early '80s, like her mom.
"I feel like in that pre-Internet era we weren't quite as exposed to other people's pet peeves," said Lenz, who writes a blog in her own name. "There was less of that judgment and less of other people making you insecure. You didn't have to hop on Facebook and see a ton of different people telling you why giving your kid a processed cookie is child abuse."
What's different today, says Joanna Mazewski, a mom of two in Coconut Creek, Florida, is the level of paranoia.
"It seems like mothers these days are definitely more paranoid and uptight about every little detail of their children's lives, much more than they were 30, 40 years ago," said Mazewski, a Babble.com contributor.
"It just seems that parenthood altogether was much simpler without the education that we have now and the devices ... to be honest with you, I think I prefer the carefree method more than scared-of-everything-we-eat-and-even-our-shadows."
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From Dr. Spock to Tiger Mom
Jeannette Kaplun, another Babble.com contributor, said the problem is that parents today suffer from "information overload."
Dr. Spock was "the bible for parents," when she was born in the 1970s, said the Miami mom of two and host of a bilingual blog called Hispana Global.
"Now you have attachment parenting, then you have 'tiger moms,' and people tell you to co-sleep. Others tell you that you are a terrible parent if you co-sleep ... and pediatricians will tell you one thing and then people will search online and they'll find a blog that says completely the opposite and so it's very confusing."
Google can be a friend for today's parents, but it also can be a foe, said Lenz, the mom from Cedar Rapids, who shared a story about how she went online late one night when she wasn't able to calm her crying daughter.
"I'm like, 'Oh no, maybe she has brain trauma or stomach problems,' and then it's like, 'Oh. No. She's just teething.' "
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Ironically, Lenz's mom, Ellen Baranowski, who raised Lyz and her seven siblings starting in the early '80s, thinks the 24/7 access to information is one of the biggest and best parenting differences from when she was a mother.
"I think it's great being able to access the Internet at 2 o'clock in the morning when you are just scared to death," Ellen Baranowski said.
Janis Brett Elspas, a mom of four in Los Angeles and host of the blog Mommy Blog Expert, said technology can be very powerful for parents today -- when it's used properly.
"It's almost like the Life Magazine of this century in that we're totally learning from each other's experiences through the Internet," she said.
Less freedom, more schedules
Another difference between parenting then and now, moms say, is a loss of freedom and independence during childhood.
When Baranowksi and her family moved to a small town in South Dakota from Dallas, she felt comfortable letting her children roam the neighborhood without her.
"My kids then could walk to the swimming pool by themselves, and do things that I had no idea what they were doing," the mom of eight said.
Today, there's none of that.
"My grandkids are getting so scheduled and I understand why," she said. "This is not a complaint on their parenting ... they can't have just unattended moments and it's sad."
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Shannon Bradley-Colleary, a mom of two in Los Angeles who grew up in the '60s and '70s, remembers playing outside by herself as a kid.
"A lot of my favorite memories were playing 'war' ... until well after dark with no one even calling to see where I was. So do you think it was neglectful parenting?" the host of the blog The Woman Formerly Known as Beautiful said with a laugh.
She concedes there is a definite tradeoff between safety and independence in today's parenting. In her opinion, the tighter control is better, ultimately.
"I just think there's a pendulum swing or backlash from those of us raised in the late '60s, early '70s, which was that we were really left to our own devices, and what was great about that, was there was a feeling of autonomy and self-direction," she said. "But there was a much greater risk."
'You're all so concerned with keeping the kids busy'
During my first-ever interview of my mom, Judy Wallace of Long Island, New York, I asked her to compare parenting back in the '60s and '70s, when she raised my sisters and me, with parenting today.
"The biggest difference is that I feel like you're all so concerned with keeping the kids busy, taking them everyplace and having to take up all their time with activities, where in the '60s, that wasn't the case," she said.
"When you were little, you would go out and play with your friends, you kind of entertained yourself more than the parents nowadays, who are constantly trying to entertain the kids."
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But why did we move from the carefree, laissez-faire parenting of the '60s and '70s to the more frenetic helicopter approach of today?
"The reality is now we know more about what happens in the world ... so that obviously increases your perception of the world being much less safe," said Kaplun, the Miami mom of two.
It's harder to parent today, says Brett Elspas, especially with the influence of media on our children.
"It's very, very hard unless you lead a life in a capsule ... Even if you home school your children, they are going to be exposed to stuff. You can't blind them and cover their ears and lead them through and hope they are going to turn out normally as an adult."
It could be hard, but we might reduce our stress and even have more fun if we take some notes from our own moms.
We need to let our kids chart their own course and make their own mistakes, said Mazewski, the Coconut Creek mom of two.
"I've seen toddlers that are already on vegan diets. It's like, 'You've got to allow them to make their own decisions.'"
A little wisdom from my own mom: "Kids have to learn disappointment, that they can't have everything and they can't do everything and they can't be good at everything."
What do you think are the biggest differences between parenting today and back in the '60s, '70s or '80s? Chime in in the comments below or tell Kelly Wallace on Twitter and CNN Living on Facebook.


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Ill Prater stays away from Broncos
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) Denver Broncos kicker Matt Prater stayed home sick again Friday, missing his second straight practice.
Coach John Fox said Prater's absence was a combination of being too ill to work out and a precaution against getting teammates sick as they prepare for the Super Bowl against Seattle on Feb. 2.
Fox called it "a combination of both, like most sick players. We sent him to the doc, they deal with it, give him medication. He'll be fine."
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Prater converted 25 of 26 field goals in the regular season, including a record 64-yarder against Tennessee on Dec. 8 in Denver. He's 5-for-5 in the playoffs.
Overall, he scored 150 points in the regular season and 20 more in the postseason.
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1955-1960 was certainly an eventful series of years. Sputnik I was launched; Alaska and Hawaii were proclaimed the 49th and 50th states; Truman Capote published the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's, which would later be made into a film by the same name.
And during these years, there was one cookie that spoke to the times more than any other: the Bonbon Cookie. At least that's what Betty Crocker says. And other than the fact that she's not actually...well, real, she's never led us astray. According to her Cooky Book (1963), the treats are described as being real trailblazers on the cookie frontier:
"candy-like cookies in vogue--women were fascinated by these beautiful and delicious cookies which were baked as cookies, served and eaten as candies. Excitement over Bonbons brought more candy-cookies, Toffee squares and Cream Filberts, for example"
And if that doesn't pique your interest, the photos in the book will (above)--in pastel tones worthy of Marie Antoinette's court, these are without a doubt cookies for ladies, a pinkies-out affair. We had to make them. Turns out, they're amazingly easy--and rather delicious.
- They are rather on the sweet side--so for those who like a less-sweet cookie, you might want to leave off the frosting, or opt for a more savory filling for the cookies, such as chopped nuts or unsweetened coconut; we used chocolate chips, but then again we're not scared of sweet cookies.
- In keeping with the spirit of this dainty cookie and the era from which it harkens, we elected to make ours Tiffany Blue, garnishing them with white sugar pellets in white to offer the same color palette as that iconic box with its white bow. We found that adding a drop or so of green with two or three drops of blue food coloring reached the signature tone nicely.
- To attain the desired round Bonbon shape, we used a small ice cream scoop to spoon out our dough; while in the scoop we inserted 2-3 chocolate chips, pressed them down, and then reformed the dough over it to secure the filling.
- 1/2 c. soft butter
- 3/4 c. sifted confectioners sugar
- 1 Tbsp. vanilla
- food coloring if desired
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/8 tsp. salt
- Mix 1 cup sifted confectioners' sugar, 2 tbsp cream, 1 tsp vanilla, and food coloring (if desired).


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It's been both an amazing and unbelievable year of tasty travels for me. Before we move into 2012, I'm sharing a few highlights from the year. Here are my picks for the "tastiest tales" of 2011 from Food Lover's Odyssey.
