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Children of the 20th Century grew up playing with Lego toys, whereas the current young generation also has a collection of movie-themed video game spinoffs to enjoy (Lego Star Wars, Lego Batman, Lego Harry Potter, etc.). No surprise, Warner Bros. is expanding the multi-platform franchise to now include theatrically-released movies, beginning with a project titled... The Lego Movie.
Lego Movie previously went under such titles as Lego: The Piece of Resistance and just Lego, but the 3D computer-animated feature is now prepared to release under a title so generic, it almost sounds like a joke. Of course, that's probably the idea, coming from writer-directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, 21 Jump Street).
Here is the official synopsis for The Lego Movie:
The 3D computer animated adventure tells the story of Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared.
Chris Pratt (Parks and Recreation) is voicing Emmet, meaning he will headline Lego Movie in animated form, before playing the flesh-and-blood leading (hu)man Star-Lord in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. Will Arnett (Arrested Development) is reported to be voicing the Batman Lego and Morgan Freeman is lending his vocal gravitas to a character named Vitruvius. The rest of the star-studded voice cast includes Liam Neeson (Taken 2), Alison Brie (Community), Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) and Elizabeth Banks (The Hunger Games).
Here is the official movie logo (click for full-sized version):
The Lego Movie screenplay was written by Lord and Miller, drawing from a story they co-wrote with Dan and Kevin Hageman (Hotel Transylvania). Personally, I see a lot of potential for delightful cartoonish mayhem and self-aware humor in a premise that involves a Lego mini-figurine being "mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person," so this project seems to be starting on the right foot, even in the writing stage.
Lord and Miller have earned a reputation for bringing sly wit and inspired creativity to their directing efforts, even on the most calculated of cash grabs (such as a 21 Jump Street movie that preys on lingering nostalgia for a goofy 1980s TV show concept). Combine that with their proven skill at using the 3D animation medium for proper effect in their Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs adaptation, and that is reason enough to anticipate their Lego Movie (in my humble opinion, anyway).
The Lego Movie opens in 2D and 3D theaters on February 7th, 2014.
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The Late Malaise Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz, with its stainless-steel roof panel and Barcalounger-esque button-tucked leather seats, was all about class.
That's why the opening sequence of Casino shows De Niro's Ace Rothstein character getting blown up in a Biarritz, because what goes better with turquoise shoes and casino management than this car? Sadly, nobody seems interested in preserving this piece of our automotive heritage, and thus most Biarritzes take that last ride to The Crusher when they develop a problem that can't be fixed by duct tape and/or a New Car Smell air freshener.


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Today's post on faith and parenting comes to us from one of my favorite bloggers, Micha Boyett. Micha, a stay-at-home mom from Texas, describes herself as "Southern Baptist nurtured, Anglican by choice, Presbyterian by former church, and in love with Roman Catholic monastic and contemplative practice." She blogs as Mama: Monk at Patheos. If you haven't caught her series on Practicing Benedict, do yourself a favor and check it out. Micha and I share a literary agent, and I can't wait to see how she blesses us with her gift with words in the years to come.
A year and a half ago, when my son first dreamed that a walrus (yes, I said a walrus) had entered his closet and rummaged around, I could not make that screaming child feel safe again, no matter what I tried.
First, I lied about my own power: Look! I have Walrus spray! I'll just spray your closet and he'll never want to come back.
Then, I made up a story to explain it all: Oh, I talked to the walrus and he's super sorry, buddy. He meant to go to the apartment down the street where his friend lives and he's really sad that he scared you. Don't worry; he'll never come back.
Finally, over the course of weeks, I told him the truth: Honey, I can't promise that the walrus will never come again. But I promise that God loves you and he's always protecting you.
I sang one of those old Psalty songs from my childhood cassette tapes, What time I am afraid, I will put my trust my trust in thee. My voice is plain. It's on key but simple and you'll never hear me with a solo. But sometimes I sing in my kids' rooms and I know it's my best work yet. That little chorus about fear? I sang it rich and I leaned over his bed, my fingers moving the hair across his forehead. Whenever I'm alone, I know that God is there... And God was there. It was lovely.
My son stopped me before I could finish. "But I can't see God!" He screamed, his face red, his fists clinched. The kid was two-years-old.
You know what disturbed me most about that moment? It wasn't my son's rage, his frustration, his realization that he wanted God to be something more for him. It was the reality that I knew exactly how he felt.
I know what it is to love and believe deeply in the Lord and, at the same time, scream out to him: "Why are you doing this? Where are you? Do you even exist? Do you love me?" And, amazingly, I know how to move from those questions into communion and take the bread and the wine and beg God to swell inside me, to make me whole.
Faith is complicated for me. I didn't want it to be complicated for my kids.
Maybe it's inevitable. Maybe doubters raise doubters. Maybe it's in the genes. But since that first late-night moment of frustration with God, my boy hasn't stopped wanting answers and being unsatisfied with the pat ones I give him. He's a scientist by nature and he's exploring this world with the mind God has stuck inside him. He doesn't know how to say it yet, but he wants to know how God fits into all this beauty, how God fits into all this brokenness.
I love scripture, I love how parents are instructed in Deuteronomy to talk about the Lord "when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up." At my house, we talk about Jesus as maker of peanut butter, Jesus as super hero, Jesus as best friend, Jesus as instructor on how to be a friend.
But, mostly, we talk about Jesus at night when my son wiggles under his covers in the dark and imagines. He imagines scary monsters and snakes on the wall but he also imagines a whole world where he is the super hero: slaying dragons with magic slime, blasting off in rockets through black holes to wholly edible planets.
I'm learning that nighttime is as complicated as faith: it can be scary and full of unknowns, but it can also be packed with a dream-world that makes us sigh at its loveliness. Nothing is simple and when we try to wrap the complex in a pretty box of ease, we all know it. And, I'm more and more certain that kids have the best authenticity radar of anyone.
So I've decided not to pretend that faith is simple. I've made a choice that with my kids, I will worship and cry and clench my fists and pray at 6:30 am on the couch and embrace the Church and serve and ask all the questions, and I will do it in front of them, for better or for worse.
