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Le Moyne College
Location: Syracuse, New York
Website: http://www.lemoyne.edu
Type: Private
Federal Circuit: 2nd Circuit
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Le Moyne College: Dismissal of Student Newspaper Adviser
May 8, 2006
Le Moyne College dismissed a school newspaper's adviser for failing to exercise more control over the paper. Professor Alan Fischler had been the paper's adviser since 1996, when he was chosen by the paper's staff. When he was dismissed, he was informed by administrators that they wanted a more "hands-on" adviser who would supposedly make the newspaper a "showpiece" for the college. Fischler, who continues to teach at Le Moyne, was replaced by an adviser hand-picked by administrators-a move that spurred a months-long strike by the newspaper's student staff.» Read More
Le Moyne College: Dismissal of Student for Dissenting Views
February 3, 2005
Graduate student Scott McConnell handed in an assignment in which he described his ideal classroom — environment which involved "strong discipline and hard work" and which included "corporal punishment." Though he did well on the assignment, he was summarily dismissed two months later by the Education Department chair, despite his "excellent" evaluation for class work. She cited a "mismatch between [his] personal beliefs regarding teaching and learning and the Le Moyne College program goals." FIRE wrote to the Le Moyne College president, urging him to honor the College's commitments to academic freedom and due process. When Le Moyne declined to […]» Read More
Student Handbook: The History of LeMoyne College 08-09
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression, StatementAs a comprehensive college, accredited by the State of New York
Last updated: October 28, 2013
and the Middle States Association, Le Moyne shares the ideals
of academic freedom found in American institutions of higher
Office of Human Resources: Manual on Sexual Harassment and Nonconsensual Sexual Activity 08-09
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies, StatementSexual Harassment is any unwelcome sexual advance, request for sexual favors, or other verbal or physical conduct that relates to the gender or sexual identity of an individual when:
Last updated: December 15, 2013
(3) such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's work or academic performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working, educational, or social environment.
Student Handbook: College Clubs and Organizations 08-09
Speech Code Category: Other Speech Codes, StatementOrganized advocacy of a position violating the College's Catholic tradition is not endorsed or funded by the College.
Last updated: October 28, 2013
Student Handbook: Misconduct Subject to Disciplinary Action 08-09
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies, StatementAny student engaging in any of
Last updated: December 15, 2013
the following acts shall be subject to the
maximum penalty of suspension or dismissal
from the College:
Stigmatizing or disparaging statements
related to race, gender, ethnicity, sexual
orientation, religious preference, age or
people with disabilities.
Office of Human Resources: Manual on Sexual Harassment and Nonconsensual Sexual Activity 05-06
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies, Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility, Statement
Last updated: December 15, 2013
When accompanied by one or more of the three conditions listed above, the following activities constitute sexual harassment. These examples are not intended to be all inclusive.
– Subtle pressure for sexual activity including inappropriate or offensive sexual advances;
– Repeated staring or ogling;
– Unnecessary patting or constant brushing against the body;
– Verbal abuse of sexual nature;
– Sexual innuendos or sexually explicit statements, comments, questions, jokes or anecdotes;
– Gender or homophobic harassment: persistently intimidating, hostile, derogatory, contemptuous, demeaning or trivializing remarks directed at one sex, or sexual orientation;
– Verbal or physical harassment of a person on the basis of sexual orientation;
– Spreading false statements of a sexual nature.
Student Handbook: Misconduct Subject to Disciplinary Action 08-09
Speech Code Category: Other Speech Codes, StatementAny student engaging in any of
Last updated: October 28, 2013
the following acts shall be subject to the
maximum penalty of suspension or dismissal
from the College:
Lewd, obscene or indecent expression.
Student Handbook: Decorations 08-09
Speech Code Category: Other Speech Codes, StatementStudents may personalize their individual
Last updated: October 28, 2013
rooms unless it damages the room or offends
members of the Le Moyne community.
Student Handbook: Abuse of Computer Privileges 08-09
Speech Code Category: Other Speech Codes, StatementAbuse includes but is not limited to:
Last updated: October 28, 2013
sending abusive, obscene or otherwise harassing electronic communications.
Student Handbook: Student Use of College Facilities Policy 08-09
Speech Code Category: Other Speech Codes, StatementNo one in his or her speech has the right to use libel, obscenity
Last updated: October 28, 2013
or to incite riot or advocate the forceful overthrow of the United
States government. This policy further excludes speeches that are
essentially scandalous or false and speakers without professional or
personal credentials.
Student Handbook: Harassment and Hate Crimes/Incidents 08-09
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies, StatementHarassment and hate crimes/incidents include verbal, physical or written abuse directed toward an individual or group on the basis of gender, race, color, creed, national origin, religious preference, sexual orientation, age or disabitility. This includes using remarks, language or illustrations that deprecate or offend a person based on his or her ethnic background, race, religion, sexual orientation, age or disability. All are damaging.
Last updated: December 15, 2013
While some examples of harassment and hate crimes/incidents, such as physcial and verbal assaults, are easily identified, more frequent and generalized instances, such as blatant and subtle graffiti and insensitive use of language, including epithets and "humor," often go unacknowledged. All types of harassment are unacceptable.
Jefferson Muzzles go to 50 Colleges and Universities
April 20, 2016
By Eugene Volokh at The Washington Post The Thomas Jefferson Center (with which I'm involved as a member of the board of trustees) has just released its yearlyJefferson Muzzles, so I thought I'd pass along the center's explanation of who the "winners" are this year. Note that the Ccnter supports academic freedom and free speech broadly, and not just those aspects that are legally protected by the First Amendment; so you'll see many private institutions mentioned here, even though the First Amendment as such does not restrict private entities, as well as the public institutions to which the First Amendment applies… Read […]» Read More
Campus Alert: Think like us–or else
June 4, 2007
Columbia University's Teachers College is one of America's most prestigious education schools. For many students, it's probably the best—but not if you don't buy the school's definition of "social justice." Teachers College evaluates students in part on the basis of so-called "dispositions," defined as "observable behaviors" that "involve the use of certain skills." One "disposition" is the student's "Respect for Diversity and Commitment to Social Justice." This warps the discussion of whether a student might make a good teacher into whether that student has the "correct" personal, religious or political beliefs. Evaluating students' aptitude for teaching based on their commitment […]» Read More
Groups Defend Paper Advisor
May 15, 2006
Two national organizations have publicly criticized Le Moyne College for planning to replace the adviser of its student newspaper, The Dolphin, against the wishes of the student staff. The two groups are the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, and the College Media Advisers, which serves faculty and staff advisers to college media. College officials in November told Alan Fischler, a tenured English professor who lives in Fayetteville, that they did not intend to renew his contract for the advisory position for the fall 2006 semester. Officials told him the newspaper looked unprofessional because of grammatical and typographical […]» Read More
Le Moyne College Condemned for Pulling Student Newspaper's Adviser
May 12, 2006
FIRE Believes Faculty Mentor Was Yanked to Punish Paper for Criticizing the School by Jim Brown Agape Press A Catholic college in New York State is being accused of unjustly punishing a student newspaper and its faculty adviser for criticizing the school. A spokesman with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) says the adviser's dismissal by Le Moyne College in Syracuse reflects a growing trend on U.S. campuses toward administrative control of student press.Professor Alan Fischler had served as faculty adviser for Le Moyne's student newspaper, The Dolphin, ever since he was chosen by its staff in […]» Read More
The Week
February 13, 2006
[…] At Le Moyne College, Scott McConnell was pursuing a graduate degree in education when he wrote a term paper describing the ideal classroom environment as one that would be "based upon strong discipline and hard work" and that could include "corporal punishment." He received an A- for the paper, in keeping with his impressive academic record — he boasted a 3.78 GPA and had received an "excellent" evaluation for his classroom work. A few months later, however, he was summarily dismissed from the college by the chairman of the education department. She cited a "mismatch between [his] personal beliefs […]» Read More
Judge Orders School to Reinstate Spanking Supporter
January 23, 2006
A New York State appeals court on Wednesday ruled that Le Moyne College was wrong to dismiss a student who wrote a paper in support of corporal punishment in elementary school classrooms. Scott McConnell was dismissed from the graduate education program in January 2005 because of a paper he wrote two months earlier that advocated "corporal punishment," including spanking, as an effective means to create an ideal learning environment. McConnell earned an 'A-' on the paper but the program's director, Dr. Cathy Leogrande, dismissed McConnell on the grounds that she had "grave concerns regarding the mismatch between [his] personal beliefs […]» Read More
