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Kenny Chesney accepted his fourth award for entertainer of the year from the Academy of Country Music on Sunday (May 18) in Las Vegas — the first time the ceremony's highest honor was voted on by fans.
"This one is really extra special because long before I had a hit record, the fans always came to the shows. I want to thank you guys for voting and for being there for me," Chesney said. After thanking God and business associates, he added, "I want to thank my mom and dad for having sex so many years ago and being responsible for me being up here tonight. But seriously, a lot of great artists and people who mean a lot to this business have stood up here in years past, and I'm honored to be up here for the fourth year in a row. God bless y'all. Thank you so much."
Brad Paisley collected two awards — for video of the year ("Online") and male vocalist.
"A singer is nothing without inspiration. I thank my wonderful wife, Kim, who is not here tonight. I probably ought to thank my son for the first time for inspiration," said Paisley, upon accepting his male vocalist award. "I am so honored to carry the torch another year, and thank God for all the blessings in my life."
Accepting the top female vocalist award, Carrie Underwood said, "Wow! God is good! God is good! I would like to thank the most wonderful family in the world. I have great parents, great sisters, great family. … There are so many people who have done so many wonderful things for me, and I know I don't deserve it. But I'll take it!" Then she quickly added, "Oh, fans! Thank you fans! Duh! Fans got me everything that I have and I owe everything to you, so thank you fans."
Rascal Flatts won the vocal group award and also received The ACM/The Home Depot Humanitarian Award. Gripping the group trophy, Gary LeVox said, "The fans, thank you so much for coming out every night. Thank you all so very much, seriously. We like to give God all the thanks and all the glory for giving us a stage to stand up and perform on every night. Thank you to Las Vegas for keeping air conditioners on."
Accepting the Humanitarian Award, Jay DeMarcus said, "We are humbled and honored to receive this tonight, and of all we've been given, this is probably one of the most special. We've been firm believers that if you get, you give back. … I want to challenge everybody out there to give your blessings back because it will come back to you 100 times over."
Sugarland's "Stay" secured two awards. Jennifer Nettles, who wrote the song, burst into tears upon winning the song of the year. At the podium, she declared, "It means so much to me that you guys really relate to this song and that you accept it. Thank you so much to my partner Kristian Bush and to Gail Gelman [manager] for believing in this song before anybody did. Thank you to Luke Lewis and your whole staff at Mercury to have big ones enough, that when we came to you and said, 'Hey let's put a song without drums on the radio,' you said, 'Sure!'"
Upon accepting the single award, Bush said, "Thanks everybody for believing in a song that's almost a five-minute acoustic song and making that a hit on the radio. That's something that wouldn't have happened without everybody here."
However, Brooks & Dunn edged out Sugarland for the duo trophy. Ronnie Dunn, who seemed stunned by their win, told the audience, "There's a little fire in the train now, it's heated up." Prior to the telecast, Tracy Lawrence picked up vocal event for "Find Out Who Your Friends Are," a distinction he shares with Chesney and Tim McGraw.
Although he charted his first country single in 1997, Jack Ingram captured the trophy for top new male artist. On the other side of the spectrum, Lady Antebellum won for top new vocal duo or group, even though their debut album hadn't even been released when the nominations were announced. Meanwhile, Taylor Swift dedicated her ACM trophy for top new female artist to her mother.
"There are so many people who deserve to be thanked for this, but I am going to thank one," Swift said. "And that's a person that used to love to go to lunch with her friends, cook dinner for her family and sleep in her bed every night. She gave that all away and left that all behind to go on the road with her 16-year-old daughter. … Then she was sleeping in rental cars and in airplanes and rental cars with her mouth wide open because she was so tired. And so Mom, thank you so much! I love you! This is for you!"
Miranda Lambert's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend won an ACM Award for album of the year — a surprise to many people in the audience, as well as the star herself.