I'm starting by not being afraid of letting them love the Psalms. Though I grew up reciting Psalm 23 and Psalm 139, I made it through youth group without ever reading or understanding the painful Psalms. I never knew that God's faithful people had also questioned him, struggled with fear, felt alone and forsaken.
Sometimes I wonder if I had been exposed to those laments earlier in my life, it wouldn't have hurt so bad when I found myself vomiting up doubt as a twenty-year-old. What if someone had promised me that anger and disappointment and insecurity have always been part of pursuing God?
What I want to give my son is a picture that faith is messy and complicated and good. I want him to be brave enough to push through the questions of our culture and cling to what his heart knows. I stand over his bed at night with my hand on his forehead and pray that if he strays from the faith that he will always find his way back home. I pray that he will always find his home in the heart of Christ.
Two weeks ago, I stumbled upon Psalms for Young Children (by Marie-Helen Delval) a paraphrased collection of simplified Psalms filled with beautiful and haunting illustrations. What I love about this book is that the laments have not been removed in favor of happy lambs jumping and illustrations of children praying beside beds with smiley faces. It refuses to shy away from the sad prayers of broken people.
I'm not shocked that my son is drawn to the saddest ones. I'm not surprised that he keeps asking for Psalm 69 when we flip the pages.
When I am sad,
it feels like I'm underwater,
like I'm stuck in the mud,
or at the bottomof a dark hole.
Pull me from this dark place,God!
Save me!
I need your help!
Those words sit on the page beside a little girl curled up at the bottom of a dark sea surrounded by frightening fish with glowing eyes. My son knows about disappointment. He knows about nighttime and fear. He knows about frustration and the longing for God to not be so invisible.
Maybe it's a bad idea. Maybe parents raise faithful kids by protecting them from complexity. Maybe I should strive to set up a picture of my faith as complete and simple. But I know my son and I know myself. Neither of us would buy that.
So I pray that honesty will shape him deeply, that he will grow into a faith in Christ that does not fear sadness or frustration. And that he will lean into a faith that allows honesty and vulnerability and the sweet complication of lament.
After all, the Jesus that shows up in my chest and promises to help me believe is the same one who is already chasing after my son. So I will not fear that complexity. Beauty is found in the same place where doubt lives.
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MSNBC has a pretty nice google map of the key political races of 2006 for the US. If you want to learn where the really contentious House, Senate, and Gubernatorial races are happening, they've ranked them on the left hand side from most likely to flip parties to least likely. As you can see by their default view, the really hot races center around the eastern seaboard. They also link to information about each race and candidate, which can help those of you still undecided in some of these races research the candidates better. We'll probably have some sort of special episode on election day to follow these races, so look for that in the future!
If you haven't done so already, please register to vote! Don't that registering is only half the action – you gotta go out and actually pull the lever (or punch the chad or tap the screen or whatever system your district uses) on election day!


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Spectroradiometer 200 - 450 nm and 250 - 1050 nm
ILT950 / ILT950UV from International Light Technologies
The ILT950 is equally at home on the production floor as well as in the laboratory combining high performance, accuracy, ease of use, and a wide array of features all in a rugged, compact, portable design.
The excellent performance of the ILT950 has been improved further with the addition of a new machined optical bench for reduced stray light and improved thermal stability.
The ILT950 and ILT950UV spectroradiometers also now use the new higher pixel SONY CCD array for improved performance including nearly 50% more sensitivity over the entire spectral region, and higher S/N ratio increased from 200:1 to 300:1 with larger quantum well depth.
These improvements combined with the new features in our powerful SpectriLight III software, including PAR μmol/m²/s, metamerism, and baseline overlay comparisons, make the ILT950 a top performer in the CCD array spectroradiometer market.
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SpectriLight III – ILT550 and ILT950 series control & analysis software
SpectriLight™ III is a LabVIEW based software package for Windows that allows you to acquire spectral and color data.
The new version of SpectriLight™ III has additional calculations for metamerism, and 2 and 20 degree
observer. The new overlay feature allows the user to compare the base reading to current readings. Wavelength range, integration time, scan average and other controls can be easily set through pop up windows, menus and tool bars.
Absolute irradiance and chromaticity are calculated instantly.
SpectriLight™ III is LabVIEW based software and can be easily customized for specific OEM applications. For API applications, Multiple DLL's are available.
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Meet the Moai of Easter Island
Rows of these mysterious giant stone heads, gazing out to sea, inspire travelers to venture to this remote, magical island in the South Pacific.
It's all because of the vintage globe I got in college. A friend and I bought it on a whim at an antiques store and sat around one night drinking beer in my tiny New York City apartment and idly spinning it. When the world stopped on a speck of land in the middle of the South Pacific, I got curious. "Isla de Pascua"—Easter Island, the spot with those mystical giant stone heads, like the ones I'd seen decorating the bottom of my neighbor's aquarium and making cameos on The Simpsons. The place seemed like the Bermuda Triangle—mere globe-trotter's lore. But there it was, the most isolated populated island on the planet. For someone living in a city of 8 million, the concept was captivating. I decided someday, somehow, I had to visit.
Years later, my world-wandering cousin called. She had a bunch of soon-to-expire frequent-flier miles. Did I want them? Um, yes! I immediately started trying to find the most far-flung place I could jet to. Dubai? Shanghai? Mumbai? I was deep in my research when memories of my old globe flashed back.
"Welcome to Rapa Nui," said my driver, referring to Easter Island in the vernacular, as we worked our way through the tiny airport on the outskirts of the only town, Hanga Roa. I'd made the two-day journey solo—not a single friend was interested in accompanying me halfway around the world to a place with so little to do, not to mention such steep airfare. That said, I felt far from alone: The airport was astonishingly crowded, especially considering it was near midnight and only a handful of passengers had disembarked. "People hang out to see who arrives," my greeter explained, as I looked around at perhaps a quarter of the island's 4,900 residents. "It's an excuse to socialize." Families, boisterous groups of teens, and even energetic seniors were milling about the parking lot and lawns, chatting and greeting tourists. Tranquility, no—but a warmer welcome than I ever could've imagined.