'We Don't Need That Kind of Attitude'
December 16, 2005
Partway through her teacher-training program, Karen K. Siegfried started pulling her red compact car to the far end of the campus parking lot. She didn't want her professors at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks to see her bumper stickers: One proclaims her opposition to abortion, and the other is emblazoned with the name of one of Alaska's Republican senators."It worried me what they could do based on my politics," says Ms. Siegfried, who had already clashed with education professors over her views on affirmative action and gun control. When Ms. Siegfried disagreed with one professor's contention that video games […]» Read More
Polly gaffes
April 16, 2005
By Mark Bergin at World Magazine Scott McConnell disputes the postmodern fads of elementary pedagogy, calling multiculturalism and lax discipline educational stumbling blocks. The former graduate student at Le Moyne College in Syracuse advocates a more traditional classroom—complete with cultural value judgments and corporal punishment. Such ideas, according to Le Moyne officials, merit expulsion. Mr. McConnell's story tops the Collegiate Network's 2005 Campus Outrage Awards, an annual listing of ridiculous happenings in academia. The Pollys—so dubbed in mockery of political correctness run amok—are meant to incite more than just chuckles among conservatives. "We want to focus national attention on the absurdity […]» Read More
Liberating America's Intellectual Gulags
April 15, 2005
David French knows what intimidation is. French, the new President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, graduated from Harvard Law School in the early 1990s. One might say that anyone with similar credentials ought to know the definition of intimidation – but French's experience is a bit more personal than that."As a pro-life, Christian conservative, I received death threats in my campus mailbox, was shouted down by students and (once) was even shouted down in class by my own professor," he says about his years in Cambridge. French now spends much of his time explaining to university general […]» Read More
'Pollys' Spotlight Politically Correct Excesses On U.S. Campuses
April 14, 2005
By Jim Brown at Agape Press A higher education watchdog group has unveiled its annual "Campus Outrage Awards," documenting the worst "absurdities" and most egregious examples of political correctness on college campuses this year. The president of Harvard University receiving a faculty vote of no confidence for suggesting that innate differences might account for some of the inequalities between men and women in certain fields of endeavor; and Duke University hosting a Palestine Solidarity Movement conference with a segment designed to recruit students for terrorist groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad — those are just two of the dubious honorees […]» Read More
2005 Campus Outrage Awards
April 1, 2005
Collegiate Network Duke spends over $50,000 on a tactical training session for activists dedicated to the destruction of the state of Israel, while a graduate student at LeMoyne College is expelled for writing that light spanking has a legitimate role in classroom discipline. A UNLV professor is engulfed in a whirlwind of controversy after making a remark about the financial planning habits of homosexuals, while a student at Occidental College is convicted of sexually harassing the whole school over the radio. Ward Churchill is defended by the academic community for declaring that victims of the World Trade Center bombing deserved […]» Read More
Free speech on campus
March 24, 2005
LET'S DISPENSE with some tangents right off. It's a bad idea for teachers to spank students. There's evidence that women are not innately handicapped when it comes to math and science. And it's offensive hyperbole to cast the World Trade Center victims of the 9/11 attacks as "little Eichmanns." But that aside, we don't have any problems with a student writing a school paper supporting corporal punishment, a university president raising the issue of possible gender differences, and a professor espousing radical ideas. In fact, our society and our universities are better off if faculty and students are allowed to […]» Read More
Free Speech Debate Spurs Lots of Words
February 27, 2005
When Hamilton College canceled a Colorado professor's appearance this month because of security concerns, it was only the latest in a recent string of free speech controversies at local campuses. Hamilton, the State University College at Oswego, Wells College and LeMoyne College have all become embroiled in the last year or so in what people should be allowed to say and when. It's not just a local issue, said David French, president of Foundation for Individual Rights in Education in Philadelphia (FIRE). "The specific problems you're running into are being replicated on a mass scale across the country," French said. […]» Read More
A Neo-Jesuit Education
February 25, 2005
Mainstream higher academia claims to worship "academic freedom" and "free speech" as its highest goods. Alas, Larry Summers is probably preparing his resume while Ward Churchill hits the speaking circuit. Now comes Scott McConnell, an Army veteran and until recently a graduate student in education at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. For advocating a conservative policy, he has learned firsthand where academic freedom draws the line. On paper, McConnell performed well at Le Moyne. Last March, he was conditionally accepted in the Master of Science for Teachers program, grades 7 through 12, for the summer and spring semesters. […]» Read More
National group faults Le Moyne
February 16, 2005
A national nonprofit group that promotes academic freedom has come to the aid of Scott McConnell, the graduate student denied admission by Le Moyne College last month for opinions he expressed in a term paper, and Ward Churchill, whose scheduled appearance at Hamilton College ignited a firestorm over his post-9/11 writings. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education on Tuesday released its recent exchange of letters with Le Moyne officials in McConnell's behalf. The purpose, said Greg Lukianoff, FIRE's director of legal and public advocacy, is to draw attention that will force Le Moyne to address McConnell's case and […]» Read More
Student booted for 'personal beliefs'
February 16, 2005
A master's student at a New York college was kicked out of the graduate education program because of what officials claim was a "mismatch" between his personal beliefs and the goals of the program. According to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, a nonprofit group, the trouble began when Le Moyne College master's student Scott McConnell wrote a paper that advocated "strong discipline and hard work" in the classroom and an environment that allows "corporal punishment." The paper, written in November, received an "A-," with McConnell's professor noting that his ideas were "interesting" and that […]» Read More
Speech Code of the Month: Le Moyne College
June 1, 2007
FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for June 2007: Le Moyne College in New York. Le Moyne College claims to value academic freedom, prominently stating in its Student Handbook that "Le Moyne shares the ideals of academic freedom found in American institutions of higher education." But Le Moyne maintains a policy that dangerously undermines academic freedom by threatening students with dismissal for making "Stigmatizing or disparaging statements related to race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious preference, age or people with disabilities." To "disparage" means "to express a negative opinion of," and to "stigmatize" means "to accuse or condemn […]» Read More
Journalism Association Condemns Press Freedom Violations
August 16, 2006
Yesterday, the Student Press Law Center (SPLC) reported the August 4 decision by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) to censure a community college in New Jersey for violating freedom of the press. Ocean Community College (OCC) has already been censured by the College Media Advisers, Inc. (CMA), a national organization that advocates for best practices among college media outlets. According to the SPLC, the AEJMC passed the resolution of censure following the OCC Board of Trustees' December decision not to renew student newspaper advisor Karen Bosley's contract. Bosley's "offense" was allowing the newspaper to print […]» Read More
Justice for Political Dissenters
June 8, 2006
As FIRE reported this week, NCATE, the largest national accreditor of education schools, has decided to drop the term "social justice" from its "dispositions" criteria for student graduation. FIRE's objection is not that we as an organization are opposed to social justice—far from it. In fact, if anything, FIRE would define its mission as a critical part of social justice for college and university students and professors. After all, how can a society where speech, expression, or religion is not free be a just society? Clearly, though, there are people who disagree with FIRE; they believe that a just society […]» Read More
Le Moyne's Spin
May 16, 2006
An article in yesterday's Syracuse Post-Standard addresses FIRE's recent case at Le Moyne College. Le Moyne was censured by College Media Advisers (CMA), a national association of newspaper advisers, for dismissing Alan Fischler as adviser from the student newspaper, the Dolphin. The Dolphin's student staff has been on strike to protest Fischler's dismissal all year. Le Moyne spokesman Joe Della Posta told the Post-Standard that he was surprised to see Le Moyne on FIRE's and the CMA's websites, because "college officials were not contacted by either group for their side of the story." But representatives from the CMA say that […]» Read More
More Shocking Offensiveness from a College Newspaper
May 9, 2006
With the ongoing censure of and strike at Le Moyne College that FIRE reported on yesterday, FIRE was reminded that there are many reasons that college administrators have decided that a free press is simply not something with which they should have to contend. The Missouri State cartoon we reprinted on the blog yesterday is a great example. Here's another one, from Harvard Business School in 2003. See if you can figure out what about this cartoon was so offensive that Dean Kim B. Clark of Harvard Business School considered a violation of Harvard's "community standards code": This […]» Read More
Hide Your Children: FIRE's Granddaddy of Offensive Cartoons!
