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Oconomowoc Area School Board: Thelen won't seek re-election
School Board official urges others to serve
Oconomowoc Area School District - After serving one three-year term, an incumbent on the Oconomowoc School Board has decided not to run for re-election.
Elizabeth Thelen said she made the decision in order to allow more time for work, but noted that it was a difficult conclusion to reach.
"You have to be very committed. It was a painstaking decision to make," Thelen said.
"My reason has to do with me growing my own business that I've had for 10 years," Thelen said.
"It's (the School Board) time consuming, but in a good way," she added.
Thelen, who runs a business consulting firm, said she does not rule out the possibility of another run for a seat on the School Board in the near future.
"At this point, I would consider it in a year or so," she said.
The small business owner said she would like to see more citizens take an interest in, and run for, the School Board.
She noted the discrepancy between the number of people who have applied to be considered for the board seat left vacant when a former member stepped down, to the far fewer who actually throw their hat in the ring for election.
"I think it's really critical to have good candidates willing to run and be elected, not just appointed, who actually want to serve and not just have an ax to grind," Thelen said.
"You have to show up and be prepared. You are one voice of seven," she advised.
In the spring election, incumbent Dave Guckenberger and newcomer Steve Zimmer will run for the two open posts on the School Board.
Thelen said that despite her intention not to run in the spring election, she plans to finish strong.
"I'm still dedicated and committed to the position," she said. "I have four more months to serve," Thelen added.
Those four months are expected to be critical ones for the school district which will be conducting a search for a new superintendent, after accepting the resignation of Dr. Pat Neudecker at its December meeting.
"The new selection of a superintendent will be huge. I will still be playing a role in that, and that will be huge. I hope we can pick from a lot of great people. I anticipate a lot of people will want that job," Thelen said.
She said serving on the board has been a great experience and urged others to consider the possibility.
"It's fascinating," Thelen said. "It's so interesting to learn what goes on behind the scenes. You have to be committed and dedicated, but anyone can do it. People make assumptions, but you just have to want to serve and have an interest," she explained.
"It does take a lot of time. It is not horrendous but you might have to give up something else," she cautioned.
Thelen was asked what she would tell residents about serving on the board.
"We need to get people to run and be a part of their community. Step up and try it. Get an inkling of what it takes to get engaged in the process. Try it. Do it. Serve.
"Serve your community, your school, your government. I think people think it is outside of themselves, but it isn't," she said.
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Categories > Celebrities > My Chemical Romance > The Vampire Fanatics!
Author's note. Skip if you want. :D4 Reviews
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Serious news for you about this story.
And it's not gonna be good, soorryy.
My laptop has completly fucked a chicken this time to be honest.
I can only search the web, because it will only start up in this strange mode.
If anyone's any good with computer's then give me any hints? I'll give you more info if you need it.
But yeah, I can't open wordpad which is where I have been writing all my story notes.
This seriously sucks.
So I won't be able to write like, things which go with the proper story I don't think.
But if you really want me to, I can try and write you some filler type chapters?
Sorry. I know this is the what, THIRD author's note,
But the laptop is kinda out of my control at the minute.
Shitty shitty luck. XD
So yeah, this is up to you, and be honest because it will help HEELLL of a lot..
And things have been going badly lately and any help will be really apreciated.
So make a choice..
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Either way is fine for me, but your opinion will be soooo good for me. (:
So yeah, sorry again, and thanks for your support.
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so my birthday is december 27th, which is just close enough that i feel like i can justify planning it.
i'll be home (brevard) so i want to do something fun! my initial idea is to do whatever iBar has going on BECAUSE i was way too sloshed to take any pictures at my 21st birthday! so i was thinking about wearing the same dress and trying to get all of you guys to come again (or most of you!) and then i'll be better about documenting it!
is anyone going to be around? does anyone have any ideas? :)


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Posted by Sada Mosler on 22nd February 2008
Supplies probably aren't 'excessive' or US companies wouldn't import so much and futures spreads would be in contango instead of backwardation, and WTI now trading above Brent is another sign inventories are back towards the tight side.
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Silent Barn and Exploding in Sound do CMJ their way
4Knots turns three
Act locally with the So So Glows and Crystal Stilts
Don Giovanni records celebrates a decade in the business
Titus Andronicus supports Local Business
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In this week's Village Voice, out now: I peek into the twisted pop world crafted by the British genius Mica Levi; Nick Murray talks to the rapper YG about "ratchet music," the new brand of party hip-hop that he's bringing to S.O.B.'s tonight; and Eric Sundermann chats with former Titus Andronicus gu ... More >>
If you aren't doing anything this evening, perhaps you'd like to catch this hot bill that's playing tonight at Shea Stadium: Ted Leo, Titus Andronicus, and the So So Glos. The show, which was announced last night, will benefit the National Lawyer's Guild, who's working with people in need of legal a ... More >>
Ben Lozovsky"I just got back from my last tour with the band Titus Andronicus," writes Amy Klein in her gratitude-filled blog post announcing her departure from the band. The post goes on to say that no, there was no big fight or drama-filled rock and roll story that fueled her split; she's j ... More >>
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Willie DavisThe Black Angels. 4Knots Music Festival: Titus Andronicus, The Black Angels Saturday, June 16 South Street Seaport Better than: Your average punk band/psych band combo. Titus Andronicus didn't make headlining this festival any easier for Austin's The Black Angels. The Texas nat ... More >>
Willie Davis4Knots Music Festival: Titus Andronicus Pier 17, South Street Seaport Saturday, July 16 Better than: Shakespeare. After a race through the New York City subway system, I charged triumphantly out onto the waterfront as Patrick Stickles of Titus Andronicus sang the slow opening ly ... More >>
Doors for the Village Voice-sponsored 4Knots Music Festivalhappening at Pier 17 on the South Street Seaportopen in about an hour, and if you want to plan your afternoon, we have set times for all the bands on the bill, as well as the DJs spinning in the 4Knots Indoor Lounge (loc ... More >>
The first annual 4Knots Music Festivalfree, at South Street Seaporttakes place on July 16; Mr. Dream will perform at the all-day show at Pier 17. In addition to the day's roster of bandswhich also includes The Black Angels, Titus Andronicus, Davila 666, Oberhofer, and Ele ... More >>
We're about five and a half weeks out from the first annual 4Knots Music Festival, which is happening on July 16 at South Street Seaport. And today (hooray!) we can announce the free show's other three bands: battle-flag-wavers Titus Andronicus, nervy rockers Obits, and velvet-voiced Fiery Fu ... More >>
Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles named his band after one of Shakespeare's most violent, least regarded plays. He writes songs named "Upon Viewing Brueghel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'." His band's most recent album uses the Civil War as a metaphor for political and persona ... More >>