Named by a Dutch explorer who landed there on Easter Sunday, 1722, Easter Island was actually settled centuries earlier, likely by curious Polynesians drifting eastward in catamarans, and later by South American migrants. Nobody knows for sure. As with most things about this island, from its volatile history involving colonial meddling and an ecosystem collapse to the origins of its hybridized language to the story of the moai, or monolithic lava-rock figures, there's speculation but no consensus. And that's what makes it so fascinating. Not to mention the inherent loneliness of the place, both geographically and culturally: Years of disease, coupled with massively depleted resources, at one point nearly wiped out the population (in the late 1800s, barely 100 islanders were left). It's a destination with solitude built into its DNA.
In the light of day, things got more curious. As I scanned the volcanic coastline and grassy hills from the patio of my hotel, the Vai Moana, not a single palm tree blocked my view. The hotel, too, was more minimalist than tropical, with simple tiled floors and all-white linens. My first impression was Scottish countryside rather than South Pacific. Then, in the distance, I saw the distinct outline of giant heads.
Most of Easter Island—a mere 15 miles wide and seven miles long—is a World Heritage Site. Crammed into that compact space are more than 800 moai, each of which, it's said, took a team of six men more than a year to complete, and as many as 250 to transport and raise. The challenge of moving the moai, I learned, might explain the island's deforestation: A theory goes that during the heyday of moai construction, all the jungles were felled for wood to create a transport system of rolling logs greased by sweet potato pulp. Shockingly, none of the statues are in the least bit protected from the elements or vandals. Still, it's an unspoken rule for visitors to heed the don't-upset-the-spirits vibe and keep their distance. That first day, I set out on foot and quickly encountered the best-known moai. Standing at attention in uniform clusters atop platforms that fringe the shore, they face landward, silently observing. Tales abound about why these commanding figures were created—and range from the spiritual (to memorialize ancestors), to the reverential (in honor of powerful chiefs), to the far-fetched (the work of industrious extraterrestrials).
I spent entire days traversing from one coast to the other without encountering a single human being. The sense of quietude was at first unnerving, and I often met up with other solo travelers for meals on the main drag and moai-trekking. But then I started to like being alone. One morning, I toured Orongo, a petroglyph-filled ceremonial village hugging the edges of a peninsula (complete with a vertigo-inducing 800-foot drop straight to the sea). Another, I hit one of only two publicly accessible beaches, a remote crescent with an undertow that made reading more appealing than bodysurfing. Afternoons, I'd invariably be under the rusty corrugated-metal roof of a café, eating empanadas or ceviche and sipping a piscola, a crisp cocktail of Coke and pisco, a woody spirit that's the unofficial national drink of Chile. At the markets, Ferria Municipla and Mercado Artesanal, I came away with two favorite purchases: a tubular Polynesian drum called a toere and a swath of batiked fabric that multitasked as a picnic blanket and a pareu. For my last day, I had saved one of the island's most compelling spots: Rano Raraku, the collapsed volcano where most of the moai were quarried. As I scaled the slopes to take in the eerie crater lake hidden behind the hills I was walking on, I was suddenly surrounded by hundreds of partially carved moai. Close to half of the island's statues are here, some lurching forward, others nearly toppled, all frozen in various states of completion.
On my descent, I came across the largest moai yet, an unfinished mass still resting on its back. Had El Gigante ever been chiseled free and erected, it would have stood as tall as a seven-story building. Looking at an ancient relic equal in size to a skyscraper brought me to a place I hadn't anticipated. All of a sudden, I couldn't wait to return to my congested, noisy world back home.
Getting There
Lan Chile provides the only air link; it's a 10.5-hour flight from New York to Santiago, Chile, and from there it's five hours to Easter Island. Expect to spend about $1,800 round trip from the U.S. (lan.com).
When to Go
The island's summer, December through April, is ideal, with highs around 80.
What to Pack
A windbreaker—it's gusty year-round—walking shoes, and sunblock. It's also worth bringing any over-the-counter medications you might need—resources here are limited.
Where to Stay
Vai Moana, a low-key hotel with 18 rooms set in bungalows (vai-moana.cl, $102, including breakfast and transport to and from the airport).
"I always said when I turned 40, I'd be on Easter Island, just me and the moai. It was my dream, and it lived up to expectations. I found the island mysterious and very magical." —Christine Hobart, Vero Beach, Fla.


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The Department of the Interior and NASA today mark the fortieth anniversary of the Landsat program, the world's longest-running Earth-observing satellite program. The first Landsat satellite was launched on July 23, 1972.
The 40-year Landsat record provides global coverage at a scale that shows large-scale human activities such as building cities and farming. The program is a sustained effort by the United States to provide direct societal benefits across a wide range of human endeavors including human and environmental health, energy and water management, urban planning, disaster recovery, and agriculture.
Landsat images from space are not just pictures. They contain many layers of data collected at different points along the visible and invisible light spectrum. A single Landsat scene taken from 400 miles above the Earth can accurately detail the condition of hundreds of thousands of acres of grassland, agricultural crops, or forests.
"Over four decades, data from the Landsat series of satellites have become a vital reference worldwide for advancing our understanding of the science of the land," said Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. "The 40-year Landsat archive forms an indelible and objective register of America's natural heritage and thus it has become part of this Department's legacy to the American people."
In cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a science agency of the Interior Department, NASA launched six of the seven Landsat satellites. The resulting archive of Earth observations forms a comprehensive record of human and natural land changes.
"Landsat has given us a critical perspective on our planet over the long term and will continue to help us understand the big picture of Earth and its changes from space," said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. "With this view we are better prepared to take action on the ground and be better stewards of our home."
Remote-sensing satellites, such as the Landsat series, help scientists to observe the world beyond the power of human sight, to monitor changes, and to detect critical trends in the conditions of natural resources.
"With its entirely objective, long term records for the entire surface of the globe, the Landsat archive serves as the world's free press, allowing any person, anywhere, to access vital information without charge," said Anne Castle, Interior Assistant Secretary for Water and Science. "Landsat has been a game changer for agricultural monitoring, climate change research, and water management."
