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Section 6 continues the discussion of data
collection methods. This time—surveys.
Read about the toolkit.
Surveys are useful for collecting more quantitative data (e.g., numerical counts, frequencies, percentages). This webpage on surveys addresses:
- When surveys are useful
- How will you collect the data?
- Establishing the baseline
- Advantages
- Disadvantages
- Guidelines
- Example of a target audience website survey
When surveys are useful
Surveys can be a good method for collecting data about needs, experiences with program implementation, as well as outcomes – including how target audiences have benefited and used information and resources disseminated to them. Surveys are also useful in assessing:
- attitudes,
- decisions that participants have made,
- behaviors and practices,
- lifestyle choices,
- affiliations (e.g., with disability groups), and
- demographics (e.g., specific disabilities).
Surveys are often used with larger number of participants than is the case with focus groups or individual interviews. For example, surveys can more easily be fielded to hundreds or even thousands of persons (via websites, email links to SurveyMonkey) in one or more of your target audience groups, in an effort to get larger and even representative samples – and at potentially lower costs than conducting numerous interviews or focus groups.
How will you collect the data?
Surveys can be conducted via regular mail, telephone, face-to-face, email, and the web.
While web-based surveys have become increasingly popular, they may result in lower response rates that face-to-face and telephone surveys. Nevertheless, web surveys can be less costly than other survey approaches, but are limited to those with internet access.
Establishing the baseline
Surveys are also a good evaluation method for establishing baselines against which future comparisons can be made and to analyze trends across time (e.g., compare the information needs of parent support groups from year to year; identify changes that may have occurred in the instructional practices of teachers who participated in a training).
Advantages of surveys
Can be fairly easy to administer – in person, on-line, via email.
May be less expensive and demanding on personnel resources than other methods such as interviews or focus groups.
Can be administered to large numbers of persons, and particularly useful in situations when persons are geographically dispersed.
A great deal of information can be gathered in a relatively short period of time, and survey data can be aggregated and analyzed by computer processing.
Can eliminate or greatly minimize the potential for sidetracking or collection of less relevant information than can occur in other, more interactive methods (e.g., interviews and focus groups).
May be viewed by respondents as a much more confidential data collection process (compared to interviews and focus groups), thus encouraging respondents to provide more accurate and honest responses.
Disadvantages of surveys
The survey development process can be complex and time consuming, especially if there is need to collect a substantial amount of information.
If a survey is very short, it may not elicit much useful information. If it is too lengthy, respondents may not take the time to complete the entire survey.
There may be a lack of assurance that the survey questions or items were accurately understood by participants; however, pilot testing can help to alleviate this potential problem.
Responses to open-ended questions may be difficult and time consuming to analyze and summarize.
Low participation rates can result in a non-representative response rate, thus compromising interpretation of findings and use of results.
Use structured questions, with fixed-choice response options, rather than unstructured or open-ended ones in order to obtain uniformity and consistency in responses; this will assist in the analysis of survey responses. Where appropriate, supplement structured questions with open-ended ones to obtain more "indepth" responses.
When developing survey questions and items, the following should be considered:
1. Clarity is essential; avoid ambiguous items and wording.
2. Shorter, more concise items are preferable to longer items as they are usually easier to understand.
3. Avoid "double-barreled" items, which require the participants to respond to two or more separate ideas with a single answer.
4. Avoid highly technical terms or jargon.
5. Avoid biased or leading questions.
Pilot test the survey, with a small sample of individuals, to eliminate ambiguous or biased items, improve sequencing of questions and items, improve format, and ensure that overall length is appropriate.
Include introductory language, either written or verbal, that tells participants the purpose of the survey and assures them that their responses are confidential.
Include a seslf-addressed, stamped return envelope with "regular" mail surveys to boost response rates.
Send reminders–-one or more follow-ups—to participants. Reminders are usually needed to increase response rates.
Provide an incentive (e.g., free materials, small amount of money) to participants, if possible, to boost return rates.
If possible, complement the survey method with a qualitative method (e.g., interviews, focus groups), to obtain more "in-depth" information on topics covered in the survey.
Abbreviated example of a target audience website survey
Editor's note: You may find it easier to read a PDF version of this example. If so, we're pleased to offer it as stand-alone pages and as part of the full evaluation toolkit (see pages 19-22). Here's the example of a target audience website survey, taken from NICHCY's own website:
Recently you visited our project website. Our project provides information and resources on disabilities and special education. We would like to ask you to spend about 5-10 minutes answering a few questions about your experience on our website. Your responses to this questionnaire are completely confidential and will not be disclosed to others. Data from individual responses will be combined with many others to produce reports.
This questionnaire data collection, supported by the Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education, is intended to assist our project in obtaining information from which to improve services. If you have questions about this data collection, please contact [person's name] at [phone number] or at [person's email address].
1. What type of information were you looking for on our website, today or on any previous visits to the website? (Check all that apply)
Information about….
___ My own disability
___ A family member's disability
___ The disability of a person who's not a family member
___ Early intervention services
___ Special education
___ Adult services for persons with disabilities
___ Disability laws (e.g., Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)
___ Resources in my state
___ Cannot remember
___ Other; please specify ______
2. Please indicate your level of agreement with each of the following statements about the information you obtained from our website, today and from any previous visits to the website.
Editor's note: The "level of agreement" choices are listed next to each item and offer respondents these options: Strongly Agree | Somewhat Agree | Somewhat Disagree | Strongly Disagree| Not applicable/Not sure
The information was/is…
___ easy to access
___ easy to understand
___ relevant to an issue, need or concern I have
___ useful and applicable within my professional and/or personal life
___ of high quality
___ informative about resources available to address my needs
___ informative about where to go for more or different types of information
3. Have you made use of the information or resources from our website (e.g., from past visits to the website)? (Check only one response)
___ Yes (go to Question 4 )
___ Not yet, but I still intend to do so (go to Question 6)
___ No, and I don't intend to use the information (go to Question 7)
4. If yes, please indicate how you have used information or resources from our website. (Check all that apply)
___ I've used it in my personal life.
___ I've shared/used it with my family members
___ I've shared/used it with those who provide education and/or services to me or a family member
___ I've used it my professional work
___ I've shared it with professional colleagues
4a. Briefly describe how you used the information you found on our website.
