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The Films of Michael Moore
Roger & Me
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The Big One
Bowling for Columbine
Fahrenheit 9/11 (June 21/04)
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, as many have already noted, is less a documentary and more a 110 minute rant against George W. Bush. Still, the filmmaker does make a fairly convincing argument against the President - painting him as a dimwitted and corrupt politician. But, as was the case with Bowling for Columbine, Moore eventually tires of the subject at hand and goes off on superfluous tangents - severely dulling the film's impact. But the movie is undeniably quite fascinating in its opening hour, with Moore investigating Bush's actions in the moments and days after September 11th. We learn that the bin Laden family has had ties with the Bush's for years, and because of that relationship, certain bin Ladens were allowed to fly out of the States immediately following 9/11. Moore goes on to examine Bush's background before entering politics, which (not surprisingly) is jam-packed with bungled businesses seemingly handed to him by his father. It's also revealed that many high-ranking officials in his cabinet are former business associates, the majority of whom had no prior experience in government. Though there's no denying that Fahrenheit 9/11 packs a substantial wallop, Moore's propensity for digressions - particularly in the film's second half - undermines the effectiveness of his message. It probably doesn't help that the opening 45 minutes lacks Moore's onscreen presence, something that's been his trademark since Roger and Me. While he's not entirely absent - his narration is just as snarky and sarcastic as we've come to expect - it's clear that Moore is more interested in getting a certain amount of information across rather than badgering people on camera. Once Moore has said all he needs to say about Bush - which happens somewhere around the one hour mark - he shifts his focus to other things, including a mother whose son is fighting in Iraq and a pair of marine recruiters trolling Flint malls for volunteers. The film's transition from fast-paced clipfest to more traditional Michael Moore flick is jarring, to say the least. Perhaps Moore's intention was to show the consequences of the Iraq war, but even if that's the case, it doesn't excuse the fact that the movie becomes fairly repetitive towards the end. Still, if Moore's goal was to discredit and undermine Bush, he's succeeded; as a piece of propaganda, the movie excels. But the film's rambling nature prevents it from becoming the riveting piece of work Moore surely intended it to be.
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As expected, Sicko primarily comes off as an uneven effort that's sporadically as superfluous as it is interesting - as director Michael Moore saddles the proceedings with an overlong running time and an increased emphasis on entirely needless elements. And while there's no denying the effectiveness of the movie's first two-thirds, it's just as clear that Sicko suffers from a final half hour that's nothing short of interminable. Moore's target this time around is the American health care industry, which - according to the notoriously antagonistic documentarian - is essentially a corrupt and entirely unfixable system that's in dire need of a complete overhaul. To further illustrate his point, Moore offers a look at the effectiveness of socialized health care programs in countries like Canada, Britain, and France - although, admittedly, the filmmaker's penchant for exaggeration does force the viewer to occasionally question the veracity of the movie's facts (ie Canada is far from the medical utopia that Moore relentlessly insists it is). Nevertheless, there's little doubt that Sicko is often as eye-opening as Moore has surely intended - with the inclusion of several intriguing (and undeniably depressing) stories certainly hammering home the film's poignant message. It's only with Moore's (admittedly predictable) decision to emphasize a number of digressions that the movie starts to falter, and - like each of his previous efforts - the end result is a documentary whose overall impact is inevitably diluted by Moore's inability to stay focused.
A typically uneven effort from documentarian Michael Moore, Capitalism: A Love Story explores the pervasively harmful effect that free enterprise has had on American society in the years since the Second World War - with a particular emphasis on the recession that has been escalating since the turn of the century. It's worth noting that Capitalism: A Love Story fares best in its opening hour, as Moore offers up a broad, easy-to-follow overview of the financial crisis and the impact that it's had on various salt-of-the-earth type folks (ie there's a surprisingly moving montage of people being thrown out of their houses). It's only as the 127-minute movie progresses that one's interest slowly but surely begins to dwindle, with Moore's decision to place a growing emphasis on the political nature of the crisis ensuring that one's eyes tend to glaze over on an increasingly frequent basis (ie though he's made his point early on, Moore continues to hammer home his message to an extent that's nothing short of oppressive). The unreasonably academic final half hour - which boasts a long and downright interminable speech from Teddy Roosevelt - feels more like something that one would watch in a political science class than anything else, and it's ultimately clear that Capitalism: A Love Story would've seriously benefited from some judicious editing and a much shorter running time.


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By Richard Weizel
MILFORD, Connecticut (Reuters) - The Connecticut General Assembly overwhelmingly approved compromise legislation on Wednesday to prevent public release of homicide victim photos, videos and some audiotapes in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting rampage.
After legislative maneuvering that pushed the vote into the pre-dawn hours, the state Senate voted 33-2 and the Connecticut House of Representatives voted 130-2 to pass the bill that establishes a new exemption under the state's Freedom of Information Act.
Governor Dannel Malloy was expected to sign the bill, which could be used to keep from public view some images and audiotapes concerning not only the Sandy Hook massacre of 26 children and school staff in Newtown, Connecticut, last December, but other homicides as well. Once the governor signs the measure, it will take effect immediately.
The bill prohibits the release of photographs, film, video and other visual images showing a homicide victim if the records could "reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy of the victim or the victim's surviving family members.''
However, parts of 911-call tapes will be made public, according to the bill.
Malloy said his goal initially had been to provide a measure of protection for the families who lost loved ones when a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook, killing 20 first-grade students and six staff.
