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Today, in honor of the birthday of Rose O'Neill, I would like to share a beautifully illustrated recipe booklet titled The Jell-O Girl Gives A Party. This charming booklet is graced page after page with shimmering dishes of Jell-O and enchanting illustrations of the Jell-O Girl as she prepares to give a party for her little friends.
Rose O'Neill; the Kewpies' Mother
Although many noted artists such as Maxfield Parrish, Norman Rockwell and Angus MacDonald made Jell-O a household word with their colored illustrations, IMHO, none had the effect and long lasting delight as those created by Rose O'Neill. There are many resources available online that highlight the life and career of Rose O'Neill. Here I have chosen a biographical sketch prepared by Brady Smith for the Literary and Cultural Heritage Map of Pennsylvania.
Rose Cecil O'Neill was born June 25, 1874 to Asenath Smith and William O'Neill; her father, a book seller and mother a former school teacher. Throughout the early stages of her life, O'Neill possessed a divine interest in the arts. Her father encouraged her to be an actress and through both her parent's influences, she learned to appreciate Shakespeare, Chopin and others that significantly stood out among the arts. She absorbed the love of poetry from her father, who encouraged her to read books to retain knowledge that would benefit her especially as a young woman.
O'Neill began expressing herself through paintings in her adolescent years. While she attended Sacred Heart Convent, she won a prize awarded by the Omaha World-Herald, for an illustration she drew. Her family then moved to Ozark, Missouri. She stayed in Ozark for only a short time before opting to move to New York to pursue her dreams of being an artist. O'Neill enjoyed painting but could not escape her fascination with classical literature on Greek myths which later inspired her idea for the Kewpies.
In her later years, O'Neill began to sell illustrations to many of the prominent periodicals and her work appeared in such magazines as Collier's, Truth, McClure's and Harper's. Because the field was dominated by men at this time, she signed her work with her initials "C.R.O." In 1896, O'Neill married Virginia aristocrat, Gray Latham. They lived in New York where she worked as a staff artist for Puck. While at Puck, she signed over 700 drawings with the signature O'Neill-Latham. However, the two divorced in 1901 and she left her job with Puck and returned to her home, "Bonniebrook" in Ozark, where she wrote and illustrated for several magazines.
O'Neill felt safe at BonnieBrook and while she stayed there, she received letters from longtime admirer Harry Leon Wilson who was the literary editor for Puck. When news of her divorce reached New York, Wilson traveled to BonnieBrook to ask for O'Neill's hand. In 1902, the two were married. They moved from Ozark to Connecticut each to pursue careers in writing. O'Neill wrote her first book 1904 entitled The Loves of Edwy. O'Neill wrote a total of four novels. (source)
BonnieBrook was Rose's home bound retreat. It was her "favorite place in the world." "In 1967, a week was dedicated to Rose O'Neill and a group of Kewpie collectors met in Branson, Missouri the closest town to BonnieBrook. The week was named "Kewpiesta" and evolved into a yearly convention. Every year the International Rose O'Neill Club (IROC) continues to hold a convention in Branson. In April of 2009, the Kewpiesta celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first Kewpies published in The Ladies Home Journal in December 1909.
In 1909, in her 'treetop studio' Rose took an afternoon nap. While sleeping, she dreamt that small "myth-like-elf" creatures that were greatly influenced by the Greek god of love, Cupid were bouncing on her coverlet, one even sitting on her hand. When she awoke, she went immediately to her drawing board and developed the tiny images hidden in her dreams into sketches and illustrations which would form her characters. They became known as Kewpies. In December 1909, the "mother" of the Kewpie characters introduced readers of Ladies' Home Journal to "The Kewpies" in her illustrated poems. The fanciful, elf-like babies with a top-knot head, wide smile, and sidelong eyes soon became a national craze. She described them as "a sort of little round fairy whose one idea is to teach people to be merry and kind at the same time." Around 1913 Rose O'Neill patented a doll based on her Kewpie character.
From 1912 to 1914, the Kewpie doll was an absolute craze. People were buying Kewpie books and Kewpie rattles, Kewpie soap and Kewpie dishes, Kewpie pianos and Kewpie salt-and-pepper shakers. Women began plucking their eyebrows to mimic the surprised dot brows of the little porcelain cherubs. Poet/artist Rose Cecil O'Neill made $1.5 million from the munchkin dolls, which she first invented as magazine illustrations and patented in 1913. source
The cartoon was instantly famous. In 1912 a German porcelain manufacturer started making Kewpie dolls, and that year she and her sister went to Germany to show the porcelain artists how to make the dolls the way she wanted them. The dolls were sold all over the world along with a vast array of Kewpie merchandise such as tableware, fabrics, and trinkets.
Becoming known as the "Queen of Bohemian Society" O'Neill became a women's rights advocate. Her properties included Bonniebrook; an apartment in Washington Square in Greenwich Village that inspired the song Rose of Washington Square; Castle Carabas in Connecticut; and Villa Narcissus on the Isle of Capri, Italy. Considered one of the world's five most beautiful women, O'Neill made a fortune of $1.4 million, approximately $15 million).
O'Neill continued working, even at her wealthiest. Perhaps driven by the unfortunate circumstances in her life to express herself, along with the needs of her family, she delved into different types of art. She learned sculpture at the hand of Rodin (The Thinker), and had several exhibitions of her "Sweet Monsters" in Paris and the United States. She held open salons in her Washington Square apartment where poets, actors, dancers and the 'great thinkers' of her day would gather. O'Neill often continued her drawing until early morning. wikipedia
Rose O'Neill's talent did not end as an illustrator. She was also an author, poet, sculptor, actress, inventor and suffragette. She was one of the few women to achieve extraordinary financial success and professional independence in early twentieth-century American cartooning. Such wealth enabled O'Neill, with her sister, Callista, to hold salons in her Greenwich Village studio and create experimental drawings unlike the work for which she is usually known.
She also wrote and illustrated eight children's books featuring Kewpies from 1912 to 1936. Kewpie comics appeared in newspapers during those years, and O'Neill became one of the first female cartoonists in America. Ignoring publicized criticism of her association with the Women's Movement, O'Neill utilized the immense popularity of the Kewpie character to endorse and garner attention to her favorite political causes which included woman suffrage. The National Woman Suffrage Association distributed postcards and posters that utilized her Kewpie and artistic illustrations. A Los Angeles Tribune article reported, "The most celebrated of America's black-and-white artists, Rose O'Neill, creator of 'The Kewpies,' is an ardent suffragist and an active member of the Press and Publicity Council of New York City. source
The Great Depression hurt O'Neill's fortune. During that period she was dismayed to find that her work was no longer in demand. The Kewpie character phenomena, after 30 years of popularity, faded, and photography was replacing illustrating as a commercial vehicle. In 1937, Rose O'Neill returned to BonnieBrook permanently. By the 1940s she had lost most of her money and her beautiful homes. She continued to donate her time and pieces of artwork to the School of the Ozarks at Point Lookout, Missouri. She lectured at artist's workshops and continued to address women's groups. She remained a prominent personality in the Branson, Missouri community.
O'Neill worked industriously and financially supported her family and many fellow artists throughout her career. In the 1930s, her fortunes dwindled due to her generosity and the financial stress of a worldwide economic depression. Also, after thirty years of popularity, interest in the Kewpie character started to wane. O'Neill's artwork—and the Kewpies—were no longer in high demand as realistic photographs replaced fanciful illustrations in magazines and newspapers.
In 1937 O'Neill retreated permanently to Missouri to live at Bonniebrook. There she wrote her memoirs with the help of her friend, the Ozark folklorist Vance Randolph. Her autobiography, published many years after her death, reveals her personal philosophy: "Do good deeds in a funny way. The world needs to laugh or at least smile more than it does." She died on April 6, 1944, at the age of 70. She was buried at Bonniebrook. source
The Jell-O Girl Gives A Party
The world needs to laugh or at least smile more than it does."
Rose O'Neill
Additional Resources: Some of the Jell-O Girl information was cited from one of my favorite advertising leaflets reference books Vintage Cookbooks and Advertising Recipe Leaflets by Sandra J. Norman & Karrie K. Andes (pages 53-58)