It's true, as Titus Andronicus frontman states in the prelude to his band's video for "No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future", that New Jersey has taken a bit of a beating, reputation-wise, over the past year or so, thanks in large part to the many reality-TV depictions of the Garden St ... More >>
"I think empowerment is very sexy and cool, and there's no reason you can't believe that." Amy Klein is a busy woman. Her most high-profile gig is playing guitar for Thomas-Paine-for-the-Twitter-Generation art-punks Titus Andronicus, but she makes a diverse plethora of music on her own. Her ... More >>
The L Magazine's Northside Festival is perhaps the city's finest home-grown music festival, now in its third year of ramming as many bands/artists/filmmakers as possible into the Greenpoint/Williamsburg nexus: "Elaborate and somewhat intimidating" is the way we've described it in the past. Th ... More >>
During a recent Mercury Lounge invasion by majestic New Jersey angst-punk deities Titus Andronicus, we grew to greatly appreciate the presence of guitarist/violinist/backup vocalist Amy Klein, a bouncing, gleeful antidote to all that hyper-masculine self-recrimination. That someone in this ba ... More >>
Amy Andronicus, lighter than air. Pics by Willie Davis, more below.Titus Andronicus/Care Bears on Fire Mercury Lounge Thursday, February 10 Consider Amy Andronicus, née Klein, she of magnificent New Jersey punk-rockers Titus Andronicus, and an awfully cheering sight up there onstage, surrou ... More >>
Good luck learning all the chord changes in "Jane Says," dudeSo TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek has joined Jane's Addiction, in some unspecified bassist/songwriter/possibly-non-touring-member capacity, which is super bizarre when you first hear about it, but is, upon reflection, not the stranges ... More >>
At Death By Audio, via MySpaceWell, this is kind of a bummer--Titus Andronicus founding member and bassist Ian Graetzer has played his last show with the band. In a typically effusive post on the New Jersey punk juggernaut's blog, frontman Patrick Stickles explains it has something to do with ... More >>
Start the year with a kick in the teeth
Well, it's probably time to admit to ourselves that it was a mistake to skip this one. Though they'll headline Webster Hall a month from now (after doing the same thing at the Bowery Ballroom back in March), last night brought the rousing sight of Jersey punk heroes Titus Andronicus playing the hu ... More >>
It's been a real good week for the indie zeitgeist, that weird feeling of we made it!, even if we don't necessarily know who "we" are. The Arcade Fire sold out Madison Square Garden twice. The Suburbs has a shot at being the #1 record in the country next week. And Titus Andronicus, ragged New Jers ... More >>
Titus Andronicus and Ducktails, respectively. Pics by Georgia, way more below.Whew, what a whirlwind of a weekend! The L Magazine hosted the 2nd-annual Northside Festival, a major throwdown of bands, art, film, and more bands, all packed into multiple venues across Williamsburg and Gre ... More >>
Anyone seeking a four-day crash course in Brooklyn Rock (both from BK and of it, I guess) is hereby advised to delved deep into the Northside Festival, which packs hundreds of bands into multiple venues across the sweetest of boroughs, starting tonight with a raft of shows, led perhaps by the ... More >>
Last time this happened, Vice blew threw $250,000 and Titus Andronicus's Patrick Stickles ended up with red handprints on his neck and a sad, outraged story to tell. This time, semiconductor manufacturing unit Intel will foot the bill, and it's hard to imagine crazed South African rappers Die ... More >>
And it looks like our buddies at L Magazine have outdone themselves: Titus Andronicus, Liars, Fucked Up, High Places, Les Savy Fav, Polvo, Twin Sister, and Wavves are just a handful of the hundreds of bands they've got lined up to play this thing. Northside happens June 24-27 in a variety of ... More >>
Norman WongTake a look above at Holy Fuck. Those blank, wide-eyed creatures make berzerker caveman grooves, a primitive stomping of drums and keyboard mashing. This vented fury is best exemplified by their MySpace quote: "Who the fuck is Bilbo Baggins?!" They begin your Friday night at Cake S ... More >>
Lest you forget that Titus Andronicus's terrifically galvanizing The Monitor is nominally Civil War-themed, along comes the video to "A More Perfect Union" to remind you--band members past and present, dressed as flag-clad irregulars in a wintery Jersey landscape equal parts Gettysburg and my-firs ... More >>
This is the epic, leaving-New-Jersey-and-already-sorta-regretting-it album opener from The Monitor, the new Titus Andronicus record that you'll be hearing quite a lot about soon. It's civil war-themed, sorta. Also about moving to Boston, and friends. Some other stuff too. TA frontmant Patrick ... More >>
Oh, new the Babies track--"Breakin' the Law" is all kinds of vindication of a theory once advanced in these pages, namely that Vivian Girls frontlady Cassie Ramone and Woods bassist Kevin Morby "have a really appealing bad-karaoke rapport, not so much singing as cheerfully yelling at each oth ... More >>
Vampire Weekend/Titus Andronicus United Palace Theatre Sunday, January 17 I personally do not see anyone wearing the $30 bright-yellow "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" scarf available at Vampire Weekend's merch table -- and believe me, I'm looking -- but later it's rumored they're completely sold out, so ... More >>
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Yo La Tengo and Titus Andronicus onstage photos by Rebecca Smeyne Easley Makes The Turn and Heads For Home Yo La Tengo Titus Andronicus McCarren Park Pool Sunday, August 24 The social hour of JellyNYC's final McCarren Pool party spilled onto the stage Sunday, the audience veritably surrounding Y ... More >>
Not pictured: loogies The singer of this Atlanta band is known for hocking wads of spit into the air only to land them on his tongue seconds later. I've never tried to catch a loogie in my own mouth—it's basically spitting on yourself, which isn't cool or punk or revivalist. Spitting on others ... More >>


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For the past 2 years I've been working on a new body of work about the woods next to my house. The resulting images have allowed me to explore how we relate to the abandoned rural landscape in Britain today. Formally a quarry, the woods have been left to grow unchecked for at least the past 30 years, and the result is a complicated mix of thick forest and sparse areas of quarried land. Here is a sneak preview of the work, more of which will be shown this saturday at my talk at The Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester.
Tag: landscape
Steffi Klenz's images of Poundbury, Dorset
Finally, after much headscratching I have found a piece of work I have been seeking for a while now -Steffi Klenz's project 'Nonsuch' which focuses on the model new town of poundbury in Dorset. The asthetic of these images is similar to how I will shoot in Thames Town in Shanghai shortly with added hints of China included. The banality of such a suburban British town is very true to life and one that seems to be missed by the Chinese who desire to occupy such spaces to have a piece of England in China. Combining this approach with portraiture in the style of other medium and large format photographers such as Alec Soth and Barry Cawston is a style that is really exciting me about photography again!
Have a look at Nonsuch on Klenz's website here: Steffi Klenz


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What about handguns? Equally animated.
Good luck with with that made-up knife thing.
Coincidentally had just seen this video earlier today. The shark story struck me as fanciful. Maybe a little hallucinating in those 40 hours, or maybe just doing a little PR for the upcoming book.
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Baby Sticks Hand In Obama's Mouth
December 27, 2011 by UPI - United Press International, Inc.
HONOLULU, Dec. 27 (UPI) — A couple who posed for a picture with President Obama in Hawaii said they were "mortified" when their infant son stuck his hand in the head of state's mouth.