"But the fact is, all families have a right to grieve in private. Those who lose loved ones to violence have a right to protect themselves against further anguish," Malloy said.
In a joint letter to Malloy opposing the bill, groups including the American Civil Liberties Union, The Connecticut Daily Newspapers Association, Connecticut Broadcasters Association and Connecticut Council on Freedom of Information said the documents were essential to public watchdogs keeping an eye on government.
"We maintain that public access to investigative reports, 9-11 emergency call transcripts and recordings, death certificates, and the like, serve the public's best interest by permitting the public to monitor the performance of its government," the group wrote.
Initial legislation had been drafted in secret until the Hartford Courant reported on May 21 that the staffs of the state's top prosecutor and the governor's office were working with legislators on a law to suppress the Newtown files.
As part of a compromise, the bill passed on Wednesday included a self-policing measure that would establish a task force of state officials to review the law in action and report its findings early next year to the legislature and governor.
The Sandy Hook violence was one of the worst mass school shootings in U.S. history and revived the gun control debate in the United States.
(Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Maureen Bavdek)

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Arkansas Community Foundation is a blessing for Cleburne County
In Heber Springs and Cleburne County we are blessed with a number of organizations that improve the general welfare. One such organization that is relatively new and gets little recognition is the Cleburne County Community Foundation.
The Cleburne County organization is one of 27 such affiliates of the Arkansas Community Foundation. The Arkansas Community Foundation is in the business of providing resources to make charitable giving in our state more effective.
Our local chapter has given more than $100,000 to charitable and community minded entities in just the last few years. But our organization is much more than that. Through brilliant leadership of Brenda Hill, our Executive Director, and assistance from the state association we encourage local non-profits to use their human and monetary resources most effectively.
Of course, it all starts with having a core of endowment capital which allows us to fund the local operations and to grant financial help to non-profits in this area. These endowments can be established with a minimum of ten thousand dollars and the earnings
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The Arkansas Community Foundation has developed a tool for community leaders. This tool is called Aspire Arkansas which is a booklet of valuable information. It compares Arkansas with the other states in categories of education, health issues, poverty, income, unemployment and charitable giving.
The chart below ranks Arkansas with other states in these categories.
High School Degree Completed – 82.7% 44
Bachelors Degree Obtained - 19.6% 50
Graduate Degree Obtained - 6.6% 51
Median Household Income - $38,889 49
Voter Turnout - 51.0% 47
Obese Adults - 67.2% 8
Cigarette Smokers - 22.9% 4
Living in Poverty - 19.3% 4
In addition it compares our 75 counties in these various categories. For example the median household income in Cleburne County in 2011 was $42,265 compared to
$28,467 in St. Francis County and $52,644 in Benton County. For people living in poverty Cleburne County came in at 16.2 percent while St. Francis County was 32.9 percent and Benton County registered 12.1 percent.
There are vast amounts of information in Aspire Arkansas that community leaders should find valuable. It is the intent of the Cleburne County Foundation to share this information with community leaders and where applicable use it to identify needs and to instigate programs for improvement.
An analysis of this data reveals some definite needs for all of us in Arkansas. We are pretty much bottom of the barrel on high school and college graduation rates, median household income and voter turnout. The categories where we register in the top ten are obese adults, cigarette smokers and living in poverty – not too much to brag about.
A couple of weeks ago, a column was written discussing how wonderful it is we have such an illustrious history on Arkansas politicians. Remember how Arkansas senators and Arkansas governors were glorified? Their legacy has been to establish the foundation for poverty and lack of education accomplishments in this state.
Similarly until 2012 the Democrats had a virtual lock on both Houses of the Legislature for the last 140 years. Might it be there is some correlation between rigid Democrat control and our historical poor showing in critical areas?
The column didn't mention we have the proud history of an ex-president who taught our youth about oral sex and is one of two presidents to be impeached or a congressman that embarrassed all of us with his romp with a Washington D.C. stripper. Don't forget our Democrat governor who stood on the schoolhouse steps in Little Rock forbidding blacks to attend school. These little jewels hardly register as proud accomplishments.
History tells us the break that finally came to bring us out of the economic doldrums came not from the Democrat side but came in the form of Rockefeller, a Republican. Almost single handily he was the impetus for showing Arkansas how to use their resources for economic gain. If not for Rockefeller, we might be fifty-first today in all unfavorable categories.
Look at our neighbor states that have elected Republican leaders for years. Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Oklahoma have successfully recruited industry much better than Arkansas. They have no income taxes or smaller tax rates than our state. The whole philosophy changes when you have leaders who concentrate on industry growth rather than spend time courting and working with Kathleen Sebelius to receive more government funding.
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Though state founder Roger Williams was a teacher to many, the colony of Rhode Island never established a system of common schools. Newport was the first town to try having a public school. But schools there came in fits and starts. As early as 1640, there was some mention of schooling. And as early as 1685, there was talk of a school building. But this building had fallen down by 1700, and it took until 1739 to finish erecting a new school — which was then destroyed by fire in 1774. For 50 years after the fire, no physical school existed in Newport.
Providence was even slower to take to the idea of public education. In 1663, the State General Assembly authorized a grant of land for a school. But as of 1725, there was simply a classroom held at the State House, while no free schooling throughout Providence existed. In 1768, the city held a vote on instituting free public schools, but the proposal was defeated. Over 120 years after Massachusetts had compelled towns to provide free taxpayer-funded public schooling; such a school system was voted down in Providence. Meanwhile, in Barrington — which was then part of Swansea, Mass. — a free school was established in 1673.