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Amy Bell, the embattled Cass County circuit clerk, is leaving the courthouse with no apologies.
Bell was suspended from her circuit court duties last August by Cass County Judge William Collins, after he said she hired a close friend to oversee three special projects involving the transfer of paper records into an electronic format. The work was never completed.
The following month, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster filed a civil ouster petition and misdemeanor criminal charges against Bell, alleging she failed to perform duties required by law.
In a settlement of the cases last week, Bell resigned and withdrew as a Republican candidate in the August primary election. That virtually assures that the circuit clerk job will go to Kim York, a Republican from Raymore who will be running unopposed in August and November.
Koster agreed to drop both cases against Bell, who will be paid through the end of the year.
When contacted by a reporter last week, Bell issued a statement in which she denied any wrongdoing.
She said that in January 2013, two members of the judiciary began making it clear that they wanted her out of office. She said they tried to bully her into resigning and then threatened legal action — both criminal charges and a quo warranto petition seeking her ouster — unless she resigned.
When she refused to quit, Bell said, she was suspended and the two cases were filed.
"Immediately following this suspension, a judge in the 17th circuit made several misleading and inaccurate statements to the press, accusing me of numerous actions of malfeasance. It was ultimately determined that no evidence pertaining to these allegations existed and therefore, they were not included in the Quo Warranto petition."
Koster became involved when Judge Collins appointed the attorney general's office as a special prosecutor.
In court documents, Koster alleged that Bell failed to pay the circuit court's bills on time; failed to stop payment or void undeliverable checks; failed to adequately document all of the court's bank accounts; and failed to prepare necessary paperwork for an insurance claim regarding funds allegedly stolen by a deputy clerk.
That employee, Emily M. Rumbley, was charged with felony theft. According to online court records, she pleaded guilty in May 2013 and was ordered to pay $6,673.75 in restitution.
Koster also alleged that the unfinished work by Bell's friend resulted in the loss of numerous court documents including original judgments, child support letters, exhibits, and in one case, an entire case file.
At the time, Bell responded that she believed employees in her office and the circuit court had conspired to oust her and make way for someone else preferred by the circuit court.
Court documents filed last week said Bell will technically remain a state employee with salary and benefits through the rest of her term, ending Dec. 31.
Collins directed all questions to Koster's office, which declined comment.
In exchange for Bell's agreement to have her name stricken from the ballot, the state agreed she would not be responsible for related costs. Bell claims Collins is financially responsible for reprinting the ballots and reimbursing her filing fee. Koster's office said that was not the case but did not specify who will bear the costs.
Bell said she continues to "adamantly deny" all allegations.
"I believe I would have easily prevailed in these cases upon presentation of my defense to the courts. However, given the toxic environment created by two particular members of the judiciary, I am no longer willing to subject myself and my family to four more years of working in this unhealthy atmosphere."
Bell said she was saddened that "the actions of individual members of our judiciary" will cause Cass County citizens to pay for both a circuit clerk and an acting clerk for more than 16 months.
"Nonetheless, I am proud of the service I gave to those who elected me to office," she said. "The citizens of Cass County deserve justice with dignity and respect. It is my sincerest hope that the resolution of this matter will become a catalyst for restoring integrity to our local courts."