May 8, 2006
Long before the current global cartoon controversy, FIRE was involved with a case at Southwest Missouri State University (now Missouri State University) involving another divisive editorial cartoon. It prompted outrage from students, caused the university to intervene, and resulted in a faculty press advisor losing her job. What, pray tell, did this horrible cartoon convey? Behold! (The faint of heart may want to shield their eyes.) Yep, that's it: the dangerous cartoon that lead to investigations, protests, and the eventual dismissal of a devoted professor as faculty advisor of the student newspaper. I think the problem might have been that people didn't get […]» Read More
Le Moyne College Censured for Dismissing Newspaper's Adviser
May 8, 2006
SYRACUSE, N.Y. , May 8, 2006—Exposing a disturbing trend in campus censorship, Le Moyne College has dismissed its college newspaper's adviser for not exercising more control over the student paper. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) joins the national organization of student newspaper advisers, College Media Advisers (CMA), in condemning Le Moyne's actions. The staff of the Dolphin student newspaper has also staged a months-long strike in protest. "This is only the latest example of the growing trend of increasing university control over student media," stated FIRE President Greg Lukianoff. "If organizations and individuals do not take a […]» Read More
DePaul: The Nightmare That Keeps on Recurring
April 3, 2006
Today, the Collegiate Network announced that DePaul University won second "prize" in its Campus Outrage Awards, commonly known as the Pollys. Here's how the CN put it: DePaul University has essentially declared war on free speech on campus. First, the university suspended—without a hearing—a veteran adjunct professor for daring to debate students handing out pro-Palestinian literature on campus. Next, the administration branded as "propaganda" a College Republican protest of a Ward Churchill speech on campus. Finally, college officials shut down an affirmative action bake-sale sponsored by the campus conservative club and charged the club member who organized the event with […]» Read More
FIRE Cases in the 'Washington Post'
February 6, 2006
Sunday's Washington Post featured an outstanding article by Frederick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute on the disturbing trend toward "dispositions" evaluations in colleges of education. After discussing FIRE cases involving ideological orthodoxy at Washington State University, Le Moyne College, and Brooklyn College, Hess aptly points out, "The cultivation of right-thinking cadres has no place in America's colleges and universities." Couldn't have said it better myself. His piece is well worth a read.» Read More
Giving Credit Where Credit's Due
January 23, 2006
As we've pointed out repeatedly here on The Torch, erstwhile Le Moyne College student Scott McConnell has been restored to his rights, and Le Moyne certainly doesn't deserve any credit for that. Far from it: Le Moyne has done everything in its power to keep McConnell out. Even now, it is appealing Wednesday's court decision. But there are at least two other organizations that deserve credit for standing up for liberty in this case. One obvious example is the Center for Individual Rights, which so ably represented McConnell in court. And another is the Collegiate Network, headed by FIRE Board […]» Read More
Le Moyne Has No Shame
January 20, 2006
According to the Associated Press, Le Moyne College is appealing the court decision reported in yesterday's FIRE press release: LeMoyne College will appeal a court decision ordering the school to accept a student into its graduate teaching program who was rejected because he wrote a paper advocating corporal punishment, administrators said Thursday. In the meantime, the Jesuit school said it would abide by the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court's decision Wednesday and allow Scott McConnell to enroll in classes for the spring semester. The lengths to which Le Moyne is willing to go in order to preserve its edifice […]» Read More
Court Strikes Down Unjust Expulsion
January 20, 2006
Yesterday's press release announces an important legal victory for Scott McConnell, the education student whom Le Moyne College ejected for endorsing corporal punishment in an essay for an education class. Two months after receiving an "A-" for the paper, McConnell was dismissed from Le Moyne's education program because administrators said there was a "mismatch" between his personal beliefs and the program's goals. FIRE first brought this case to the public's attention in January of 2005. McConnell filed a lawsuit against Le Moyne, then appealed when the trial court failed to recognize the injustice in Le Moyne's disregard for academic freedom […]» Read More
Court Rebukes Le Moyne College for Censorship
January 19, 2006
SYRACUSE, N.Y., January 19, 2006—A New York appeals court has determined that Le Moyne College wrongly removed graduate student Scott McConnell from its education program for endorsing corporal punishment in class. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) first brought McConnell's case to public attention last year. "This is a great day for all those who believe colleges should keep their promises to students," said FIRE Interim President Greg Lukianoff, hailing the ruling. "Le Moyne College has learned that it cannot promise freedom and fairness but deliver repression and injustice." McConnell's ordeal began with a November 2004 assignment in […]» Read More
FIRE's Work Lauded in Newspapers Nationwide
December 12, 2005
It's been a good couple of days for Justice Brandeis' maxim that "sunlight is the best disinfectant." Thanks to articles in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, news of FIRE's efforts to disinfect the swamps of repression currently passing for American universities is reaching an ever-increasing number of people. On Sunday, The New York Times covered our recent victory at William Paterson University. (Read it at the Times website if you are a TimesSelect subscriber.) The article by Peter Applebome ran on the front page of the Metro section and thoroughly denounced […]» Read More
New York Private College Rules: Not Worth the Paper They're Written On
October 4, 2005
Bad news from the state of New York, where a judge on September 23 declined to grant a preliminary injunction that would make Le Moyne College, a Jesuit institution in Syracuse, re-enroll an education master's student it expelled on the basis of personal beliefs. FIRE took up McConnell's cause last spring when we discovered that the school had blatantly ignored its own policies and procedures, as well as its stated commitment to academic freedom, when it summarily threw McConnell out of school. Let's remember why McConnell got in trouble: he was asked to write a paper on what he […]» Read More
Nontraditional Students
August 18, 2005
One of the more interesting aspects of our case submissions is that a disproportionately high number come from "nontraditional" students—those students who are older, married, or often have substantial work experience. Many of our more sensational and egregious cases—including the recent ban on showing The Passion of the Christ at a college in Florida, Scott McConnell's expulsion from Le Moyne College in New York, Bill Felkner's troubles at Rhode Island College, and Jihad Daniel's case at William Paterson University—have involved students in their thirties, forties, and (in Daniel's case) sixties. I think there is a good reason for this […]» Read More
Teaching Student Expelled
May 11, 2005
The New York Sun says a grad student was deemed unfit to teach and kicked out of his program after he expressed skepticism about multicultural education and support for corporal punishment in the classroom. With the backing of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Scott McConnell is now suing Le Moyne College of Syracuse, N.Y., for violation of his First Amendment rights. As part of a class devoted to promoting "inclusive classrooms," McConnell wrote a paper saying: "I do not feel that multicultural education has a philosophical place or standing in an American classroom, especially one that I will […]» Read More
Student Sues N.Y. College Over Dismissal
May 6, 2005
A student who claims he was expelled from a training program for prospective teachers because of his support for corporal punishment and his opposition to multicultural education filed a $40 million lawsuit yesterday and demanded to be reinstated. In the suit, Scott McConnell, 26, of upstate Baldwinsville, accused Le Moyne College of Syracuse of violating his First Amendment rights and breaching the school's duty to abide by its own policies guaranteeing free expression. "This is a particularly egregious violation of academic freedom," said David French, the president of a student rights watchdog group backing the lawsuit, the Foundation for Individual […]» Read More
False Promises Of Academic Freedom
May 5, 2005
If you want to get a real glimpse of the thought-tyranny of the academic Left, you should look at the case of Scott McConnell, who was recently expelled from Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y., because his personal beliefs didn't fit within the school's indoctrination grid. The Left, through an extraordinary process of self-deception, routinely congratulates itself for its enlightenment and open-mindedness, but the slightest scrutiny of its behavior in academia alone puts the lie to its claims. Sadly, the Left has even sunk its tentacles into Jesuit colleges like Le Moyne. McConnell was pursuing a masters in education at […]» Read More
Student Dismissed for Personal Beliefs Files Multimillion-Dollar Lawsuit Against Le Moyne College
May 5, 2005
SYRACUSE, N.Y., May 5, 2005—Today, former graduate student Scott McConnell filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, because it expelled him from its education master's program based on his personal beliefs. In January 2005, administrators summarily dismissed McConnell because he had expressed views that opposed "multicultural education" and had stated in an academic assignment that "corporal punishment has a place in the classroom." The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) took up McConnell's case, reminding Le Moyne, a Jesuit college, that its actions breached its own promises to respect students' academic freedom and due […]» Read More
How to 'Educate' an Educator
March 22, 2005
At Le Moyne College's school of education, students (future educators) are ironically "educated" that they should shut up or get shut out. Le Moyne's administrators and faculty might find it helpful to get pointers about what they should have done instead of dismissing Scott McConnell out of the blue for a paper expressing some personal beliefs they found objectionable. A director of teacher education at a university in Canada wrote in to share his experience with similar issues: I am quite aware that many members of our Faculty have pressed to have students dismissed from the programme for no better […]» Read More
Le Moyne's Follies
March 22, 2005
Yesterday, NPR ran a report on Scott McConnell's case at Le Moyne College. The report was extremely well-done and balanced. McConnell and a Le Moyne representative spoke to NPR. Le Moyne's remarks were nothing short of ridiculous. First, the college hinted that there were other factors involved in Scott's dismissal, but it could not discuss those facts because of student privacy concerns. This is a typical tactic for universities: by darkly hinting at unknown "additional factors," the school causes the public to wonder if there are true skeletons in the student's closet. In this case, we don't have to wonder. […]» Read More
College in Flap over Corporal Punishment Essay
March 21, 2005
A dispute has escalated at a small college in New York state and a student who was barred from the school's teacher training program because he wrote a paper in support of corporal punishment. Le Moyne College says the controversy is not about academic freedom, but about who is qualified to be a teacher. Listen to the radio coverage at NPR's website.» Read More
To paddle or not to paddle? It's still not clear in US schools.