5. Please indicate your level of agreement with each of the following statements. Please select "Not applicable" if an item does not apply to you (e.g., you are not a parent of a child with a disability).
Editor's note: The "level of agreement" choices are listed next to each item and offer respondents these options: Strongly Agree | Somewhat Agree | Somewhat Disagree | Strongly Disagree| Not applicable/Not sure
Because of the information/resources I found on the website, I have….
___ Learned more about specific disabilities or disability topics.
___ (Parents) Been more able to help my child with schoolwork.
___ (Parents) Been more able to help my child improve his/her behavior.
___ (Parent) Been more able to work with staff at my child's school.
___ (School staff) Provided better instruction or services to students.
___ (Administrators) Provided better programs for those with disabilities.
6. If you intend to use the information from our website at some time in the future, how do you think you'll use it? (Check all that apply)
___ I'll use it in my personal life.
___ I'll share/use it with my family members
___ I'll share/use it with those who provide education and/or services to me or a family member
___ I'll use it in my professional work
___ I'll share it with professional colleagues
___ Not sure
6a. Briefly describe how you intend to use the information you found on our website.
7. Please indicate your reason(s) for not intending to use the information. (Check all that apply)
___ I didn't intend to find information for a specific use when I visited the website
___ I don't know how to use the information I obtained
___ I am waiting to see if I need to use the information I obtained
___ I got more useful information from another source
___ Other (please specify) ____________
8. How likely are you to visit our website again? (Check only one response)
___ Very likely
___ Somewhat likely
___ Somewhat unlikely
___ Very unlikely
___ Not sure
9. How likely are you to use our website as your main stop for information on special education/disabilities? (Check only one response)
___ Very likely
___ Somewhat likely
___ Somewhat unlikely
___ Very unlikely
___ Not sure
10. Would you recommend our website to others who might benefit from information on special education/disabilities? (Check only one response)
___ Yes, definitely
___ Yes, probably
___ No, probably not
___ No, definitely not
11. What suggestions, if any, do you have regarding changes, enhancements or improvements to our website?
12. Which of the following best describe(s) you? (Check all that apply)
___ 1. Early intervention provider (Birth to 2 yrs)
___ 2. Preschool staff (3-5 yrs)
___ 3. K-12 general education teacher
___ 4. K-12 special education teacher
___ 5. Related services provider (e.g., OT, PT, Reading Specialist, Counselor)
___ 6. Education, other school personnel (e.g., Teachers Aide; paraprofessional)
___ 7. K-12 student
___ 8. School administrator
___ 9. State education agency staff
___ 10. Local education agency staff
___ 11. Federal agency staff
___ 12. Person with a disability
___ 13. Parent/family member
___ 14. Post-secondary education faculty
___ 15. College/university student
___ 16. Parent organization staff
___ 17. Organization, disability
___ 18. Other; please specify ________________________________
13. Would you like to receive our monthly eNewsletter, which contains up-to-date information on issues and resources related to special education and disabilities? If so, please provide your email address below.
Your email address: __________________
Thank you very much for responding to this questionnaire. Your feedback is very important to us.
Suggested citation
This webpage is an excerpt from the evaluation toolkit produced by NICHCY. The suggested citation is:
To the entire toolkit
Sawyer, R. (2012). Toolkit for the OSEP TA & D network on how to evaluate dissemination: A component of the dissemination initiative. Washington, DC: National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities.
To this section/webpage on conducting surveys as a data collection method
Sawyer, R. (2012). Surveys. In Toolkit for the OSEP TA & D network on how to evaluate dissemination: A component of the dissemination initiative (pp. 17-22). Washington, DC: National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities.
What section of the toolkit would you like to read now?
An Approach to Evaluating Dissemination
Surveys (you're already here!)


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Problem solving is at the heart of the NRICH site. All the problems
give learners opportunities to learn, develop or use mathematical
concepts and skills. Read here for more information.
A blue coin rolls round two yellow coins which touch. The coins are
the same size. How many revolutions does the blue coin make when it
rolls all the way round the yellow coins? Investigate for a. . . .
This shape comprises four semi-circles. What is the relationship
between the area of the shaded region and the area of the circle on
AB as diameter?
Choose any two numbers. Call them a and b. Work out the arithmetic mean and the geometric mean. Which is bigger? Repeat for other pairs of numbers. What do you notice?
The picture illustrates the sum 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = (4 x 5)/2. Prove the general formula for the sum of the first n natural numbers and the formula for the sum of the cubes of the first n natural. . . .
Can you see how this picture illustrates the formula for the sum of
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This article invites you to get familiar with a strategic game called "sprouts". The game is simple enough for younger children to understand, and has also provided experienced mathematicians with. . . .
Explain why, when moving heavy objects on rollers, the object moves
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It is obvious that we can fit four circles of diameter 1 unit in a square of side 2 without overlapping. What is the smallest square into which we can fit 3 circles of diameter 1 unit?
What happens to the perimeter of triangle ABC as the two smaller
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Prove that the shaded area of the semicircle is equal to the area of the inner circle.
Three frogs hopped onto the table. A red frog on the left a green in the middle and a blue frog on the right. Then frogs started jumping randomly over any adjacent frog. Is it possible for them to. . . .
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Mark a point P inside a closed curve. Is it always possible to find
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Some puzzles requiring no knowledge of knot theory, just a careful
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The largest square which fits into a circle is ABCD and EFGH is a square with G and H on the line CD and E and F on the circumference of the circle. Show that AB = 5EF.
Similarly the largest. . . .
Some diagrammatic 'proofs' of algebraic identities and
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Given a set of points (x,y) with distinct x values, find a polynomial that goes through all of them, then prove some results about the existence and uniqueness of these polynomials.
Learn about the link between logical arguments and electronic circuits. Investigate the logical connectives by making and testing your own circuits and fill in the blanks in truth tables to record. . . .
In this 7-sandwich: 7 1 3 1 6 4 3 5 7 2 4 6 2 5 there are 7 numbers between the 7s, 6 between the 6s etc. The article shows which values of n can make n-sandwiches and which cannot.
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Prove Pythagoras Theorem using enlargements and scale factors.