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Migration, Culture, and Diversity in the Built Environment
The Interior Designers of Canada (IDC) and American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) will address the key concerns of migration, culture, and diversity at Impact Summit 2017: Migration, Culture, and Diversity in the Built Environment. The two-day event, held May 8-9, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, features two keynote addresses from internationally acclaimed speakers; three expert panels of world-renowned designers, educators, and community advocates; and design-led walking tours of Toronto's regenerated Regent Park.
"Impact Summit 2017 takes a hands-on, solutions-oriented approach to the issues surrounding migration and diversity," explained ASID CEO Randy Fiser. "ASID is proud to partner with IDC to drive expansive conversations about immigration and inclusion. The built environment plays such a significant role in the cultivation of communities and we can create positive change by bringing our diverse backgrounds and expertise to this necessary dialogue."
Impact Summit 2017 keynote speaker, The Honourable Ratna Omidvar, is an internationally recognized voice on migration, diversity, and culture. In addition to being the Senator for Ontario, she is the founding executive director and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Global Diversity Exchange (GDX), Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto's Ryerson University. Dutch designer and entrepreneur Richard van der Laken of "What Design Can Do" will deliver the lunchtime keynote address.
"Impact Summit brings together some of the finest minds working in the fields of migration, culture, and diversity," says Clinton Hummel, IDC's President of the Board of Management. "Through interactive sessions, Summit attendees will work alongside these experts to identify key challenges then generate practical solutions which can be taken forward, reflecting how important our built environment is to the future of communities in which we live and work."
Impact Summit attendees will receive curated tours through Toronto's Regent Park, a groundbreaking example of how a city can transform a community into a successful, mixed-income, and mixed-use neighborhood, with rental buildings, market condominium buildings, townhomes, commercial space, community facilities, active parks, and open space. The thriving area embraced migration to build a successful, inclusive, and evolving community.
Through expert-led presentations and audience collaboration, the goal of Impact Summit 2017: Migration, Culture, and Diversity in the Built Environment is to expand attendees' knowledge base while creating ideas to foster culturally diverse, highly functioning, and economically stable communities.
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Interior Designers of Canada (IDC) is the national advocacy association for the interior design profession in Canada with a mandate to provide a unified voice to advance and promote the Canadian interior design industry locally, nationally, and internationally. With this goal in mind, IDC provides valuable and quality professional development opportunities; educates the public about the importance of hiring qualified interior designers; protects members' right to practice through government relations; and works with the media to promote understanding of the interior design profession.
About ASID
The American Society of Interior Designers believes that design transforms lives. ASID serves the full range of the interior design profession and practice through the Society's programs, networks, and advocacy. We thrive on the strength of cross-functional and interdisciplinary relationships among designers of all specialties, including workplace, healthcare, retail and hospitality, education, institutional, and residential. We lead interior designers in shared conversations around topics that matter: from evidence-based and humancentric design to social responsibility, wellbeing, and sustainability. We showcase the impact of design on the human experience and the value interior designers provide.
ASID was founded over 40 years ago when two organizations became one, but its legacy dates back to the early 1930s. As we celebrate nearly 85 years of industry leadership, we are leading the future of interior design, continuing to integrate the advantages of local connections with national reach, of small firms with big, and of the places we live with the places we work, play, and heal.
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According to George Vanderbilt's great-grandson Bill Cecil, spring is always a favorite season at his family's estate.
"I like seeing the grounds wake up from winter," Bill said. "Biltmore looks like my great-grandfather and Frederick Law Olmsted, the estate's landscape architect, envisioned with all the gardens, grass and trees in full color. Warmer weather is a welcome change and the Spring Garden, Azalea Garden and Shrub Garden offer a wide range of color before and after the tulips in the Walled Garden have put on their best show."
A Favorite Spring Floral Arrangement
We love all those spring blooms, too, so we decided to celebrate the season by creating an easy arrangement that harmonizes with any décor. We developed a stunning centerpiece that evokes the fresh feeling of spring with a classic blue-and-white theme, anchored in one of our estate-inspired tin containers. We added pretty pops of color through the use of greenery and graceful peacock feathers, plus a decorative egg-filled bird's nest as a special nod to spring.
Fresh Materials
Biltmore tin container
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Blue spring Dutch iris
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Decorative bird nest with eggs
To create a fresh arrangement like this one, cut a piece of floral oasis foam to fit snugly inside your container. Soak it well, then begin adding flowers and greenery.
Tip: you can create an equally pretty arrangement by using small potted plants (or even permanent botanicals) rather than freshly cut flowers. Choose green and flowering plants of different heights for texture and interest, and add pieces of Styrofoam to lift some pots higher than others.
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Beach Patton taught many things at what was then Hood River High School, in what is now Hood River Middle School, to generations of students he could once see.
He taught chemistry and physics and biology and math. And driver's education.
"That's the one I hear about the most," Patton said. "Driver's education."
A going away party was held Saturday to honor Patton, who taught in Hood River from 1941 until 1971. Patton, 95, suffers from macular degeneration, an eye condition that has rendered him nearly blind. He is moving to an assisted care facility in Enumclaw, Wash., where one of his two daughters lives.
"I'm anxious to get gone now," Patton said. "I'm going to miss it, but I can't handle anything under the roof anymore."
Beach Patton came to Hood River from Portland, where he'd spent much of his youth before heading to Willamette University in Salem for college and eventually to the University of Oregon where he earned a master's degree in physics. After just two years at HRHS, "Uncle Sam said I needed to come help out with the war," said Patton who, in his thirties, enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps and served as an ambulance driver and medic in Okinawa.
After the war and a year of post-graduate studies at the University of Washington -- "to get back in stride," Patton said -- he returned to Hood River High.
Already a formidable science and math teacher, Patton was asked to attend a driver's education class in Portland in order to become the school's driver's ed instructor. There he learned the American Automobile Association's rules of the road which he passed on to more than two decades of young Hood River Valley drivers.
Many students remember Patton's precise instructions on using the clutch and on parallel parking. One student even dubbed Patton's parking instruction, "Mr Patton's patented parking pattern."
But Patton insists it was the AAA's system for how to park. "They had a system of where you place the car when you stop, how much angle you turn it and so on," he said. "It always worked for me and my students had no trouble with it."
When Patton began teaching driver's ed there were no stoplights in Hood River, so he and his students had to drive along what is now the Historic Columbia River Highway to The Dalles to practice with stoplights there.
"We had to do that after school because it took quite a long while," Patton said. One former student, Bill Seaton who graduated in 1959, recalled Patton stopping along the way to The Dalles to show his driving students old wagon tracks above Rowena.
Patton said the biggest challenge of his teaching years was keeping up with new developments in science and math. "Things were changing all the time," he recalled, adding that he and other teachers often attended continuing education classes around the region.
But as he was trying to keep up with his ever-changing field, Patton was coninually on the look-out for new and challenging ways for his students to learn. According to Hood River High School historian John Lamphiear, who graduated from HRHS in 1964, Patton even capitalized on the local fruit growers to augment his students' learning.
"Mr. Patton got wind that the Apple Grower's Association wanted to test some products for chemical content," Lamphiear recalled. "Mr. Patton said, 'Well, we can do that'." He worked out a mutually beneficial relationship with the AGA where his students would do the experiments and the organization would provide the school's science department with necessary and, of course, brand new equipment.
Beach Patton -- whose full name is Ocean Beach Patton, an attempt by his parents to be different, he says -- still lives in the house on 10th Street that he and his wife bought brand new in 1953. He raised his two daughters there, as well as a son who died at age 9. His wife, Lois, died in 1984.
Patton was diagnosed with macular degeneration in 1991, but it was confined to one eye. He could still drive during daylight and carry on as usual with most activities -- including his penchant for walking. Then one day two years ago, while driving to the Heights on an errand, he began to have problems seeing.
"Items ahead of me -- automobiles, bicycles, pedestrians -- were alternately appearing and disappearing," Patton said. Always quick to think on his feet -- a trait that has diminished little despite his age -- Patton instigated "a sweep system of driving" to help him get home without harming himself or anyone else. "I parked the car, got out and haven't driven since," he said, matter-of-factly.
Within two months Patton's central vision was gone. The Department of Veterans Affairs provided him with an optical magnifier, a device similar to a microfiche machine that magnifies words on a screen. With it, he's been able to read everything from newspapers to household bills -- until recently.
"It's started speeding up here, leaving me in a dimness that's pretty great," Patton said. Recently, trying to read a hospital bill after drawing the living room curtains, Patton spent several minutes moving the bill around on his machine before he finally found the amount due. "$1,006.00," said the words on the screen, magnified so they were several inches high.
"It's time consuming," he said. "I avoid things for a time until I get a second notice." Aside from affecting practical things like paying bills, Patton finds his diminished vision renders him unable to do things he's done all his life -- like clipping his toenails and reading the newspaper. One day last week, after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, The Oregonian lay on a coffee table in Patton's living room. But, Patton said, he'd been unable to read even the headlines.
Former students and teachers came from around Hood River and as far away as McMinnville and Yakima, Wash., for Patton's going away party Saturday. Most said they wanted to pay tribute to a man they admired and respected.
"He's a very precise man," said former student Pete Jubitz, who graduated from HRHS in 1959. He recalled Patton's reputation for tending and repairing the clocks at the school, and keeping time at basketball games with his ubiquitous stop watch.
"He still repairs the clocks," Jubitz said. "I don't know what they're going to do now."
Historian Lamphiear concurred. "Can any former student remember any audiovisual thing that happened at HRHS without this man?" he commented in a tribute to Patton.
Though he had a reputation for being a demanding teacher, he also was compassionate. "Mr. Patton's a very humble and gracious guy," said Jubitz, owner of Franz Hardware, chuckling as he realized how he referred to his old teacher. "He's always been Mr. Patton to me, even today.
"People have driven a long way for this," Jubitz added. "It's a great tribute to this man."
Though he couldn't see his former students and fellow teachers, Patton basked in the conversation and warm touches of people Saturday as they took turns sitting next to him and recalling high school days. One entry in the reception's guest book read, "Thank you so much for the classes in driver's ed. My children are able to parallel park, as you once taught me."
Though Patton will be gone -- likely for good -- from Hood River this week, he is long from forgotten by the many students he taught.
"That's been the biggest reward -- finding out how students turned out, how they blossomed," Patton said. "That was the challenge, to give them the best I had so they could use it to be the best they could be."
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January 1, 2013 ( ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill.) --Congressman-elect Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran, will be sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives at the Disabled American Veterans office in Washington.
Duckworth's office made the announcement Monday. She will be sworn in on Thursday afternoon to represent Illinois' 8th Congressional District.
The Democrat was elected in November to the U.S. House, defeating first-term Republican Congressman Joe Walsh. The contest in Chicago's suburbs was closely watched nationwide.
Duckworth has worked for both the U.S. and the Illinois veterans affairs departments. She lost both legs and severely damaged her arm in Iraq while serving as an Army helicopter pilot.