"I don't know what to say. I was not expecting this at all. I was right behind Kenny Chesney, and I just don't feel right taking this," Lambert said. "But thank you so much to my fans and to the industry for accepting me so much, being a little left of center. I'm a songwriter. I poured my heart and soul into this album. It's a part of who I am. Thank you for appreciating it. Thank you to my family … and to my boyfriend for supporting me and telling me it's OK to be who I am."
Garth Brooks played a medley of his hits before accepting the Crystal Milestone Award from host Reba McEntire, in honor of selling 128 million albums. Also during the ceremony, Paisley and Underwood paid tribute to Eddy Arnold with an understated rendition of "Make the World Go Away," while Paisley later tipped his hat to Buck Owens in an acceptance speech. Along with the winners, the night's performers included Trace Adkins, Rodney Atkins, Montgomery Gentry, Toby Keith, Kellie Pickler, LeAnn Rimes, George Strait, Keith Urban and Trisha Yearwood.
Check out the complete coverage of the 2008 ACM Awards show.


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The Spanish use the same word for time that they do for weather. It seemed odd to me at first but is making more and more sense. You only have to watch cloud shadow play across a hillside or observe the changes in people as they live through the different weathers thrown at them by a passing year to understand the word. I look it up and in fact ten possible meanings are listed:
1. Time
Time has changed. Apart from my three hours in the afternoons with the kids – Monday through Thursday – I manage my own these days. I am no longer a time-labourer; I'm the farmer. There's only so much that can be harvested and I need it for teaching, for getting shots, for writing. I need it for K, for our home, for fun. To think, to try new things, to plan, to sleep. It's hard work and I'm not good at it. Yet.
2. Weather
Tarifa is all about the weather. People come here for wind. It is the windiest place in Europe although we haven't experienced the shock we were warned about – Ireland would give it a run for its money. Our time here has been clearly demarcated by changes in weather. The hot winds and hot, hot nights before K got here; the cooling Autumn with its fresh mornings and thinning population, its closing bars and boutiques; the rainy winter with its ridiculous humidity and the battles with damp and mould; and now the brightened Spring, the warming year with its multicoloured blooms and barbecues.
3. Quarter
My income is roughly a quarter of what it was. It grates at times to have to be so watchful with every penny but my taste for cheap wine has helped. Food too, in this country, is best when cheap and fresh. I am also about a quarter as stressed as I was, so the deal is a fair one.
4. Tense
Ok, a little license here. The dictionary means tense as in present perfect, future simple and so on but I can't do anything with that so I'm using tension. And we've certainly had a lot of that. Previous dispatches may have given the impression that life here is one endless carnaval but…well ok, recently it has been. Before that, however, anxiety levels were well up. They still are. There is a price to pay for all of this. Prices. People, things to miss and certainties, familiarities to lament. We're still totting up the bill.
5. Term
The Spanish for term is trimestre and for the first time since I was a student – and that is a long time – my year is divided into three of them. I am learning that to approach the end of a term is to approach exhaustion, to crawl over sand like a desert rat towards some wavering mirage that disappears when you get there only to become…another term. Children are hard work, it turns out. Miners have it easy…
6. Part
At no point did we hold up a "life in the sun" as a target for ourselves. The trappings of an expat life in the south of Spain are, if anything, repellent to us. There are far too many orange people down here who came for the sun years ago and still don't speak Spanish. They crave English breakfasts or whatever the German equivalent is and drink their beer by the pint or whatever the German equivalent is. That's not us. We knew before we made the move that it was a step, nothing more. A part of what we're trying to achieve.
7. Movement
An obvious one – it's all movement at the moment, all "up in the air". This is the source of so much of the tension and tiredness but also of the exhilaration. Life couldn't always be like this, surely? Some of this airborne dust will have to settle. I wonder how, and where.
8. Tour
Tricky. I don't like the connotations here. The word makes me think of "guided" tours and being told what to do and when to do it in what is meant to be your time off. Then there's the Grand Tour of years gone by when young British aristos would set off with trunk and manservant and tour the Florences and Romes and Cairos, returning with knowledge and taste and a lot of stuff that should probably still be in those places. Both K and I have lived now in multiple countries and neither of us could tell you for sure whether our tour is over or not.