An article about the strategy for playing The Triangle Game which
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Eulerian and Hamiltonian circuits are defined with some simple examples and a couple of puzzles to illustrate Hamiltonian circuits.
With n people anywhere in a field each shoots a water pistol at the
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The sum of any two of the numbers 2, 34 and 47 is a perfect square.
Choose three square numbers and find sets of three integers with
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Can you make sense of the three methods to work out the area of the kite in the square?
Take any two numbers between 0 and 1. Prove that the sum of the
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Four jewellers possessing respectively eight rubies, ten saphires,
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The final of five articles which containe the proof of why the sequence introduced in article IV either reaches the fixed point 0 or the sequence enters a repeating cycle of four values.
A, B & C own a half, a third and a sixth of a coin collection.
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Find all positive integers a and b for which the two equations:
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We are given a regular icosahedron having three red vertices. Show
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In this third of five articles we prove that whatever whole number we start with for the Happy Number sequence we will always end up with some set of numbers being repeated over and over again.
These proofs are wrong. Can you see why?
Can you make sense of these three proofs of Pythagoras' Theorem?
This article discusses how every Pythagorean triple (a, b, c) can be illustrated by a square and an L shape within another square. You are invited to find some triples for yourself.
Can you invert the logic to prove these statements?
An introduction to some beautiful results of Number Theory
Have a go at being mathematically negative, by negating these
A point moves around inside a rectangle. What are the least and the
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Show that for natural numbers x and y if x/y > 1 then x/y>(x+1)/(y+1}>1. Hence prove that the product for i=1 to n of [(2i)/(2i-1)] tends to infinity as n tends to infinity.
Follow the hints and prove Pick's Theorem.
The first of two articles on Pythagorean Triples which asks how many right angled triangles can you find with the lengths of each side exactly a whole number measurement. Try it!
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Four identical right angled triangles are drawn on the sides of a
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You have twelve weights, one of which is different from the rest.
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The United States designates two Wetlands of International Importance in California
To commemorate World Wetlands Day 2005, two sites designated by the United States of America have been added to the List of Wetlands of International Importance, the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve (TRNERR) and Grassland Ecological Area, both in the state of California. TRNERR is one of the few unfragmented estuaries in southern part of the state and is located at the very southwestern corner of the country on the border with Mexico. Grassland is the largest remaining freshwater wetland complex in the state and is renowned for its very large congregations of wintering waterfowl and shorebirds. Brief site descriptions have been prepared by Ramsar's Iván Darío Valencia based on the information supplied in the Ramsar Information Sheets accompanying the designations.
Grassland Ecological Area (65,000 ha; 37º10'N 120º50'W) is a National Wildlife Refuge and Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve located in the Central Valley in the San Joaquin River Basin. The largest remaining contiguous block of freshwater wetlands in California, it consists of semipermanent and permanent marshes, riparian corridors, vernal pool complexes, wet meadows, native uplands and grasslands, featuring Alkali Sacaton grassland Sporobolus airoides and the endemic Delta button celery, Eryngium racemosum. The site is renowned for its wintering waterbirds which reach several hundred thousands every winter. These include Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis), 19 duck species (Northern pintail Anas acuta; Green-winged teal Anas crecca; Northern shoveler Anas clypeata; Canvasbacks Aythya valisineria and others), 6 species of geese, tens of thousands of shorebirds (most abundantly Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri, Dunlin Calidris alpina and Long-billed dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus). The site is home to four endangered shrimps as well the threatened Giant garter snake Thamnophis gigas. Due to flood-control and irrigation projects the entire hydrology of the valley had been dramatically altered, but water quality and allocation issues have been successfully addressed with the Central Valley Project Improvement Act in 1992. Most of the wetlands are managed by the controlled application of water using a series of canals and control structures, mimicking historical flood patterns with pulses of high water flow during winter and spring. The largest potential threat to the site is urban development. Ramsar site no. 1451.
The Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve (TRNERR) (1,021 ha, 32º33'N 117º07'W), a National Wildlife Refuge, lies on the border with Mexico facing the city of Tijuana -- it is one of the few unfragmented estuaries and coastal lagoons in Southern California. It is a seasonally marine-dominated estuary experiencing freshwater input only during the wet winter period, though its mouth remains open throughout the year. It has several sensitive habitats such as sand dunes and beaches, vernal pools, tidal channels, mudflats and coastal sage scrub. The site is critical habitat for nationally endangered species and subspecies such as the San Diego Fairy Shrimp Branchinecta sandiegonensis, the Light-footed Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris levipes and the Salt Marsh Bird's Beak Cordylanthus maritimus maritimus; as well as nursery grounds for commercially important fish like the Diamond turbot (Hypsopsetta guttulata) and the California halibut (Paralichthys californicus). Dirt roads and border patrol off-road vehicles are a primary cause of concern because of the impacts of lighting, noise and sedimentation, already serious due to strong erosion and runoff from the shared basin with Mexico. The site is unfortunately isolated from surrounding habitat by urban areas and there are problems with introduced species. A multi-phased restoration program designed to restore tidal exchange and wetland habitats is in place, as well as a management plan. The site is administered jointly by California State Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). Ramsar site no. 1452.
The United States now has 21 Wetlands of International Importance, with a surface area totaling 1,258,751 hectares.


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MADISON, WI (WTAQ) - The 26 University of Wisconsin campuses had almost $1 billion in reserves by the end of June.
Senior vice president David Miller told the Board of Regents in Madison Friday that the schools' reserves total almost $949 million as of two months ago. About $551 million of that was surplus tuition.
University officials have promised to be more open about its budgetary matters, ever since legislators were shocked to learn about the large surpluses in April.
Lawmakers were upset to hear that the campus held onto so much money, while raising tuition by 5.5 percent year after year.
The Regents expect to adopt a new reporting policy next month which includes a threshold for reporting cash balances on each individual campus and the UW System offices.
University officials say they need strike a balance between austerity, and making sure there's enough money to maintain minimal fiscal health.


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MOORHEAD, Minn. (KFGO-AM) - Two members of the United States Hockey League's "Lincoln Stars" are involved in a criminal sexual conduct investigation in Moorhead.