Meredith Wagner, 27, who posed for a picture with Obama alongside her husband, Capt. Greg Wagner, 25, and their 8-month-old son, Cooper, during the president's Christmas Day visit to the Marine Corps Base at Kaneohe Bay, told ABC's "Good Morning America" Tuesday she quickly moved to pull her son's hand away when she realized he was shoving his fingers into the president's mouth.
"I was mortified. I was so embarrassed," she said.
However, the couple said Obama laughed off the incident.
"He kind of laughed and said that Cooper looked up and saw his big nose and just wanted to get a hold of it," Greg Wagner said. "He played it off really well and got a good chuckle."
He said the Secret Service agents in the room didn't appear to find Cooper's actions threatening.
"They didn't say anything to us," he said. "It didn't appear anyone made any movements towards us. They just played it off like the president did."


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- Carbohydrate: 56g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 7g
- 3 6- to 7-ounce boxes plain rice pilaf
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UPDATE: Aprilia has released official photos and information on the 2010 Aprilia Shiver 750.
Making it a 2 for 2 Saturday, we have also gotten some leaked photos of the 2010 Aprilia Shiver, and it looks like the new Shiver carries with it the same disappointment we had with the 2010 Aprilia Dorsoduro Factory. Obvious changes are the sportier look that includes a fairing around the dash mounting, as well as wave disc-brakes fore and aft. Despite the tastefully done facelift, the feature we wanted the most was a diet for this 417lb (dry), but otherwise perfect daily rider.


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Hey all!
I figured I'd share a few videos with you that I found to be interesting. :) Some of you may have seen them before, but it never hurts to share them.
Game Grumps: Sonic 06 Part 20 (This one is worth it at the 7:30 time marker)
Conversation With 12 Year Old Self
These four will do for now. *nods* I had more in mind, but I'll save them for another time. :)
I recently picked up an N64 for the first time! I got the system with Banjo-Kazooie and Star Fox 64. Now I just need to get the Expansion Pak since there are a couple of games I plan on getting that will require it. With that in mind, here is my N64 wishlist as of this post.
Anyway, this is all that I can think of at the moment. I'll be watching the Super Bowl with a friend this weekend, but I don't know who I'll be rooting for. It might end up being the 49ers, but I honestly don't care. What matters is that I'll have a good time watching it. :)
As for drawing, I do have a couple of Valentine's Day related things I would like to knock out. I wasn't able to get anything ready to post this time, but I'll try to have something next week. *nods*
As always, I thank you all for taking the time to read this. :) I wish you guys a great rest of the weekend!
Until next time! This is Eddie the Wolf signing off!


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For now, Senate Republicans are standing united against Wall Street reform, demanding more negotiations. Democrats should be leery of that tactic since it's the same one the GOP used on health care reform.
Did Republicans use the delay on health care to negotiate in good faith? Nope. Instead, they used it to whip up opposition to the measures.
Democrats should push ahead with stricter oversight on financial firms. They have the momentum on this issue:
But compared with congressional Republicans, Obama has a clear advantage. A slim majority – 52 percent – of all Americans says they trust Obama over the GOP on the issue, while 35 percent favor the Republicans in Congress. Independents prefer Obama 47 to 35 percent, with 16 percent trusting neither side on the issue.
In the poll, most Democrats back each of the three major elements of the reform legislation and most Republicans oppose them, echoing the congressional showdown expected this week.
The area with the highest levels of cross-party support is on more robust federal oversight of the way banks and other financial companies make consumer loans, such as auto loans, credit cards and mortgages. Here, 44 percent of Republicans approve of stricter guidelines, joining 75 percent of Democrats and 57 percent of independents on the issue.
In this poll, support for new federal regulation was about the same for "banks and other financial institutions" as for "Wall Street firms." A recent Gallup poll taken before Obama took his case for reform to New York last week showed somewhat greater support for new laws aimed at Wall Street, suggesting the phrase had become a pejorative.
April 26th, 2010
1:07 pm
Goldman wants reform.. so what's the problem? (they stand to make more money with the democratic reform policies)
April 26th, 2010
1:13 pm
"Will Republicans stand with Wall Street?"
Obama did when he was taking campaign contributions from them.
April 26th, 2010
1:16 pm
Fannie, Freddie, CRA, Acorn—they are the ones responsible for this mess.
Just thought I would get that out of the way early.
April 26th, 2010
1:20 pm
Yes, the republicans and their constituents will stand with Wall Street. However, most live on Main Street with a sweet dream of being like the guys on Wall Street.
April 26th, 2010
1:21 pm
Thanks Kamchak – they are the blame, along with Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd. All are guilty of forcing subprime loans down the throats of the industry. President Bush is just as guilty for not reeling in these idiots running Fannie and Freddie.
April 26th, 2010
1:26 pm
Kamchak- it took a number of individuals and institutions to accomplish such a mess (Fannie Freddie CRA Acorn, Congress, GS, BStearns, Citi, etc) Somel just flail around defending their chosen group for some inane reason- I assume you have yours.
April 26th, 2010
1:27 pm
Kamchak must have gotten saved yesterday at church!
April 26th, 2010
1:32 pm
The backlash is commmmminnng !
April 26th, 2010
1:35 pm
Sadly yes, some will.
sometimes "teh stoopid" makes me chuckle
April 26th, 2010
1:39 pm
All are guilty of forcing subprime loans down the throats of the industry.
Nope. Fannie and Freddie don't make loans nor do they dictate who gets loans, they are in the business of securitization. During the height of the sub-prime boom, they went from holding a high of 48% of the sub-prime loans sold into the secondary market to 24%.
84% of the sub-prime loans were made by private mortgage companies not subject to the rules of the CRA.
April 26th, 2010
1:42 pm
Granny Godzilla
I thought the eye roll thingy would express my sarcasm.
April 26th, 2010
1:49 pm
Ms. Tucker
Good job at the round table on the TeeVee yesterday.
April 26th, 2010
1:50 pm
I cannot imagine the democrats taking millions and millions from Unions would have ANY effect on decisions made by the politicians. So.. when we have a meltdown from unfunded pensions.. brought to us by unions.. (and democrats) will that be a wall street issue as well?
April 26th, 2010
1:53 pm
melt down from unfunded pensions……there's your sign
April 26th, 2010
1:56 pm
Will Republicans stand with Wall Street?
Not sure about that, but one thing is certain, Democrats don't have as big a problem with "Wall Street" (or at lest its money) as they would haave us believe. As I noted on Bookman's blog last week: According to this from Open Secrets, the big money from large corporations OVERWHELMINGLY goes to Democrats over Republicans. And notice who is #65 on the list, tilting "Strongly Democratic."
April 26th, 2010
2:01 pm
Neither good judgment, nor a history of economic failures in every initiative since 2007, should prevent the democrats from imposing their uninformed arbitrary will on the economy. Seemingly the democrats blame the instrument – "derivatives," an idea beyond the comprehension of 98% of leftists – rather than the underlying causes for the current distress. Nothing new there.
If democrats were intellectually serious, they would look at "causation," rather than "means." I hope the republicans do better, but without a strong conservative presence in Washington I doubt that we will see any rational approach to prevent similar future bubbles.