March 17, 2005
When it comes to spanking, there's no such thing as a consensus in America's schools. Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia have outlawed corporal punishment in public schools, all in the past 40 years. But as the number of students feeling the sting of the paddle declines, some parents and educators are digging in to defend it as an effective form of discipline. It's another symbol of the nation's red-blue divide. Most states that still allow the practice are in the South and Midwest. But policies long favoring corporal punishment have come up for debate recently on Southern school […]» Read More
'Favor the Rod, Get the Ax': FIRE in 'The New York Times'
March 10, 2005
Remember Scott McConnell, the master of education student who, without any warning, got booted out of Le Moyne College for his beliefs? You can review his story in The New York Times today. When reading the Times report, keep in mind that McConnell had already completed practicum work last fall as a requirement for Le Moyne's teaching program. FIRE's February 3, 2005, letter to Le Moyne highlights this: Furthermore, McConnell has already completed over 64 hours of practicum work with a host teacher at Franklin Elementary School. The teacher rated McConnell as "excellent" in all of the evaluation criteria and […]» Read More
College Expels Student Who Advocated Corporal Punishment
March 10, 2005
Read the article at The New York Times website.» Read More
FIRE Has Never Been 'Sheepish' on the Danger of Confusing Free Speech with Indoctrination
March 2, 2005
I wanted to add to David's post about the article from The Nation. The author wrote: New, well-funded organizations like the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) specifically urge universities to monitor and divest themselves of those engaged in "rank political indoctrination"—which even they rather sheepishly acknowledge is an awfully thin line away from political speech. We have been sheepish in acknowledging the care you have to use to distinguish between political speech and indoctrination? Really? Does testifying before the United States Senate to warn about the dangers of confusing "indoctrination" with political speech count as being "sheepish"? I […]» Read More
Le Moyne Responds
February 22, 2005
In response to our recent release describing the outrageous violation of academic freedom at Le Moyne College, dozens of FIRE friends and supporters have written the college to urge it to readmit Scott McConnell. One of FIRE's great friends, Dr. David Ross, received a response from Joe Della Posta, Le Moyne's director of communications. Here is the relevant portion of the college's official statement: As an independent institution, Le Moyne has the right to accept or reject—based on a variety of criteria—an individual for acceptance as a matriculated student. If we believe a student is not suitable for the classroom […]» Read More
More on 'Soft' Violations of Conscience
February 21, 2005
Thank you David for the recent post, and I would like to assure him I am not much for skewering (except the barbeque kind). However, I do disagree, in part, with a recent post in which David discussed his thoughts on violations of the right to conscience. I fully agree that "mandatory diversity training, 'sensitivity training' as punishment for misconduct, and mandatory first-year orientation programs that teach students the correct way to think about race, gender, sexual orientation, and religion" can potentially violate students' right to private conscience (you can read more about cases like this in the Guide to […]» Read More
Le Moyne College Dismisses a Student—and Free Speech
February 15, 2005
Perhaps it is just that FIRE is becoming better known and we are receiving more cases, but it seems to me that the climate for free speech is actually getting worse on campus. In the last 12 months I have seen many of the worst cases of my career. Take, for example, today's press release: Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y., dismissed an education student for writing a paper recommending strict (and some would say "traditional") discipline for younger students. He got an "A-" on the paper, but then was dismissed from the program by another administrator who cited a […]» Read More
Le Moyne College Dismisses Student for Personal Beliefs
February 15, 2005
SYRACUSE, N.Y., February 15, 2005—Administrators at New York's Le Moyne College, which claims to protect academic freedom, have summarily dismissed an education student for writing a paper advocating strict discipline for students. The chair of Le Moyne's education department expelled master's student Scott McConnell because of a "mismatch" between his personal beliefs and the goals of the college's graduate education program. "Le Moyne College says it respects academic freedom, yet it has dismissed a student purely for expressing personal beliefs that are different from those espoused by administrators," stated David French, president of FIRE. "This shows a profound lack of […]» Read More


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Skratch Labs will be directing their efforts toward supporting the actual humans involved in the race (both riders and staff) by providing real food and hydration products throughout the weeklong event. During each road stage Skratch will have a support car and moto inside the caravan to distribute needed items to riders on every team.
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A Skratch Labs motorcycle and car will even deliver their healthy food options during the race. How would you like this nutrition delivery vehicle for your next ride?
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Is it rape if...? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Is it rape if...? Goto page Previous 1, 2, 3 Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Current Events Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message wangdaningJoined: 22 Jan 2008Posts: 3154 Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 1:02 am Post subject: Is it rape if both people are drunk and later regret it? Answer: only if you are male. Back to topic, which is not communism or the value of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS to most USistanis, who would have thought, only a few years to internalize and combust). Would be nice to have a thread talking about one or both of the two topics. Someone be more proactive than I am right now. Back to top QaaolchouraJoined: 10 Oct 2008Posts: 539Location: 21 miles from the Syrian border Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 1:53 pm Post subject: wangdaning wrote: Qaaolchoura wrote: Believe me, I avoid flying when at all possible. It takes about two days to get from Izmir to Adana by train and a couple hours by flying guess. Which one I chose? But getting from New England to Turkey by ship is not an option. Nor is it practical to get around a large country like Turkey or the US via ground-based transit if you have a job which requires you to visit multiple cities frequently. By your logic you could suggest that the government has an automatic right to tap your phone lines without a warrant, because you can always choose not to make phone calls. I mean, there are other means of transportation, and we've done without phones for most of our history. ~Q Trains aren't safe either. Neither are cars, or anyplace or anything you do. Terrorists are after you, you personally. They want to blow up everyone and everything. The question remains, who are they? I hope you're being sarcastic. I'm not worried about being blown up by terrorists. Terrorists don't frighten me; any rate I'm far more likely to die from my bad diet. But the "terrorists are going to get us so you'd better get used to being strip-searched" crowd really do irritate me. ~Q Back to top bulgogiboyJoined: 23 Feb 2005Posts: 800 Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 3:11 pm Post subject: BadBeagleBad wrote: Captain_Fil wrote: I'm planning to fly back to the Philippines in March. (The TSA agents will be searching me.) Should I plan to get raped, too? You say that jokingly but I have had the lovely experience of having one of the pat downs and let me tell you I don't care why they were doing it, it was a violation of my human rights. There has to be some kind of criteria for deciding who gets patted down, like DebMar, I don't think people over 75 should be subject, or children under a certain age. A determined suspect will get something through if they want to. Ironically, the time I was "patted down" I had a forbidden fingernail clipper in my pocket, and they didn't find it. It wasn't on purpose, I just forgot it was there. I used to think along the same lines, but changed my mind. If criminals/terrorists know that certain groups of people are automatically excluded from security searches then they may very well start to try use that to their advantage. Smuggling weapons/drugs/etc on children, for one thing. Also, "a determined suspect will get something through if they want to", is a bit of a platitude, and incorrect, in my opinion. What are you suggesting with this statement? I don't care how determined someone is, the days of hijackers taking over aeroplanes with AK-47s, or even a pocket knife, are gone, my friend! This is because of the stringent security measures most airlines now employ. I'm not defending abuse of power by certain security employees, and I'm not saying agencies like the TSA go about their jobs in the right way all the time, but some type of body-scan/body search is necessary at times (done only by the same gender and within boundaries which respect human dignity), and shouldn't be confined to specific age/gender/ethnic groups. 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The Eau Gallie Record posted jokes on a regular basis for their readership to enjoy. Here are a few that I will share with you.
A cow stood on the railroad track.
A train came around the bend.
She never had been hit before
But she got it in the end.
A young lady with vamp blue eyes and a store-bought complexion came into the Record office the other day. And after watching the Linograph in operation for a few minutes said to the operator, "That's an extra large typewriter is it not - but where do you put the paper?"
This is leap year. If some flappers assume some of Danny Cupid's modesty, they might hit what they shoot for before 1925.
I know a little man
and he plays a little flute.
I know why all the neighbors
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Angels rally late to take opener from Indians
ANAHEIM -- When Joe Smith walked to his locker on Monday afternoon after the Angels' long overnight trek from New York, he made his intentions clear.
"I want to pitch tonight," Smith, the newly anointed closer, said loudly.View Full Game Coverage
ANAHEIM -- When Joe Smith walked to his locker on Monday afternoon after the Angels' long overnight trek from New York, he made his intentions clear.
"I want to pitch tonight," Smith, the newly anointed closer, said loudly.View Full Game Coverage
Smith did close the ninth inning against the Indians, his team for the past five seasons, to preserve a 6-3 victory at Angel Stadium.
It was his first save for the Angels, the first time he'd pitched in his new role and the first time period since working a scoreless eighth and setting up a save -- that was blown -- on April 23 in Washington.
"I was pretty pumped," said Smith, who went to the mound with a three-run lead, courtesy of Mike Trout's tie-breaking RBI single and Raul Ibanez's two-run triple in the bottom of the eighth. "I woke up this morning, and I had a feeling I was going to get to pitch tonight after not pitching in the series in New York.
"To get that first save [as an Angel] against that team was pretty cool. I spent a lot of time with most of those guys, and I enjoyed my time there."
Smith, in his first season with the Angels, had been pitching the eighth, as he often did in Cleveland, until closer Ernesto Frieri continued to struggle and was removed temporarily from the role by manager Mike Scioscia.
Smith's save was just the Angels' third in 2014, against four blown.