NASA is preparing to launch the next Landsat satellite, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), in February 2013 from Vandeberg. LDCM will be the most technologically advanced satellite in the Landsat series. LDCM sensors take advantage of evolutionary advances in detector and sensor technologies to improve performance and increase reliability. LDCM will join Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 satellites in Earth orbit to continue the Landsat data record.
"The first 40 years of the Landsat program have delivered the most consistent and reliable record of Earth's changing landscape," said Michael Freilich, director of NASA's Earth Science Division in the Science Mission Directorate in Washington. "We look forward to continuing this tradition of excellence with the even greater capacity and enhanced technologies of LDCM."
NASA and USGS will hold a televised news briefing today at 11 a.m. EDT to highlight the accomplishments of the Landsat program at the Newseum in Washington, DC. During the briefing, the agencies will announce the 10 most significant images from the Landsat record; the U.S. regions selected for the "My American Landscape" contest showing local environmental changes; and the top five Landsat "Earth As Art" images selected in an online poll. The public is encouraged to participate in the briefing's question-and-answer sessions by using the Twitter hashtag #asknasa.
NASA Television and the NASA website will provide live briefing coverage. Visit NASA TV streaming video, scheduling and downlink information.
For more information about "Landsat at 40" anniversary features: the 10 most significant images from the Landsat record; the U.S. regions selected for the "My American Landscape" contest; and the announcement of the top five Landsat "Earth As Art" images, visit NASA's Landsat website.
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ann peeplesI like the Chancery. Have you guys tried Wegners St. Martins Inn?? Truly the best fish fry I have had to date. Get there early( they open at 4:30 pm)
chicagostyledogann peeplesI like the Chancery. Have you guys tried Wegners St. Martins Inn?? Truly the best fish fry I have had to date. Get there early( they open at 4:30 pm)St. Martin's Inn's food is great, the dining room is small, and the Ruben rolls are a must. We used to go on Wednesday's for pan fried perch. Like Ann said, if you're not there early, the wait is very lengthy. CSD
JRPfeffThe latest installment of Carol Deptolla's Fish Fry reporting in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel is here. As Jack Webb might say: The names weren't changed because no one's innocence needed protecting.
Reader Jim Pfefferle of Pewaukee doesn't care much for fish himself, but he asked his wife, Bobbi, and sons Eric and Martin to name their favorite fish fry. They couldn't think of one that was the whole enchilada, so to speak: They liked the cod at North Lake Inn in Hartland, for example, the rye bread at Kegel's Inn in West Allis and the potato pancakes at Kegel's or Weissgerber's Gast haus in Waukesha (but the applesauce at the Phoenix in Hartland).
buffetbusterI recently had an unexpected night in Milwaukee and fortunately for me, it was a Friday. Arrival at Wegner's St. Francis Inn was around 8:30 and I had less than a five minute wait. My table was on the bar side and it was really loud in there, but the fish fry more than made up for it. Weird lighting, though, my photos turned out terrible.
ScreamingChickenI can't remember for sure but I think cod was the only fish option, so I had mine with hash browns and my wife ordered fries.
joerogoI always wanted to vacation in Drummond, WI


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MANSFIELD, Pa. — Pennsylvania's Mansfield University hosted the first-ever night football game in 1892, a contest that ended at halftime when the ref declared it "inconvenient to continue."
Why? Because the lighting was so poor.
This weekend, the spotlight will shine far more brightly on Mansfield as it plays a home game under the lights for the first time since that shortened contest more than a century ago. Saturday night's opponent, Princeton, took part in the first-ever college football game in 1869.
Mansfield is heavily promoting its long-delayed return to night football — and poking a little fun at itself in the process.
"We got a little bit burned by technology, and we weren't ready to jump back on again until we were sure that all the bugs had gotten worked out," joked Steve McCloskey, the school's director of athletic operations. "After 121 years, we're pretty sure this night football thing is going to catch on, and we want to be right there at the forefront."
The first night game, against visiting Wyoming Seminary, drew thousands of spectators to the Great Mansfield Fair on Sept. 28, 1892. Part of a barnstorming effort by General Electric to sell rural America on newfangled electric lighting, the game was illuminated — barely — by strings of lights powered by a dynamo. It was so hard to see that confused players tackled their own teammates and even the referee. Ball-carriers had trouble avoiding the makeshift lamppost in the middle of the field.
The game, such as it was, ended in a scoreless tie. And that was that.
The town of Mansfield wouldn't be electrified for another five years, while Mansfield University never saw a need for lights at its athletic stadium because the football team traditionally played on Saturday afternoons.
But the 20th century finally won out. In went the lights, along with an artificial playing surface that'll be shared by the football, field hockey and soccer teams.
"Every kid at every school in this county knows that Mansfield was the birthplace of night football," McCloskey said. "So when we got lights this summer, it was a no-brainer for us to celebrate that history."
Throwing the ceremonial switch on Saturday's season opener will be 101-year-old Chester Bailey, a Mansfield historian and longtime newspaper owner who helped gain recognition of Mansfield's role. Bailey stumbled on a newspaper account of the 1892 game when he was a 15-year-old printer's apprentice, and, decades later, pursued it with the pro and college football halls of fame.
"It was history that I knew, and a lot of people didn't know about," he recalled.
The Mountaineers play in the eight-team Collegiate Sprint Football League, in which players can weigh no more than 172 pounds. Mansfield joined the league after its traditional, and far more expensive, football program fell victim to budget cuts in 2006.
After practice this week, players at the 3,400-student, state-owned university in northern Pennsylvania spoke in well-rehearsed tones about ignoring the hoopla and staying focused on Princeton. But, with thousands of fans expected in the seats, they know it's a special game.
"It's a very long time since the lights have gone on here, and it's going to be a pretty historic night for us," said Jeremy Estremera, a slotback from Allentown.


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Nine ONU Law students compete in Tough Mudder Competition
On April 14, nine ONU Law students participated in one most grueling competitions known to mankind. Tough Mudder Competition>>
Jason Carter, Nick Fiorilli, Greg Hammond, Kristine Holland, Steve Keslar, Brandon May, Mary Oliver, Hope Smalls, and Justin Traino
Tough Mudder events are hardcore 10-12 mile obstacle courses designed by British Special Forces to test your all around strength, stamina, mental grit, and camaraderie. With the most innovative courses, half a million inspiring participants, and more than $2million dollars raised for the Wounded Warrior Project, Tough Mudder is the premier adventure challenge series in the world.