April 26th, 2010
2:12 pm
Union – You are correct.
What a joke, 1/2 of the Repulican's are in with it so I'm not blaming one party over the other.
April 26th, 2010
2:14 pm
Granny Godzilla
April 26th, 2010
1:53 pm
"melt down from unfunded pensions……there's your sign"
oh gee.. giggle. giggle.. you made a funny.. I sure haven't seen that little come back anywhere before.. you are just so witty.. wow
Just because you can type.. doesn't mean you should.. This might be more than you can comprehend.. cause its really big numbers.. . City of LA.. starting out this year.. over $500 million in unfunded pensions.. by 2015 it will be over $1 Billion.. It cannot pay what it owes now and it's on it 5th highest revenue generating fiscal year. unlike obama.. they cannot just fire up the presses and tell the morons that we have plenty of money cause xerox is making it..
April 26th, 2010
2:17 pm
The bill is a Democrat Part fundraiser, Why should the Republicans help, but they will, as they will still get a little piece of the pie.
April 26th, 2010
2:19 pm
Uh, oh…
April 26th, 2010
2:19 pm
Why should the Repubs consent to more government control?
April 26th, 2010
2:21 pm
When Obama funneled hundreds of millions of taxpayer-funded bailout dollars to failed banks, would that count as "standing with Wall Street?"
Or, let me illustrate it differently…none of the failed Wall Street institutions cost me as much as one nickel, but the federal government bent me over to the tune of about $25,000 last year.
April 26th, 2010
2:23 pm
Spend spend spend.
There's your financial cataclysm.
April 26th, 2010
2:24 pm
I Report/You Decide
April 26th, 2010
2:21 pm
Yeah.. but you got road and stuff..
April 26th, 2010
2:24 pm
If Obama were really worried about a "financial cataclysm," why not let the failed banks fail, and use the bailout money instead to aid responsibly-managed institutions with picking up the slack in the market?
Could it have anything to do with the millions of $$$ contributed by Goldman Sachs officers to Obama's campaign coffers?
April 26th, 2010
2:25 pm
@ctucker.. I don't think the question should be about the republicans standing with wall street.. should be more about do you really want those morons in Washington passing another bill that no one up there read or understands?
April 26th, 2010
2:26 pm
If someone thinks they can pull it off, then by all means, explain the meltdown's causes and possible preventions. We're all ears. (twitter length please)
And don't forget to include a reason why the reform package is a bad idea.
and save your ideology for your manifesto, Unishmoe.
Cynthia was marvelous on ABC's This Morning yesterday. I wonder if she would care to do a few words describing what George Wills (another one of my heroes) is like in real life?
April 26th, 2010
2:27 pm
Well, well,
Unions negotiated in good faith with the government for those pensions.
Who is responsible for the fact that they are unfunded?
April 26th, 2010
2:28 pm
Union @ 2:24 –
Can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not, but…
Whenever anyone complains about taxes, the typicla liberal retort is "we must have infrastructure"…which is great, except that infrastructure counts for about 2% of the federal budget, and it's not what conservatives take issue with anyway…it's government waste and income re-distribution…
…and liberals are opposed to roads anyway…
April 26th, 2010
2:30 pm
Here is good info I found on causes, Keep in mind the deregulation was due to Washington & Wall Streets marriage:
Here are 12 deregulatory steps to financial meltdown:
1. The repeal of Glass-Steagall
The Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 formally repealed the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 and related rules, which prohibited banks from offering investment, commercial banking, and insurance services. In 1998, Citibank and Travelers Group merged on the expectation that Glass-Steagall would be repealed. Then they set out, successfully, to make it so. The subsequent result was the infusion of the investment bank speculative culture into the world of commercial banking. The 1999 repeal of Glass-Steagall helped create the conditions in which banks invested monies from checking and savings accounts into creative financial instruments such as mortgage-backed securities and credit default swaps, investment gambles that led many of the banks to ruin and rocked the financial markets in 2008.
2. Off-the-books accounting for banks
Holding assets off the balance sheet generally allows companies to avoid disclosing "toxic" or money-losing assets to investors in order to make the company appear more valuable than it is. Accounting rules — lobbied for by big banks — permitted the accounting fictions that continue to obscure banks' actual condition.
3. CFTC blocked from regulating derivatives
Financial derivatives are unregulated. By all accounts this has been a disaster, as Warren Buffett's warning that they represent "weapons of mass financial destruction" has proven prescient — they have amplified the financial crisis far beyond the unavoidable troubles connected to the popping of the housing bubble. During the Clinton administration, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) sought to exert regulatory control over financial derivatives, but the agency was quashed by opposition from Robert Rubin and Fed Chair Alan Greenspan.
4. Formal financial derivative deregulation: the Commodities Futures Modernization Act
The deregulation — or non-regulation — of financial derivatives was sealed in 2000, with the Commodities Futures Modernization Act. Its passage orchestrated by the industry-friendly Senator Phil Gramm, the Act prohibits the CFTC from regulating financial derivatives.
5. SEC removes capital limits on investment banks and the voluntary regulation regime
In 1975, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) promulgated a rule requiring investment banks to maintain a debt to-net capital ratio of less than 15 to 1. In simpler terms, this limited the amount of borrowed money the investment banks could use. In 2004, however, the SEC succumbed to a push from the big investment banks — led by Goldman Sachs, and its then-chair, Henry Paulson — and authorized investment banks to develop net capital requirements based on their own risk assessment models. With this new freedom, investment banks pushed ratios to as high as 40 to 1. This super-leverage not only made the investment banks more vulnerable when the housing bubble popped, it enabled the banks to create a more tangled mess of derivative investments — so that their individual failures, or the potential of failure, became systemic crises.
6. Basel II weakening of capital reserve requirements for banks
Rules adopted by global bank regulators — known as Basel II, and heavily influenced by the banks themselves — would let commercial banks rely on their own internal risk-assessment models (exactly the same approach as the SEC took for investment banks). Luckily, technical challenges and intra-industry disputes about Basel II have delayed implementation — hopefully permanently — of the regulatory scheme.
7. No predatory lending enforcement
Even in a deregulated environment, the banking regulators retained authority to crack down on predatory lending abuses. Such enforcement activity would have protected homeowners, and lessened though not prevented the current financial crisis. But the regulators sat on their hands. The Federal Reserve took three formal actions against subprime lenders from 2002 to 2007. The Office of Comptroller of the Currency, which has authority over almost 1,800 banks, took three consumer-protection enforcement actions from 2004 to 2006.
8. Federal preemption of state enforcement against predatory lending
When the states sought to fill the vacuum created by federal non-enforcement of consumer protection laws against predatory lenders, the Feds — responding to commercial bank petitions — jumped to attention to stop them. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision each prohibited states from enforcing consumer protection rules against nationally chartered banks.
9. Blocking the courthouse doors: Assignee Liability Escape
Under the doctrine of "assignee liability," anyone profiting from predatory lending practices should be held financially accountable, including Wall Street investors who bought bundles of mortgages (even if the investors had no role in abuses committed by mortgage originators). With some limited exceptions, however, assignee liability does not apply to mortgage loans, however. Representative Bob Ney — a great friend of financial interests, and who subsequently went to prison in connection with the Abramoff scandal — worked hard, and successfully, to ensure this effective immunity was maintained.