"If everything works out, we'd like to see Ernie back in that spot," said Scioscia, indicating that he'd still like to revert Smith to an eighth-inning setup role. "We'll continue with Joe tomorrow and until Ernie feels like where he needs to be."
Frieri is trying to recapture his 37-save form of 2013 by pitching in lower-leverage innings, so Smith will be used in an inning he doesn't see as much different from his seventh- and eighth-inning challenges.
"For me it's just another inning," Smith said of closing. "I'm not one of those guys who thinks it's a different animal.
"I think [closing] fits my game pretty well. I try to keep it down, try to keep it in the ballpark. I might close with three ground balls, but that's my game."
Said Indians manager Terry Francona: "I used to pull for him a lot a lot. I don't any more."
Smith's uniform and role have changed. Winning when left-hander Tyler Skaggs starts, though -- that's nothing new for the Angels, who have won all five of his starts this season.
Skaggs went seven innings and struck out six but exited after 103 pitches with the score tied at 3.
"I can see why they like him," Francona said. "There's a lot to like."
Skaggs had one bad inning, the fourth, when he gave up a Nick Swisher double, then his only walk -- to Jason Kipnis -- before hanging a 2-2 curve that Carlos Santana converted into a three-run homer and two-run Indians lead.
"[Skaggs] had a really good running fastball early in the game," Scioscia said. "He just made a couple of mistakes in that inning. Once he got through that stretch, and maybe realizing he was finessing too much, he really powered his way through seven innings. ... Tyler came out of that inning with some real purpose."
Skaggs said that his keys are "not flying open and staying consistent in my delivery. I can't let the game speed up on me."
But that's what he said failed him in the fourth, speeding up his delivery.
"I was mad," he said. "A three-run home run is not fun, especially to a guy you can get out. It wasn't the pitch, it was the location."
Following Santana's homer, "I went [back] out there with a vengeance," Skaggs said, "and tried to mow them down."
Cleveland starter Justin Masterson matched Skaggs through seven, and had started the eighth when an error by Swisher at first base opened the door.
After a sacrifice, with first base open, Francona elected to have Masterson pitch to Trout with 501-homer man Albert Pujols on deck.
"With the open base, it's not that we don't think Trout's a good hitter, but we're trying to not face all of them," Francona said. "With an open base, Masty's stuff right-on-right, it's something where I definitely thought about walking him. In the middle of the night tonight, I probably will."
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A Redondo Beach surfer who claimed he was unable to work after a Torrance policeman mistakenly shot at him during the manhunt for rogue Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner has settled his lawsuit against the city and its Police Department, court documents indicated Thursday.
Although no one associated with the case would discuss the development, attorneys on both sides filed a "notice of settlement" in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
"The parties have filed a notice of settlement based on a tentative agreement," Torrance police Sgt. Robert Watt said. "Because the agreement has not been finalized and is not expected to be finalized for several weeks, the city has no further comment at this time."
Robert Sheahen, the attorney for David Perdue and his wife, Lizzette, also declined comment.
The court notice said the Perdues settled with the city of Torrance and Officers Brian McGee and Erin Sooper. Trial had been set for August, but the lawsuit will be dismissed within 90 days.
Perdue, 39, alleged in his lawsuit that McGee nearly killed him when the officers rammed his truck and fired three shots at him on Flagler Lane near Beryl Street on Feb. 7, 2013. The bullets missed.
Perdue was heading to pick up a friend that morning to go surfing when he found himself caught in the chaos of the search for Dorner, a fired Harbor Division officer who vowed to take his revenge against the families of the LAPD officials who dismissed him.
By that morning, Dorner had already killed a police officer's daughter and her boyfriend in Irvine, and killed a police officer in Riverside County and wounded another.
Torrance police officials admitted their officers were on edge that morning, concerned for their lives if Dorner came into the city. LAPD officers took positions at homes of top officials named in Dorner's online manifesto outlining his plans to kill. One of those homes was on Redbeam Avenue.
Perdue was in his truck around the block when eight LAPD officers opened fire on two newspaper carriers they mistakenly believed were Dorner.
Hearing those shots and believing Perdue was Dorner fleeing the gunfire, McGee and Sooper rammed Perdue's truck. McGee fired three shots through his driver's side window, missing.
Dorner was never anywhere near Torrance. He died five days later in a gunbattle with San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies in Big Bear, apparently of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. One deputy was killed and another wounded during the shootout.
Los Angeles city officials settled quickly with the newspaper carriers, giving the women $2.1 million each and $40,000 to replace their truck, but Sheahen had an acrimonious relationship with Torrance officials as he sought a similar settlement.
Torrance provided $20,000 for a new truck, but offered $500,000 to settle the case, far from the millions Sheahen sought.
The lawsuit alleged Perdue suffered head trauma and spinal injuries in the encounter with police, could no longer surf, could not lift his children, and was unable to work as a baggage handler at Los Angeles International Airport.


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April 27, 2010
FAIRFIELD, CT – Senior attackmen Jon Flood (Hauppauge, NY) and Timmy Katz (Freeport, NY) scored within a 47 second span of each other to bring Sacred Heart within two of Quinnipiac with 6:25 remaining in the game. That was the closest the Pioneers men's lacrosse team would get, as they gave up three more goals to fall to the Bobcats, 13-8, on Campus Field Tuesday evening.
Quinnipiac raced out to a 3-0 lead by the end of the first quarter with a pair of scores from junior Christian Haggerty, one on the man-up, and one from classmate Jack Oppenheimer. The Bobcats took a 7-3 lead into the locker room as Haggerty added two more and Oppenheimer scored his second before the half.
At the start of the third quarter, Katz scored his first of the game, followed by a goal from classmate Joe Caridi (East Northport, NY) to cut the QU lead in half. After Oppenheimer tallied his third of the game, SHU senior Evan Morgan (Ashburn, VA) found the back of the net, on a man-up opportunity, to bring the Pioneers back within two.
The Bobcats opened the final frame with a goal two minutes in as Haggerty, man-up, notched his fifth of the night. Sophomore faceoff specialist Zach Pall won the ensuing faceoff and immediately took the ball to the cage and scored.
Morgan finished the game with a pair of goals and a pair of assists, while Katz also scored twice and collected an assist.
In net for Quinnipiac, junior Kevin Benzing stopped 10 shots in the win. Senior Tom Trgo (N. Merrick, NY) made six saves and allowed 13 goals.
Sacred Heart outshot the Bobcats for the game, 38-29. Groundballs were even as both side picked up 37.
The Pioneers dropped to 3-9 on the year, while QU lifted its record to 7-5. SHU returns to action for its regular season finale against St. John's on May 1 at 7:00 pm.


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Hacker group claims to breach NASA, Pentagon servers
Team GhostShell says it accessed 1.6 million records.
A hacker group claimed responsibility for releasing information from servers belonging to several federal agencies, defense contractors and other companies, according to a statement released on Tuesday.
In an attack dubbed #ProjectWhiteFox, hacker group Team GhostShell said the breach was its final in a series of attacks this year and was intended to "[draw] attention to the freedom of information on the net."
According to ZDNet, the attack was done through an SQL injection method, which uses exploitative code to break into Web-based databases. Some of the victims include NASA, the Federal Reserve, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Bigelow Aerospace.
The released data includes files from NASA's servers, email addresses and account records, and defense related testing information. Team GhostShell claimed to have breached approximately 1.6 million accounts and records, but that number could not be independently verified.
The group is an offshoot of Internet hacker collective Anonymous, which has claimed responsibility for similar attacks in the past.


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We finally received our new patio furniture, just in time for quintessential summer days. Guests immediately took advantage of our spectacular views from early morning breakfast, to late afternoon reading, writing, and wine sipping. Yoshio added lanterns for romantic ambient lighting; perfect for after dinner star gazing.
Ormsby Hill guests are often amazed at the wonderful mountain views from the back of the Inn, thus our emphasis on the patio. Other places to enjoy the best of Vermont are the porch, gazebo, our Frances suite, the Tower, the deck off Ethan Allen, and of course, our Conservatory dining room.
If you come visit us as the glorious days of fall unfold, and we don't come to the front door right away, we might just be sneaking a few awesome moments on the patio.


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This morning Cleo and I went for a walk around the Lough, a pond which is also a bird sanctuary and is a two minute walk from the front door, but lovely to walk around.
Anyway, while we were walking around, we came across a black Lab accompanied by a Blenheim Cavalier! Both were running in and out of the slipway into the pond. Cleo got so excited to see them she ran accross the grass to watch them in the water - remember this is the doggie who HATES water. She was so enthusiastic to
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Cleo loves running up the stairs in our house. We live in a two up two down and the stairs is off the kitchen so she loves running up them, especially when we're cooking as she gets all the good smells at the top of the stairs.