In the end, it was not until 1828 that a free system of public education came to Providence. Providence civic leader John Howland established a system of free public education by means of the School Act in 1828. During the 1830s and 1840s, that system grew and prospered, especially in Providence, owing to the exertions of Samuel Bridgham, Nathan Bishop, and Thomas Wilson Dorr. Education specialist Henry Barnard was recruited as the first state commissioner of education until 1849, with the aim of bringing the other towns to the high educational level which had been achieved by Providence. Barnard observed that "the city of Providence has already gained to itself an extended reputation and made itself a bright example to many other cities." In 1883 Rhode Island instituted a statewide free and compulsory education.
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Photograph of exterior corner of the Golden Nugget Gambling Hall at dusk (Las Vegas), circa 1951
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Monday, January 30, 2012
Skirt as a Dress
48 comments:
- The Wearwithal said...
So beautiful!
I love that ring.
- January 30, 2012 at 11:35 AM
- Mrs. T. Mac. said...
Fabulous as usual! Those boots are KILLER!
I am totally in agreement in shopping my closet more or thrifting to ensure my kids want for nothing. #TeamGreatParents!
- January 30, 2012 at 11:36 AM
- Just Daisy said...
Your smile is beautiful!
I love this rusty orange on you and who knew one skirt could double as a dress?!
you look great, love the purse and thanks for the sweet comment <3
- January 30, 2012 at 12:12 PM
- Joyful said...
Very creative use of the skirt. I think it looks fantastic on you. You've accessorized it perfectly too!
I totally agree that thrift shopping is the way to go. Trouble is I never seem to find anything I can actually fit in there or that is easily and affordably altered. But I "envy" those that can.
- January 30, 2012 at 12:15 PM
- Sing said...
The skirt looks great as a dress.
- January 30, 2012 at 12:20 PM
- Ms Nana said...
i absolutely adore your nails..
That ring is amazing!!
- January 30, 2012 at 1:04 PM
- Francesca R said...
That skirt became a gorgeous dress! I love this colorful outfit! And I am going gaga over your bag!
- January 30, 2012 at 2:08 PM
- Jackie said...
Love the boots, Ring, Nail color! Denim Jacket with the dress, and the necklace! everything flows together very well! WORK!
Jackie ;)
- January 30, 2012 at 2:11 PM
- Julie Khuu said...
It's THE perfect length to show off those gorgeous boots! Love all the bold color, such a fun look for winter! Brilliant move, this skirt is so dang versatile!
Peace. Love. LOL!
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- January 30, 2012 at 2:26 PM
- t said...
Nice outfit! Cool boots!
- January 30, 2012 at 2:51 PM
- Yummy said...
Cute! I've done that before myself. Great idea!
- January 30, 2012 at 2:52 PM
- Fifth N Sixth Closet said...
I love the dress & purse you look wonderful!
- January 30, 2012 at 2:59 PM
- Girlie Blogger said...
What a beautiful way to start off the week! You look gorgeous in that vintage jacket and those fantastic boots.
- January 30, 2012 at 3:29 PM
- just tututiny said...
Really enjoy your blog. I am your newest follower, please check out my blog and follow me if you like it! Thanks =)
- January 30, 2012 at 3:34 PM
- Sick by Trend said...
love a lot the fabric of that dress and the necklace is amazing too :)
- January 30, 2012 at 4:03 PM
- Emmy said...
I really love that skirt worn as a dress:) And I agree...shopping your own closet, especially these days, is really refreshing sometimes!
- January 30, 2012 at 6:03 PM
- ln said...
this looks amazing i love the combination of red and your boots. ♥ my boyfriend and i created a blog featuring couples around the globe, hope you follow back and LIKE our Facebook too :)
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- January 30, 2012 at 6:09 PM
- Megan, The Frugalista Diaries said...
love this, so pretty.
- January 30, 2012 at 6:39 PM
- Charlotte Beecham said...
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- January 30, 2012 at 7:01 PM
- Filipa said...
that golden chain necklace is superb :) you look amazing in that dress, i'm loving your blog..
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- January 30, 2012 at 7:05 PM
- Kiah Torres said...
I love it as a dress! The cascading ruffles are so sweet and feminine. The color is fantastic against your beautiful caramel skin! Love the necklace! You are just so pretty. It is my prayer each day that the Lord gives me the heart, mind and strength to be a little bit more like Him today than I was on yesterday!! We are His constant work-in-progress! Stay encouraged in the Lord! Kiah
- January 30, 2012 at 7:21 PM
- Bravoe Runway said...
I love this dress! The details are gorgeous and I also love the boots :)
- January 30, 2012 at 7:29 PM
- Kassi said...
Great look! I love the skirt worn as a dress - it's perfect. The boots are super sassy and you look lovely as always!
- January 30, 2012 at 7:42 PM
- DOWNTOWNCHICAGOBARBIE said...
I always wear skirts as dresses. That's how you get the most of of your clothes.
- January 30, 2012 at 7:43 PM
- JustPatience said...
That's a gorgeous dress. Love the boots. You look divine.
- January 30, 2012 at 8:28 PM
- CEO(angie stone) said...
Girl - I just love your style and the color are great. Give me the boots...send to me tonight. I'll give my address, okay? Oh! Wait what size shoes do you wear. Never mind I might have to reveal my size to you.
- January 30, 2012 at 9:53 PM
- Rach said...
I love your dress and im soo in love with the necklace too! great styling!
- January 30, 2012 at 10:02 PM
- sacramento said...
Always gorgeous and wonderful.