10. Fannie and Freddie enter subprime
At the peak of the housing boom, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were dominant purchasers in the subprime secondary market. The Government-Sponsored Enterprises were followers, not leaders, but they did end up taking on substantial subprime assets — at least $57 billion. The purchase of subprime assets was a break from prior practice, justified by theories of expanded access to homeownership for low-income families and rationalized by mathematical models allegedly able to identify and assess risk to newer levels of precision. In fact, the motivation was the for-profit nature of the institutions and their particular executive incentive schemes. Massive lobbying — including especially but not only of Democratic friends of the institutions — enabled them to divert from their traditional exclusive focus on prime loans.
Fannie and Freddie are not responsible for the financial crisis. They are responsible for their own demise, and the resultant massive taxpayer liability.
11. Merger mania
The effective abandonment of antitrust and related regulatory principles over the last two decades has enabled a remarkable concentration in the banking sector, even in advance of recent moves to combine firms as a means to preserve the functioning of the financial system. The megabanks achieved too-big-to-fail status. While this should have meant they be treated as public utilities requiring heightened regulation and risk control, other deregulatory maneuvers (including repeal of Glass-Steagall) enabled them to combine size, explicit and implicit federal guarantees, and reckless high-risk investments.
12. Credit rating agency failure
With Wall Street packaging mortgage loans into pools of securitized assets and then slicing them into tranches, the resultant financial instruments were attractive to many buyers because they promised high returns. But pension funds and other investors could only enter the game if the securities were highly rated.
The credit rating agencies enabled these investors to enter the game, by attaching high ratings to securities that actually were high risk — as subsequent events have revealed. The credit rating agencies have a bias to offering favorable ratings to new instruments because of their complex relationships with issuers, and their desire to maintain and obtain other business dealings with issuers.
This institutional failure and conflict of interest might and should have been forestalled by the SEC, but the Credit Rating Agencies Reform Act of 2006 gave the SEC insufficient oversight authority. In fact, the SEC must give an approval rating to credit ratings agencies if they are adhering to their own standards — even if the SEC knows those standards to be flawed.
From a financial regulatory standpoint, what should be done going forward? The first step is certainly to undo what Wall Street has wrought. More in future columns on an affirmative agenda to restrain the financial sector.
None of this will be easy, however. Wall Street may be disgraced, but it is not prostrate. Financial sector lobbyists continue to roam the halls of Congress, former Wall Street executives have high positions in the Obama administration, and financial sector propagandists continue to warn of the dangers of interfering with "financial innovation."
April 26th, 2010
2:31 pm
April 26th, 2010
2:37 pm
The meltdown is actually very simple to explain. It was a perfect storm of the following;
1) Idiots buying houses they couldn't afford, thus borrowing money they could never repay.
2) The idiot bankers who lent money to people with low incomes and no money down, who therefore had no incentive not to walk away and leave the banks holding the bag.
3) Skyrocketing gasoline prices due to a hurricane-induced temporary shortage.
You can argue that the federal government facilitated all three events, as follows;
1) Convincing voters that home ownership is a right, regardless of whether you have demonstrated good judgment by saving up for a down payment, building good credit, stable job history, etc.
2) Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac encouraging and guaranteeing these crappy loans described above.
3) Blocking any new domestic oil exploration and/or development of any new domestic oil refining capacity.
April 26th, 2010
2:42 pm
The problem, more than anything, is "leaders" that want to pass laws before anyone can see what's in them. These are the same individuals complaining about the 'culture of corruption' that the republicans had when they were in power… If you ask me, I have more confidence in Wall Street (warts and all) than in the current congress.
April 26th, 2010
2:46 pm
You don't assign most of the blame to the individual borrowers? No one made them sign up for these types of loans. Have you ever thought that not all Americans are smart enough to own a home? Home ownership is certainly not for everyone. The only reason the derivatives went bad is because so many of them were toxic loans to start with. Wall Street did aggregate them and sell them off in pieces, but it is up to the buyers (other major banks) to look at what they are buying. Nobody did any due diligence after they got rolled up.
There is a reason that banks always made everyone put down 20% up front. The CRA was, and is, a terrible idea that took 30 years to blow up, but blow up it did.
April 26th, 2010
2:48 pm
@ctucker… I don't see a bad word in my comment.. why is it still moderated?
April 26th, 2010
2:52 pm
The great thing about this topic is that Cynthis Tucker is (unwittingly) admitting that trickle down economics works. If a bank fails, it doesn't hurt a homeowner who is current on his or her mortgage. Someone just steps in and buys that asset (the mortgage) from the failed lender, the homeowner keeps making payments, and all is well with the world.
The only people hurt when a bank fails are the investors…and they should be hurt, given that they invested in a poorly managed financial institution, or invested in a failed financial instrument or "deriviative." But, we know that, according to liberals, only "the wealthy" invest in things like the stock market, or banks, or mortgage derivatives, or whatever. So, to assert that these failures resulted in a "financial cataclysm" is to basically stipulate that when wealthy investors suffer losses, the trickle down effect has a great negative impact on the entire economy.
No homeowner lost his or her house and/or got foreclosed because of banking failure. Regardless of the financial status of your lender, if you make the payments, it's your house, and you're fine.
April 26th, 2010
2:54 pm
"@ctucker… I don't see a bad word in my comment.. why is it still moderated?"
Because you are too effective at refuting her position.
April 26th, 2010
3:00 pm
Oh and Granny, the arrogare make us laugh too.
April 26th, 2010
3:05 pm
arrogare: to claim in Italian……
April 26th, 2010
3:06 pm
Yes they will! And the Democrats as well. We want to be careful not to over do it. The markets are in the middle of a nice rally. Most of us are invested one way or another.
April 26th, 2010
3:07 pm
Fannie, Freddie, CRA, ACORN—SQUIRREL!
April 26th, 2010
3:10 pm
Force the derivatives to liquidate in an orderly manner. Otherwise it will be more of the same later. Any new regulations will be ineffective because the lawyers on Wall Street are much smarter than the ones in Washington. And paid considerably better, too.
April 26th, 2010
3:12 pm
April 26th, 2010
3:07 pm
April 26th, 2010
3:13 pm
Cynthi had a somewhat similar post on Friday and, once again, she's unfairly demonizing Republicans over an issue that she doesn't really seem to understand. Just as opposing Obamacare was not the equivalent of endorsing the status quo, opposing the Dodd bill is not the equivalent of "standing with Wall Street." The main culprit in the financial crisis was government. Between Fannie and Freddie's relentless drive to buy up subprime RMBS, to tax policies designed to favor home ownership over renting, and easy money from the Fed the government was easily the most culpable party in creating the housing asset bubble. Ironically, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd are two of the people most responsible for the crisis and, yet, they are the ones proposing how to "fix" the system.
Given the government seems to be adicted to bailing out large corporations, I would actually agree with the Volcker/ Mervyn King rule – banks that are too big to fail are simply too big. Breaking up the big banks would probably be a good idea. Second, the government needs to get out of the housing business. Were it not for government policies that relentlessly push individuals to buy homes, the bubble would never have expanded to the size that it did.