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From the Land: Materials & Message in Inuit Art
In the early 1950s, works by Inuit artists began to be sold in southern markets. Since that era, widely recognized as the beginning of contemporary Inuit art, artists from three successive generations have been creating unique artworks inspired by traditional life on the land, the natural and spirit world, lived experiences, stories and legends. They have been experimenting with a variety of artistic media and techniques resulting in distinctive personal styles. This exhibition features a selection of sculptures and wall hangings from the Winnipeg Art Gallery's comprehensive collection of Inuit art.
The most common material used by Inuit carvers is stone, but the type of stone varies widely and is dependent upon what can be found locally. Some communities have only small deposits and artists often resort to using organic materials from animals. Netsilingmiut artists from Taloyoak have become known for their creative use of ancient whalebone left on the tundra by their predecessors. Antlers, shed each autumn by caribou, are a common material for carvers in the Kivalliq region. One of the fascinations of Inuit sculpture is how the often scarce materials available have been shaped into extraordinary artworks.
Fabric collage wall hangings emerged as a distinctive new art form in Baker Lake during the 1970s. Inuit women adapted their traditional sewing skills and mastery of stitchery to create high-quality artworks from wool duffle or stroud with felt appliqués and embroidery. The artworks depict a variety of subjects ranging from narrative traditional camp life scenes to arctic animals and the spirit world. The exhibition includes a distinctive piece incorporating antler, beads, and caribou skin by Martha Ikiperiak Eekerkik of Arviat as well as wall hangings by renowned Baker Lake artists Jessie Oonark, Elizabeth Angrnaqquaq, and Marion Tuu'luq.
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>> After chatting with Ralph Lauren during the last season of her talk show earlier this year — "It took me 25 years to score an interview with [him]," Oprah Winfrey said of the designer — the two reunited for a sequel interview last night. The black-tie event, which raised more than $7 million for the Ralph Lauren Center For Cancer Care and Prevention in Harlem and Lincoln Center For the Performing Arts, brought a crowd ranging from Anna Wintour to Naomi Watts to the entire Lauren clan.
Pre-interview, Lauren admitted: "I don't know what she's going to ask, but if I can't answer, I'm going to run." Prabal Gurung, in attendance, hoped that she would ask Lauren about his secrets to success: "I just want a few formulas that I can take back to the office."
Without further ado, Winfrey introduced Lauren, saying "He designed the fabric of America as we really all know it today, but we're here tonight because Ralph Lauren is more than just a tastemaker — he's a lifesaver," before asking him about how he's maintained and reinvented his brand over so many years: "You copy — that's why I am still here, Oprah," he quipped, drawing laughter. More seriously, he added: "I never went to fashion school, I never had the training. It came from inside. I know what it's like to yearn for something and not have the money to buy it." He also admitted: "After doing this all this time, my hands still get sweaty before a show."