Love you in red, and the contrast with purple is brilliant.
Well done turning that skirt into a dress, magic woman.
- January 31, 2012 at 1:07 AM
- Oana said...
You look gorgeous!!! I love this outfit!!
Great blog!
I am your new follower! I would be so happy if you'll follow me back!
xoxo, Oana
- January 31, 2012 at 3:11 AM
- Carsedra said...
You look great!! I really really like the skirt/dress and the handbag! The boots are really cute too!!
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- January 31, 2012 at 6:31 AM
- Bonnie said...
Your boots always make me see stars. You should do a blog post JUST on your shoe collection.
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- January 31, 2012 at 7:23 AM
- khaleesi style said...
Wauww baby i like your shoes,dress,bag everthing
U are so nice:)
- January 31, 2012 at 7:47 AM
- Sandy at Ooh La Frou Frou said...
What a great refashion, wearing your skirt as a dress! Looks great on you! ~xoSM
Sandy at Ooh La Frou Frou
- January 31, 2012 at 7:49 AM
- Gail and Rhoda said...
The dress is beautiful! Great re-purpose! You look gorgeous and proud of you for daily picking up your cross and following God, the most important thing in life! May your day be blessed! - Rhoda
- January 31, 2012 at 9:17 AM
- dimitri said...
This is an impeccable look. Love these colors. Beautiful dress and bag.
These photos are so pretty.
- January 31, 2012 at 9:23 AM
- Lovelyladyjb said...
love this as a dress! you look great!
- January 31, 2012 at 9:45 AM
- Dallas Diva said...
That dress is to-die-for! You look beautiful. Wish my hair looked as good as yours :)
Would you like to follow each other?
Your blog is a great inspiration!
- January 31, 2012 at 12:38 PM
- Skinny said...
Love the color of your nail polish and purse
- January 31, 2012 at 1:28 PM
- Fashion Meets Food said...
Oh my word how chic are you! Loving this look!!! xo
- January 31, 2012 at 1:46 PM
- Wear The Canvas said...
I love wearing skirts as dresses!
- January 31, 2012 at 3:16 PM
- High Heeled Life said...
WOW!!! That is a gorgeous outfit! I love the boots, jacket, handbag and the creativity of re-purpose you did with that skirt. Thank you for visiting for tea! I'll be by again soon.. great Blog!! xo HHL
- January 31, 2012 at 3:49 PM
- Jessica L. said...
Very nice! I also really like the purse and the cross ring! -Jessica
- January 31, 2012 at 9:08 PM
- The Midwest Muse said...
The texture on this dress is beautiful.
- February 1, 2012 at 5:25 AM
- Mimi said...
I love the color on your skirt/dress. This ensemble is definitely working.
- February 1, 2012 at 7:29 AM
- Fashion By Alicia said...
Such a fun look! Love that handbag!
- February 1, 2012 at 10:30 AM
- Jeeda said...
I love it as a dress!! You look fab LV!
- February 2, 2012 at 3:39 AM
- Vivi said...
Yep! Any dress I'm not feeling anymore I wear it as a strapless dress. And begin to love it all over again.
Great boots!
- February 5, 2012 at 6:49 AM
Beautiful skirt! It transitions so well into a dress :)
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Cephalonia Climate and Weather
Like all the Ionian Islands, Cephalonia enjoys a moderate Mediterranean climate with very warm, sunny summer months and mild, wet winters, giving the island its lush vegetation. Snow sometimes covers the mountain peaks in winter. The heavy winter rainfall starts tailing off by April as temperatures rise, and by June the long, dry summer has set in. Summer is the most popular time to visit the island, although for those not used to it the heat and humidity can be overpowering. July and August are the hottest months and the peak tourism season. Spring is also a good time to visit the island, particularly May, when the crowds have not yet descended and the water is getting warm enough for swimming - it is also lovely and lush on the island in spring after the benefits of the winter rainfall. Autumn is also a pleasant time on Cephalonia and September is particulary lovely, with warm seas, ripe fruit ready for the harvest, and warm, sunny weather. The tourism industry shuts down somewhat during winter and those that visit during the off-season may well find that many shops and restaurants have closed and not as many amenities are available.
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In an effort to encourage dads to play a more active roles in their families, a non-profit organization in Singapore plans to launch a "better fathering index" to measure how involved dads are in bringing up their children there.
The Center for Fathering, which is launching the initiative, plans to carry out a survey of the fathers in Singapore in the second half of 2013.
"Of course, we wouldn't know the outcomes till many, many years later and that will be borne by how stable families are, how resilient are families and to what extent can we manage dysfunctional families," Lim Soon Hock, the center's chairman, told Channel News Asia. Hock pointed to research that shows involved dads benefit children emotionally as well as academically.
The survey comes at a time when more and more mothers have entered the workforce full time in Singapore.
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Among the factors the center will consider when building the index include the amount of time that fathers spend with their kids on a daily and monthly basis, as well as the kind of activities fathers engage in with children.
Beyond simply monitoring the evolving state of fatherhood, the center also trained about 40 dads in the last quarter of 2012 to work with others to become better fathers. It hopes to increase its outreach by up to 20 percent in the new year, in part by putting together an International Advisory Panel.
The idea of mandatory paternity leave has recently gained traction in Singapore, with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong voicing his support so that fathers can be more involved.
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times who has spent more than a decade on the ground covering wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will be keynote speaker at a first-of-its-kind November symposium at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.