Court documents obtained by KFGO News say the 18-year-old hockey players had sex with a 15-year-old girl in a Moorhead hotel room on Feb. 15.
A search warrant affidavit says the team was in town for a game against the Fargo Force. The affidavit also says one of the players took a 10-second video of the encounter, which was being circulated among the league's hockey teams.
Lt. Tory Jacobson says he can confirm that on Feb. 27, Moorhead police received a criminal sexual conduct complaint from an adult parent regarding their juvenile daughter under the age of 16.
A Moorhead detective traveled to Lincoln, Nebraska, where both players were interviewed. The players' cell phones were seized as evidence. Charges have not been filed.


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DETROIT (WKZO) -- A public hearing is planned for Thursday in Detroit for residents to voice their opinions about operating Belle Isle as a state park.
Governor Rick Snyder and Detroit Mayor Dave Bing are reportedly close to a deal on the matter. The Detroit City Council could vote on the plan as early as January 29th.
The deal, which would save the city eight-million dollars a year in operating costs, would include a ten-year lease arrangement with the state while the city would retain ownership.


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The Good German (2001)
by Joseph Kanon
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A touching mystery in the days following the fall of Nazi Germany with just a dash of a love story thrown in. I LOVE the concept. I love the storyline. I love it ALL! A must read for those who enjoy historical mysteries! Save yourself though & skip the movie. It's not just that the book is 10X better, but also that the movie is just plain awful.
This is a very good mystery and a very, very good rendering of what life must have been like in Berlin during the weeks and months immediately following the surrender of Nazi Germany. Kanon investigates the nature of guilt, on both a national/cultural and a personal scale as both Allies and Germans alike begin to deal with the aftermath of the war and the pervasive horrors of the Holocaust. Again, the issues drawn are both large-scale and personal. Also crucial to the plot is the manner in which the Americans and Russians immediately launch into "the next war" as they jockey for position and power in divided Berlin. And then there is the divide among the Americans between those intent in bringing Nazis to trial and those who mostly want to pick up the pieces, move on, and get back to business. Not incidentally, this includes making use of German rocket scientists regardless of whatever their Nazi activity might have been. The protagonist is Jake Geismar. An American reporter stationed in Berlin before the war, Geismar has developed a deep regard for Germany and Berlin in particular. After spending the war years as a reporter with Patton, he returns to Berlin on assignment, and, more importantly for him, to try to find his pre-war lover. Having lived in Berlin right up to the beginning of hostilities, he has no illusions about who the Nazis had been, but still, as he begins to understand the true depth of the corruption of a German society and people he thought he had known, the question that comes most frequently to him is, "What happened to everybody?"
Kanon is very, very skillful at exploring these issues. Here are two passages that illuminate what I mean, much longer quotes than I normally feel comfortable including, I'm afraid. The first passage and the beginning of the second, be warned, are pretty unpleasant. The scene is a dinner early on at that includes a visiting U.S. Congressman (one of the "Let's not bother with the small fry; let's just get back to business" crowd) and a young officer, Bernie Teitel, Jewish, involved in investigating individual war crimes.
"'Small fry,' Bernie said again. 'Here's one.' He reached into the pile and pulled out a few buff-colored sheets. 'Otto Klopfer. Wants to drive for us. Experienced. Says he drove a truck during the war. He just didn't say what kind. One of the mobile units, it turns out. The exhaust pipe ran back into the van. They'd load about fifty, sixty people in there, and old Otto would just keep the motor running until they died. We found out because he wrote a letter to his CO.' He held up a sheet. 'The exhaust was taking too long. Recommended they seal the pipes so it would work faster. The people were panicking, trying to get out. He was afraid they'd damage the truck.' Another silence, this time so still that even the air around Bernie seemed to stop."
And then this as Geismer considers later . . .
"Jake lit a cigarette. Had Otto Klopfer smoked in the cab while he ran the motor, listening to the thumps behind him? There must have been screaming, a furious pounding on the van. And he'd sat there, foot on the pedal. How could they do it? All the questions came back to that. He'd seen it on the faces of the GIs, who'd hated France and then, confused, felt at home in Germany. The plumbing, the wide roads, the blond children grateful for candy, their mothers tirelessly sweeping up the mess. Clean. Hardworking. Just like us. Then they'd seen the camps, or at least the newsreels. How could they do it? The answer, the only one that made sense to them, was that they hadn't--somebody else had. But there wasn't anybody else. So they stopped asking. Unless, like Teitel, the hook had gone in too deep. . . . He realized suddenly that . . . what the city had really become was not a bomb site but a vast scene of the crime. Shaken, waiting for someone to bring the stretcher and erase the chalk marks and put the furniture back. Except this crime wouldn't go away, even then. There would always be a body in the middle of the floor. How could they do it? Sealing pipes, locking doors, ignoring the screams? It was the only question. But who could answer it? Not a reporter with four pieces in Collier's. The story was beyond that, a twisted parody of Goebbels' big lie--if you made the crime big enough, nobody did it. All the pieces he might do, full of local color and war stories and Truman's horse-trading, were not even notes for the police blotter."
And this is what I mean by skillful. In addition to the excellent writing itself, Kanon, by presenting us with the story of Otto Klopfer and his truck, personalizes the question, creating a small, manageable scale as a foundation for consideration of the universal horror.
Or, you can just read The Good German as a very fine noir-ish murder mystery, set in and growing out of the very early days of the Cold War. The plot pacing is very good, the characters believable and the mystery itself engaging. Even the romance serves to move the story forward rather than stopping it in its tracks. One last aside: as you can see, the copy of this book I plucked off the shelves of my own bookstore has a movie tie-in cover. I haven't seen the movie, I don't know if I will, but the casting of George Clooney in the lead role I think was perfect.
During the initial occupation of Germany, Russians and the other Allies jockeying for positions, for German brain power, this novel proved to be engaging and intelligent. How could the Germans let all that is WWII happen? All the reasons are intertwined in a very good plot: anti--semitism, fear for their lives, fear for the lives of those they loved, survival, nationalism, fear of communism. On and on. It happened.