Chocolate and Pastries - You know I'm a firm believer in starting with desserts, so let's begin with the sweet stuff.
This year I attended two of the biggest chocolate festivals in Italy - CioccolaTo in Turin and Eurochocolate in Perugia. Along with tons of chocolate to sample at both festivals, the display of Italy and its monuments made out of chocolate at CioccolaTo and the views of the Umbrian valley from Eurochocolate's Spalm Beach and Piazza Italia stand out in my mind.
And even more chocolate, this time in Paris, Easter chocolates in Paris.
Speaking of Paris, I enjoyed a pastry binge so big that I had to write not one, but two posts about it.
Paris sweets also inspired this chocolate eclair recipe (well, Paris & Mother's Day) and a salted butter caramel ice cream recipe from Berthillon.
There were a few other pastry binges, err, I mean photo journeys I made: one through the pastries of Napoli and the other through the pastries of Lecce.
Again this year, I participated in World Nutella Day, making Nutella Love Cakes for the February celebration.
Carnival in Venice was truly magical and just writing about it makes me want to search airfares for Carnival 2012. Besides gawking over the costumes & posers in St. Mark's Square, I'm certain I consumed a year's worth of Carnival fritelle & thick hot chocolate. In between sweets, I also went on a fantastic food walk with Monica and ate my way through some of the best cicchetti bars in Venice.
Puglia - Another standout in a year of travel highlights was my trip to Puglia. I loved it so much, I actually made two trips this year. Pasta making with Nonna Vata, a special lunch for me at Cantine Menhir, the frantoio ipogeo (ancient underground olive mill) at Masseria L'Astore, cooking with Chef Paola, making and eating fresh cheese, dining on traditional regional dishes at Locanda Rivoli, and crashing a wedding were just a few of the many highlights from my culinary journey in Salento.
Napoli is a city I love as much as I love chocolate. I still remember how fat and happy I was after five days of Neapolitan pizza on my pizza lover's odysey. I met up again with fellow Napoli-philes, Bonnie & Steve from Napoli Unplugged. They took me to some of their favorite dining spots in Naples. Bonnie & I also attended a class on Genovese & other Neapolitan sauces at Citta del Gusto. Between all this food, I did do some walking, along Spaccanapoli & Naples' Historic Center, and driving riding, along the Amalfi Coast.
Rome - "una vita non basta." And if an entire lifetime isn't enough to discover the city, a few weeks is certainly not enough to eat my way through it. In that short time though, I was able to eat more pizza, pizza al taglio at Bonci's Pizzarium, take a food tour in Testaccio and sample one of the best carbonara's ever at Da Danilo. A walk in Rome at night and a day trip through the fountains at Villa d'Este helped me walk off some of those carbs. I'm hoping in 2012 to carve out enough room in my stomach for a month's worth of eating my way through the eternal city. All the artichokes I had during March in Rome, and elsewhere in Italy, inspired this Artichoke & Spinach ravioli recipe.
Paris - Besides all the aforementioned sweets in Paris, I did a little dining in the city that I once called home. L'Epicuriste was one of my most memorable meals of the year. Paris & its environs were the scene of two new series here on FLO, Food Lovers' Walks in Paris and the France Blogging Roundtable. For December's Roundtable blogging theme, I took an Autumn trip to Chateau Vaux le Vicomte.
Dining with a count in Lombardy - A combination of royalty & risotto definitely makes this year's tastiest tales highlight reel.
Provence - Although I've only shared photos of my time in Provence, I have much to write about the good eats and good times there with Tuula.
Christmas - I spent most of the Christmas holidays away this year, seeing the Christmas markets along the Danube River. While I was away, friends from around Italy and France stopped by to share Christmas treats & traditions from Rome, Venice, Naples, Salento & Provence. A huge thanks to them, and I so enjoyed the posts, I hope to see more like them next Christmas.
Wishing all of you a 2012 full of happiness, great food, friends & travel!
Here are a few things I'm looking forward to sharing with you in 2012:
- Cooking in Puglia - I'll be cooking in Puglia and am inviting you to join me!
- There will be even more recipes from my travels and a new series: Paris Pastry Stories
- So much more to share from my culinary travels, especially those in Provence, Paris - both the sweet & savory side, and Piedmont.
- Sunday's roundup, Italy on a Plate, will continue in 2012.
What are some of your tastiest tales from 2011? What would you like to see more of from Food Lover's Odyssey in 2012?


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Judge was elected to the court in 1990
By John Lynch
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Supreme Court has blazed new trails in addressing privacy rights, funding for public education, tort changes, term limits and separation of powers, among other areas, one of its most senior members says in a retrospective of his two decades on the state's highest court.
Justice Robert Brown, 71, retired at the close of 2012, after 21 years on the court. He and fellow Justice Donald Corbin were elected to the seven-member court in 1990. Their terms expire in 2014, and the governor has appointed state Court of Appeals Judge Cliff Hoofman of Enola to serve the last two years of Brown's term.
Brown is "a law professor's ideal of an appellate judge," said professor Ken Gould of the William H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Gould, a faculty member since 1996, said Brown takes experience from all three branches of government to the bench. He cited Brown's service as an aide to Dale Bumpers while Bumpers was a U.S. senator and Arkansas governor. Brown was an assistant to Jim Guy Tucker when the now-former governor served in the U.S. House of Representatives. Brown also has been in private practice and was a Pulaski County prosecutor.
Gould said he's come to know Brown through their work together on the high court's committee dealing with the rules of civil procedure.
"During his tenure, he's been a leader in moving the court to being highly regarded," Gould said, citing a 2008 study by the University of Chicago that reviewed all of the state supreme courts over a two-year period. That study ranked the Arkansas Supreme Court as the second-best in the nation, based on its independence from partisanship, its productivity in issuing opinions and the quality of those opinions, measured in part by how often courts in other jurisdictions cite those rulings.
In a tribute to Brown, his fellow justices saluted his writing abilities and his jurisprudence.
"Justice Brown's scholarship is obvious in the many opinions that he authored over the years," his fellow justices wrote. "He leaves a large body of well-crafted opinions."
The court noted that he has written several "landmark" opinions, including two rulings regarding privacy rights and school funding.
Brown has written an overview of his tenure, touching on 16 issues and cases before the court between 1991 and 2011, for the winter edition of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review at ualr.edu/lawreview.
Brown is the court's most published member, but his 33-page article is the first time he's written for the legal journal since a 1998 piece on judicial elections, a longtime interest, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.
"We were very flattered and very honored," said Editor-in-Chief Abtin Mehdizadegan, a third-year law student from Maine who is overseeing the 35th annual edition, which was due out by the end of 2012.
"These decisions ... underscore the quality of the Supreme Court's work and evidence the impact our court has had over the past two decades on both the state's jurisprudence and the nation's as well," Brown wrote.
History will be the final judge of the court's accomplishments, Brown said in an interview, when asked about the significance of his observations. Preparing to leave office has made him retrospective, he said. Brown said he wanted to present readers with a more comprehensive view of the court's achievements as opposed to the daily reporting, which is usually narrowly tailored to a single case or issue.
The review begins with privacy rights as established under the Arkansas Constitution, but Brown said readers shouldn't put too much significance in the order the cases are presented.
The 33-page article also touches on protections against excessive police searches, congressional term limits, restrictions on arbitrary spending by the Legislature, lending practices and court scrutiny of death penalty cases.
"To me, they're basically all on an equal plane," he said. "Those are snapshots of what the court does. I wanted ... to do something more comprehensive for the last 22 years, to pull it all together and give a sense of what we have done in a variety of areas."
Brown said he hopes the article gives readers a new perspective on the work the court does and helps dissolve the notion that the courts are filled with activist judges.