Dexter Filkins, a reporter for The New Yorker and The New York Times who has reported on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001, will speak on Nov. 10 at the "Iraq War in Retrospect" symposium planned in UW Oshkosh's Reeve Memorial Union.
The free, public symposium, co-sponsored by Military Veterans Museum, Inc., is the culmination of a week-long lineup of UW Oshkosh programming and events titled "War Through Their Eyes: Eyewitnesses, Combatants & America's Newest Veterans." Speakers, film screenings, art exhibits and forums will take place on campus throughout Veterans Week 2012, November 6 through November 10. Veterans Day is Sunday, Nov. 11.
The Saturday symposium welcomes a broad audience of participants to publicly examine and help preserve the diverse experiences of the Iraq War, said UW Oshkosh Department of History Prof. Stephen Kercher.
"Dexter Filkins is recognized, and has been rightly honored, as one of our era's most skilled, exhaustive and thorough war correspondents and storytellers," Kercher said. "He and his work embody what the Iraq War in Retrospect is all about."
"Our special objective with this symposium is to really give a broad range of analysis, in a scholarly yet accessible way," he said. "We are inviting a diverse audience to join us and consider the experience of journalists in Iraq and Afghanistan, the way filmmakers interpret the experience of these wars, the experience of the medical professionals who served, the experience of people who objected to the wars. And, finally, we need to provide a context for the geopolitical forces that accounted for these wars taking place in the first place. You can never talk about the experience of veterans without examining why they were sent to war in the first place."
The Oshkosh-based, nonprofit Military Veterans Museum, dedicated to educating the public about the experience of war veterans, worked with UW Oshkosh to secure the grant making Filkins' keynote visit and the Nov. 10 symposium possible. The partners' collaboration is funded by a $10,000 major grant from the Wisconsin Humanities Council.
Military Veterans Museum is also working to raise funds and complete its new "Fields of Honor" museum honoring and preserving the experiences of U.S. war veterans south of Oshkosh, near U.S. Highway 41 and State Highway 26.
"Dexter Filkins has dedicated himself and his work to sharing the experience of war through the stories, service and sacrifice of its veterans," said Larry Smerling, vice president of Military Veterans Museum's board of directors. "Both his presentation and the rest of the Iraq War symposium's programs are strongly aligned with the mission of our organization and, most importantly, they will deeply involve the public, educators, historians and veterans themselves."
Before his tenure with The New York Times, Filkins worked for the Los Angeles Times, where he was chief of the paper's New Delhi bureau, and for The Miami Herald. In 2009, he was part of a team of Times reporters who won a Pulitzer Prize for covering Afghanistan and Pakistan. He has received a George Polk Award and two Overseas Press Club awards. Most recently, he was a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. He lives in New York City.
Filkins' presentation is just one component of the day-long Nov. 10 symposium. Students, staff, war veterans and archivists from the UW Oshkosh Department of History, UW Oshkosh Veterans Services Center, Military Science Department, American Democracy Project and Forrest R. Polk Library are also involved in the event's sponsorship, coordination and content.
"A veteran's war-time experience is a seminal moment in his or her life," said Shawn Monroe, Veterans Resource Coordinator at UW Oshkosh. "An opportunity to better understand that moment is an opportunity to frame veterans' personal stories within the larger canvas of the human experience. The Iraq War Symposium provides a rare opportunity to examine the factors, the players, the effects and experiences of our society in near-real time."
The symposium will include six, 90-minute sessions moderated by UW Oshkosh professors, featuring special panelists, including Iraq War veterans who attend UW Oshkosh and who are members of area communities. The sessions' subjects range from the role of women in the war, the work of war journalists and correspondents, how media and film have portrayed the war and the preservation of veterans' memories and records in a digital era.
Kercher said the symposium will also feature a "memory corps" project, encouraging veterans of a digital, and often delete-able era, to preserve their artifacts and experiences for the sake of their historical value. UW Oshkosh Archivist Joshua Ranger is helping coordinate the effort.
"It will ultimately be an interdisciplinary program, looking at the Iraq War through different lenses but prioritizing the lens of the veteran," Kercher said. "We want to make sure we have eyewitnesses — the reporters are those people with the eyes and ears we've relied upon to develop our sense for what these wars were like for everyone involved. The symposium also addresses the experience of veterans, both on the battlefield and in their difficult transition on the home front."
Registration for the free symposium will be available soon.
The UW Oshkosh Veterans Week lineup leading into the Saturday, Nov. 10 symposium and Veterans Day will be equally engaging. The list of speakers and events follows:
- Tuesday, November 6, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. (Reeve Union Theater); Vietnam War Veterans panel discussion led by Greg Olson, Department of Communications.
- Wednesday, November 7 (time TBD) (Sage Hall, 1210) Co-sponsored by the Women's Advocacy Council; Screening of the film "Lioness," with a talk-back panel led by female Iraq War veterans.
- Thursday, November 8, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. (Sage 1210) Co-sponsored by the International Film Series; Screening of the film "In the Valley of Elah," with talk-back led by Kelly Wilz, UW Marshfield film professor who has written about Iraq War films), Troy and Frances Perkins and war veterans.
- Friday, November 9, 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., (Reeve Union Theater and Steinhilber Gallery); "War Through Their Eyes: Warriors & Nurses at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh" event coordinated by UW Oshkosh's Grace Lim and Shawn McAfee, who, in collaboration with UW Oshkosh students, developed the original "War Through Their Eyes" multimedia project in 2009.