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My name is Tonia Venters and I am originally from Houston, Texas, but I now live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with my family. I attend Rice University in Houston, and in the fall of 2002, I will be a junior. My major is astrophysics, with a possible double major in mathematics.
I have loved astronomy and the space program since I was in the third grade, and I believe that studying astrophysics will help me to fulfill my dreams of research in physics and becoming an astronaut for the United States. I am interested in studying physics because form the smallest constituents of matter to the greatest of astronomical phenomena, physics attempts to explain who or what we are and why we are here. Through the study of physics, the human race can find a new path to self-discovery and understanding. There is so much to learn and so many different leads to follow that I find that it is an exciting time in which to live and an exciting field to study.


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There are no known interactions of thiotepa and any food. This drug may interact with other medicines. Tell your doctor and pharmacist about all the medicines and dietary supplements (vitamins, minerals, herbs and others) that you are taking at this time. The safety and use of dietary supplements and alternative diets are often not known. Using these might affect your cancer or interfere with your treatment. Until more is known, you should not use dietary supplements or alternative diets without your cancer doctor's help.
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'Tape It' As You Answer Questions & Connect Ideas (Lesson 2 of 2)
Lesson 11 of 15
Objective: SWBAT describe the connection between a scientific ideas in informational text to answer questions.
- Magnets by Darlene R. Stille
- Lesson vocabulary words from the Reading/Writing word wall: informational text, questioning, text features, literal, inferential, evaluative
- Set up the whiteboard
- Magnet questions worksheet
- highlighter tape (you could use thin post-it notes as an alternative)
I chose this text because it's related to our science unit. Instead of picking any informational text, it's easier to read about what you're studying in social studies and science. This cross curricular experience (reading while learning about another subject) helps students generalize information they have learned. You could use any science/social studies text for this lesson.
Students in this lesson use informational text features to answer questions (RI.2.1) (RI.2.5), but more importantly, to read critically and analyze information.
This is a 2 part lesson because the book has lots of great information and I want to try different reading strategies with this text. The previous lesson was Who Can Find The Answer? . I would suggest doing the previous lesson first because the text is higher level. By using the first lesson as a preview of the text with focus on text features, the students will be able to understand some of the concepts and organization of the book. In this lesson when we read the book, they can bring their background knowledge as well as our discussion from this lesson.
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Underlined words below are lesson vocabulary words that are emphasized and written on sentence strips for my Reading & Writing word wall. I pull off the words off the wall for each lesson, helping students understand this key 'reading and writing' vocabulary can be generalized across texts and topics. The focus on acquiring and using these words is part of a shift in the Common Core Standards towards building students' academic vocabulary. My words are color coded 'pink' for literature/'blue' for reading strategies/'orange' for informational text/'yellow' for writing/'green' for all other words)
Common starting point and engage the students
- What are the different kinds of questions?" evaluative, inferential, literal
- "Where do we find the answers to these questions?" literal - text & illustrations/ inferential - use background knowledge and make good 'guess' / evaluative - share your opinion and back it up with reasons from the text
- Make a concept web with students' ideas about magnets. Talk about how the ideas are connected - magnets attract metal, the poles can attract or repel, the Earth has poles.
- Here's our discussion of ideas in a web and how we wrapped up the activity. This is a review as well as an informative assessment. By seeing what students can share about this topic, I know what concepts need extra review.
- "I brought some highlighter tape today! We'll be finding connections in the text to show the connections between concepts."
- Here's how I wrapped up of the web activity.
I have taught the reading strategy of 'questioning' with Informational Text in 2 previous lessons include 'Big Questions about Informational Text' and 'What Are You Asking About Informational Text?' If you feel that your students need more review and instruction about how to answer questions and the type of questions, I encourage you to start with these lessons.
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Teacher's Turn
Introduce strategy - teacher models
- "Let's take a minute to look over the book that we used yesterday. What were some text features and how did they help us?" Preview the book quickly looking at text features
- "Today we are going to answer some questions about this topic. When we answer questions that are literal, we have to find answers in the text." This is what the whiteboard when we started.
- "I'm going to read Chapter 1 (pp. 5-6). The first question is 'What is a magnetic rock called?' What kind of question is it? - that will help me answer the question. This question is a literal question because the answer is in the text (write loadstone) - I'll write 'L' for 'literal' and use my tape to show the answer in the book."
- "Can we connect this idea to anything that we know? yes - we know that magnets attract metal."
Students are asking and answering questions about informational text to demonstrate understanding of key details in the text. (RI.2.1). They are reading closely to determine what the text says explicitly and making logical inferences, citing text-specific evidence. Encourage them, for these inferential questions, to 'extrapolate' what's in the text - build on what's there and make a educated inference. This will create stronger answers and deeper comprehension as students not only answer the questions, but support those answers with text, illustrations or background knowledge.
Practice strategy - guided practice
- Here's how I assigned the task for guided practice - 'Will a paper clip move toward a magnet?' The answer is not in the text, but I can make an inference and connect to what I know- Since the paper clip is metal and it says 'other pieces of metal will move toward a magnet, I'll write yes.'. I'll put an 'I' next to the question, but no tape - the answer is not in the text, but I'll use what's there and build on that information."
- "Now you can help me answer some more questions. Remember we read first and decide if it's literal (so we look in the text) or inferential (we have to use what we know). Connect these ideas to what you have already learned."
- Read pages 9-10 and ask the question. Prompt with literal or inferential and THINK OUT LOUD (as with the modeling) while taking students' answers and ideas.
- Here's the completed whiteboard when we finished the practice.
As students describe these connections between scientific ideas and concepts, they are describing a connections. (RI.2.3) They are not only answering questions, they are evaluating how the ideas connect and relate to each other. The Common Core State Standards encourage this knowledge building in the disciplines, as well as the opportunity for students to acquire and utilize the academic vocabulary that comes with this study of science and social studies text.
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Students Take a Turn
Assign Task
- Here's how I explained what to do. I asked the students to copy the first few lines and then I assigned the task.
- "Remember to find the evidence in the text or illustrations. That's what the tape is for - it 'highlights' the evidence."
Continue to reinforce the use of 'text features' (maps, bold words, timelines...) as evidence for answers in the questions. These are powerful support and will make the students to verify answers to questions, a push for the Common Core State Standards toward active participation of students.
Direct the activity
- Read the pages on the Elmo as the students read or read to the students. Read the question aloud to the students for the selected pages.
- Call up students to find an answer and put highlighter tape on it or make an inference.
- There are examples of other text features that give information to literal questions, as in this video of using illustrations to find answers.
- When students were able to identify the kind of question (it's literal) then I would ask them where their evidence in the text was. This is an example of a student demonstrating how to find the answer to a literal question.
- For those inferential questions, I would again focus on 'How do you know? What background knowledge are you using?"
- Here's a student's completed worksheet.
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Discuss what you've learned
- We discussed the answers to the questions students had found. They enjoyed sharing their ideas. I continued to query, "What's the evidence? How do you know that answer? Can you show me?" When students say it's an evaluative question, they still have to support their opinion with facts. "You think the magnet is strong? Why? What supports your opinion?"
- We went back through to see that literal answers were scattered throughout the book. This cross curricular learning - reading and questioning about our science topic, was GREAT!
- Once more we discussed which questions were easier to answer. The kids continue to prefer the literal questions, but after some examples, a few kids started to realize that the evaluative and inferential questions often improve comprehension more.
Scaffolding and Special Education: This lesson could be scaffolded up or down, depending on student ability.
Students with academic challenges should be a able to participate in the 'matching' worksheet because answers can be changed based on the discussion. Writing a question might be more difficult, but you could write prompts or words on the whiteboards as prompts.
To challenge students with greater ability, choose some more difficult questions. Ensure that you ask 'why' they believe the answer is literal or inferential and how they can go beyond the question to answer more fully.