"I hope people take away from it that we are a serious and studious group of men and women that study the cases and do the research," he said. "We take a case and we study it and we make a decision based on the law and the arguments and the facts.
"I'm hopeful people will come away with the idea that this is a group of men and women who really have their noses to the grindstone."


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Cooking together can be a delicious learning experience for children and their parents. Kids can explore new foods, learn about nutrition, and develop math and reading skills as they measure and read directions. These simple guidelines are designed to help you make cooking safe and fun, and to entice your children into trying something new!
Planning is part of the fun!
Invite your child to help to plan a meal or pick a recipe, make a list of ingredients, find them in your kitchen, and/or shop for them. Thisway, children can learn how to organize and follow through, as well as think ahead. Give your kids a sense of control and accomplishment by letting them make choices whenever possible.
Wash hands before you start cooking.
This goes for grown-ups too!
Create a safe place where kids can cook.
Set up a work area at a lower height to make easier for preschoolers to reach things. Offer children a stool only if you know they can balance on it. Remove any sharp objects from their reach.
No matter where kids work, always supervise them closely.
Stay in the kitchen until the cooking is finished - or take the kids with you to another room.
Set up clear rules about the stove.
Explain to them about the stove in age-appropriate, simple terms; for example, "The stove is hot! It's not OK to touch it. Mommy or Daddy will put the pan in the oven. You can watch." Always keep pan and utensil handles turned towards the back of the stove.
Give preschoolers their own safe utensils.
Offer them wooden or plastic ones. If older children are able to use grown-up equipment, monitor them carefully. Avoid giving children graters, as fingers can easily get scraped.
Reading and following directions are in the mix!
Ask your child to read each instruction aloud as you prepare the food. Kids will get a sense of turn-taking and sequencing from following directions in order.
Practice math as you measure and stir.
Your child can count and help measure to build math skills. When cooking with more than one kid, ask each child to count "stirs" as he or she whips the batter.
Siblings or groups of kids can take turns doing the same step - in their own unique way.
You may want to let each child participate in each step of the recipe. This may take longer, but cooking with kids is as much about "process" as it is about product.
It's easier to enjoy cooking together if you're not "starving."
Either pick a quick recipe that makes a healthy snack, or have veggies, fruit, and dip to snack on before you start.
Be spontaneous!
To avoid a trip to the store, make simple substitutions. Cornmeal can sometimes replace flour, use vegetable oil instead of melted butter, etc.
Introduce new foods.
Kids often will try unfamiliar foods, including vegetables and fruits, when they transform them into personal "creations" like a funny face pizza or a fruit kabob.
Turn a sandwich into a special snack!
Cutting sandwiches with cookie cutters makes them special. Decorating with vegetables and fruits will transform a simple sandwich into a sandwich face.
Make set-up and clean-up part of the routine.
Kids may love using a mop or dustpan as much as they love the cooking, but save cleaning until the cake is in the oven.
Enjoy the experience!
But don't be surprised if the kids don't clean their plates. Some kids will enjoy the cooking more than the eating. And so it goes....
This article is from the "Parent Helpers" section of the PBS Parents website.


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U.S. Embassy, Dublin, Ireland
By 1956, the original U.S. Embassy offices located on Merrion Square in Dublin, Ireland had become extremely outdated in scale, calling for the need to construct a new free-standing building for the government agency. The new building was to perform as a chancery with enlarged office space for the government as well as an attached parking garage for the embassy staff. Besides office space, a large, open reception area/entertainment space was desired for social events. The project was seen as an opportunity to improve not only the utilitarian conditions for the U.S. Embassy, but to also improve the aesthetic conditions by exporting modern American architecture to the small country of Ireland (Loeffler 229).
Situated on a triangular lot, the embassy stands as a five-story, 100' diameter, cylindrical drum with two service stories below ground and three administrative stories above. The precast concrete structure, composed of "modules fabricated out of reconstructed limestone" with vertical supports twisted at 90 degree angles to enclose large panes of fixed glass alternating with narrow operable windows, sits on a base of rusticated granite (Loeffler 230). The exterior perimeter is surrounded by a "30-foot flower-planted moat, across which two bridges gain entry to the rotunda reception area" (Johansen 24). The main entry is signified by the placement of a large, ornate gold eagle above the doorway (Loeffler 229). The rotunda is 50' high and 50' across and is "ringed with an ambulatory of open corridors with wedge-shaped offices lining the perimeter" (O'Toole). A glass clerestory above roof level floods the rotunda with natural sunlight. Each floor is accessed by concrete elevator and stair towers. "The interior walls facing the rotunda repeat the modular unit pattern of the building's exterior and provide balconies for the offices on all three levels" (Embassy of the United States Dublin, Ireland).
Start of site work: 1962 (c) / Completion/inauguration: May 1964 (c)
42 Elgin Road is located in the Ballsbridge section of Dublin, Ireland. At the time of construction, the site was surrounded by commercial development intermixed with the brick row houses that typified Dublin's residential streets (Loeffler 220). The site is remotely located away from the center of the city and Merrion Square where the original U.S. embassy, similar stately public buildings, and tourist attractions are located.
The embassy utilized a structurally innovative system of cast-formed, intricate concrete elements that were made by using a Dutch system called the Schokbeton method (O'Toole). "Johansen went to Holland to approve the castings, which were transported by barge to Dublin port" (O'Toole). The concrete, skeletal structure on the exterior facade is repeated on the interior of the rotunda, creating "two circular, arcade facades of reconstructed limestone [that] support precast concrete floors" (O'Toole).
By turning to the latest technology in precast structural concrete, John M. Johansen was able to execute his envisioned cylindrical facade for the embassy. The Schokbeton method, the name coming from the Dutch word used to describe the unique process of using vibration during the pouring of the dry concrete mixture, was a brand new construction method in 1962 (Schokbeton). Fernand R. Bibeau pioneered the method for its "great utility, immense possibilities, and profitability" (Schokbeton). At the time of its construction, the embassy in Dublin was only the second precast structural facade in existence after Eero Saarinen's U.S., Embassy in London (Johansen).
The design for the U.S. Embassy in Dublin, Ireland was plagued with controversy from the get-go. The dissension originated from Johansen's first design proposal and then eventually accumulated into a ten year debate on the appropriate diplomatic architecture. The core of the debate was how to incorporate the modern aesthetic of the 1950s with the historic context of Dublin while simultaneously satisfying the functional requirements of the embassy. Johansen had difficulty solving this complex design problem, which lead to a series of reviews and rejections by the FBO's Architectural Advisory Panel (AAP).
Johansen's design also became a pawn for diplomacy as the need for a new embassy in Ireland continued to put a strain on America's foreign relations with the country. The original embassy at Merrion Square chancery was beyond inadequate. The need for a new facility became so urgent that Ambassador Grant Stockdale wrote to President Kennedy in May 1961 describing the situations as "disgraceful...In all my experience of previous Federal, State and Municipal buildings, nowhere have I ever witnessed a more deplorable sight than the interior of our Dublin Embassy" (Loeffler 221). He went on to blame Hays for the delay of the construction and stated that "the Irish people were convinced that the 'so-called design controversy' was merely a ruse to conceal American unwillingness to build the new embassy" (Loeffler 221). This letter paired with President John F. Kennedy's desire to use his Irish heritage to improve U.S.-Irish relations put the embassy on the top of the presidential agenda and essentially put an end to the "design controversy." The final cylindrical design of the embassy in turn helped sooth foreign relations by producing an inoffensive, "diplomatic," American building with a continuous facade open to all possible approaches to the people of Ireland (Johansen).