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Otways Tourist Park is located in Gellibrand River at the foot of the Otway Ranges. A premium caravan, camping and cabin park located at the foot of the Otway Ranges, Otways Tourist Park's sites are set in a beautiful green garden setting with many facilities to ensure your comfort.
The town is located 24 kilometres from Colac on the Colac-Lavers Hill Road which continues on to Apollo Bay and the Twelve Apostles and also boasts a general store and historic pub.
The Park has a solar heated swimming pool and adventure playground playground as well as a bistro serving great meals and take-aways. The park boasts two barbecue areas and a fully equipped camp kitchen.
An on-site kiosk sells bread, milk, groceries and a Norgen-Vaaz ice creamery as well as gas and ice.
Close to some of the best waterfalls in the Otways: Triplet, Beauchamp and Hopetoun Falls are all within a 30 minute drive as is Melba Gully, known as the 'Jewel of the Otways', where you can see Glow worms at night.
The Otway Fly Tree-top Walk and Zip Line is only a 20 minute drive away.
Prices apply to two persons per night. Extra persons charges apply, see website for details.
Camping Sites (unpowered)
The Park has 30-plus large camping sites in various camping areas throughout the space. All are grassed and are spacious and are set in a garden setting. Facilities such as barbecues, camp kitchens as well as modern clean amenities are available for your comfort. Other facilities such as the large salt water swimming pool and adventure playground are all designed to make your stay as pleasant as possible.
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The Park has eight en-suited powered sites with private en-suite bathrooms complete with toilet, shower and vanity unit. They are located on large grassed sites and offer comfort and privacy. Facilities such as barbecues, camp kitchens as well as modern clean amenities are available for your comfort. Other facilities such as the large salt water swimming pool and adventure playground are all designed to make your stay as pleasant as possible.
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Editor's Note: This article was originally published in the March 9, 2007 issue of The Jewish Press. In light of last week's filing of Chapter 11 by Chrysler LLC, we thought it would be appropriate to reprint it.
On its face, it would surely be foolish to blame Daimler-Chrysler's extraordinary woes on the very dark history of Daimler-Benz. On its face, the combined company's deep decline is manifestly a function of bad economic judgments. After all, from the very start, the 1998 decision by Germany's Daimler-Benz to merge with Chrysler simply made no financial sense.
And yet, there are sometimes factors that play an important or even decisive role in explaining all aspects of human life – including the collective "lives" of nations and corporations – that are neither tangible nor measurable. The sad history of this iconic American automobile company may well have been determined, at least in part, by factors that we can't really identify or clarify in the Management 101 textbooks.
The humiliating fate of the Chrysler Corporation cannot be detached entirely from the sordid history of Daimler-Benz. It might have been different perhaps, if there had ever been some acknowledgement of the German parent company's enthusiastic wartime use of Jewish slave labor, but no such acknowledgment was ever made. Although not distinctly testable in science, silence can sometimes have genuinely frightful consequences.
Justice must always have a decipherable voice, and there can never be any such voice without memory. At the time of the 1998 merger, no public mention was ever made of Daimler's Nazi involvement.
It was conveniently assumed by Chrysler's top executives, that a murderous Daimler-Benz history could be shoved under the rug. And the insistently seductive calls for corporate wealth in America would drown out the increasingly weak cries for justice.
These assumptions were not merely sinister; they were also wrong. What we witness today, in Daimler-Chrysler's now evident corporate collapse, is the ineradicable stain of unpunished and unapologetic Daimler-Benz wartime crimes against humanity.
Justice always requires a voice. Even today, someone must still speak for those who can no longer speak for themselves. Someone must speak for those endless railway cars of Jewish slave laborers whose seemingly inexhaustible supply in Nazi Germany and occupied lands had actually made them less than slaves. Even today, someone must speak for those starved and brutalized victims dehumanized by a venerated German corporation during World War II.
In 1998, the business world was all aglow, about a "marriage made in heaven" – the mega-merger of Chrysler with Daimler-Benz. Lost in this grand celebration of new fortunes to be made was the buried history of one corporate partner.
During the war, hundreds of thousands of Jews were coerced into forced labor by many major German industrial firms under conditions, which the judges at Nuremberg said "made labor and death almost synonymous."
The victims were barely bits of sandpaper, rubbed a few times by their masters, judged useless and then burned – literally – with the garbage. Daimler-Benz was one of these firms.
Where did Daimler-Benz operate in the vast complex of slave enterprises? As documented authoritatively in The International Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (pp. 1037 – 1039) Natzweiler-Struthof, a concentration camp established by Albert Speer because of nearby granite deposits, was expanded. In 1944, Daimler-Benz moved some of its work from the Berlin-area to the new satellite camp at Neckarelz.
Here, the company used several thousand slaves in a joint project with Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and the Ministry of Armaments. The Natzweiler main camp, although small, had its own gas chamber.
Together with other privileged German corporations, Daimler-Benz traded and transported Jewish forced laborers with nary a hint that they were dealing in human beings. They were purchased from the SS, with the understanding that they should not be kept alive for too long (so as not to slow down the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question").
The bewildered and tortured slaves were often housed in tiny animal kennels or underground chambers before "selection" for the gas chamber.
After the war, when some very small number of Jewish claimants called upon Daimler-Benz and other criminally responsible German firms to make some sort of restitution, the victims and their survivors were cruelly rebuffed.
On November 5, 1997, a German court upheld its government's policy of rejecting compensation claims by Nazi-era slave laborers.
The judges based their decision in part on the fact that the pertinent German companies had already paid the Nazi SS for the forced laborers they had "employed" and that therefore no "further compensation" to Jewish victims was owed by the companies.