I read ISTANBUL PASSAGE last month and thoroughly enjoyed it. Someone said I should read THE GOOD GERMAN if I liked that. All I can do is echo the same. I thought THE GOOD GERMAN was a well told story in a setting and time that couldn't have been more real. It's Berlin in the summer of 1945, between the end of was in Europe and the end of war with Japan. As seems to be true now with Joseph Kanon's methid he weaves an intricate plot between historical fact and in this book, as in ISTANBUL PASSAGE, he succeeds quite well. Highly recommend this read to anyone who likes this sort of stuff.
First, if you have seen the movie, switch off the memories. I liked the movie. Indeed it was one of the two factors that led me to buy the book. That said the movie collapsed characters and severely altered the story line. Different media and all that. What this book is is a good police procedural dressed up as a costume drama and then dolled up further as a questionable morality play. The morality play part is trite, obvious to anyone who knows the period and superfluous. It is part of why 4 stars instead of 5. The other part of the missing star is that the characters are straight out of central casting. Two paragraphs into each of them and you know them from a hundred prior novels and movies. They have no depth and will not stick with you the way say Elizabeth Yager from Rimrunners will. That said, they are serviceable devices to move the plot along. The period costume drama is excellently handled. It gives you the Berlin of Potsdam and the very early occupation without the burden of high politics. The Big Three are there essentially as stage props. I grew up around veterans of that war and the author seems to have nailed the sensibilities. The police procedural works better in the reading than the outline afterwards would indicate. By interweaving two mysteries and a host of loose ends that as in real life never get fully resolved the end is guessable but by no means obvious. The book is well worth the reading time and has sent me off to Amazon to buy another by the author.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0312426089, Paperback)This compelling thriller is both a touching love story and a masterful portrayal of the struggle for geopolitical control of postwar Germany. Network correspondent Jake Geismar, who covered Berlin before the war, has returned to the devastated city, ostensibly to cover the Potsdam Conference but actually to find the woman he loves. Miraculously, Lena Brandt, Jake's wartime mistress, has survived. However, her mathematician husband is missing, and both the American and Russian intelligence services are hunting him. When the bullet-ridden body of an American soldier washes up on the shores of Potsdam in front of Jake's eyes just as Truman, Churchill, and Stalin convene the first postwar conference, Jake is plunged into a maelstrom of intrigue, corruption, and betrayal.
A brilliantly evoked portrait of a unique moment in history (the end of one war and the beginning of another), The Good German amply fulfills the promise shown by Joseph Kanon in his two earlier novels, Los Alamos and The Prodigal Spy. --Jane Adams
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A letter by State Auditor Beth Wood on Thursday questioned statements made Tuesday by Department of Health and Human Services officials in a General Assembly hearing.
DHHS Secretary Aldona Wos and her top lieutenants, in a day-long hearing Tuesday, answered questions and concerns from legislators about the department.
Wood, in her letter to Rep. Justin Burr, said her office "would like to clarify some of the information provided to the committee by officials from [DHHS]."
Wood wrote that Wos, in response to a question, said, "No, Senator" when asked if the DHHS had received any professional opinions that the NCTracks system might not be ready to go live July 1.
Wood wrote, "This answer ignores our audit issued on May 22, 2013, titled, 'NCTracks (MMIS Replacement) -- Implementation.' The State Auditor met and presented Secretary Wos with the findings and recommendations as early as March 27, 2013, to allow her department to begin addressing problems uncovered in the audit."
Wood wrote that the audit showed multiple concerns about launching NCTracks July 1 and said DHHS "should re-evaluate its current 'Go' decision for July 1, 2013, once final 'Go/No-go criteria is established and documented.':
Wood wrote that Joe Cooper, the chief technology officer for DHHS, said in his presentation that DHHS had tested the NCTracks system and it met their tests.
Wood wrote, "Our audit, however, found several shortcomings in the testing of the system."
She wrote, "Our work found that the department allowed CSC [the vendor for NCTracks] to develop the acceptance criteria for its own work, one week prior to the testing phase, and that the department lacked clear test benchmarks."
Wood also said Cooper's characterization of the "point of no return" for the HP contract was incorrect.
Ricky Diaz, director of communications for DHHS, said in a statement, "I want to reiterate the high professional regard Secretary Wos and her leadership team have for State Auditor Beth Wood.
"DHHS took the Auditor's May report on NCTracks very seriously. The Secretary did not mention the State Auditor in her response because all the concerns raised in the report were addressed prior to NCTracks going live on July 1."
In a separate letter, Wood criticized some characterizations made in two articles on the North Carolina Health News website.
"We stand by the accuracy of our January Medicaid report," Wood wrote.
She said the "scope of the audit" was not widened in January. She called other parts of the article "misleading."
In response to Wood's letter, DHHS communications director Ricky Diaz said, "The auditor should be commended for setting the record straight. The allegation that the Department of Health and Human Services 'sat on,' 'withheld' or 'distorted' information in the state auditor's report is false."


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By Ron SavageFox 2 NewsSOUTHFIELD, Mich. (WJBK) -- Fears about gun violence in schools and the world coming to an end on Friday have many school districts taking drastic measures. They're closing early before the holiday break.Click here for the latest list of school closingsThere have been rumors, but we're told only one specific threat. Police say a student posted online in Fraser that he would bring a gun to school and was threatening to shoot students. He was taken into custody and is facing a 20 year felony. Other than that, several police sources told me they've investigated, but found nothing substantial. Yet some parents say they'll play it safe and keep their children home on Friday.The Mayan calendar predicts the world will end. Ancient predictions of the apocalypse are one thing, but social media suggesting violent threats to schoolchildren, that's become much more troublesome."I'm not letting my kids go to school tomorrow at all," said Anthony Ventittelli.He has three daughters. One is a tenth grader and the other two are ninth graders, all in Hazel Park.There have been Twitter and Facebook rumors of trouble at Hazel Park, but classes have not been canceled.What did Ventittelli hear that has him uneasy?"That they were going to shoot up the school because of this world ending thing or something that's going on, and the principal said it was my choice."Hazel Park Schools told Fox 2 their police liaison investigated Twitter and Facebook rumors, but found nothing substantial.Now Mayan apocalypse aside, when I spoke with school administrators who decided to cancel classes, they all seem to agree they did not want to cancel classes, but since they feel it has become a "fearful distraction", they believed they were left with no choice.