The desire for a diplomatically friendly design for the new embassy was rooted in a long history of discourse between the United States, Great Britain, and Ireland. In the years following World War II, relations between the U.S. and Ireland had become strained mostly due to the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland David Gray's political agenda during his tenure from 1940-47 under Franklin D. Roosevelt's Presidency(Davis 56). Gray had an unfounded fear that Irish Americans were going to violently protest the Anglo-American partnership that had emerged from the Ally victory. He believed that an anti-partition campaign would develop in the United States to garner support for a united Ireland free from British rule that would threaten the postwar cooperation between the United States and Great Britain (Davis 157). In reality,"the end of the Irish War of Independence of 1921 and the subsequent foundation of the Irish Free State seemed, to the majority of Irish Americans, to be the culmination of their struggle for acceptance in the United States" (Davis 156). Their assimilation into American society included the acceptance of American politics and Anglo-American cooperation. While domestic relations were at ease during the 1950s between Americans and Irish immigrants, the relationship between the United States, Great Britain, and Ireland would continue to remain unstable through the presidencies of Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower during the Cold War. Ireland insisted on maintaining its policy of military neutrality during this conflict, which lead to their refusal to join NATO and put an added strain on U.S.-Irish relations. It wasn't until President John F. Kennedy took office that a real effort was made to improve relations, and the design for the new embassy took on its diplomatic role.
John M. Johansen was born on June 29, 1916 in Manhattan to a family of portrait painters, John Christen Johansen and Jean MacClane ("Architect behind American Embassy in Ballsbridge"). Johansen attended Harvard College and Harvard University's Graduate School of Design where he studied under former Bauhaus teachers Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and Josef Albers. Among his contemporaries were Philip Johnson, IM Pei, Paul Rudolph and Bruno Zevi ("Architect behind American Embassy in Ballsbridge"). After graduation, he delved further into the Modern Movement by working for Breuer and then the firm Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill (Bernstein). He opened his own office in 1948 and soon became recognized as a member of the Harvard Five, "a group of Harvard design students who made New Canaan, Connecticut, a hotbed of architectural experimentation in the 1950s and '60s" (Bernstein). In the postwar years, the Harvard Five, including Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores and Eliot Noyes, filled Connecticut with houses that conveyed the optimism of the time. Johansen was most known for his experimental residential work, but he also designed a number of public buildings, including the embassy in Dublin, where he attempted to marry the avant garde, modern style that he had developed in the residential sector with the rigid, programmatic needs of the commercial. The result in Ireland was an organic, sculpted concrete tower worthy of the Modern Movement. The embassy in Dublin would come to embody both the aesthetic and diplomatic ideals of mid-century modern architecture. "A mannerist rotunda with an arcaded exterior, it is more void than solid, a sort of deconstructed Martello tower or hollowed-out ring fort" (O'Toole). Inspired by such Irish landmarks as the Celtic towers, Johansen used the cylindrical shape of the embassy as way to reconcile the newly implanted modern architecture with its historical context. Besides the integration of the past with the present, "openness was both a top design priority and a U.S. diplomatic objective" during the 1950s, and Johansen's continuous facade "which turns its back on nobody" supports this cause (O'Toole). In an era before the threat of attacks and the needed shift toward increased security at U.S. embassies, "embassy designs were to be friendly and inviting American buildings that also reflected the foreignness of faraway places," all of which are reflected in Johansen's final design (O'Toole). As stated in 1958 issue of Architectural Forum, the embassy design pleased the majority of Ireland's architects and calmed the residents of Dublin who were fearful that the "U.S. might import a metal-and-glass cube" but were instead presented with "a building that is polite without being condescending and that treats Dublin as a mature city worthy of the best that U.S. architecture has to offer" ("For Eire, a New Celtic Tower" 129).
The 1950s saw a renewed interest in foreign relations that resulted in a wave of new construction overseas lead by the State Department's Office of Foreign Building Operations (FBO). While the FBO was being hailed in 1957 for its most recent embassy projects in London, New Delhi, Baghdad, Accra, and Bangkok as architectural manifestations of U.S. foreign policy, an underlying current of political strife threatened to overturn the FBO and all of its recent achievements. William P. Hughes, Director of the FBO, was repeatedly denied funding from Congress from 1957 to 1962, "leaving [only] three potential funding sources: remaining counterpart funds; monies from the sale of surplus American agricultural products abroad; and profits from the sale of its existing properties" for the building program (Loeffler 219). Subsequently, the FBO had to drastically cut back its projected building plan, but one influential project remained on the books thanks to the sale of surplus property: the embassy in Dublin.
In 1955, a triangular site, formed by the intersection of Elgin and Pembroke Roads in the Ballsbridge area of Dublin, Ireland, was purchased by the FBO as the site for the new U.S. Embassy. By late 1956, the FBO had secured John M. Johansen as the embassy architect.
Johansen made his first design proposal in May 1957 to the FBO's Architectural Advisory Panel (AAP), whose membership included Pietro Belluschi, Edgar I. Williams, and Richard M. Bennett. The design consisted of "a skeleton frame and glass structure based on a square plan with an open interior court, a four-story building with the three upper stories treated as a single mass mounted over a ground-floor podium base" (Loeffler 222). The AAP flat out rejected the first proposal and asked Johansen to return with a revised design that incorporated their comments. A month later, Johansen returned with a revised set of drawings, but the AAP expressed continued disappointment in the schematic layout and instructed him to scrap the current design and start from scratch. The second design, presented in September 1957, was a hexagonal scheme that utilized "projecting balconies and vertical fins on the exterior" as modern sculptural details (Loeffler 222). Although better planned schematically, the AAP was unhappy with the presented proposal and granted Johansen permission to return yet again with an alternative design. His fourth proposal was an elaborated version of the previous hexagonal scheme, which received mixed reactions from the members of the AAP, including Eero Saarinen who had replaced Belluschi by this time. Ultimately, Hughes' loudly voiced opinion of distaste for the modern design forced Johansen to return once again to the drawing board. Another month passed and another new design was brought to the table, and once again, the AAP flat out rejected the design and its unacceptable use of "total glass on the ground floor" (Loeffler 223).
Finally, in May 1958, a year after the initial proposal, Johansen returned with a pleasing design. The cylindrical scheme, "inspired by Celtic towers and other landmark buildings in Dublin," brought renewed enthusiasm to the project from both Johansen and the AAP (Loeffler 223). Johansen had gained full support from the AAP and Hughes for his design, but the road to construction was blocked by Wayne Hays, the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee, and his onslaught of political warfare. Hays refused to provide funding for what he believed to be a hideous structure and used the project for his own personal vendetta with Hughes by circulating rumors to the press that "the State Department was in trouble as a result of its ugly and inappropriate architecture" that was being encouraged by Hughes (Loeffler 225). The project remained at a standstill until John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1961 and saw the embassy project as a means to improve foreign relations with Ireland and to highlight his own Irish heritage. Presented with two alternate facade designs (the original design supported by Hughes and Hays' own proposed facade design), the President personally selected the original design, and thus ended the exhaustive design process for the embassy. Construction began in 1962, and the embassy was opened in May 1964 to critical acclaim.
Despite the building's foreign location, the embassy in Dublin became one of the most controversial and talked about buildings of its period in the United States ("Architect behind American Embassy in Ballsbridge"). Stories of the political dissension between the FBO, AAP, and Congress and the exhaustive design studies performed by Johansen accumulated during the ten year battle for the building's construction, bringing the project to an international level of recognition and publication. Johansen was able to use the high profile nature of the project as an opportunity to push the limits of the newest building technologies, and in doing so, the building probably represents one of the last embassy designs where the architect was given "the luxury of being able to explore the sculptural possibilities of concrete or the ambiguities of glass" before the introduction of increased security (Loeffler 231). Despite the seemingly perpetual pending nature of the project, the building was completed and opened to international acclaim for its approach to integrating modern American architecture with the largely 19th century city of Dublin. As stated in Time magazine in 1964, "it bespeaks an understanding of the nation it was built to befriend" ("Architect Behind American Embassy in Ballsbridge"). An Taisce, the National Trust of Ireland, awarded the embassy one of its highest honors in 1969 "for effective development of a prominent corner site on a main city approach, for sympathy of scale with existing environment and interest of character, without imitation of surrounding buildings, and for integration with existing trees and street setting" (Leffler 231). The embassy was a successful realization of the FBO's design initiative during the 1950s and thus contributed to bringing the Modern Movement to Ireland's public.