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veggiesasquatch wrote:Just remember bbb works off percentages of your training max, so if you go with dumbbells make sure to a degree these match up with that. Personally I'd ditch using dumbbells, they are a decent assistance but they hit more the middle shoulder. A strict military press works everything, just a thought.
If you're going to add things into the bbb template don't over do it.
Used the percentages generated in the Excel sheet - don't really have much of an option if I want to stay with the percentages since we only have the 45lb bar at my gym. Something to think about if I pick BBB, though, so I really appreciate the input.
The pulldowns/CGBP were done with less than 65% of my max for both - so nothing major. It just felt completely foreign to only do dips and chins afterward.


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By JAKE COYLE
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CANNES, France
Ladies? Don't make him laugh.
Asked who his favorite female comics were Thursday at a Cannes Film Festival press conference, Jerry Lewis listed Cary Grant and Burt Reynolds. He then added: "I don't have any."
In 1998, Lewis famously said that watching women do comedy "sets me back a bit" and that he has trouble with the notion of would-be mothers as comedians.
Asked Thursday if he had changed his mind at all because of performers like Melissa McCarthy and Sarah Silverman, the 87-year-old Lewis said of women performing broad comedy: "I can't see women doing that. It bothers me."
Lewis was in Cannes for the premiere of "Max Rose," a drama directed by Daniel Noah in which Lewis stars as an aging jazz musician.
In her 2011 memoir, "Bossypants," Tina Fey alluded to Lewis' attitudes about female comedians: "Whenever someone says to me, `Jerry Lewis says women aren't funny,' or `Christopher Hitchens says women aren't funny,' … Do you have anything to say to that?'
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New recruits have taste for Tweed
By ADAM WRATTEN
THE Tweed Heads Seagulls' Cook Island contingent has arrived and they are big, mean and hungry for success in the 2005 Queensland Cup rugby league competition.
Together, Graeme Jeffries, Leroy Faavesi and Danny Maireroa bring close to 300kg of formidable pace and power to a new-look Seagulls' line-up.
They will get the chance to impress when the Seagulls take on the US Tomahawks in Lismore on Saturday, February 5.
The Tomahawks came close to pulling off one of the biggest upsets in league history against the Kangaroos in November, and their game with the Seagulls is a curtain-raiser for the NRL trial match between Cronulla Sharks and Paramatta Eels.
Jeffries can't wait for the hit out.
"We saw them (the Tomahawks) play against the Kangaroos and they looked good," he said. "It's going to be a pretty hard task, but I'm looking forward to getting out there."
The new recruits have slotted in well to life with the Seagulls.
"Training has been tough, especially just after Christmas, but I'm enjoying it," Jeffries said. "The guys have all been good and we're looking forward now to helping take the team to the Queensland Cup. That's our number one goal.
"We also want to make sure we get selected for Cook Island internationals."
Seagulls club president Tom Searle said the Cook Island players were a big part of what had been a major recruitment drive in the offseason.
Jeffries, 25, plays centre, Faavesi, 22, is a lock and Maireroa, 25, is a second rower. At 95kg, 95kg and 85kg respectively they weigh in at a combined 275kg.
They join former Wests Tiger's five-eighth Brad Davis, Penrith signing Tim Maccan and Corey Bond as the club's main recruits for the coming season.
Searle said the new additions would complement the younger players.
"This year we have retained the players we wanted and recruited heavily," Searle said.
"We will stick with our policy to keep at least 50 per cent of our Queensland Cup team comprising of locals. I am confident (we will go well)."
Searle said the clash with the Tomahawks would give all newcomers an opportunity to showcase their skills.
In other pre-season games the Seagulls will play Brisbane Norths at Runaway Bay on February 20 and Burleigh in a curtain-raiser to the Penrith v Sydney Roosters trial game at Cararra on February 26.


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Rapzilla.com's 13 Freshman of 2013
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A Colorado emcee with a signature voice, Raging Moses hit the scene by dropping an album 'When Kings Go To War' in 2010. He is below the radar for many, but this emcee's appropriately named moniker will likely decrease that number in the coming months. His fiery flow has been showcased on his various mixtapes and free song releases since his debut. Standout features on Datin's 'Turn It Up Vol 1' and Armond's 'Ketchup Too' give you a feel of what he has to offer for 2013. His pure passion and resolve for righteousness is easy to feel from his music, a sign that Raging Moses is here to stay.