Law school has been a challenging experience in itself, lots of sweat, blood, and tears. We spend most of the day working the mind - but frequently neglect the body - so we wanted to apply that same level of commitment and dedication to the physical side. When both the mind and body are strong there is seldom one can't do.
I personally did the Tough Mudder competition to see how far I could push myself. I am a runner, but certainly not a climber. I learned how to push myself, but with the help of my team, I pushed myself even further than I knew was possible. During the months of training, we really got to know one another, and a strong bond was built. What I think we liked most about the competition was that it was not an individual race, it was about teamwork and having each other's back. We embodied the meaning of family on that day. God knows that standing at 4'11'', I would never have been able to get over a 12 foot wall without the support of my team.
After mentally challenging ourselves over the past few months, an extreme physical challenge, with a great cause, seemed like an ideal way to achieve a healthy balance.
As a life-long athlete, I was dealing with a bit of an identity crisis making the transition from personal achievement defined by athletics into an environment like law school, where achievement is based on academic excellence. I've been pleased with my academic performance thus far at ONU. For some reason, though, I felt the need to prove to myself that I still have what it takes to challenge my body the same way law school challenges my mental stamina each day. Tough Mudder is the greatest challenge I could find that would do just that. I figured go big or go home! It was definitely tough, but we all finished by working together, as a team. Participating with other classmates was so rewarding because, beyond empathizing with each other in the rigors of law school, we share the memory of conquering one of the TOUGHEST physical challenges out there. It was awesome!
I chose to do Tough Mudder because it offered a unique and very challenging opportunity to push myself to limits both physically and mentally. The training and preparation for this event served as a great way to maintain a regimented schedule in which I could focus on getting in the best shape possible, while balancing a rigorous law curriculum. But most importantly, it allowed me to develop great friendships and camaraderie with my fellow classmates - and in the end, that is what Tough Mudder is all about!
As I'm strengthening my mind, I think it's good that I should do the same for my body. I made a promise to myself that after beating cancer, every year I would do at least two extreme events to challenge myself and prove my strength. One down, one to go!
My reason for participating in the Tought Mudder competition was that law school has been the toughest mental experience of my life, and with graduation fast approaching, I felt that I needed to challenge myself physically - put some of the mental endurance to the test. It all worked out. We had a blast and I'm extremely grateful not to have broken anything so I won't be hobbling across the graduation stage!


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Last April, Book Sense's poetry bestseller list included two titles by Billy Collins. This year the Top 5 can be summed up in six words: Mary Oliver, Mary Oliver, Mary Oliver. Oliver's impressive feat reflects both an enduring popularity and an unparalleled ability to touch readers on a deep, almost primal level. Rounding out the list, which comes from the Poetry Foundation, is Li Young-Lee, whose honors include the American Book Award, and Natasha Trethewey, who won the Pulitzer Prize last year.
Red Bird, by Mary Oliver, Beacon Press, $23
Mary Oliver's newest collection, "Red Bird," leapt to the top of the bestseller list two weeks after its release. The book, which contains 61 poems, continues the trajectory of her previous collection, in which she wrote about her life and values more directly than ever before. This new offering begins and ends with a poem about Red Bird, a striking creature that "came all winter/ firing up the landscape/ as nothing else could" and eventually reveals a specific mission. "I am both of the earth and I am of the inexplicable/ beauty of heaven," it announces on the last page, "this is why I have been sent, to teach this to your heart." Between the Red Bird book ends, Oliver explores various facets of the human landscape: love, war, politics, prayer, and the devastation humans have caused to the earth. Some of the poems are quite touching, such as the linked love poems, while others feel strained, as if Oliver feels compelled to speak out after decades of observing. Her strongest comments, however, are not blanket statements or pronouncements; they are the images and insights she has offered throughout her career.
Behind My Eyes, by Li-Young Lee, W.W. Norton, $24.95
The poems in "Behind My Eyes" undulate between the past and present, painful memories and the road to enlightenment. The language, fittingly enough, also swings – from eloquent to intellectual, piercing to plainspoken – sometimes in just a few stanzas. This reflects the tension that underlies the collection. Li-Young Lee, who was born to Chinese parents living in Indonesia, holds dual citizenship, so to speak, in history – with its losses and traumas – and in hope, which is grounded in things that can't be seen. Sometimes Lee succeeds in straddling the two, and sometimes he begins in one realm and the poem leads him into the other. The book is strongest – and at times stunning – when Lee moves toward the metaphysical, as in these lines from "Becoming Becoming": "All of time began when you first answered/ to the names your mother and father gave you./ Soon those names will travel with the leaves./ Then, you can trade places with the wind." Other poems also offer transcendent moments, where Lee soars above uncertainty.
Thirst, by Mary Oliver, Beacon Press, $14
It's no surprise that "Thirst" has been on the bestseller list for the past 29 weeks, or that it was at No. 2 this time last year. The book continues to resonate with readers because it delivers what they've come to expect from Oliver – precision, grace, and insight – and it shows sides of the poet she had never shared before. In these pages Oliver reveals how she came to the Christian faith, and how her practice sometimes falls short: "Dear Lord, I have swept and I have washed but/ still nothing is as shining as it should be/ for you." Some of the most moving poems in "Thirst" explore the loss of Oliver's longtime partner. "From the complications of loving you/ I think there is no end or return./ No answer, no coming out of it/ Which is the only way to love, isn't it?" Readers feel that ache themselves, but unlike Confessional poets, Oliver doesn't wallow in her emotions. Instead, she remains consistent in her tone and approach, and in her role of helping readers appreciate the earth and its creatures.
Native Guard, by Natasha Trethewey, Houghton Mifflin, $13.95
Natasha Trethewey surprised many readers when she beat two bolder, more-established poets to win the Pulitzer Prize last year. "Native Guard," her third collection, is marked by restraint and a quiet voice; it captures a reader's attention the way a whisper catches the ear in a roomful of loud voices.