John M. Johansen, a member of the "Harvard Five" and experimenter in residential architecture in Connecticut, was able to elevate his status as an architect of the Modern Movement with his design for the U.S. Embassy in Dublin ("Architect behind American Embassy in Ballsbridge"). "His influence on the avant garde of the next generation, including Archigram, Cedric Price, and Lebbeus Woods, was significant" ("Architect behind American Embassy in Ballsbridge"). The controversy of the project brought recognition to the Modern Movement and its defining architecture by bringing a diverse group of professionals to the table to discuss how American architecture should convey the country's diplomatic relationships overseas. Despite its recognized global importance, the building's fate hangs in the balance as officials discuss moving to a larger location. There is currently no protection of the building's architecture, as an active embassy can't be listed on the Record of Protected Structures in Dublin (Murphy). In 2009, Councilor Mary Freehill of the South-East Area Committee of the Dublin City Council motioned for support to put the embassy on the protected list for it "is one of the best examples of 1960s architecture" (Murphy). Of course, any type of decision is hinged on the future of the building's use. If the embassy is added to the list, "only minimal changes to the structure will be allowed under planning regulations" (Murphy).
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Team Garmin-Transitions, the leading professional cycling team dedicated to ethical sporting and developing the next generation of cycling champions, today unveiled its much-anticipated roster for the Tour Down Under. The roster features four Australians including Jack Bobridge, world U-23 time trial champion and Cameron Meyer, the newly crowned national time trial champion. Team Garmin-Transitions will be directed by Sport Director Matt White, also of Australia.
Jack Bobridge, AUS Julian Dean, NZ Robbie Hunter, SA Trent Lowe, AUS Christian Meier, CAN Cameron Meyer, AUS Matt Wilson, AUS
"We have an incredible group of riders lined up for this race," said Sport Director Matt White. "We'll be on the hunt for stage wins and potentially, the overall. We'll give fans the world over many reasons to cheer for these young guys – especially Cameron Meyer who, back from double shoulder surgery, won two track world cups and recently won the national time trial championship. And I am sure that Adelaide will be behind hometown hero Jack Bobridge, who will take the road in his first pro race with Garmin-Transitions."


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Lowndes County, GA - January 24, 2013 - Around 12pm on Wednesday multiple airmen on Moody got phone calls warning of an active shooter. It turns out those calls were meant for someone else.
Major Brian Loveless is in charge of security at Moody. He said "they were automated phone calls as part of an emergency response network. However I'm not prepared to discuss based on an ongoing investigation where those calls originated or how they originated." He also went on to say "they were originated by the military. We do not know the exact location which those calls came in from."
Things are moving quite smoothly at the main gate of Moody Air Force Base. It was a very different story Wednesday afternoon. That's when the roughly 5,000 people that work on the base were placed on lock down.
Lowndes County Sheriff Chris Prine said "they put Moody down on lock down until they could check things out and sweep the buildings and make sure there was not an active shooter there. Of course we were there on the scene also to assist in any way we could."
The Lowndes County Sheriff's Office said the calls originated from a different base and were meant as an exercise. There was no actual threat at any time.
The lock down took effect around 1:30PM and was lifted around 3PM on Wednesday.
Moody Air Force Base Release
MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. – Moody Air Force Base terminated lockdown procedures at approximately 3 p.m. today after determining a reported active shooter threat did not exist.
The active shooter report originated from an automated voice message received by several Airmen on Moody. The Airmen reported the phone calls to base emergency officials and lockdown procedures were implemented at approximately 1:25 p.m. Emergency personnel responded to the situation immediately and determined a threat did not exist.
"We take all active shooter reports seriously and I'm proud of the way our Airmen and everyone on base responded," said Col Billy Thompson, 23d Wing commander. "We also appreciate the partnership and support we received from the Lowndes County and Valdosta first responders as the situation developed."
Security Forces and Air Force Office of Special Investigations at Moody are investigating the source of the phone calls.
Moody AFB has resumed normal operations. All media queries should be directed to Moody AFB Public Affairs at (229)-257-4146.
Lowndes County Sheriff's Office Release
On Wednesday afternoon deputies took a call for assistance from Moody Air Force Base who was responding to what was believed to be an active shooter on the base.
Deputies and members of the Sheriff's Office Special Response Team staged near the base but were released around 3:00 when an all clear was given.
Sheriff Prine indicated that after communicating with the base command staff it was determined that the call was a hoax and all civilian personnel were cleared from the area.
An investigation is being conducted by Air Force authorities.
By: Eames Yates
Valdosta, GA - Around 12 pm today multiple officials on Moody Air Force Base got phone calls hearing a computer generated voice that said there was an active shooter on the North end of the base.
The base went in to lockdown around 1:30 pm.
That lockdown was terminated around 3pm.
At this time there is no evidence that there was an actual active shooter. No shots were fired and there were no injuries.
Moody Air Force Base 23d Wing Public Affairs Release
MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. – Moody Air Force Base activated lockdown procedures at approximately 1:25 p.m. today due to a reported threat on base. Emergency personnel responded to the situation immediately and determined a threat did not exist.
The situation is secure and all personnel outside of the immediate area were released from lockdown at 2:55 p.m.
Further information will be released as it becomes available. All media queries should be directed to Moody AFB Public Affairs at (229)-257-4146.
Moody Office of Public Affairs reports that there was a threat reported around 1pm this afternoon.
As a precautionary measure, the base immediately went on lockdown.
Officials with Moody AFB confirm no shots were fired and there were no injuries. At this time, there were only reports of a threat.
At around 3 pm that lockdown was terminated.
Valdosta, GA - Moody Air Force Base is no longer on lockdown.
According to the Lowndes County Sheriff's Office, the Sheriff's Office was dispatched to Moody AFB after a 911 call, they were told there was a supposed active shooter on the base.
So far, that information is unfounded and the Sheriff's Office has left Moody AFB.
WCTV will bring you more information tonight on Eyewitness News.
Moody Air Force Base Facebook Post
Team Moody personnel and families - at approximately 1:25 p.m. today the base activated lockdown procedures due to a perceived threat. Emergency personnel responded to the situation immediately and the scene is secure. No casualties have been reported. As a safety measure, the base is still on lockdown. More information will be released as it becomes available.
Valdosta, GA - Georgia State Patrol cars are parked outside of MAFB on Bemiss Rd. Cars are at a dead stop trying to get on base. All cars are at a dead stop.
Valdosta, GA - An official at Moody Air Force Base confirmed that there is a situation involving an active shooter on the Base. Moody is currently on lockdown. The incident began around 1pm.
Moody Air Force Base officials report that no shots have been fired at this time and there have been no injuries.
WCTV will bring you more information on this developing story as it becomes available.


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Sooo...Everyday is different, but I have 6 kids under 11 (but not for long!). My oldest has a variety of health needs, and my 6 year old son has bipolar disorder, sensory processing disorder and ADHD and needs careful watching.
My oldest is an early bird, so she my husband and I meet in the kitchen between 6 and 7 for coffee/tea and watch the sunrise through our big window. My husband leaves for work around 7:30. While we're waiting for everyone else to wake up, my oldest and will chat, usually in English, but sometimes in ASL (which we've been learning for about 4 years now), or Italian, which we've both recently taken an interest in learning.
Usually by 8 everyone else is up except my 6 y/o, who will sleep in until 9 or 9:30. I make breakfast, get the kids to help me clean up, and send them to play, preferably outside. (we live on almost an acre and a half of gorgeous land).