What we don't need is for yet another faceless bureaucracy to have sweeping, but ill-defined, powers to interfere with the normal functioning of the financial system. That's what the Dodd bill does and that's a bad idea.
April 26th, 2010
3:17 pm
Michael K
Then you support the Kaufman Brown amendment?
April 26th, 2010
3:23 pm
@ Granny.. I cannot argue with you right now.. my post is awaiting moderation.. talk about fighting with both arms behind your back


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Forestry statistics released today confirm, despite the widespread recognition of the value and importance of trees and woodland and the need for woodland expansion 1, that planting figures for England remain critically low and fall well short of those needed to meet the Government's vision for increased woodland cover.
Just 10 years ago the UK saw more than 18,000ha of new woodland planted each year but figures show just 2,600 hectares of woodland was planted in England in the 2011/12 planting season, roughly comparable to the 2,500ha in 2010/11. Increased levels of new planting are evident in Scotland and Wales, where clear woodland expansion targets are already in place. Planting in England continues to bump along the bottom of historically low levels.
England has just 10 per cent woodland cover, compared to 44 per cent for Europe as a whole. A targeted expansion of the area of trees and woodland is essential to provide benefits such as better habitat networks that allow the movement of species in response to climate change, planting to improve water quality and mitigate flooding, improvements in air quality, more green spaces for people to enjoy and support for productive and sustainable agriculture.
The strength of public support for woodland in England was clearly demonstrated in 2011 with the proposed disposal of the public forest estate and, in less than a month's time, after more than a year of deliberations, the final report from the Independent Forestry Panel, set up in the wake of the Government's u-turn on sales, is expected.
Woodland Trust Policy Director, Hilary Allison said: "These figures just aren't good enough - they are far lower than what's needed to achieve the benefits the natural environment can offer in terms of both ecosystem function and the economy. We hope to see the Forestry Panel make clear recommendations around woodland creation in its final report and we continue to call on Government to set clear targets as part of an overall expansion of woodland in England. We need to be planting 10,000ha a year in England. It's vital we plant now in preparation for the changes ahead."
The disappointing figures are set against a background of threats to woodland in England, not least the Government's own National Planning Policy Framework published in April, which retains a loophole putting ancient woodland at significant risk of destruction. Concurrently, large areas of larch and other conifers have had to be felled as a result of Phytophora ramorum 2, and there remains the possibility of permanent loss of some of these woods. ENDS
Full statistics available at: http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-8TAEG4
1 In recent years, a report to Government on forests and climate change chaired by Lord Reada, various government climate reports, the England Woodfuel Strategyb, the UK National Ecosystem Assessmentc and the Natural Environment White Paperd , have all emphasised the value and importance of trees and woodland and the need for woodland expansion.
a Combating Climate Change – A Role For UK Forests: Main Report
An Assessment of The Potential of The UK's Trees and Woodlands to Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Change. Available at http://www.tsoshop.co.uk/bookstore.asp?FO=1159966&Action=Book&ProductID=9780114973513&From=SearchResults [accessed 30th May 2012]
b A Woodfuel Strategy for England, Forestry Commission England. Available at http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/fce-woodfuel-strategy.pdf/$file/fce-woodfuel-strategy.pdf, [accessed 30th May 2012]
c UK National Ecosystem Assessment. Available at http://uknea.unep-wcmc.org/, [accessed 30th May 2012]
d Natural Environment White Paper. Available athttp://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/natural/whitepaper/, [accessed 30th May 2012]
2 Forestry Commission. Available at http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pramorum, [accessed 30th May 2012]


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Having endured the New York winter of Harinam and BTG distribution in 1971, I am awed and encouraged by Abhiram prabhu's glowing account of the sankirtan efforts that are fructifying so transcendentally on the streets of Manhattan. Dhoti, tilok, sari, books - what a concept! It worked then, so why not now and why not everywhere. And with older devotees bringing their experience and expertise to the table, a Hare Krishna skyscraper in the city may not be such a far-fetched idea. Krishna West take notice! Glories to the sankirtan army of New York City!
Comment Posted By nrsimhananda On 05.07.2014 @ 15:39
Book Review of Walther Eidlitz's "Krishna-Chaitanya, India's Hidden Treasure, His Life and Teachings"
Certainly the Lord favored Srila Prabhupada to expand the preaching in the West. However, we should note that there were others like Eidlitz who previously took up the great task with dedication, conviction, and enthusiasm. As a sadhaka, he left the comfort of pre-war Austria to search for the meaning of life in India, and he was eventually blessed to gain the association of the Vaisnavas - as did Sadananda. Internment in the detention camps along with every shade of German, Austrian, Italian, etc., survival was difficult at best during the years of WWII. Yet, Eidlitz, by Sadananda's influence and Krishna's mercy, became more enlivened in spiritual life. Eidlitz returned to the West imbued with the wisdom of Krishna consciousness but without any of the support system that Iskcon and other Vaisnava branches offer the neophyte. Imagine, he returns to a family as a transformed person. He has no one who can understand his experience. Yet, he finds the strength to balance his material life with spiritual aspirations - pretty much by himself. Amazing. India has been beckoning seekers for millenniums. Satyaraja p. has done a great service by bringing the life work of the courageous Eidlitz to our attention with such detailed context.
Comment Posted By nrsimhananda On 12.07.2014 @ 22:40
UK CEO of Worlds Largest Bank Gives Swami a Standing Ovation
Extraordinary! Srila Prabhupada must be very pleased by HH Radhanatha Swami's representation of his mission to such influential personages. Of course, the glories extend to all the devotees whose intense desire to spread Lord Caitanya's message has fructified in such a magnificent venue. I'm thinking of changing my account to HSBC unless the same kind of event happens with Axis and Bank of America. Maharaja is preaching a new currency - love of Krishna. May the world adopt that universal exchange.
Comment Posted By nrsimhananda On 29.11.2013 @ 03:33
US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard's 2013 Diwali greeting (2 min video)
That's cool. Prabhupada wanted devotees of Krishna (he didn't specify the institution to which they were associated) to hold public office. Perhaps the umbrella of Krishna consciousness can be seen to be ever more inclusive of other paths that carry the essential message of understanding Krishna as the Supreme Person. Tulsi's prayer is heartfelt and direct. May it resonate in the hearts of others so that more people can open up to the treasure house of the Holy Names.