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Your job may be taking a hidden toll on your health. A recent report found sitting all day long is just as dangerous to your health as smoking cigarettes. Still, many of us don't have a choice. We have to go to work, where we sit at a desk for 8-to-10 hours a day. So, we found one Georgia employer giving workspace makeovers… installing desks that move!
To get to work, many of us sit in Atlanta traffic every morning.
Then, we get to our jobs and sit for another eight to ten hours.
But not Tim Thompson at Georgia Pacific's downtown Atlanta headquarters.
After 25 years at an old-school seated desk, last month the customer service manager got a new "space age" work station. With the push of a button, he can go form sitting to standing - without interrupting what he's doing. Thompson loves the flexibility of his new desk, saying, " When you feel like you want to sit down, lower the work station down and you're ready to go."
The guy behind these new adjustable desks is JC Rodriguez, Georgia Pacific's manager of ergonomics. That's the science of making our workspaces work better for our bodies.
He hopes the adjustable desks will encourage employees to move, and stretch out, during the workday. Rodriguez says, "As research goes on, we realize we need to change postures, we need to move. It increase blood flow. It releases certain stress that builds up. It allows us to be more engaged."
Taking five minutes to make some small changes in your workspace can make your desk a better fit for you. First, Rodriguez says, take a look at the layout of your workspace. Does it allow you to move easily without a lot of leaning, twisting and turning? Rodriguez says, "Your keyboard, your mouse, anything you use on a regular basis, you want to keep it close to you so you don't have to reach for it."
Place your computer monitor at eye-level – or just below eye-level – about an arm's length away to avoid leaning forward. And make sure your desk is balanced. He says a lot of us keep our keyboard off to the right, our mouse on the right of that, and our phone and other gadgets to the right of that. That overloads the right side of the desk. So, he suggests moving your phone over to the left side of the desk to even things out.
Make sure your chair is positioned so your feet touch the floor, and you're sitting with your knees at a right angle.
His final tip, is probably the most important: move more often, and change postures to give your body a break. Stand up when you talk on the phone. Or walk some laps around your office when you get a few minutes. When it comes to moving, Rodriguez says, "We can all do more of that, and we can do better at that."
Give yourself reminders to get up and take a break. Stick up a post-it note, or set your phone alarm to remind you it's time to get up and go for a walk. Even a five-minute stroll can help relax your muscles, and maybe even burn a few calories.


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August 2, 1938
Mr. A. W, Chambers,
Secretary, Utah State Canning
Crops Association,
Logan, Utah
Dear Mr. Chambers:
Mr, Banks Colllngs of the General Crops Sections reports
having recently attended a conference at Ogden with representatives
of the Utah Canning Qrops Association and the Utah Canners Association for the purpose of reviewing the canning tomato stiuation in
the light of the purchase program which had been proposed to the
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation.
In reviewing the program which removed approximately 50,000
cases of surplus canned tomatoes from the Utah area during August 1937
we find that the record has not been entirely closed as to the full compliance with the provisions of this purchase. As we recall the request
for purchase made by the Industry more than a year ago, the argument was
presented that such a purchase would be necessary in order that canners
might be able to operate and to pay growers for the current crop, Youd"
doubtless have on file the letter from Mr, J, C. Lattice, representative
of the Corporation, dated August 18, 1937, copy fo which is attached, which
among other thins requested sworn statements from each canner from whom
purchases were made which would show (1) the names of the growers from
whom fresh tomatoes were purchases, (2) the quantity purchased from each
grower, (3) price paid, and (4) date of purchase and date of delivery
of each lot of tomatoes. One copy of such report was to have been forwarded to the procurement officer, Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation, Washington, D. C. We are now advised by the Corporation that
statements to this effect have not been received from any canners participating in the 1937 program,
Mr, Colllngs reports that it was his understanding that
there are growers who have not been paid in full for their 1937 crop
by at least two canning organizations particupating in the purchase program of last year.
It would appear to us that inasmuch as the purchases made
in 1937 did not, as we were led to believe, result in full payment
to growers, we are somewhat reluctant to attempt another such program
unless and until there can be full assurance that growers will be paid.
I think you understand fully that one of the major requirements fo
the use of these funds is that they shall be used for the removal of
agricultural surplus and that agriculture will benefit directly. When
canners or any other group speculate with a farm commodity and fail
to pay for same, even though purchases are made from them with the
understanding that growers will be paid, it behooves us to become more
and more cautious about the continuation of such purchases.


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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - The city is opening the Sanford Premier Events Center for public viewing during weekends in February and March.
Mayor Mike Huether says it's an opportunity to get a sneak peak.
Huether says he was inspired to let residents get an early look while he was walking through the facilty after the final beam raising. He says visitors will get an idea of how wonderful and massive the Center will be.
Huether says the city will release details about the open house soon. He says Sioux Falls citizens should have a chance to see the Center while it's being built.
The Sanford Premier Events Center will open in September.


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The hostal is brand new as of Feb 2011. This includes new hand made wooden beds & full single size anti-stress mattresses in the dorm rooms, & full or double size anti-stress mattresses in the private rooms. All the mattresses are regular 6-inch thick, not the cheap thin ones. We put in all high quality furnishings to hope to get a better customer base.
All rooms have a private bath inside your room, cable TV, fans & free Wi-Fi throughout the property.
check in: 15:00
check out: 13:00
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The hostal accepts US dollars, Quetzales & Travelers checks.
cancellation policy is 48 hours
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Australian Wildwater paddlers Robert McIntyre and Maddie Batters led the athletes March into a packed square in Sondrio Italy for the opening ceremony of the World Wildwater Championships.
Being from Australia always affords our Athletes the privilege of leading the March of most ceremonies and is a great feeling when the crowd is big and cheering which was the case in Sondrio yesterday evening.
After the official opening all athletes and the public were thrilled with a night time display of a number of rafts paddling down the local side river through the town under lights with all national flags on display in addition to a spectacular fireworks extravaganza.
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As usual, it was a busy week in pop — and an even busier week for our readers: A track from Daft Punk's highly anticipated new album leaked, as did news that legend Kylie Minogue is almost done with her twelfth album.