Her other favourite reason for running up the stairs is the fact that she can easily break into our bedroom. The catch on that door doesn't work properly and so all she needs to do to break in is to scratch the door a few times with her paw and it opens quite
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Choose your Bears jersey wisely
Despite being unemployed since March and retired since May, Brian Urlacher's jersey finished 10th in sales from April 1-June 30, according to nflshop.com. Throughout his 13-year career, Urlacher was consistently one of the league's best linebackers, and his jersey was consistently among the most popular. For a fan dropping $100 or more on an authentic jersey, that kind of reliability is invaluable.
Bears training camp starts this week, and that means it's time for fans to re-evaluate their game day jersey. You can't go wrong with a retired player, especially with so many legendary Bears to choose from. But if you're looking for a current Bear, here are RedEye's tips with their ranking on the Brian Urlacher Jersey Reliability Scale.Want more? Discuss this article and others on RedEye Sports' Facebook page. By Jack M Silverstein, for RedEye
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That's a lot of priorities, but to be fair Canada's energy needs are complex and its impact far-reaching.
The Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources has launched a new blueprint outlining 13 priorities to ensure Canada 'will be the most energy productive nation in the world with the highest level of environmental performance.'
The committee sat through hundreds of meetings, spoke to 250 stakeholders and solicited public advice over three years to outline 13 key focus areas for the country.
"We see Canada's potential as the most productive energy nation in the world, with the highest levels of environmental performance," said Senator David Angus, Committee Chair. "But we also conclude that there is a great sense of urgency — and we need an energy literacy that includes a profound recognition that energy pervades all aspects of our lives, and is a key element of our social fabric. The future is fraught with peril if we don't get it right."
Here are the 13 key areas the committee believes Canada should focus on:
1. Canada must strive for collaborative energy leadership
Canadian provinces are divided on the country's policy on energy. While Ontario Premier would rather have a weaker dollar than high oil sands exports, the Quebec Premier is against fracking. Meanwhile, Alberta and Saksatchewan Premiers mantras are 'drill, baby, drill.' Meanwhile, the B.C. Premier likes gas fracking because it fills the provincial coffers but is ambivalent about laying down oil sands pipeline. All this while, the Prime Minister is often accused of unflinching support of the pro-fossil fuel provinces.
"It is imperative that the Canadian governments begin an ongoing dialogue at the highest political level, setting the long term energy goals and securing the social license from Canadians and the world necessary to proceed," the report notes. "Energy issues can be a powerful force of national unity or they can be divisive and lead to unrest. The global energy order is changing in such a way that we have to make decisions now. If not, other nations will move ahead of us aggressively to meet the world's growing energy demands."
2. Nation-building through energy infrastructure
One reason why Eastern provinces are lackadaisical about Western oil and gas riches is because they are disconnected and are more integrated with the American electricity infrastructure.
"The need for increased capacity of the East-West electric grid continues to pre-occupy some policymakers. Several witnesses supported a national grid as a nation-building initiative to bolster energy security; conversely, some others argued that our geography makes such a move financially impractical," the report notes.
Think legacy infrastructure projects in Canada like the railway system, the Trans-Canada Highway and the Saint Lawrence Seaway, and you will get the picture. Enbridge's Northern Gateway, Kinder Morgan's Transmountain and TransCanada's keystone pipeline, are infrastructure projects needed to meld the nation closer together and share the benefits — better to be 'pipe-long' than 'pipe-short', the committee notes.
"The committee also looks favourably upon the prospect of shipping western Canadian crude to the East for refining and marketing in Ontario, Quebec, Atlantic Canada and international markets."
3. Natural gas: a game-changing fuel
Shale gas is cheap, in abundance and less polluting than oil. Plus, it's a great transportation fuel.
Responsible shale gas production in Quebec, New Brunswick and other regions would create enormous economic benefits, well-paying jobs, enhanced energy security and the environmental advantages of a cleaner burning fuel, the committee notes.
4. Create A Canadian Energy Information Agency
It's time for a Canadian Energy Information Agency, similar to the U.S. Energy Information Agency, which provides up-to-date facts and information about energy.
This would be part of a greater exercise to educate everyday folk about energy conservation and start energy conversations.
5. Frame a strong strategy for energy employment
Governments must work proactively to ensure recruitment and training of the workforce to meet the needs of the growing Canadian energy sector. These include labour market agreements between federal government and provinces, opportunities for aboriginal communities and fast-tracking immigration of skilled labour.
6. Strengthen the foundation for energy innovation
Canada's full potential for future prosperity depends on the effective design and funding priorities of R&D energy programs to unlock the innovative forces throughout the energy system's value chain.
7. Pursue high-level environmental performance of non-renewable energy sources
The oil sands must improve their environmental performance, notes the committee. While much disinformation exists about the oil sands, the industry still needs to make despite rapid advancements to reduce pollution.
"Industry, governments and stakeholders are now working together to address the environmental performance issues arising from oil sands development, but more needs to be done. Processing tailings and accelerating land reclamation remain issues."
Meanwhile, coal, the worst polluting offender, could still see a revival with new technologies that educe emissions.
"Coal consumption may eventually decline in Canada as a result of environmental policies, but it could also continue to thrive with the development of new technologies aimed at reducing emissions such as carbon capture and storage, supercritical plants and coal gasification."
8. Hydropower superpower: energy of the past for the future
This reliable, low-emitting source of energy is a key priority for the country and every opportunity for its responsible expansion must be undertaken.
If done right, there could be exporting opportunities south of the border.
"British Columbia, Manitoba and Quebec are actively exporting electricity to the U.S. markets, and the
Atlantic provinces are collaborating to develop an interconnected grid that would include access for power from the Lower Churchill Falls to the U.S. There are long term opportunities to grow electricity export markets in the United States since many U.S. utilities have adopted renewable energy portfolio standards requiring increased renewable energy in their energy mix."
9. Foster renewable fuels
Canada must continue to foster its substantial emerging renewable energy resources due to its vast and diverse geography, including massive supplies of water, wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and marine energy.
10. Regulatory reform
The committee supports the ongoing commitment of federal, provincial and territorial governments to streamline environmental reviews while ensuring rigorous environmental oversight, especially for major projects. Apart from 'one project, one review' stratgey and reducing duplication of oversight and assessments, the report also points out consultation with First Nations, who remain deeply unhappy about the pace of energy development on the ecologically sensitive lands.
"The committee heard many witnesses express frustration with the current Aboriginal consultation process, in part because of a lack of timelines and the lack of clarity with respect to the Crown's (or the project proponent's) responsibilities around consultation."
11. Guide responsible Northern and Arctic energy exploration & development
The development of these resources may reshape the country's energy landscape and has the potential to create tremendous economic and social benefits for Northerners, Aboriginal peoples and all Canadians.
12. Maintain strong support for Canada's nuclear industry
Nuclear energy has an important role to play in Canada energy future, especially as it employs 70,000.
"The committee also heard from witnesses who believe in the game-changing potential of nuclear fusion technology. Nuclear fusion is the mechanism that fuels the sun and the stars and may one day provide nearly unlimited source of energy," the report notes. "The challenges are enormous, but progress has been made towards safely harnessing fusion energy for electricity generation. Allan Offenberger, professor emeritus of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta, told the committee that new laser technology may hold the key to making this goal a reality."
13. Speak for Canada
"Canada's energy image was being defined beyond our borders and, at times, with misinformation and even disinformation," the report states. But it's the federal government that should fulfill a leadership role in clearly, accurately and forcefully communicating Canada's energy story to the world.


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MONSANTO IS cutting the price on its Roundup brand agricultural herbicides. "We will be reducing the price of Roundup PowerMax and Roundup WeatherMax by up to 50%, effective immediately," says Matt Helms, marketing manager for Monsanto crop protection division.
Global supply-and-demand issues put glyphosate prices on a roller coaster ride recently, with prices falling dramatically from 2008 and 2009 levels back down to 2006 and 2007 levels.
Chris Boerboom, extension weed scientist at the University of Wisconsin, says producers should continue to be aware that the use of preemergence herbicides in a corn and soybean rotation may still be necessary. "The addition of a preemergence herbicide has been shown to decrease early season weed pressure, which is especially valuable in fields when weather delays postemergence glyphosate applications," he says. "And controlling early season competition protects yield."
The price of glyphosate won't matter if there are glyphosate-resistant biotypes in your field, says Aaron Hager, weed science extension specialist at the University of Illinois. "Certainly producers may look at spraying glyphosate twice instead of using a soil-residual herbicide," he says. "But alternating chemistries is imperative, especially if glyphosate resistance is a concern."
Joe Sandbrink, technology development manager for Monsanto crop protection division, encourages the use of residuals in tankmixes when needed. "Our Roundup Rewards program provides incentives to producers who use other chemistries in areas where multiple modes of action are necessary for weed control," he says.
Monsanto's price cut isn't likely to spill over into other weed-control chemistries. "We don't expect current glyphosate prices to directly impact other chemistries, as the prices of these products did not spike like glyphosate," says Scott Langkamp, head, herbicide brand management, Syngenta Crop Protection.