Comment Posted By nrsimhananda On 05.11.2013 @ 15:58
"Oh My God!" ISKCON Indore youth festival receives excellent response
All glories to the ingenuity of Preneshwar p., Mahaman p., and all those involved in this creative preaching venue. This is a prime example of "taxing our brains" to broadcast the message of Lord Caitanya. Theatrical movies provide an abundant platform for preaching; there have been uncountable missed opportunities throughout the years. Decades ago, LA devotees used to distribute small books to the big movie crowds outside such films as "The Exorcist" (Sri Isopanisad), "Star Wars" ( "Easy Journey"), and others. Business was brisk. That was in the day when book distribution was practically every devotee's occupation. In Los Angeles, we were looking for ways to expand the field. Unfortunately, the practice waned. Now HG Caitanya Caran p. has exploited the popularity of the insidious message of OMG, and his idea has had a ripple effect. Hopefully, more Indian temples will pick up the tempo of using this blockbuster to bust the myths that the film perpetrates. In fact, Janardradi p. and I have obtained the remake rights to "Yehi Hai Zindagi"(This is Life)," a 1977 hit starring Sanjeev Kumar. OMG has provoked parallel's between the two films - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276628/. In the updated script of "Yehi Hai Zindagi," we engage the protagonist in the vocation of software development and have one of his sons become an Iskcon devotee - much to the distaste of his father. We are currently looking for a professional scriptwriter to rewrite the old version according to our ideas. Just imagine what a megabit feature film in India would do for increasing the demand for Srila Prabhupada's books! Our Indian company, Uplifting Cinema Pvt Ltd., has a number of projects in development to accomplish the goal of exponentially multiplying the interest in the proper understanding of Krishna consciousness. Anyone interested in our efforts can contact me for further information, business plans, etc.: email@example.com
Comment Posted By nrsimhananda On 08.09.2013 @ 16:40
The filmmaker saw the essence of spiritual life: free will. He is a keen observer of the human spirit that yearns, even as a youngster, to find his own way. Parents (I speak from my own experience) would do well to heed and nuture that call for individuality throughout the maturation process. This "little student film" has many big things to say in a very understated manner. Domen Martincic is a budding talent. And Bhagavat Dharma p. and Mother Jambavati-priya dd have beautiful fruit growing on their family tree.
PS How is it that the grass is green and the trees are laden with snow? I thought that I was seeing some special effects!
Comment Posted By nrsimhananda On 14.05.2013 @ 03:14
HH Bhakti Vrajendranandana Swami Complications
Prayers for HH Bhakti Vrajendranandana Swami full recovery. I've had Singles three times. It is a nasty disease. I know one devotee who had it in the muscle sheath in his face; he was in agony. I had it in my back, but didn't know what was causing the pain because the rash didn't show up for two weeks. I couldn't sleep. My health deteriorated. Only the vaccine relieved the symptoms. After the third time, I got a Shingles vaccine. It is 90% effective. I haven't had the disease since. If the disease does return, it is reduced in its intensity if you've taken the vaccine. The vaccine is recommended for bodies over 55 years of age. Again, prayers for Maharaja. May the kind Lord Dhanvantari heal you quickly.
Comment Posted By nrsimhananda On 07.02.2013 @ 02:32
New Film does ISKCON great justice
The trailer looks very professional and profound; can't wait to see the movie. Glad to see the media used to broadcast the message. Prabhupada said, "Make Krishna conscious films the most popular." Congratulations!
Comment Posted By nrsimhananda On 06.05.2012 @ 08:04
Thank you, Tukarama prabhu, for your eloquent eulogy. Though Nitai was my "junior," I looked up to him as my "senior" because he was the emblem of enthusiasm for spreading Krishna consciousness in America. At Bhaktifest this year, I told him that Iskcon would expand like wildfire under his management; I had great hopes for his generation due to his determination and capability to share Srila Prabhupada's gifts to young and old. Who can understand the mind of the Lord to have taken him from the preaching field? He was so confident, knowledgable, and "wildly" in love with guru and Gauranga. His spirit was active and alive; he was a sparkler amongst devotees. I was comforted knowing that he was leading the charge for the next generations. Now I feel the world vacant by his absence. I pray that I can honor him by doing something that is a speck as wonderful as what he accomplished in his short stay with us. Jaya Nitai das prabhu!
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When I produced the first edition of "Hare Krishna in the Movies," I appeared on-screen in an end comment in which I expressed the hope that KC and the devotees would be taken more seriously by Hollywood (and the entertainment industry) in the coming years. Those years have come and gone, and we continue to be not taken seriously in the mass media. In the second edition, I updated it with twice the number of film and television appearances, but only a handful took a deeper view. Now I am embarking on a project to bring Krishna consciousness to the screen ourselves. The Christians, Mormans, Muslims, Buddhists, New Agers - they all have done it successfully. Yadubara, Janardradhi, and myself have a business plan for making five feature films including a political thriller, comedy, drama, and classic remake. Anyone interested in investing can contact me: email@example.com. The "Hare Krishna in the Movies" (updated through 2008) can be obtained via www.itvproductions.net in the "Iskcon" category.
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MC 00249 Guide to the Azariah Graves Thompson Papers, circa 1900-circa 1910, 1930, 1960, 1997
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Graves Thompson, Azariah G. Thompson, Lula Belle Stephens Thompson and their children, undated (Accession 2014.0022)
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This collection primarily contains letters from Azariah Graves Thompson (1885-1963) to his family in Leasburg, North Carolina. Most letters are to his mother, Ella Williams Graves Thompson (1850-1914), concerning his life at the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later North Carolina State University). Contained in these letters are many detailed descriptions of the school, the cow barns, the feed barns, academic and social activities, available modes of transportation, cost of goods, and work he performed on the campus's farm and in its dairy. Of particular interest is a printed hand bill titled "Regulations for Dormitories at the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts" dated 1905, which includes information about the rules and regulations students were required to meet.
Also included are a typed transcription of reminiscences written in about 1900 by Thompson's mother, Ella Williams Graves Thompson; and a typed transcription of "A History of Leasburg with Personal Recollections," 1960, written by his sister, Ella Graves Thompson; as well as typed transcriptions of the letters and some notes, 1997, on local and family history by Jeannine D. Whitlow.
An addition to the collection was made in 2013. It contained transcripts of correspondence not already in the collection as well as reproductions of photographs of Azariah Graves Thompson.
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Azariah Graves Thompson (1885-1963) was born June 16, 1885, in Leasburg, North Carolina. He attended the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later North Carolina State University) from 1905 to 1909. He married Lula Belle Stephens (1890-1977) in 1914. They had three daughters and four sons.
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I'm not quite sure if "parent" from March, 2011 has a child who has gone there or is going there. I have never seen a "new age" philosophy or any sort of philosophy in the curriculum. It's a leftover from the Free School Movement--maybe s/he should have actually researched it first and learned something. I also have a friend who lived on the property of Drexel Elementary, although he was a janitor for Sunnyside School District, so an administrator or employee living on premises isn't all that weird! "Different" doesn't mean bad! There's also animals there, so it makes sense that someone is there as caretaker. His personality is quite interesting, but I've been impressed with my son's education there. As long as he keeps learning and the environment stays positive, I'll keep sending him there.
First of all this school espouses some new age philosophy, now I don't know what it's all about but what it seem's to amount to is that they coddle the kid's who are disruptive and disrespectful. Also people should know that highland has a reputation of having kid's at the school who have undiagnosed issue's. In general it doesn't seem like a lot of thought and attention goes in to the way the school is run, the director who "live's" at the school "full time" ( which seem's really weird to me) is a guy who has anger issue's big time. I could go on, I wouldn't recommend this school at all, however I do like the teacher's there but they are constrained by the way the director want's to do everything, and so nothing changes. I hope this was helpful...