We might have doctor's appointments during the day. Lydia and Ella both have dance or gymnastics one day a week, Nick has OT once a week and Wednesday 10-2 we have co-op.
If we're not busy, I encourage lots and lots of active, imaginative play. We live near a nice playground and often have play dates there. My older two girls (10 and 5) are especially creative and spend a lot of time crafting, drawing, writing, reading and making art. They all love to ride their bikes in the driveway, climb trees and explore whatever they can. We never get bored here!
My day is mostly spend monitoring blood sugars (my DD is a diabetic), breaking up arguments, making food, chasing little ones, reading Narnia or Cat in The Hat for the millionth time and being amazed at the wonder of these kids.
As far as "School work", I feel like they pick a lot of it up naturally. Math, for example, is highly involved in what we do, especially cooking, which the kids love to be a part of. I'll ask my 8 year old to measure a cup of flour and hand him the 1/3 cup. I'll ask my 5 year old to get my three oranges. The carb counting and insulin dosing calculations required to feed Ella involves fairly complicated algebra that my almost-11 year old is awesome at.
We have 2 computers, a piano, two guitars, art supplies and hundreds upon hundreds of books lying around. The kids spend a lot of time listening to me or daddy play music, listening to their own music, experimenting by themselves and playing. We read like crazy. My 6 year old is learning phonics, the little ones like to be read to and my 5, 8 and 10 year olds are veracious readers. We also have subscriptions to National Geographic Kids, Cricket and Cobblestone and frequent the local library.
The only things I do require out of my kids school-wise is Nick's sensory work. I spend about 30-45 minutes a day, often broken up into 5-10 minute stretches of fine motor and sensory exercises.
WOW. that seems like a lot all written out but most of it is playing, doing and being.
My husband gets home around 6 every night, we have dinner about 6:30, and the kids go to bed between 8:30 and 9:30.
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Describe your average homeschool day and give new homeschoolers an idea of what to expect!
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Nick, age 6
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Ella, age 10
Caleb, age 8
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Lydia, age 5
Adam, age 3
Linnea-Claire, age 20 months
Wow!! I love hearing how big families homeschool. I have 8 kids and the oldest turned 12 in May. Sometimes I simply feel like the ring leader at the circus!! Thanks for sharing. We love to do field trips and activities like the Amazing Race. http://blog.denschool.com/?s=amazing+race
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Thanks Slowhatch. I was just going to start looking for Arsalan......it makes a lot more sense now. This was on Dec 1 after the check in in Kolkata. The episode makes it look like it is on Dec 2 when teams are waiting to fly to Delhi/Varanasi. It just didnt make sense to me for Ron/Christina to go the airport in Kolkata, buy tickets, and then drive back to town to eat dinner. The editors are sure adding a "lot" to the episodes this race.
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Early in 2012, The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ Facebook page was launched. Featuring a new Amazing Species every week and sharing the latest IUCN Red List news, the page is a new way for people to engage with The IUCN Red List. As the year draws to a close we have compiled a list of the five most popular posts.
First place goes to a Chinese Pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) - announcing the launch of IUCN's Species Survival Commission's (SSC) Pangolin Specialist Group website. Pangolins are an unusual looking group of insect-eating mammals that are covered in scales and found in Asia and Africa. However, pangolins in Asia are threatened by poaching for illegal international trade as their meat is considered a delicacy and their scales are used in traditional Chinese medicine. The IUCN SSC Pangolin Specialist Group are working to raise awareness of pangolins, carry out scientific research and develop conservation strategies.
The second most popular post is a photo of a species that looks remarkably similar to a pangolin, but in fact is not related. Curled up into a protective ball, a Three-banded Armadillo (Tolypeutes tricinctus) caught the attention of many people and is set to become even more famous as it has been chosen as the mascot of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Listed as Vulnerable on The IUCN Red List, this species is threatened by heavy hunting pressure and habitat loss but it is hoped that being selected as the next FIFA World Cup mascot will help raise awareness of this species and initiate more conservation action.
On-the-ground conservation success is the focus of the third most popular post of 2012. Thanks to the efforts of the Blue Iguana Recovery Programme, the Grand Cayman Blue Iguana (Cyclura lewisi) was downlisted from Critically Endangered to Endangered on The IUCN Red List in October. In 2002 there were only between 10 and 25 Grand Cayman Blue Iguanas left in the wild but today there are an estimated 750 individuals and conservationists are confident that a long term goal of restoring at least 1,000 Grand Cayman Blue Iguanas to the wild will be accomplished.
Another unusual looking species took the number four spot. The Narrowsnout Sawfish (Pristis zijsron) is a marine species with a saw-like beak called a rostrum and is just one of seven species of sawfish listed on The IUCN Red List. There was once a time when so many sawfishes were caught in areas of Pakistan that people made fences with the rostrums but today all seven species are listed as Critically Endangered. In an effort to stop these spectacular species disappearing from our oceans forever the IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group gathered a group of experts at the IUCN 2012 World Conservation Congress to share information about the best ways to raise awareness and implement a conservation strategy that has been developed by the Specialist Group.
An info-graphic designed by the IUCN SSC Grasshopper Specialist Group comparing a grasshopper, a katydid and a mantis to mammals is the fifth most popular post on The IUCN Red List Facebook page. The info-graphic highlights how varied and interesting invertebrates can be and includes; the Rhinoceros Katydid (Copiphora rhinoceros) which is green, eats snails and has a horn; a Monkey Grasshopper (Euschmidtia congana) with large eyes; and a Tiger Mantis (Omomantis zebrata) with stripes!
In 2013 The IUCN Red List Facebook page will continue to share the latest IUCN Red List news about animals, plants and fungi as well the best species and conservation news from IUCN and the IUCN SSC Specialist Groups. If you would like to join the IUCN Red List Facebook community, you can find us at www.facebook.com/iucn.red.list.


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T-Mobile takes on patsy role in Microsoft Sidekick fallout
Danger: No services for next $100
T-Mobile plans to compensate all Sidekick customers who lost their data following the extremely embarrassing server outage at Microsoft's subsidiary company Danger on 2 October.
The telecoms giant, which markets and distributes the device, is offering Sidekick users who suffered a "significant and permanent" loss of personal data a $100 "customer appreciation" voucher.
Sidekick maker Danger was bought by Microsoft in 2008, since when its servers and backup devices have operated at Redmond data centres.
It's not clear how many Sidekick customers were affected by the major server cockup, but what is surprising is the fact that T-Mobile - rather than Microsoft-Danger - has taken the hit from the epic data loss fallout, even though it had no control over how the backend was managed.
Microsoft said in a vague statement on Tuesday that there was still a chance of data recovery for Sidekick customers, however it didn't reveal how much content could be reinstated.
"We, however, remain hopeful that personal content can be recovered for the majority of our customers," said Redmond.
Meanwhile, T-Mobile's "customer appreciation" voucher will be coughed up in addition to the free month of data service (worth around $20) that unhappy Sidekick punters have already been given.
Microsoft admitted earlier in the week that a "confluence of errors" from the server failure hit Danger's main and backup databases, causing the deeply shameful cloud computing data collapse. ®


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Steve Bannon Steps Down From Breitbart Post
Mr. Bannon, closely associated with the right-wing news site in recent years, has lost support with conservative backers as President Trump denounced him.
Updated: March 1, 2012
Andrew Breitbart, a conservative commentator and Web entrepreneur, established his Web site, BigGovernment.com, as the place to go with tidbits of a scandal in the making. Part performance artist, part polemicist, he used his network of Web sites and their legions of followers to bring conservative media red meat.
On March 1, 2012, an executive with his company announced that Mr. Breitbart had died overnight. An "in memoriam'' notice was posted on biggovernment.com saying that Mr. Breitbart had "passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight."