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From the founding of our nation, women have protected America's freedom and the population of Women Veterans is growing rapidly. According to the VA, the current projected percentage of U.S. Veterans who are women is 10 percent. Women make up nearly 11.6 percent of OEF/OIF/OND Veterans and we will continue to see an influx.
Still, Women Veterans remain historically under-represented in using available benefits and may be more reluctant than their male counterparts enhance their status as a veteran. To address these growing and unique needs, in 2014, the Veterans Multi-Service Center created the Women Veterans Center.
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The mission of the Women Veterans Center is to provide a communal space for Women Veterans and their families to heal, grow, and thrive. We offer a wide range of activities, events, and programs allowing Women Veterans to connect to each other and the community.
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Trump back to 'both sides' in blame for CharlottesvilleBy JEFF MASON
August 16. 2017 12:28AM
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump insisted on Tuesday that both left- and right-wing groups used force in the aftermath of a white supremacist rally and that all of the facts were not yet in about street clashes in Charlottesville, Va.
Trump, taking questions from reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, reverted to his initial comments on Saturday blaming "many sides" for the violence; on Monday he had explicitly condemned the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups.
"They came at each other with clubs ... it was a horrible thing to watch," Trump told reporters at what was supposed to be an announcement and news conference on his administration's infrastructure policy. He said protesters he described as alt-left "came violently attacking the other group."
Trump has faced a storm of criticism from Democrats and members of his own Republican Party over his initial response to the violence around the rally in the Southern college town of Charlottesville. His remarks on Tuesday began a new round of outrage.
"Blaming 'both sides' for #Charlottesville?! No. Back to relativism when dealing with KKK, Nazi sympathizers, white supremacists? Just no," Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida said on Twitter.
"Thank you President Trump for your honesty & courage to tell the truth about #Charlottesville & condemn the leftist terrorists in BLM/Antifa," former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke wrote on Twitter after Trump's latest remarks, referring to Black Lives Matter (BLM) and anti-facists.
Saturday's violence erupted after hundreds of white nationalists converged in Charlottesville to protest plans to remove a statue of General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate army.
In his remarks, Trump sympathized with protesters who opposed removing the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, but offered no equivalent remarks for those who favored its removal.
"You had people in that group ... that were there to protest the taking down of a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name," Trump said.
"Was George Washington a slave owner? Will George Washington now lose his status? Are we going to take down statues to George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson? ... Because he was a major slave owner," Trump said.
In Virginia, street brawls broke out as the white nationalists were met by crowds of anti-racism demonstrators. A car then plowed into a group of the counter-protesters, killing one woman and injuring 19 others. A 20-year-old Ohio man, James Fields, said to have harbored Nazi sympathies, was charged with murder, malicious wounding and leaving the scene of a fatal accident.
On Tuesday, Trump explained his initial restrained response by saying: "The statement I made on Saturday, the first statement, was a fine statement, but you don't make statements that direct unless you know the facts. It takes a little while to get the facts."
In a sometimes heated exchange with reporters shouting questions, Trump said, "You also had people that were very fine people on both sides."
He said that while neo-Nazis and white nationalists "should be condemned totally," Trump said protesters in the other group "also had trouble-makers. And you see them come with the black outfits and with the helmets and with the baseball bats. You got a lot of bad people in the other group too."


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Press Release 208/2012
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Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja will visit Lebanon on 8-9 September. Tuomioja will meet with Foreign Minister of Lebanon Adnan Mansour and Prime Minister Najib Mikati. The agenda also includes meeting Finnish Unifil troops and discussions with Unifil Force Commander Paolo Serra.
The purpose of the trip, in addition to learning about the Unifil operation and the status of Finnish peace keepers, is to discuss the current circumstances in the region with the Lebanese leaders.
Further information: Helena Tuuri, Head of the Unit for the Middle East and North Africa, tel. +358 50 527 5406, Attaché Iina Peltonen, tel. +358 40 132 1340, Advisor to Minister Tuomioja Katja Pehrman, tel. +358 40 181 9257, Press Attaché Susanna Parkkonen, tel. +358 50 377 5601


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West Chester Women Cap Cavalier Invitational With Four National Qualifiers
Dec. 7, 2009
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – West Chester University's women's swimming team qualified three individuals while making it a clean 5-for-5 sweep in the relay qualification department as the Golden Rams placed third overall in the team standings with 472 points at the Aquatics and Fitness Center Saturday night.
Host Virginia won the meet with 1,542 points. Kansas was second with 799 points. Washington & Lee was right behind West Chester with 218 points followed by American (207 points) and Yale (47 points).
The meet featured a championship-style format with prelims for each event in the mornings and finals at 6 p.m.
Jackie Borkowski hit an NCAA qualifying time for the third straight day, touching the wall in 51.13 seconds in the 100-yard freestyle. She qualified for nationals in the 100 backstroke Friday and the 50 free on Thursday. Borkowski was also a member of all five relay squads, which hit qualifying times. The 400 free relay made it 5-for-5 in that category with a time of 3:29.27. Borkowksi teamed with Kristen Montello, Danielle Ierley and Megan Bauer.
Erin Fischer will be swimming in multiple events at the 2010 NCAA Division II Women's Swimming & Diving Championships in March as well. She swam the 200 butterfly in 2:05.56. She hit the qualifying time in the 100 fly on Friday. Fischer was sixth overall Saturday.
West Chester University's women totaled six individual 'A' qualifying times in all over the weekend with five relay qualifications to boot. Danielle Ierley was the sixth and final qualifier with a time of 17:26 in the 1650 free.
The Golden Rams are off until January 15-16 when they travel to Trenton, N.J., for a tri-meet with Johns Hopkins and The College of New Jersey.


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ARLINGTON — Police are warning neighbors about a convicted sex offender who will be living in the Arlington area.
Paul Landis Gorden, 34, will be living along Terrace Falls Road, off Jordan Road, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office. Gorden is a Level 3 offender, the level deemed most likely to re-offend.
He has multiple convictions for third-degree rape of a child. His victims have been girls from about 13 to 17 years old.
He is described as white, about 5-foot-10 and 195 pounds. He has blue eyes and brown hair, as well as multiple tattoos with racist themes.