Beyonce's world tour kicked off, revealing the setlist we've all been dying to see, and the MTV Movie Awards happened, with performances by the Pitch Perfect cast, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis and Selena Gomez — which our readers felt very strongly about. Check out the week's best comments below!
:: When we asked what kind of statement Beyoncé was making with her sparkly new tour outfit in this week's Caption This, Yvonne Walters supplied the best answer: "BOOBIE-LICIOUS."
:: Justin was feeling the Daft Punk leak on Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" Leaks, Probably For Real This Time: Hear The Track: "Hearing this is like traveling back to the late 70′s and hearing Chic live. Oh my god, I love it."
:: David was less pleased: "It seems thrown together. A mish-mash of the teaser, and then some oddly flat vocals thrown in, and then some different elements thrown in to make it seem genuine. If it is the real deal, then it must have been stolen halfway through production; it sounds, well, unfinished."
:: And when the song finally hit iTunes, Shamrock had just one thing to say on Daft Punk's "Get Lucky": Listen To The Actual, Official Song (Well, The Radio Edit, At Least): "Pure Awesomeness."
:: Jack has an intriguing take on Azealia's new video on Azealia Banks' "Yung Rapunxel" Video: Watch The Dark, Surreal Clip: "Early in her career with the videos for '212′ and '1991′ she gave off this classy fun-girl vibe, she subsequently ruined it with the video for 'Atlantis' and her constant beefing. Due to her irritating public antics she sort of morphed into this villan character and this video entirely aestheticizes it."
Felipe agreed, adding: "Maybe the voice in the her head which repeats 'I wanna be free' is what the writer of this article doesn't get as the message that she is really trying to portray. She's trying to free herself from all the haters which from the the beginning have been the reason she had lashed out."
:: Not too many readers were fans of Selena Gomez's performance at the MTV Movie Awards on 2013 MTV Movie Awards: Selena Gomez Performs "Come & Get It". Jay questions: "Why is it at some point, in a female pop star's career do they do something adopt the Hindi culture into their music?" He continues, "It's boring at this point…the performance and the song were boring."
:: HELLO had only one complaint: "She needs to fire her hair stylist."
:: Some were less than pleased with Beyonce's tour setlist on Beyonce's Mrs. Carter Show World Tour Opens In Serbia (With No New Material): See The Setlist: "I would be 100 percent pissed if I had bought tickets months in advance thinking by now there would be new songs or the new album and all I got was oldies," says mick. "Thank God I didn't buy tickets."
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Saint Clare's Health System Opens New Women's Health Center
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New facility at Saint Clare's Hospital/Sussex offers comprehensive screening and diagnostic services for preventive care for women
Saint Clare's Health System is meeting the health services and clinical breast care needs of women in Sussex County with the opening of a new Women's Health Center at Saint Clare's Hospital/Sussex, a state-of-the-art, dedicated facility featuring leading edge technology and treatment.
"The opening of this new facility is a testament to our vision to transform traditional health care delivery and promote healthy communities," said Leslie D. Hirsch, president and chief executive officer of Saint Clare's Health System. "We are committed to serving the health care needs of the Sussex County community with advanced technology and treatment options close to home, and are pleased to offer this new dedicated Women's Health Center."
An October 26 blessing and opening event was held by hospitals officials to celebrate the opening of the newly renovated, 2,140 square foot facility, which is currently open to patients.
The Center offers a beautiful, serene and private setting for women's health and wellness services, including a female-only treatment area.
"The opening of this new facility is an important milestone for Saint Clare's Hospital/Sussex and for the Sussex community," said Suellyn Ellerbe, RN, MN, NEA-BC, executive vice president, chief operating officer and chief nursing officer of Saint Clare's Health System. "Through its comprehensive screening and diagnostic services, the Center extends the health services currently offered to the women of Sussex County, providing crucial preventative care measures which ultimately save lives."
Among its services to patients, the Center features comprehensive screening and diagnostic services for preventative care for women, including bone density scanning, state-of-the-art digital mammography, breast biopsies (including the addition of stereotactic breast biopsies, a minimally invasive type of biopsy, used as an alternative to surgical procedures) and ultrasound services – all under one roof. To the benefit of patients, if a screening reveals the need for additional diagnostic tests, they can often be expedited as screening and testing is performed in the facility.
Due to the generosity of the Sussex community, funding for the Center's digital mammography machine and ultrasound equipment was provided in full by Saint Clare's Foundation, including donations from the Sussex Auxiliary and the Johnny Rizzo Golf Outing.
About the Women's Health Centers at Saint Clare's
The Women's Health Centers at Saint Clare's offer comprehensive services supported by innovative technology and a highly qualified team of physicians, nurses, nurse navigators, therapists, technologists and other professionals experienced in women's healthcare. Saint Clare's offers two dedicated Women's Health Center facilities, with a location at Saint Clare's Hospital/Dover, in addition to the new Center in Sussex. Each facility is designed to provide the best in women's health services and clinical breast care in an environment that promotes relaxation and a sense of well-being. Saint Clare's offers a range of services uniquely focused on the special health needs of women, including breast health services, bone density testing, complementary medicine, counseling and education, and support groups. Saint Clare's offers a fully accredited mammography program, and was the first in northwest New Jersey to provide state-of-the-art digital mammography – the "gold standard" in breast imaging – now exclusively used at our Women's Health Centers and Imaging Center at Parsippany Commons. For more information, visit www.saintclares.org.
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Saint Clare's Health System, which has served the healthcare needs of northwestern New Jersey residents since 1895, is the region's premier provider of community-based healthcare and behavioral health services. Saint Clare's operates hospitals in Boonton Township, Denville, Dover and Sussex Borough and other facilities located throughout Morris and Sussex counties. For more information about Saint Clare's Health System, please visit www.saintclares.org.
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PRP is on the edge of a new exciting procedure in Athletes injury rehab. It promotes healing by speeding up recovery time with up to 4 times the normal blood platelets that starts clotting and the healing process.
Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) is an adult type cell stemming that can be used in rejuvenation injured parts and healing of injuries. Blood is taken from the marrow of the bones of the patient and is mixed with fatty tissues and spun down to give the Patient's own blood a rich supply of platelets. This is in return injected at pin point accuracy into the injury. this will speed up healing and also rejuvenate destroyed cells caused by the injury due to rapid cell division. Parent cells retain the DNA of the patient, and the divided cells forms the growth and rejuvenated cells to promote healing and new growth.