Most of these companies, of course, including Daimler-Benz, remained in business. Not one of these companies, including Daimler-Benz, ever made more than a token payment to their former Jewish slaves or to associated claimants.
In his book The Germans (St. Martin's Press 1989) Financial Times correspondent David Marsh indicates that it was not until June 1988 that Daimler made a DM20 million payment to the U.S. Jewish Claims Conference "to ease consequences still ensuing from those times."
Marsh notes that by June 1988, the actual victims of Daimler-Benz enslavement were no longer alive.
In 1998, according to Marsh, Daimler-Benz admitted to using 29,500 slaves at the end of 1944. (This was around half of its entire work force.) They sought – via its merger with Chrysler Corporation – to become a new and important giant in American industry.
Although certainly never to be acknowledged by Wall Street analysts, the now-imminent failure of this giant is due in some immeasurable way to the infamously unclean side of Daimler-Benz.
During the War, Daimler-Benz did pay salaries for their slaves, but the payments were made directly to the SS, which naturally kept the money. The ties between the German industrialists at Benz and other companies to the SS were more intimate than is generally realized.
The industrialists were all heavy contributors to SS leader Himmler's personal fund. For a Christmas celebration in 1943, Himmler invited these magnates to his own headquarters. An SS film on eradicating Jewish "vermin" was screened, and the "distinguished group" was entertained by an SS all male chorus.
How did the victorious allies mete out justice to the German industrialist murderers? No corporate director or manager was compelled to stand before the International Military Tribunal. Not one.
In subsequent trials against certain leading directors, several defendants were found guilty of crimes against humanity for exploiting Jewish slave labor. Although many were sentenced to long prison terms, by January 1951, not a single corporate criminal was still in jail.
An act of "clemency" by John J. McCloy, United States High Commissioner, gave all of these Germans their complete freedom. A mere half-dozen years after the war, all of the criminal German business leaders were free to regain huge personal fortunes.
The Jewish slaves, who had endured the unendurable, were left only with abject poverty, crippling illness, limitless pain, and incessant nightmares.
So the Nazi-era crimes of Daimler-Benz had been forgotten or forgiven on Wall Street. After all, there was presumably a lot of money to be made in the merger with Chrysler, and no reasonable investor wanted to be limited by what was done and cannot be undone. Yet memory, not forgetfulness, is indispensable to justice. And justice – even on Wall Street – is what America is ultimately all about.
For Daimler-Chrysler, the past is irremediably present, still silent perhaps, but unforgiving, dark and thoroughly inescapable.
Copyright The Jewish Press, March 9, 2007. All rights reserved.
LOUIS RENE BERES, professor of Political Science at Purdue University, was born in Zurich, Switzerland on August 31, 1945. Educated at Princeton (Ph.D. 1971), he is the author of nine major books on international relations and international law. Professor Beres' Austrian-Jewish grandparents were murdered at the SS-killing grounds in Riga, Latvia.


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O'Keefe signs a contract with the Angels
Colin O'Keefe is about to start living the dream.
O'Keefe, the former Waterford High School pitching standout, became a professional baseball player Wednesday when he signed a contract with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
"Since I was a little kid I knew this is what I wanted to do,'' said O'Keefe, who arrived in Arizona Friday to take his physical.
O'Keefe just completed his junior season at Virginia Tech, but was dogged by biceps tendinitis in his pitching (left) arm. He appeared in just five games, starting two, and had an earned run average of 15.88. But the scouts were still impressed, and he was taken in the 33th round of last week's draft.
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He will likely report to the Angels' Rookie League team in Orem, Utah or their other Rookie League team in the Arizona League next week.
"I'm just excited to be able to go out there every other day or so and show that I belong,'' said O'Keefe. "Now I just get to focus on baseball every day. I just want to go out and throw as well as I can.''
O'Keefe played for his father, Jack, at Waterford. He was the Connecticut Gatorade Player of the Year in his senior season of 2010, when he was 8-1 with an ERA under 1.00 with 115 strikeouts. He was a two-time all-state selection and was also part of the 2008 Waterford team that won the American Legion state title.
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DPW secretary: Pa. will delay Medicaid expansion decision
Speaking to federal legislators today, Pennsylvania Secretary of Public Welfare Gary Alexander said Pennsylvania will delay its decision about expanding Medicaid for adults "until we have the flexibility to build a program that increases affordable and cost-effective coverage."
"Under the constraints of the health care reform law, I do not think we can afford the expansion," Alexander told the Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Health.
Alexander called Monday's news that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will not provide full funding for partial expansion of Medicaid disappointing.
If Pennsylvania opted to proceed with a full expansion of Medicaid, Alexander said, "Our forecasts estimate the ACA would add 800,000 to 1 million more persons onto Medicaid. This means that ACA would boost the proportion of our population on Medicaid or CHIP from the current 19 percent to more than 25 percent.
"If we add the 15 percent of Pennsylvania's population on Medicare, after subtracting for persons on both Medicaid and Medicare, we would end up with more than 40 percent of our population on a federal health-care program. This number would approach the total employment numbers in our state. We have 5.7 million employed persons. But after the ACA expansion, we would have approximately 5.4 million residents on Medicaid, CHIP or Medicare."
Alexander estimated the costs Pennsylvania would bear under full expansion at $222 million the first year, $378 million the second year and $364 million the third year, rising to an estimated $883 million by state fiscal year 2020-21.
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A BOLD plan that could see a village sacrifice its play area to build much-needed shops and a medical centre has been revealed in a bid by the parish council to beat housing developers at their own game.