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Biz Kid$ "Learning from Failure" Have you ever made a decision you regret? Let the Biz Kids show you how several well-known companies overcame failures. You'll also discover how mistakes can make you stronger by looking at the work of Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, and the kid businesses of "You're on Deck" custom cards and "Big Quill Enterprises" oyster sales. D
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The Electric Company "Revenge of the Zeros" Upset about their score of zero points in the banana sculpture contest, Danny and Annie decide to ruin Paul the Gorilla's banana festival party that is being held at The Electric Diner. The Electric Company catches on, and does everything they can to stop the pranksters and save the party and preserve Paul's sanity. D
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Cyberchase "Totally Rad" The dastardly Hacker (Christopher Lloyd) takes over the Radopolis cybersite, declaring himself King in "Totally Rad," the season premiere of CYBERCHASE. In an effort to dethrone him, the kids challenge the Hacker's extreme team to a winner-take-all skate-off. There's just one catch: high-scoring tricks need as much area as possible and the field keeps mysteriously changing! With Digit ( Gilbert Gottfried) as coach, the kids put on a dazzling display of blading, boarding, and biking, but can they match their performance to the changing arena? The Big Idea: Different shapes bounded by the same perimeter can enclose very different areas. D
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Sewing with Nancy "Easy Reversible Aprons-Everyday and Elegant, Pt. 2" Upgrade your cooking and serving attitude with a festive reversible apron. Nancy's guest, Mary Mulari, has designed some new aprons in her signature reversible style. She and Nancy show how to make three full flair apron styles that include colorful appliqued pockets, grommets, rick rack, detachable accents, and more. D
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Scheewe Art Workshop "Dimensional Sunflowers" The bold and bright colors of sunflowers offer great inspiration and a sense of summer's warmth. Advance your skills and techniques by painting this beautiful floral subject. This painting is an excellent lesson in creating depth and texture. D
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Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "Italian Flavor Or Slow Food, Italian Style" Joanne loves Italian flavors. She prepares a Spinach and Fennel Salad enhanced with Prosciutto di San Daniele. Then, hungry for a little comfort food, she creates a hearty Tuscan Pot Roast with her student Cheryl and shows her the secret to the perfect creamy polenta. D
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Martha Bakes "Angel Food Cake" Follow along as Martha shares her tips and tricks for making light-as-air angel food cake, then learn how to vary the flavors with a few simple additions. Martha bakes a classic version, a coconut variation with Swiss meringue and mini brown-sugar cakes. As a bonus, she shares a recipe for espresso ice cream to serve alongside. D
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Ask This Old House "Using Ladders Safely/Replacing A Shower Valve" General contractor Tom Silva and host Kevin O'Connor demonstrate how to use all types of ladders safely. Then plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey replaces a three-handle shower valve with a single-handle anti-scald valve. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Naples and Pompeii" Rick finds Naples is Italy in the extreme. He prowls backstreet fish markets, dodges fast-moving Vespas, and dines on pizza where it was invented. He climbs to the top of nearby Mount Vesuvius, then wanders through the ruins of Pompeii.G
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Rudy Maxa's World "Delhi & Agra, India" Northern India is a colorful mosaic of urban & rural life, from the Taj Mahal to the crowded alleys.G
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Lidia's Italy In America "From Bloomfield to the Strip In Pittsburgh" Lidia opened her own restaurant in the Strip District in Pittsburgh where other Italian-American immigrants also started earlier businesses. But Pittsburgh's other well known "Little Italy" is called Bloomfield. In this episode, Lidia shares recipes from both of these areas, Braised Veal Shank, Olive Oil Mashed Potatoes and Peas with Bacon. D
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Joanne Weir's Cooking Class "Veal Chops with Salad & Pineapple Sorbet" Joanne teaches her student Kyle a classic Milanese main course topped with a salad followed by a refreshing sorbet drizzled with a unique ingredient that gets a raised eyebrow from Kyle. Recipes: (1) GOLDEN VEAL WITH ARUGULA AND TOMATO SALAD, (2) PINEAPPLE SORBET WITH OLIVE OIL AND FLEUR DE SEL. Student: Kyle Khasigian - Graduate Student. D
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Pati's Mexican Table "Family-Style Breakfast" The breakfast of your dreams, prepared by Pati and her sister Alisa. This episode includes both quick, simple dishes and ones meant for a deliciously messy morning feast. Mexican French Toast Rolls (Dedos Gitanos); Green Chilaquiles in Roasted Tomatillo Sauce; Alisa's Marbled Pound Cake. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Naples and Pompeii" Rick finds Naples is Italy in the extreme. He prowls backstreet fish markets, dodges fast-moving Vespas, and dines on pizza where it was invented. He climbs to the top of nearby Mount Vesuvius, then wanders through the ruins of Pompeii.G


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From the City of Colorado Springs, CSPD is patrolling voluntary evacuation area "A," west to I-25 and all areas north of Old Ranch Road within the city limits.
Colorado Springs Police Conducting Patrols in the City's Voluntary Evacuation "Area A"
Colorado Springs, Colo.—Colorado Springs Police Department is patrolling throughout the City's Voluntary Evacuation Area A to provide security for residents' homes while they are out of the area.
Voluntary Evacuation Area A: West to I-25 and all areas north of Old Ranch Road within the City limits of Colorado Springs.
As a reminder:
A Voluntary Evacuation means that the fire is moving closer to you. A mandatory evacuation order may be issued at any time. Now is the time to prepare for immediate evacuation. If you think that you may have complications evacuation, or need assistance evacuation now may be the best time to leave.
Be sure to take essential items—medicine, special foods, personal items, baby supplies, clothing, money, and valuable papers — but do not overload your vehicle. Families are encouraged to take only one vehicle to avoid congesting the evacuation routes. Secure your home before you leave. Be sure to check on any neighbors who may need assistance.
Residents who cannot stay with family or friends outside the evacuation area, go to one of the shelters listed below:
· Palmer Ridge High School- 19255 Monument Hill Rd, Monument
Pets will not be allowed in the shelters. If residents cannot make arrangements for someone outside the evacuation area to take care of their pet the following places may be able to house their animal:
Animal Shelters:
· Powers Pet Emergency- Powers and Stetson Hills — Offering small animal assistance, medical & kennel. Ph (719) 473-0482
· Falcon Animal Hospital- Phone (719) 495-1457, is now accepting dogs and cats. Address: 860 Swing Line Road.
Do not allow pet to run loose. If residents cannot make arrangements for your large animals the following places may be able to provide assistance:
Large Animal Shelters:
· Elbert County Fairgrounds (95 Ute Avenue, Kiowa, CO. 303-718-3343).
· El Paso County Fairgrounds in Calhan is now accepting evacuated large animals.
Residents with no means of transportation or who are physically unable to evacuate on their own, should ask a neighbor to assist them or call the following number: (719) 444-7000.
"BE READY!" If you are not in the current evacuation or pre-evacuation areas there is currently no immediate danger to your home, family, or business, but the fire is growing and may be moving toward you as weather and wind conditions change. Now is the time to get ready. Refine your evacuation plans, and gather the things you'll need if you must evacuate.
It is imperative that all citizens stay away from all evacuated areas. Please do not stop in these areas for any reason as it can endanger evacuees and emergency personnel.


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"You take on the role as the RAID LEADER guiding a group of heroes through a land plagued by monsters and demons.
Each hero has different abilities, and knowing when to use them is key to winning the fights. Guide your heroes wisely and you will cleanse the land of evil.
Raid Leader features a fluid and intuitive control system and a unique perks and ability system which offers lots of combinations. Are you prepared?"
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Ian Ayre has told Sky Sports he expects Suarez to stay at Anfield this summer.
Since moving to Liverpool in January 2011, Suarez has scored 38 goals in 77 appearances and become a favourite amongst many fans.
He has however been at the forefront of a lot of bad press recently, arguably for valid reasons since his eight game ban for racial abuse on Manchester United's Patrice Evra and biting Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic which will see him continue a ten match ban early on this coming season.
In May this year, Suarez declared his want to leave Liverpool, blaming the media intrusion as the main factor. He has since been linked with a move to a number of clubs with Arsenal having had two bids rejected.
Ayre is confident the Uruguayan striker will remain with the Reds: "We've got Luis Suarez in our squad, he'll have trained today and he's working hard.
"Despite what people think we've not had an intention of selling Luis, we've never said we want to sell Luis.
"He continues to work hard and train hard for Liverpool. That will continue and I'll expect him to be here at the start of the season."
Former Arsenal striker Ian Wright has told BBC Sport that Suarez should stay at Liverpool: "I'd welcome him at Arsenal with open arms but if I was Suarez, when you look at everything, it does seem strange he would want to go to Arsenal. I would give Liverpool another season."
With Arsenal not yet making a third bid, it is time for Suarez to show some respect to the football club which has been so loyal to him.
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'Italian American Reconciliation' explores complex relationships
John Patrick Shanley is perhaps best remembered for his memorable screenplay for the film "Moonstruck" (with Cher and Nicholas Cage), as well as his 2005 play "Doubt." The latter garnered a Pulitzer Prize as well as Drama Desk and Tony awards. He subsequently directed the 2008 screen version of the play, starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis.