Mr. Breitbart had become one of the early — and most controversial — users of blogs to disseminate political information and rumors. Mr. Breitbart quickly associated himself with Matt Drudge, the founder of the conservative Drudge Report Web site.
He worked for Mr. Drudge while also helping to direct stories from Mr. Drudge's popular aggregator site to his own, Breitbart.com. Since those early days, Mr. Breitbart's web empire has expanded to include a network of companion sites, including Big Government, Big Journalism and Big Hollywood.
In 2009, he promoted videos that ultimately brought down Acorn, the community organizing group. In June 2011, it was his publication of salacious pictures sent online by Rep. Anthony D. Weiner, a Brooklyn Democrat, that appeared to push Mr. Weiner into admitting that he had indeed sent the suggestive photos posted earlier on his site. The congressman later resigned.
Mr. Breitbart made use Mr. Weiner's public confession as an occasion for image-adjustment of his own, briefly commandeering the lectern at Mr. Weiner's own news conference. "I'm here for some vindication," he said.
But before vindication, he sought legitimacy from the same mainstream media he regularly assails. For the revelations about the congressman, Mr. Breitbart partnered with ABC News, which interviewed Megan Broussard, a woman who had come forward about an online relationship with Mr. Weiner, and had published its own account.
Mr. Breitbart, whose credibility had earlier been damaged by his release of a selectively edited tape of Shirley Sherrod, an Agriculture Department official, said he felt ABC News could help the Weiner story rise to something more than a scandal flamed by the conservative blogosphere.
Mr. Breibart grew up in West Los Angeles among many of the liberal types he now pillories. That gives him a certain credibility among fans who see his as a redemption case. "I admit it, I'm from L.A. I still am shallow. Don't anyone think otherwise. It's part of the experience out there," he said in a speech at RightOnline, bringing the audience to its feet.
After graduating from Tulane University in New Orleans, he drifted around Los Angeles looking for a career. Arianna Huffington gave him his first big break in media when she hired him as her researcher in 1997. Matt Drudge, a mutual friend who ran an online newsletter and Web site about politics and Hollywood gossip, had introduced them.
He would later go to work for Mr. Drudge, helping him manage The Drudge Report. He gained a Web following of his own by routing articles featured on The Drudge Report through his own Web site, Breitbart.com. Then in 2004, Ms. Huffington called. "Do you have any ideas for a Web site?" he recalls her asking. He helped her introduce the site but left after a few months.
He may not have liked the politics, but he embraced the model of assembling a nationwide network of mostly unpaid contributors.
Path to Conservative Blogosphere
The stories and videos Mr. Breitbart plays up on his Web sites — which include Big Government, Big Journalism and Big Hollywood — tend to act as political Rorschach tests. If you agree with him, you think what he does is citizen journalism. If you don't, his work is little more than crowd-sourced political sabotage that freely distorts the facts.
Conservative media does not lack for big personalities (see: Limbaugh, Rush; Beck, Glenn; or Coulter, Ann). But where Mr. Breitbart stands out is through his accessibility. He gives out his cellphone number in speeches and passes along his personal e-mail address to almost anyone who asks. If you write him, chances are you will hear back.
Mr. Breitbart's relationship with the media has usually been one of adversary. In 2010, he was offering $100,000 to anyone who handed over the archives of a private e-mail list for journalists that includes some 400 people, many of them well-known Washington reporters.
In July 2010, he posted a misleading and highly edited video of Shirley Sherrod, the head of the Department of Agriculture's rural development office in Georgia, that led to her forced resignation.
The video clip showed Ms. Sherrod, in a two-and-a-half-minute clip speaking at an N.A.A.C.P. event in Douglas, Ga., in March. Ms. Sherrod seemed to explain that she discriminated against a white farmer 24 years ago.
But the full video made it clear that Ms. Sherrod went on to say that she had learned from working with the farmer that all people must overcome their prejudices.
The racially charged controversy illustrated the influence of right-wing Web sites like the one run by Mr. Breitbart. Mr. Breitbart later said the video clip had been sent to him already edited.
After the details about the video emerged, pretty much everyone had egg on their face, from conservative bloggers and pundits who first pushed the inaccurate story to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who had ordered Ms. Sherrod's firing. President Obama reached Ms. Sherrod by telephone on July 22 to express his "regret" about the events.
In 2009 Mr. Breibart also released undercover video of Acorn workers offering advice on how to evade taxes and conceal child prostitution. After the videos went viral Congress ended grants to Acorn, and federal agencies severed ties with the group.


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As Robin Roberts pretended to interview Britton at the middle school where she teaches US history, students behind her revealed a sign reading "Will you marry me?"
At that exact moment, a visibly nervous Batlle appeared with a ring, got down on one knee and popped the question. Nice job, Logan! You've just made married men everywhere look bad.
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Agriculture is back bone of the economy of the Country. Ever since creatures came into being, they have started fulfillments of their requirements form the Cultivation and farming. Bamyan is the central province of Afghanistan famous for major Production of Potatoes in the terrain. It is one of the Major sources of Farmers dependability for self suffiency in terms of earning livelihood.
Today in the green meadows of the Village Baresona farmers were celebrating the Potato Harvesting Festival. Everyone seems to be energized this morning. Governor of the Bamyan was there to wellcome the Mr.ASif Rahimmi head of Ministry of Agriculture Irrigation and Livestock for Afghanistan
Formal Program:
The program started with the recitation of the "Holy Quran". Participants were from various Governmental and NGOs.
- Ministry of Agriculture Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL)
- Ministry of Finance
- Directorate of Agriculture Irrigation and Livestock(DAIL)
- Afgha Khan Foundation Bamyan
- On farm water management Program, Bamyan
- National Horticulture Program, Bamyan
- Dutch Committee for Afghanistan
- Bamyan Provincial Cooperatives members
- Bamyan Provincial Shuura Members and Representatives
- Agriculture Fund for Development (ADF) team ,Kabul
- Directorate of Women Affairs, Bamyan.
- Dean of the Bamyan (Agriculture Faculty) University.
Governor of the Bamyan:
Mrs.Habiba Sarobi warmly welcomed the guests, and enlightened the role of Potato producers on Bamyan and Afghanistan Economy, Role of the Bamyan Provincial government in the Field of Agriculture and Potato Production and Storage.
Facts and figures are as follows:
- Bamyan has 1200 Potato storage houses.
- Hazard management strategies
- Quality Seed to improve to improve the Production.
- Conducting survey for Brucellosis
DAIL Director: (Engineer Atai)
The facts about the agriculture in the Bamyan has been stated as follows (2013)
- In Mullah Ghulam Village(Bamyan) a Pack house for Potato is under construction (400 meters Square area)
- Seed for 500m Autumn and Spring season has distributed
- Bamyan has 35 Carrez systems
- 7000 posters has been distributed for Q-fever
- 200 animals blood Samples has been taken (Brucellosis)
- 400 Human being blood samples has been taken (Brucellosis)
- 1,49006 Animals has been vaccinated
- 197,800 animal has been deformed
- 24 Tractors has been Distributed among the farmers (Cooperatives)
- 112 Million Afghanis cash has been Given to the 44 Cooperatives (microfinance )
- 80 pack houses has been constructed in Punjab district
- 300 pipe lines has been fixed for water supply in Mullah Ghulam Village
- 6000 Animals has been vaccinated against Brucellosis
- 25 hector land has been covered by NHLP program
- Zoonotic Committee has been established in Bamyan in 2013.
- At the end of the Year we will participate in on the Wheat campaign in Bamyan Prance
Cooperatives President Bamyan Province: (Haq Jo)
Management team has been represented by Mr.Haq Jo
He has mentioned the Following facts and figures:
- Bamyan has 182 cooperatives units of male members
- 5 females' cooperatives in Bamyan, 2 of them working on potato chips production unit in Punjab.