That approach is apt since the book reclaims the voices of individuals overlooked by history: Trethewey's mother, a black woman who married a white man in the early 1960s, and the Louisiana Native Guards, a black regiment that served the Union cause. Those stories shape the collection.
The poem "Incident" epitomizes her understated approach. "We tell the story every year –/ how we peered from the windows, shades drawn –/ though nothing really happened,/ the charred grass now green again." That understatement makes later descriptions more chilling: "It seemed the angels had gathered, white men in their gowns..../ The wicks trembled all night in their fonts of oil;/ by morning the flames had all dimmed."
Many of the most striking poems are about Trethewey's mother, who boarded a train for California at 16: "She is leaving behind/ the dirt roads of Mississippi, the film/ of red dust around her ankles...,/ the very idea of home." That journey doesn't end well, nor do her marriages to Trethewey's father or to her second husband. Still, those losses do not outweigh the courage she demonstrated, simply by pressing forward, or the grief caused by her untimely death. This is the real legacy passed to her daughter, the same legacy left by the forgotten black soldiers.
New and selected Poems: Vol. I, by Mary Oliver, Beacon Press, $28.50
If you could own just one Mary Oliver collection, "New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1" would be the obvious choice. Within these pages are some of Oliver's most famous poems – "The Summer Day," "Morning Poem," "Wild Geese" – each of which is achingly lovely and rich, with imagery that is spare, evocative, and essential. The early selections show the poet honing her craft and refining her voice; later choices demonstrate her masterful ability to focus on a seemingly insignificant creature, such as a hermit crab, and show how intertwined and connected it is with larger forces on our planet. Of the crab she writes: "When I set it down, it hurried/ along the tideline/ of the sea,/ which was slashing along as usual,/ shouting and hissing/ toward the future,/ turning its back/ with every tide on the past." Oliver sees what's important yet often elusive, "how the sun/ blazes/ for everyone just/so joyfully." Her powers of observation are keen, as is her ability to create vivid landscapes with just a few brush strokes. In "Starfish" she writes: all summer/ my fear diminished/ as they bloomed through the water/ like flowers, like flecks/ of an uncertain dream,/ while I lay on the rocks, reaching/ into the darkness, learning/ little by little to love/ our only world." Most of the poems in this volume focus on the natural world, yet when Oliver does turn her careful eye to a child in Jakarta or to people in China, the reader feels those experiences deeply as well.


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Tropical Storm Erin moving westward in Atlantic
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Erin is moving westward over the eastern Atlantic.
The storm's maximum sustained winds early Friday are near 40 mph (65 kph) with slow strengthening forecast over the next two days.
Erin is centered about 430 miles (695 kilometers) west of the Cape Verde Islands and is moving west-northwest near 16 mph (26 kph). The U.S. National Hurricane Center says that general motion is expected to continue with a gradual decrease in forward speed over the next few days.


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Information Technology, Documents, & Records
Responsible Use of Technology
Responsible use of Technology
Electronic mail, voice mail, the Internet, and other communication technologies are essential work tools for Carleton College employees. The College expects its employees to be responsible with the use of technology in the workplace – that members respect the rights of others and comply with laws that govern communication and communication technology. Users should be aware that while the College makes a reasonable effort to maintain the privacy of all user mail and files, it cannot guarantee privacy. Messages sent over the Internet can be intercepted in various ways. Although the computing staff does not routinely monitor computer files and electronic mail stored on Carleton's network services, designated staff members with authorization may need to examine selected individual files to ensure adequate and reliable performance of the College's communication systems. Network traffic also may need to be reviewed for security problems, as identified by authorized computing staff and senior officials of the College.
Appropriate and inappropriate uses of technology:
Technology tools are made available to employees to support College business: learning, teaching, research, internal and external communication, College administrative functions, and authorized co-curricular activities. Carleton's technology may also be applied to secondary uses that include personal communication, personal projects, and recreational activities, so long as they do not interfere with primary work duties.
Prohibited uses are those actions that jeopardize the viability of the College's including but not limited to, computer systems or uses that put the College in a litigious situation. Carleton also will not tolerate actions that result in the creation of a hostile or offensive work environment. Other inappropriate uses include playing games, surfing sexually oriented websites, and sending hostile or offensive electronic mail messages. Carleton's technology tools are for use for Carleton business only. Employees who misuse technology in the workplace will be subject to disciplinary action that may include a variety of sanctions in written and verbal form, up to and including dismissal from the College. See "Outside Employment" for applicable questions concerning equipment use.


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To realise great success in our prayer life we must develop the discipline of orienting our minds towards God's thoughts. We must develop a God consciousness. In other words, we must learn to think like God. And then practice thinking like Him every day and in every situation until it becomes a daily discipline. How do we do this? It's easier than we realise, God's thoughts are in His Word and as we read and study the Word, we will learn to think like God. The Apostle Paul discovered the power of this discipline and encourages us in Roman's to "renew" our minds. Paul experienced transformation as a result of practicing this discipline daily.
So how does this affect our prayer life? Well, if we have a mind that is thinking God's thoughts, then our prayers will be prayers that pray His thoughts. Is their a higher prayer than praying God's very thoughts? Certainly not. Can powerful prayer be that simple? Yes! Let's think about it, where does the enemy attack our faith? He does it in our mind. He feeds thoughts of doubt and unbelief to our mind and this is where the battle begins. If left unchecked, these thoughts will increase and multiply in our thinking leaving our faith sorely eroded which in effect paralyses our prayers. Can we pray doubting? Here's what the Word says about that:
James 1: 6-9 But let him ask in faith , with no doubting , for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord ; he is a double- minded man , unstable in all his ways.
Can you see the powerful effect our thoughts have on our prayers? However, if we learn to think like God, if we orient our mind towards His thoughts and develop this as a discipline in our daily living, when the enemy feeds us such doubting and unbelieving thoughts we will instantly recognise them and be immediately unwilling to receive them into our mind. If the enemy has no place in our thinking then we are able to pray unhindered with powerful direction from the very mind of God!