My child attended this school from 2-5 grade and it was a wonderful experience. The school has been in operation for thirty years, and so it knows what it does best. Based on the One Room Schoolhouse philosophy, the school has a garden, animals (dogs and chickens) and celebrates holidays in a quaint, old fashioned way: Community Thanksgiving, Christmas play, talent show. Teachers tailor curriculum to meet individual child needs. Basic assignments do repeat (biography unit, studying geography, etc) but each year a child's needs are moved up a level. Strong sense of safety, community, and family. Great transition for a child whose needs might be better met in a non-traditional fashion. Big personalities on behalf of the staff --- just like family, it makes learning distinct, individual and fun.
Highland Free School has a philosophy that respects each child as a unique learner, and honors the idea that every student needs to be given the time to bring his/her ideas and thoughts to fruition. What I am even more impressed with is the emphasis on basic skills while the school develops curriculum that also appeals to the 'higher nature' of students.
The school is ok, however, the director has control issues. Everything must be his way or no way. He can be very hard to deal with. They've recently expanded by doubling their size and this has changed a lot about the school. It used to be a small community but now the director is more concerned with how he's going to handle double the work than what is really best for the kids. The ciriculum is the same every year. My child has been there 3 years and even though he changed teachers once, he still does the same work and assignments every year. This school is not for everyone and be careful with the director, he has his best interests in mind, not the kids. No art, sports or other activities either. Only 3 teachers total.
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Tarek A. Abbas
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The Ubiquitin System Research in my laboratory is focused on understanding the role of the ubiquitin system in the development and progression of human cancer and its role in promoting cellular responses to current therapeutic agents, such as ionizing radiation, and the development of resistance to anti-cancer agents. We are particularly interested in investigating the regulated process of protein ubiquitination and proteolysis of DNA sensing and repair molecules. Currently, there are a handful of examples where DNA repair proteins are regulated at the level of ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis and current evidence suggest that many others are yet to be identified specifically in post-repair recovery.
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Selected Publications
- Abbas T, Keaton M, Dutta A. Genomic instability in cancer. Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology. 2013;5(3): a012914. PMID: 23335075 | PMCID: PMC3578360
- Abbas T, Keaton M, Dutta A. Regulation of TGF-β signaling, exit from the cell cycle, and cellular migration through cullin cross-regulation: SCF-FBXO11 turns off CRL4-Cdt2. Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.). 2013;12(14): 2175-82. PMID: 23892434 | PMCID: PMC3755067
- Abbas T, Mueller A, Shibata E, Keaton M, Rossi M, Dutta A. CRL1-FBXO11 promotes Cdt2 ubiquitylation and degradation and regulates Pr-Set7/Set8-mediated cellular migration. Molecular cell. 2013;49(6): 1147-58. PMID: 23478445 | PMCID: PMC3615078
- Park J, Long D, Lee K, Abbas T, Shibata E, Negishi M, Luo Y, Schimenti J, Gambus A, Walter J, Dutta A. The MCM8-MCM9 complex promotes RAD51 recruitment at DNA damage sites to facilitate homologous recombination. Molecular and cellular biology. 2013;33(8): 1632-44. PMID: 23401855 | PMCID: PMC3624244
- Terai K, Shibata E, Abbas T, Dutta A. Degradation of p12 Subunit by CRL4Cdt2 E3 Ligase Inhibits Fork Progression after DNA Damage. The Journal of biological chemistry. 2013;288(42): 30509-14. PMID: 24022480 | PMCID: PMC3798521
- Abbas T, Dutta A. CRL4Cdt2: master coordinator of cell cycle progression and genome stability. Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.). 2011;10(2): 241-9. PMID: 21212733 | PMCID: PMC3025761
- Shibata E, Abbas T, Huang X, Wohlschlegel J, Dutta A. Selective ubiquitylation of p21 and Cdt1 by UBCH8 and UBE2G ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes via the CRL4Cdt2 ubiquitin ligase complex. Molecular and cellular biology. 2011;31(15): 3136-45. PMID: 21628527 | PMCID: PMC3147600
- Van Rechem C, Black J, Abbas T, Allen A, Rinehart C, Yuan G, Dutta A, Whetstine J. The SKP1-Cul1-F-box and leucine-rich repeat protein 4 (SCF-FbxL4) ubiquitin ligase regulates lysine demethylase 4A (KDM4A)/Jumonji domain-containing 2A (JMJD2A) protein. The Journal of biological chemistry. 2011;286(35): 30462-70. PMID: 21757720 | PMCID: PMC3162406
- Abbas T, Shibata E, Park J, Jha S, Karnani N, Dutta A. CRL4(Cdt2) regulates cell proliferation and histone gene expression by targeting PR-Set7/Set8 for degradation. Molecular cell. 2010;40(1): 9-21. PMID: 20932471 | PMCID: PMC2966975
- Terai K, Abbas T, Jazaeri A, Dutta A. CRL4(Cdt2) E3 ubiquitin ligase monoubiquitinates PCNA to promote translesion DNA synthesis. Molecular cell. 2010;37(1): 143-9. PMID: 20129063 | PMCID: PMC2818832
- Abbas T, Dutta A. p21 in cancer: intricate networks and multiple activities. Nature reviews. Cancer. 2009;9(6): 400-14. PMID: 19440234 | PMCID: PMC2722839
- Abbas T, Sivaprasad U, Terai K, Amador V, Pagano M, Dutta A. PCNA-dependent regulation of p21 ubiquitylation and degradation via the CRL4Cdt2 ubiquitin ligase complex. Genes & development. 2008;22(18): 2496-506. PMID: 18794347 | PMCID: PMC2546691
- Abbas T, Jha S, Sherman N, Dutta A. Autocatalytic phosphorylation of CDK2 at the activating Thr160. Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.). 2007;6(7): 843-52. PMID: 17361108
- Abbas T, Dutta A. CDK2-activating kinase (CAK): more questions than answers. Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.). 2006;5(10): 1123-4. PMID: 16687928
- Sivaprasad U, Abbas T, Dutta A. Differential efficacy of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl CoA reductase inhibitors on the cell cycle of prostate cancer cells. Molecular cancer therapeutics. 2006;5(9): 2310-6. PMID: 16985065
- Hui L, Abbas T, Pielak R, Joseph T, Bargonetti J, Foster D. Phospholipase D elevates the level of MDM2 and suppresses DNA damage-induced increases in p53. Molecular and cellular biology. 2004;24(13): 5677-86. PMID: 15199126 | PMCID: PMC480910
- Abbas T, White D, Hui L, Yoshida K, Foster D, Bargonetti J. Inhibition of human p53 basal transcription by down-regulation of protein kinase Cdelta. The Journal of biological chemistry. 2003;279(11): 9970-7. PMID: 14699137
- Abbas T, Olivier M, Lopez J, Houser S, Xiao G, Kumar G, Tomasz M, Bargonetti J. Differential activation of p53 by the various adducts of mitomycin C. The Journal of biological chemistry. 2002;277(43): 40513-9. PMID: 12183457


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