Over a decade prior to these achievements, Shanley wrote "Italian American Reconciliation," a drama that bears the grim stamp of the playwright's dysfunctional relationship with his mother.
After "years of thinking, talking endlessly" and writing plays, Shanley realized that his mother was not very affectionate, and was, as he puts it, a "pill." The verdict was born of what the playwright calls a "byzantine, tortuous road." After these detours in self-understanding, he realized that things are, after all, "pretty simple."
The two male characters in "Italian American Reconciliation," Huey (Harry Lipstein) and Aldo (Adam Horvath) ponder endlessly what it means to be a man. They both also harbor more than "simple" ideas of how they feel about the women in their lives.
Huey has been divorced from Janice (Karen Pope) for three years, and has been seeing Teresa (Paulette Layton), a waitress. He discovers after a good deal of soul-searching that he really loves his ex, and wants to reunite, despite such minor events as Janice shooting his dog during their marriage -- and without remorse. Huey's epiphany about true love is finally unflappable, and in place whether or not Janice opts for reunion.
Teresa meanwhile has realized Huey is not for her, and intends to give him up, not without some misgivings. She feels Janice is like someone who "should live on a black mountain and drink out of a skull."
Aldo, like the playwright, is a bit of a mommy's boy whose driving ambition is to lose his "fear of women as a race." He fancies he might attempt this by pleading Huey's case to Janice, while having an undercover thing for her himself.
Aldo turns up at Janice's home to make the case for Huey from a spot on the ground below her balcony. The scene is reminiscent of one in which Cyrano de Bergerac in Rostand's play addresses Roxanne as a stand-in for another character to whom she is attracted.
The intriguing thing about Shanley's depiction of the mind-sets of his Little Italy characters is that their self-realizations are spun out of insights that border on Talmudic deliberation. They're a bit too preachy and overcomplicated for the likes of working class folk like Huey, Aldo, Janice and Teresa.
Director Sherry Asch has her performers doing their thing in broad acting strokes that sometimes go beyond what a more toned-down realism might deliver.
Marcia Simha's set design captured well the mood of Shanley's play, and Jose Helứ's sound design included the sound track from the magisterial Puccini aria, "Nessun Dorma." It has a more comfortable niche in a Pavarotti concert. In The Ridegfield Theater Barn's current production, it seems a bit overblown for Shanley's earthy characters.
"Italian American Reconciliation" runs through Dec. 8. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m., with a Sunday matinee Dec. 2 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $24 for adults, $20 for seniors and students, and may be purchased by calling 203-431-9850 or online at www.ridgefieldtheaterbarn.org.
David Begelman is a freelance writer in Connecticut; firstname.lastname@example.com


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Vanessa Hudgens: Check Out My July 4th Nails!
Vanessa Hudgens heads to an appointment at a local nail salon on Friday afternoon (July 5) in Studio City, Calif.
The 24-year-old Frozen Ground actress was seen leaving a pilates class earlier in the day.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Vanessa Hudgens
Vanessa posted a photo on her Instagram page the day before showing off her nail art, saying "Oh snap. Happy 4th nails. 🇺🇸�'�". Check out the photo below. Aren't they cute?!
Vanessa's new movie The Frozen Ground opens in select theaters and on demand August 23rd so make sure to check it out.


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Despite mounting challenges brought on by climate change, farmers around the world are increasingly being aided by modern agricultural practices, such as biotechnology.
Climate change is already affecting U.S. agriculture and land and water resources, and will continue to do so, according to a USDA report released this week at the climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), in cooperation with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), has released The Effects of Climate Change on U.S. Ecosystems.
Sharon Bomer Lauritsen, Executive Vice President for Food and Agriculture at the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) says biotechnology is one tool that can help increase agricultural productivity despite these environmental challenges.
"Our member companies have been developing environmental stress tolerance traits (plants that are naturally tolerant to extreme cold, heat, drought, saline soil, diseases and insect pests) for the past decade, and many of these are poised for commercialization," says Bomer. "The pending authorization of these products couldn't be more timely given the challenges facing farmers.
"According to this recent report, climate change is hurting crop production, distribution, and yields directly through changes in temperature and precipitation, and indirectly by increasing pest and weed outbreaks. Through biotechnology, seeds yield more per acre, plants naturally resist specific insect pests and diseases, and farmers use less energy. Genetically engineered plants and animals can naturally fight diseases and adapt to environmental stress.
"Productivity gains through biotechnology are especially crucial at a time when our population is growing and our demand for food is increasing, especially in developing countries. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, feeding a world population of 9.1 billion in 2050 will require raising food production by 70 percent. Food production will need to increase by nearly 100 percent in developing countries, where farmers are most adversely affected by climate change.
"Farmers are not defenseless in their struggle against extreme weather conditions and evolving pest populations. Biotechnology will continue to be one of many tools to help farmers meet these environmental challenges and better provide the food, fuel and fiber to serve a growing population."
About BIO
BIO represents more than 1,200 biotechnology companies, academic institutions, state biotechnology centers and related organizations across the United States and in more than 30 other nations. BIO members are involved in the research and development of innovative healthcare, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology products. BIO also produces the BIO International Convention, the world's largest gathering of the biotechnology industry, along with industry-leading investor and partnering meetings held around the world.
Upcoming BIO Events
7th Annual BIO Asia Partnering Conference
January 25-26, 2010
Tokyo, Japan
12th Annual BIO CEO & Investor Conference
February 8-9, 2010
New York, NY
9th Annual Windhover & Windhover PSO
February 23-25, 2010
New York City, NY
BIO-Europe Spring
March 8-10, 2010
Barcelona, Spain
BIO Intellectual Property Counsels Spring Conference and Committee
April 19-21, 2010
New Orleans, LA
BIO International Convention
May 3-6, 2010
Chicago, IL
McCormick Place Convention Center
2010 BIO Human Resources Conference
May 4-7, 2010
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(Health.com) -- It's definitely fall: Kids are back in school, football season has kicked off, and ragweed is blooming. While autumn means cooler temperatures and colorful leaves, it also means runny noses and red eyes for millions of Americans.
Doctors recommend a management plan to help chronic allergy sufferers through the fall season.
How do you enjoy the season without the side effects?
"Find out what is causing your allergy symptoms," says Angel Waldron, a spokeswoman with the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA). "Get with your doctor and have an allergy management plan." Health.com: Asthma action plan: What it is and why you need it
That management plan may include limiting your outdoor activities to times when the pollen count isn't at its peak, says Rebecca Piltch, MD, an allergy and asthma specialist in San Rafael, California. (It's usually highest between 5 a.m. and 10 a.m.)
When you come back inside, change your shoes and clothes, says Neil Kao, MD, of the Allergic Disease and Asthma Center, in Greenville, South Carolina.
Changing clothes "will help reduce the pollen that you are bringing in from outside, says Kao. "If you don't at least take off your shoes, you're tracking the pollen all over the house." Health.com: 15 hypoallergenic dogs and cats
And take a shower to wash any allergens off your body, Dr. Piltch says.
Once inside, keep your windows closed, change your air filters, and run your air conditioner, Dr. Kao adds.
For more severe allergies, over-the-counter and prescription medications can help. Dr. Kao also recommends nasal sprays, which he says are "simple and safe."
"It's like washing your hands, except for your nose," he explains.
Dr. Kao isn't expecting fall allergies in his home state, South Carolina, to be very bad -- a welcome change. "With all the rain we've been getting across the southeast, the temperatures have been getting lower and the rain has been washing the pollen out of the air," he says.
That's probably good news for allergy sufferers in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Last fall, the AAFA named it the allergy capital of the United States. The list is an annual research project that identifies the 100 most challenging places to live in the U.S. with allergies. Health.com: Cannot stop coughing? 8 causes of chronic cough
In 2008, Greensboro had higher-than-average pollen counts, its residents were taking more allergy medications, and the city didn't have enough allergists for its population, according to the report. Health.com: Heartburn or heart attack? How to tell the difference
But not all allergy sufferers in the Southeast will appreciate the rain.
Some states, like Georgia, may have less pollen after days of flooding rains, but the extra dampness is the perfect climate for mold, a major fall allergy, Dr. Piltch says.
Although the South suffers from weed and mold spore allergies in the fall, Gerald Kress, an executive with SDI Health, which operates Pollen.com, says the North and Northeast gets hit particularly hard by ragweed -- and 2009 is shaping up to be a banner year for ragweed pollen.
In cities from Columbus, Ohio, to Bangor, Maine, the number of people being affected by allergies is up more than 50 percent over 2008.
"It's been a better year for ragweed," Kress says. Usually the region gets more rain from hurricanes, but that hasn't happened this year.
Kress expects the number of people suffering from autumn airborne allergies to increase between 2 and 5 percent over last year.
"It's up 1.3 percent right now," he says. "We think we'll hit the forecast by end November."
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