Start today! Take careful instruction from the Apostle Paul and develop a God consciousness, oreint your mind towards His thoughts and start to think like Him - it will transform your prayer life for sure!
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1 Timothy 2: 1-4 "Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God or Saviour, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth."
Christ redeemed me from the curse of the law. Therefore I forbid any sickness or disease to come upon this body. Every disease, germ and virus that touches this body dies instantly, in the Name of Jesus. Every organ, every tissue and every cell of this body functions in the perfection to which God created it to function, and I forbid any malfunction in this body, in the Name of Jesus.
Galatians 3:13; Romans 8:11; Genesis 1:31; Matthew 16:19


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Take a look at Cub Scout Art# Related achievements, electives, or other awards. Could this be made more readable by using a table? Scouterdennis 11:32, March 24, 2008 (EDT)
Adding actual requirement text in the "Related..." section
What are the opinions of adding the text from the actual requirements inline?For example:
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- Wolf Elective 2b (Make some scenery for a skit) could be met by completing Cub Scout Art Pin requirement 5 or 8
- Wolf Elective 12a ("Make a freehand sketch of a person place, or thing.") could be met by completing Cub Scout Art Belt Loop requirement 2 or Art Pin requirement 2 and could be used to complete Cub Scout Art Pin requirement 11


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Ebey Soman on 25 Jan 09How does a country recognize another state as legitimate? What views or doctrines are used to determine sovereignty or state recognition. Where does the United States stand on this matter?


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Chandra tags ancient black holes
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Black holes may have been all over the early universe, according to new findings announced by NASA.
A starfield gathered by its Chandra X-ray observatory, known as Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS), and analyzed in conjunction with the Hubble Space Telescope, has turned up a mass of previously-undiscovered black holes from when the universe was around 800 to 950 million years old. These black holes, says the study's lead author Ezequiel Triester of the University of Hawaii, are "growing like gangbusters".
The sources discovered by the CFDS were identified by the luminous jets emitted by matter falling into the black holes, similar to quasars but a hundred times fainter. This leads NASA to estimate that the black holes causing the jets are a thousand times less massive than those in quasars.
Hidden in dust clouds, the black holes (or rather, their giveaway luminous jets) could not be detected by optical telescopes, which is why Chandra was brought into play. Those same jets emit X-rays along with light, both of which are red-shifted. That red shift (the emitted radiation is observed at a lower frequency than it's emitted at) identifies the speed at which the galaxies are receding from us, yielding the estimate of their age.
NASA estimates that there may have been as many as 30 million supermassive black holes in the early universe – making them ten thousand times more common than had previously been estimated.
The study suggests that the very young black holes grew quickly, in tandem with the galaxies that host them. In other words, the symbiotic relationship between black holes and more contemporary galaxies could have existed since the earliest days of galactic evolution.
The age of the black holes observed in CDFS is measured by the red-shift (that is, the amount by which their emitted radiation is shifted towards lower frequencies, because of the speed at which the galaxies are receding from us).
It's possible that these ancient black holes may lie at the heart of all early galaxies, meaning that there's millions more yet to be found.
Triester's findings are published in Nature today, June 16. ®
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Aaron Elkins
posted on Friday, October 09, 2009 - 11:58 am
I'm a new Mplus user that has been slowly replacing my repeated measures ANOVA models with LGM models.
To clarify, here is my model:
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i s ON female cond age ;
(Note: The above model is missing some important behavioral covariates for simplicity)
The above model corresponds to a recent experiment that involved subjects being instructed to alternate between deceptive and truthful responses to questions over time.
Each time point represents a vocalic behavior measure (avj) at each time point. The "cond" dummy covariate denotes if the participant was lying or telling the truth.
While the relationship between the covariates, time, and the behavioral response variables are interesting. My audience will want to know how this model help predict the lie or truth condition.
What would be the best way to use my model which currently predicts the continuous behavior measure to predict the dichotomous "cond" dummy covariate instead?
Thank you for any help or advice you can provide on modeling these kinds of data with Mplus.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, October 09, 2009 - 5:23 pm
Depending on your cond design, you may find it useful to look at the Topic 5 handout pages 32-33 on randomized response modeling and the SEM journal reference given there which uses Mplus.
It sounds, however, as if the cond status is not known or randomized and perhaps in addition it changes randomly over time. Without knowing the cond status for some individuals it would seem hard to predict the cond status from the avj.
Aaron Elkins
posted on Saturday, October 10, 2009 - 3:53 pm
Dr. Muthen,
Thank you for your prompt response. Regarding the condition assignment in the experiment.
We had all subjects follow either one of two randomly assigned sequences over the 8 questions or time points in an interview:
(T=truth, L=lie)
Seq 1: LL TT TT LL
Seq 2: TT LL LL TT
During the interview they were instructed to lie via a teleprompter that was obscured from their interviewer.
The questions I am trying to answer are, does lying or telling the truth first affect your behavioral trajectory on subsequent questions.
Are there mean differences between liars and truth tellers on these behavioral measurements after accounting for individual differences (conditional model) that contribute to slope/intercept variance. Looking overall and at the individual question level (8 time points).
Additionally, I want to identify question effects, which time points resulted in departures from the linear trajectory.
After answering or at least starting to address the above questions, my audience will want to see how well the model can predict deception over an above regular logistic regressions which do not consider random effects.
Thanks again for your response. I will look at the Topic 5 handouts you recommend I review.
Kind Regards,
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Sunday, October 11, 2009 - 12:09 pm
I see; so the lie/thruth status is known, which it isn't in the article I referred to.
I don't see the growth modeling angle that you mention ("behavioral trajectory"). It is not clear to me that there is a developmental process at hand. Without knowing the context, it seems like the lying can make the outcome jump up and down at will.
The responses are correlated over time for a given subject, but that can be handled in any multivariate model. For instance, a latent class or factor mixture model could be applied to look at mean profiles - the "mean differences between liars and truth tellers" that you mention.
Aaron Elkins
posted on Sunday, October 11, 2009 - 12:39 pm
You are correct the outcome does jump around quite a bit. My thought process in using the growth model was to show that including individual difference covariates and the lie/truth treatment as a dummy variable we can smooth the curve by accounting for the variance in growth and show a particular trajectory.