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By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY
Associated Press
ATLANTA - When snow fell on Atlanta two weeks ago, downtown streets of the South's business hub were jammed with unmoving cars, highway motorists slept overnight in vehicles or abandoned them where they sat, and students were forced to camp out in school gymnasiums when roads turned too treacherous for buses to navigate.
Things promised to be different today, when another round of rain, sleet and freezing rain was expected to begin walloping the area.
That's not necessarily because city and state officials are going to be better prepared - although they promised they would be -- but because many people aren't going to take a chance that they will get trapped again.
"Basically, everyone from the office is going to be working from home" today, said Dakota Herrera as he left a car park in downtown Atlanta to go to his office Monday.
Atlanta has a long and painful history of being ill-equipped to deal with snowy weather. Despite officials' promises following a crippling ice storm in 2011 that they would be better prepared next time, the storm that hit the area Jan. 28 proved they still had many kinks to work out.
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal indicated on Monday that he and other state officials had learned their lesson. Before a single drop of freezing rain or snow fell, Deal declared a state of emergency for nearly a third of the state and state employees were told they could stay home if they felt conditions were too dangerous. Schools canceled classes, and Deal urged people who didn't need to be anywhere to stay off the roads. Tractor-trailer drivers were handed fliers about the weather and a law requiring chains on tires in certain conditions.
"We are certainly ahead of the game this time, and that's important," Deal said. "We are trying to be ready, prepared and react as quickly as possible."
That kind of reassurance was a hard sell with some.
"I'm not counting on it," said Terri Herod, who bought a large bag of sand and a shovel at local hardware store. "I've been in Georgia on and off for 20 years. It's usually the same scenario: not enough preparations and not enough equipment."
Memories of the last storm are still painfully fresh. Students were trapped on buses or at schools and thousands of cars were abandoned along highways as short commutes turned into odysseys. One woman gave birth on a jammed interstate. Officials reported one accident-related death.
This storm could be worse this time. A one-two punch of winter weather was expected for Atlanta and northern Georgia. Rain and snow were forecast for today, followed by sleet and freezing rain Wednesday. Downed power lines and icy roads were a major worry. Forecasters predicted at least a quarter of an inch of ice for the metro Atlanta area through Thursday morning. Before dawn today, light snow began falling in parts of the north Georgia mountains, and the metro Atlanta area saw early rain.
Other parts of the South were expected to get hit as well. Alabama, which saw stranded vehicles and 10,000 students spend the night in schools during the January storm, was likely to get a wintry mix, with as much as 3 inches of snow and ice forecast before lunchtime today. Parts of Mississippi also could see 3 inches of snow, and a blast of snow over a wide section of Kentucky slickened roads and closed several school districts. South Carolina, which hasn't seen a major ice storm in nearly a decade, could get a quarter to three-quarters of an inch of ice and as much as 8 inches of snow in some areas. Nearly 900 flights were canceled today at airports in Atlanta, Dallas and Charlotte, N.C., according to tracking service FlightAware.
On Monday, Deal was doing many things differently than he had last month. He opened an emergency operations center and held two news conferences before the storm. In January, Deal and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed did not hold their first news conference until hours after highways were jammed.
When the Jan. 28 storm hit, Deal was at an awards luncheon with Reed, who was named a magazine's 2014 "Georgian of the Year."
Reed had just tweeted: "Atlanta, we are ready for the snow."
This time, the mayor made no such predictions. Instead, he said he was in contact with school leaders and the city had 120 pieces of equipment to spread salt and sand and plow snow. The National Guard had 1,400 four-wheeled drive vehicles to help anyone stranded.
"We are just going to get out here and, flat out, let our work speak for itself," Reed said.
Much is at stake for the governor, a Republican who is up for re-election, and Reed, who is seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party and has aspirations for higher office. Both took heat from residents, forecasters and even comedians during the last storm.
Saturday Night Live spoofed a storm "survivor" with a thick Southern accent. "The sun will rise again," the character said at one point. Jon Stewart quipped: "The ice age zombie doomsday apocalypse has come to Atlanta."
The governor apologized and announced the formation of a task force to study the problems. This time, ice posed a major concern.
Aaron Strickland, emergency operations director for Georgia Power, said the utility was bringing in crews from Florida, Texas, Oklahoma and Michigan.
"Ice is probably one of the worst events we face," Strickland said. "When you look at the types of ice we are talking about, it's catastrophic."
Associated Press writers Kate Brumback, Ray Henry and Jeff Martin contributed to this report.


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Occupy Wall St. inspires new book
PUNXSUTAWNEY — Phil Mennitti never thought he'd write a book, but all it took was a bit of inspiration.
Motivated by the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, Mennitti, who works for the Punxsutawney Area School District, wrote "A Commoner's Guide to Defeating the Aristocracy," a book about Wall Street's influence on the government and how its influence has destroyed the highest standard of living in the world.
"I was kind of inspired (by the OWS Movement) because I saw that everybody else felt the way I did," he said. "And it didn't die off. It kept growing — day after day."
According to occupywallst.org, OWS is a people-powered movement that began Sept. 17 in Liberty Square in Manhattan's Financial District, and has spread to more than 100 cities in the United States and actions in more than 1,500 cities globally.
OWS is fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process, and the role of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the greatest recession in generations.
Furthermore, the movement is inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia and aims to fight back against the richest one percent of people who are writing the rules of an unfair global economy that is foreclosing on the future.
According to Mennitti, the first half of the book is dedicated to explaining the current problems facing the country in easy-to-understand terms. The second half of the book is dedicated to the solutions that will fix the problems.
Problem No. 1 is money in politics, he said.
"In my opinion, the biggest thing we need to pursue is removing money from politics," he said. "Politicians are constantly campaigning, constantly accepting contributions from lobbyists and large corporations. And all those contributions come with an 'IOU' attached. So when they get elected into office, they have to repay the favor."
Mennitti said the solution to this core problem is to reform campaign financing.
"Once we eliminate that and have the politicians focused on doing their jobs in office, then I believe the rest kind of takes care of itself," he said.
Corporate personhood, which classifies corporations as people too, is also part of the problem, he said.
"So basically, you can give an unlimited amount of money to whoever you want to run for Congress, and they can bombard the airwaves with commercial after commercial after commercial," he said. "Until it's Election Day, and you walk into the voting booth because you're so familiar with their ads and names."
If this doesn't change, Mennitti is scared of what will happen to the United States.
"We're no longer going to be a superpower," he said. "I'm not going to say that we're going to fall to a dictatorship, but we're certainly not going to be in the position that we are in today. We need to legislate to benefit the masses, not continue this legislation that only benefits the elite."
Mennitti's 162-page book will be available in 2,500 stores across the county, and in about three weeks, it will be available in all digital formats, including the Apple iPad, the Amazon Kindle and the Barnes & Noble's Nook.
Mennitti, an honors graduate from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, earned two degrees in education and has been a substitute school teacher in the Punxsutawney district since 2007.
"I never anticipated writing a book, or had that as a goal — it just kind of happened," he said. "I'm very pleased with it. I'm hoping it's going to motivate someone smarter than me to stand up and take action."


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