As this is a new procedure and faces lots of scrutiny from society, so the results of the procedure varies from patient to patient and from Dr. to Dr.
If this is actually the reason for Brandon Roy's new ability to play without pain and swelling is not known to me, but if it is the reason and if he can re-grow, parts or all of his Mencius it would be a wonderful thing in my eyes. If it just smooth's out the rough spots on his cartilage and gives him freedom of movement is an improved condition over the past performance.
All of this is not fact, just my opinion from articles I have read. I am just a Blazer fan hoping for the best for Brandon Roy.
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nice report, Hg. from everything i've read, Brandon and the blazers are interested in innovative techniques which would improve his success. i don't know if PRP is applicable to Brandon's meniscus, but it certainly is worth more research.
Thank you Kassandra;A funny story, I had been reading up on PRP, and was searching the web for more information, so I tried Google search, Ask the question "Can PRP cell stemming re-grow meniscus and the two top hits were mine and Ancientone post discussing it on Barrett's Blog and a BE blog that I was debating another poster with.I guess I am authority on cell stemming now LMAO.The Dr, shot PRP into both knees after the surgery and wanted him to go slow until it had a chance to heal. When he came back he did just enough to be help. I always thought he could do more but wouldn't. He said in the fourth game of the play-offs he felt no pain and had no swelling. Now he says he is going to get more therapy then practice hard and try to be an all-star again next year. That is what got me thinking of PRP. My thoughts are running wild. I think the fourth game of the play-offs was an experimental move to see what he could do and how much he can achieve. I supposed that could be more on the hope side than the fact side, but I just have a feeling that him, LMA, and Greg is finally going to get to do the big three act. With Wallace and Dre, It might be the big Five :).
He should use DMSO. It's what they use on race horses to regrow tendons rather then shoot them in the head.
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The event is at the Mellwood Arts Center (1860 Mellwood Avenue) on Feb. 18 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. The fair is open to everyone, but it is specifically geared toward adults who dropped out of college and want to return to finish their degrees.
"People can literally transform their lives with a degree," Abramson said. "It leads to people with better jobs, better salaries, better lives and, ultimately, leads to a stronger, better Louisville."
Abramson noted that people in Louisville with some college but no degree earn, on average, $32,000. But people with a bachelor's earn an average of $52,000.
The annual college fair is part of the Graduate Greater Louisville initiative — a joint partnership between Greater Louisville Inc, the metro chamber of commerce; Kentuckiana Works, the local workforce development agency; the Mayor's Office and 31 colleges and universities on both sides of the Ohio River.
One in five Louisville adults — 104,000 people – have some college credit but no degree.
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A North Side Chicago artist created the portrait of Pope Francis for the cover of TIME Magazine's "Person of the Year" edition.
For artist Jason Seiler, it felt like the perfect job. The oil painter who trained himself to paint digitally says he got a call from TIME Magazine a couple of weeks ago asking him to work on a picture of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
"I didn't know it was man of the year, person of the year," Seiler says. "I just knew that I needed to paint Snowden and they wanted him to look really cool kinda like a spy and there's not a lot around on him so I pretty much had to make him up."
So as an artist, he improvised, using a picture of himself. Seiler says TIME liked the painting so much that they asked him to do another one. He says he got the offer to do the gig after TIMES' editors saw a cover he did for a German magazine called Der Speigal.
This time, TIME gave Seiler four days to complete this heavenly masterpiece and keep the job a secret.
"I talked with TIME and they said yeah, we would love if you could do a really kind gentle smile with his mouth closed," says Seiler. "I had to search the internet and found certain pictures of him from certain angles with his mouth closed. So the challenge was to look at his head from different angles with his mouth closed and then somehow draw it from where I wanted to draw him."
He sketched the painting first, created a backdrop, and 70 hours later, he hit the send button on his computer.
Seiler says he spent the most time on the Pope's mouth and eyes which were the hardest thing.
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Should people have the right to bear nukes?
If the reason US citizens have the right to bear arms is to give them the capability to defend themselves from tyrannical Government, then should the right extend to nuclear weapons.
After all even if a city or state was to revolt against tyrannical federal rule they could be defeated using the stronger weaponry in the governments arsenal.
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We hand over our powers to people in Government because, ultimately, we benefit from Government actions. One of the powers we hand over is that to defend ourselves. Government is probably best equipped to defend us from foreign invaders.
When it comes to the question of defending us against our fellow citizens it gets complicated. Peter and Krisztián have discussed how they see the balance between your freedom to protect yourself versus my ability to be protected from you in the context of guns.
As Mike points out the US Constitution does not say that 'arms' means guns.
There seems to be an unspoken assumption that some weapons are so dangerous that no individual should hold them in a private capacity. Yet, to me as an outsider, it seems like the intention behind the right to bear arms in the US Constitution implies that citizens have a right to defend themselves against unjust Government.
So this is where the contradiction lies. The more our societies and technologies develop, the more power is potentially gathered in a few hands.
Internationally this raises many issues, the actions of powerful Governments, Corporations and Organizations can impact the citizens of many Countries, without those citizens being able to directly influence the decision makers.
Meanwhile many many Americans are being killed by their fellow citizens because somebody decided that 'arms' did mean just 'guns'.
Just maybe some people would think differently if they defined 'arms' as meaning 'any weapon'. I hope most of us would not believe that individuals should have a right to 'bear nuclear weapons'.
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Feb 8 2013: Every year for Christmas,
Calvin, of Calvin and Hobbes,
wanted and wished for his own hand-held, atomic weapon.
Me too.
It does give one pause and perhaps a bit of insight into the deceased Kim Jong-Il
who may have been afraid (maybe paranoid, but who knows?),
about the U.S. wanting to or even planning to invade North Korea at some time.
His having a weapon may have allowed him to stave something like that off.
Even China seemed to stay away from him and didn't do much to control him or even
reason with him. The U.S. military has bases everywhere, in 150 countries. Pathetic Imperialism yet
using the media, Kim Jong was considered nuts.
They don't have one in North Korea
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