The Interpersonal Deception Theory, predicts that non-strategic behaviors or cues to deception decrease over time. Is it an incorrect interpretation of my growth model with a good fit to the data and most of the variance in the slope explained and significant, to interpret a negative slope as supporting this prediction?
And further, to recenter the model around the different time points to see if the lie condition is significant for each question and report intercepts for liars and truth tellers.
Aaron Elkins
posted on Sunday, October 11, 2009 - 1:25 pm
I allowed the some slope loadings to be estimated, after reviewing the mod indices to suggest questions that causes significant departures from the smoothed linear trajectory. And was using this to identify questions that have effects on the response variable and should be further explored.
Thanks again for your help.
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As investor assets pour out of PIMCO's flagship Total Return bond fund, its manager, Bill Gross, is throwing down the gauntlet in the battle for fixed-income investors squarely in the conservative camp, ceding higher yields to risk-embracing competitors.
That seems to be the message behind Gross' latest investment outlook, which is more technical than usual but also quite telling about the strategy he envisions for his embattled fund, still the world's largest but hemorrhaging even as Jeffrey Gundlach's rival DoubleLine Total Return fund sees large inflows.
Gross argues that today's markets present a unique challenge to investors after decades of rising asset values occurring against a backdrop of generally low volatility. That has produced high Sharpe ratios (a good thing, meaning that returns are high relative to risk).
But past Sharpe ratios do not foretell future ones and, indeed, Gross argues that it was the gentle decline in 10-year bond yields which, in part at least, generated the high return on assets of the recent past.
Yet "there comes a point where prospective returns relative to risk don't ensure such optimistic outcomes," he warns, and using a technical measure called "yield per unit of duration," he explains that we're at such a point today.
Today a unit of duration yields just half the norm of the past 15 to 20 years, meaning that "in order to get the same yield today for a single unit of duration for AAA, BBB, and HY [high-yield] bonds, an investor has to take twice the price risk!"
That leaves bond managers such as Gross two fundamental choices:
"Either double your position–double your duration–and maintain the same yield as historically noted or maintain or even lower your duration as a concession to an overpriced market that may continue to suffer increasing yields and lower prices," he writes (with emphasis in the original).
In a telling acknowledgment of the elephant standing in the bond market room, Gross suggests nothing less than the future of "investment management firms hang in the balance."
Thus he, Gundlach and others must "double up to catch up" or be "willing to suffer the lower yields, wait for 'mean reversion' as do some of our competitors, and hope that the client cash outflows don't cash you out before you have a chance to play another game."
Gross casts his lot with the long-suffering through an overweighting of credit and underweighting of duration.
Specifically, Gross thinks short-duration bonds should "hold current levels" but "5- to 30-year maturities are at risk."
The bond manager is betting that the 5- to 30-year bonds the Fed has been buying will have to be sold, post-taper, at "higher yields to entice the private sector back in."
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Good evening, Tom.
First, I would like to thank you for publishing my letter on your website. I know that you took a lot of heat for putting that out there, and I appreciate you giving me the chance to tell a small portion of my story.
Secondly, John is aware of the letter, and has responded to me, via a letter from his attorney Thomas Kenefick. The following is a quote from the letter:
"My client [John] has advised that your client has increased her virulent campaign against him in a number of ridiculous websites, viz, Tony Devine's Cosmos Report or Astronauts in Space. Apart from the bizarre nature of the website to which your client seems oddly attracted, she has made it her campaign to ventilate and/or publish my client's alleged abusive behavior towards her and the children (keeping in mind the parties have been separated for over a year) in the hope of causing him embarrassment and humiliation in the public sector. While I question the intellectual calculus of anyone who visits these blogs, nevertheless, it is embarrassing to my client not only because of its falsity but because of the continued vindictiveness and animus of your client towards mine which obviously must have an adverse impact on the children."
Tom, I'm telling you this because it was bloggers like you, Heather Brandon, and Bill Dusty that helped John's political career. He would be nowhere without the bloggers! When the mainstream media ignored our press releases, the bloggers were the only ones who would interview him and take his candidacy seriously. You (the bloggers and yourself) were the only ones to talk him up to the voters. I'm astounded that he would allow his attorney to say these things about people who were his friends. It was terribly unfair of John and his friends to criticize you. I imagine that one of those people was Peter Lyons, as he made nasty comments about me, and then also made nasty comments to my sister when she defended me.
Peter Lyons has to support John, because it was through his work on John's campaign that Peter became friends with Chris Asselin. Yes, John and Chris are good friends, and Peter currently works with Chris thanks to John's connection. In fact, my kids tell me how much they enjoy swimming in Chris's pool with the water slide. The very same pool that was partially funded by stolen monies from city residents. The whole thing is disgusting.
The rest of the letter is concerning John's wedding band. He gave it to my oldest daughter to wear on a necklace. She fell asleep on my bed while wearing it, and I asked her to take it off while she slept as I worried that she would choke on it (I do this myself). She has misplaced it. John's attorney is convinced that I stole it from her and pawned it for money. It's not true of course.
In another letter, John's attorney tries to say that I should lose custody because he believes that I'm practicing witchcraft, which is not condoned by John's conservative Pentecostal Christian faith. Well, more has happened. One of my kids has said that John has been molesting them since they were 9 years old. I immediately called the police and DCF. On Monday, I got restraining orders for me and all 4 of the kids. He cannot see or speak to them or to me. Also, the Springfield Special Victims Unit is investigating. I am so sick and upset from all of this. I never would have thought that he is capable of this, even given his violent history. I'm looking to move to a nearby suburb, and my child wants to press charges and bring him to justice. It's going to be a long road for us. I will keep you updated.
Thanks again for being willing to speak with me about this.
This is just a sampling of what I've been through and am going through with this man. This is the sort of person who wants the voters in Ward 8 to trust him? If he will treat his wife, his children, and his friends in this manner, then there really is no one that he won't betray in his desire for political power. I hope that the voters in Ward 8 learn this before it is too late.
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