- 67 (in 2012 )million Afghanis have been given as a loan to the Cooperatives members
- Under the supervision of Cooperatives Units we have 1300 Beneficiaries.
- We need access to the market for Dairy and Agricultural products.
- We need a pack house or storage house in Kabul(to minimize the production loss)
- Proper Loan provision system
ADF Repsentatives:
In the last year the the loan that we had provided 65-67 million and this year we will increase it up to 112 million Afghnis
MAIL Minister:
Mr.Asif rahimi has emphasized on the three aspects for better economy
- Food
- Agriculture
- Economy
To improve the above mentioned items we should have the following four important factors under consideration:
- Water management
- Micro finance
- Modern Technology
- Access to the Market
He encouraged the farmers and realized them that their role in economy, "we are all depending upon your hard work and Cultivation practices" Mr.Asif rahimi Said while addressing to the farmers.
Closing Ceremony:
Mr.Asif rahimi and Bamyan governor has been award with souvenir and Followers and graced with honorary Certificates by the members of the Shurras Heads and cooperatives Representatives


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- One might almost say that the plant is the framework, the foundation of the animal, and that to form the animal it sufficed to cover this foundation with a system of organs fitted to establish relations consists forms with the world outside. It follows of the succession substance of the animal form two quite distinct classes. One class in a continual into its own assimilation molecules that the functions and of excretion; through these functions the animal incessantly transsurrounding bodies, later to reject these molecules when they have become heterogeneous to it. Through this first class of functions the animal exists only within itself; through the other class it exists outside; it is an inhabitant of the world, and not, like the plant, of the place which saw its birth. The animal feels and perceives its surroundings, reflects its sensations, moves of its own will under their influence, and, as a rule, can communicate by its voice its desires and its fears, its pleasures or its pains. I call organic life the sum of the functions of the former class, for all organised creatures, plants or animals, possess them to a more or less marked degree, and organised structure is the sole condition necessary to their exercise. The combined functions of the second class form the ' animal' life named because it is the exclusive attribute of the animal kingdom.
- Recherches Physiologiques sur la Vie et la Mort (1800), pp. 2-3


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- The photograph shows a young dancer in the centre of the stage, surrounded by members of the broadcast crew, the director, lighting and sound technicians and cameraman. The filming of these scenes took place in the Theatre in Alexandra Palace.
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They're closing her today, making room for the future.
The fairways were wide and the greens were forgiving and that's all anyone can ever ask of a course, isn't it?
I learned the game there, walking, with a cheap second-hand set of rusty irons and persimmon woods from the local golf shop. On those stretches of grass, I grew from a knobby-kneed featherweight into the slightly heavier man I am today. My neck was beaten with rays of sweet Carolina sunshine into a tan that will never fade as long as there is summer and golf courses. My forearms grew to proportions I can only imagine Arnold Palmer would be in awe of. So did my vocabulary. That old course broke my heart more times than I care to mention. Especially the fourth hole, because it was practically drivable, except when it wasn't.
That old course also healed my broken heart too many times to count. When life was too much, it was there for me. I remember long rounds under the setting sun, when every trouble fell away and all that was left was the course, and a young man with a soul laid bare and thrown with unmatched passion into every swing of the club.
I remember crisp breezes in the fall — the kind of breeze that snaps the flag on the green loud enough to hear at the tee. I remember playing in the rain and one particular time in the snow. I remember breaking a driver over my knee.
I remember the first time I ever played real, grown-up, golf. It was on the old course, with my best friend in the world. We've played so many rounds there since that one. Today, we played our last. We found ourselves growing on the course, we had conversations about girls. We laughed, and I'm not afraid to admit that we cried. We smoked our first cigars on that course and pretended to be like the old rich men we so admired.
Lots of things changed between the time I first played there and the last. I got my first girlfriend, got my first car, first job, high school diploma and endured my first heartbreak. But that old course never really changed. She waited for me when I went away for awhile after graduation and when I quit golf those few times. And every time I came back, it was like I had never left. That golf course was a home to me in ways that no place will ever be again.
I remember the first time I ever eagled that long par-5. I was 17, and I hit a terrible drive. Any other course and I would have given up then, taken my double bogey on the chin and gone home. But then that breeze came up, and I heard it whisper to me. So I found my ball in the trees and I hit a 3-wood off of the pine needles. I don't usually get spiritual about golf, but it was magnificent. It sailed through the branches, and bounced up onto the green, leaving a three footer for eagle.
I was scared that I would miss the putt, but the old course wanted me to understand something that day, something I learned to apply in golf and in life. On that day, and on every day, that course taught me to play and to live with conviction. I made my line, and I stroked that putt towards the cup. I closed my eyes and waited. Dead center. I heard it, the noise of it dropping. The type of noise that lets you know that God is there, and that he loves you enough to let you play golf one more time.
Sleep well, Highland Lake... thank you for everything.
Mr. Hasan is a recent graduate and aspiring writer. He's a proud son of North Carolina, and an avid golfer. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com
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I am so excited to be teaming up with IKEA to promote the Nordic diet in Australia. Ever since I started this blog back in 2009, I have been doing my bit to help spread the word about the Scandinavian way of eating. Time and time again, I have mentioned the health benefits of a traditional Nordic diet, which includes plenty of seafood, game meat, wild berries and mushrooms and other fresh, seasonal ingredients. There is so much goodness packed into the cornerstones of the Nordic diet that it is about time we start taking real action towards making it familiar to the larger public.
We all know how ingenious IKEA is in its approach to furniture, and I've always been impressed by their selection of Nordic food as well. I love finding familiar ingredients and I always stock up on a few key products for our home: different types of herring to have with knackebrod, lingonberry jam to have with pretty much everything and those handy bread mixes for long weekend breakfasts.
In this three part series "The New Nordic Diet & IKEA", I'll share recipes using some of those ingredients found at IKEA. I'm starting off with a traditional salmon soup. This is a great dish for the cooler autumn nights we're heading towards. It's simple food and quick to prepare. If you're keen to make it that extra bit healthier, just leave out the cream and make a clear soup instead. Add seasonal vegetables like carrots and swede, and use fresh herbs for flavour. Knackebrod with cheese is a perfect companion for the soup. I can't even imagine having it without some on the side.
Creamy Salmon Soup
(serves 4)
1 litre of water or fish stock
10-15 whole peppercorns
1/2 teaspoon (or to taste) salt
1 onion, finely chopped
6-7 potatoes, peeled and cut to chunks
500g salmon fillet, cut into bite sized pieces
300ml cream
a whole bunch of dill, finely chopped
knackebrod, to serve
cheese, to serve
1. Add water or stock, peppercorns, salt and onion to a large casserole. Bring to boil and simmer for 5 minutes.
2. Add potatoes and simmer for 10-15 minutes or until the potatoes are half-cooked.
3. Add salmon and simmer on low heat for a further 10-15 minutes or until the fish has cooked through. Finally add cream and let the soup come to a boil. Turn off the heat, add chopped dill and serve with knackebrod and cheese.


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Pinehurst police arrested one man after a traffic stop led to the discovery of methamphetamine, officers report.
According to a news release from the Pinehurst Police Department, On Tuesday, May 6, Officer Leonard Roff conducted a traffic stop in the 600 block of Strickland Drive. Upon obtaining consent to search the vehicle, Officer Roff located a small metal tin that contained two clear, plastic bags containing a crystal-like substance that he believed to be methamphetamine. The driver, 31-year-old Randy Reed of Spurger, was placed under arrest for Possession of a Controlled Substance. He was transported to the Orange County Jail where he was later released after posting a $1500.00 bond.
The offense is a State Jail Felony punishable by up to 2 years in a state jail and a $10,000 fine.


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