Councillors admit the proposals for the future of Middleton St George will be controversial, but said they hope people will agree with the plan once they realise the benefits it could bring.
The draft proposals for the Middleton St George development plan, a legally binding document outlining accepted development in the village up to 2025, look to provide the housing, shops and facilities needed in the area, while also preventing large-scale developments that add houses without improving the village.
A drop-in event where residents can hear more details of the proposals will be held on Saturday, July 12.
The proposals put forward by the parish council include:
• Using the playing field, off Station Road, to create a Neighbourhood Hub - a parade of single-storey shops, a medical centre with integrated pharmacy, parking and a play area;
• Allowing housing, in particular starter homes and bungalows for older people, to be built on unused land off Yarm Road, backing on to the railway line;
• Revitalising the recreational facilities in the Water Park to make it a place for people of all ages to spend time relaxing and exercising.
Councillor Doris Jones, chairwoman of the parish council, admitted that she had been horrified when the proposals to build on the play area had first been suggested.
But she added: "We appreciate the idea of using the play park to build on will be controversial but it's not very well used because it gets pretty muddy and the equipment is old.
"By using that land for development, we can create better facilities for the people that live here.
"We don't know how many shops yet or what they will include – we want people to come along to the consultation and tell us what they want to see. If they don't want shops there, they can tell us and come up with an alternative."
The parish council has been working on the neighbourhood plan for months after becoming concerned about the number of speculative planning applications for large housing estates in the village.
The plan, which must pass a local referendum, allows the village to outline permitted development for the coming years.
There is no option to reject development outright and the parish council has decided to make its own proposals that improve the village for its existing residents, rather than rely on the suggestions of outsiders looking to develop land for financial gain.
Cllr Jones added: "We have become a small town of 5,000 people but we still have facilities for a small village.
"People told us that the village has lost its centre, has no parking, shops or services.
"The GPs are on board for the new medical centre and it would allow them to offer many more services than they currently do.
"It's very adventurous. We would give up an acre of land but we would gain so much more."
Glen McGill, a planning consultant working with the parish council, said: "We've based the strategy on what people told us in the consultation – we've not come up with them out of thin air.
"We won't please everybody but these developments will allow us to do so much more to improve the village."
The drop-in session to discuss the proposals will take place between 10.30am and 3.30pm at St George's Primary School and will feature sketches and maps of the proposals.
Members of the parish council and the planning consultants will be available to answer questions.
For more details visit MSGplan.org.uk or search for 'Residents against the over-development of Middleton St George' on Facebook.


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06.18.07 Fast BreaksPosted by rtmsf on June 18th, 2007
With the draft withdrawal deadline looming…
- Should I stay… Cal's DeVon Hardin, Marquette's Dominic James, Nevada's Marcelus Kemp, Illinois' Shaun Pruitt, Texas A&M's Joseph Jones and GW's Maureece Rice will stick around another year to play for free.
- Or should I go? Georgetown's Jeff Green, Georgia Tech's Thaddeus Young, Nevada's Ramon Sessions, Oklahoma State's JamesOn Curry have all decided to keep their names in the draft.
- In case you missed it, Florida guard Brandon Powell was arrested last week.
- We thought this was kinda cool: Kareem's commencement speech at UCLA last weekend.


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CAMBRIDGE, UK — Oct. 1, 2003 – ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMHY)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions, today announced details of the company's patent infringement litigation with Nazomi Communications, Inc., over ARM's intellectual property incorporating the current commercial design of its Jazelle® Java accelerator technology.
Yesterday, Judge Fogel in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California issued his ruling on ARM's early summary judgement motion in Nazomi's patent infringement suit against ARM. Judge Fogel's decision favors ARM and grants ARM's motion for partial summary judgment by ruling that products using the current commercial design of ARM's Jazelle technology do not infringe on Nazomi's U.S. Patent number 6,332,215. Only the part of the lawsuit that relates to earlier, discontinued ARM prototypes will, for now, proceed. This decision means that ARM may continue to provide leading designs of microprocessor solutions incorporating its Jazelle Java accelerator technology to the market.
Read the judgement here.
About ARM
ARM is the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions. The company licenses its high-performance, low-cost, power-efficient RISC processors, peripherals and system-on-chip designs to leading international electronics companies. ARM also provides comprehensive support required in developing a complete system. ARM's microprocessor cores are rapidly becoming the volume RISC standard in such markets as portable communications, hand-held computing, multimedia digital consumer and embedded solutions. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com .
ARM and Jazelle are registered trademarks of ARM Limited. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders. "ARM" is used to represent ARM Holdings plc (LSE: ARM and Nasdaq: ARMHY); its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries ARM INC.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM Taiwan; ARM France SAS; ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.; and ARM Belgium N.V.


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RCERT, Chandrapur is an institute that has been in its relentless endeavor of excelling in academic field for last 35 years. Being part of this academic journey right from the beginning gives me immense satisfaction.Under the visionary leadership of Honourable Shri Shantanramji Potdukhe the college has always walked along the path of educational merit. The admirable results and the outstanding achievement of students in securing a place in the top ten ranks of university`s merit list bear testimony to the grace with which we have progressed along this path.
The college has always maintained strong social bond with people around the area by offering social service and technological resources through projects like Fly ash utilization and Industrial waste management centre and ambient air pollution monitoring centre.The strong support of all the members of management and the cooperation of staff of college make us a formidable force to face challenges and explore new horizons of academic excellence.