9. Cyclone
Nope, nothing.
10. Period
I have a powerful sense that we are creating a period in our lives. One of those times that will be looked back upon. The time that we….the days when it….remember when? A little suspicious of the impulse to create memories; I prefer to fully engage, to live without the mediation of an imagined future self. On the other hand, memories will be created whether I like it or not. Hope you enjoy them, future self.
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Fashion Scout, the international showcase for fashion innovation, can now announce Cassandra Verity Green, Keiko Nishiyama, Min Wu and Youjia Jin as the SS15 Ones To Watch designers.
Cassandra Verity Green
Taking inspiration from her personal experience, emotion and memory, knitwear designer Cassandra Verity Green's body of work is one that intertwines a playful sensibility with innocence. Recently graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2013, the technique driven designer has gained sponsorship from Spinexpo and Santoni Shanghai and already caught the attention of press among the likes of Dazed and Confused and Hunger.
Keiko Nishiyama
Japanese born Keiko Nishiyama graduated from MA fashion design at London College of Fashion in 2013 before starting up her label. Showing her graduate collection to positive review, her designs play with imbalance and are crafte from delicate hand-drawn prints. Her attention to detail and innovative work have already been featured in publications such as i-D Magazine.
Min Wu
Min Wu designs her collections with a bold modern woman in mind. Interlacing lines and fluid shapes to create strong visual contrast, she was a part of our graduate showcase in September 2013. An individual who strived to explore the original beauty that is born from the deliberate combination of functional materials, with particular emphasis on technology and the reflection of this in the world today, we look forward to seeing what she brings to the One to Watch showcase in September.
Youjia Jin
Youjia Jin, fashion designer and buyer, graduated with an MA in womenswear from the London College Of Fashion this year. Having been previously educated at Central Saint Martins and the Beijing Institute of Fashion and Technology, she was awarded a top 10 menswear designer award in China. Her previous collections have received huge praise from top UK and international press, including that of British Vogue, British GQ, i-D and iLOOK Magazine.
Instrumental in raising the profile of emerging design on a global scale, the Ones to Watch show is the first place to see the very best in up and coming talent. Always one of the most anticipated shows of the season, they were selected by a panel of industry experts, including Hilary Alexander, Robert Cavell-Clarke of Not Just A Label, Judith Tolley of CFE London, Fashion Scout alumni Phoebe English, our Ones to Watch stylist Rebekah Roy, and Martyn Roberts Fashion Scout's director.
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Well here is where I got to on the challenge I gave myself to build a Scalescenes fishing boat in two days. It was a tall order, as I was building it away from home, here in Peterborough.
The first pictures show the hull I completed at the end of play yesterday, getting its wrap to finish off the hull.
Next are the bulwark sections. These act as way of
strengthening the top of the hull, by laminating both the hull and the bulwark
rails together.
Next the bulwark stays. All glued into position and
trimmed back flush to the rail.
A bit of fine detail next, to the side of the hull in the
form of fenders.
And to top of the bulwark, is the top rail.
Starting to look like a boat now.
Now here is where things get serious. It's time to build the deckhouse and wheel house. This honestly took me for ever, cutting out so many small and intricate parts. What with my huge fingers, it's quite hard. But the end results always blow my brain.
And here is this point at where I had to call it a day.
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Hey, remember that blizzard, the one that got me all freaked out because the plant room got cold, but then it turned out not to be much of a blizzard at all and I was kind of disappointed?
I think I've been adequately compensated for that now.
Three days ago or so, the forecast was for an inch of snow on Monday, followed by some wind Tuesday. This was mainly of interest to me because it was supposed to get really cold at the same time -- down below zero again -- which we'd been getting kind of a break from that over the last week or two. So that was kind of unpleasant. But still -- an inch of snow. How bad could it be?
And then on Sunday they changed the forecast to two inches of snow, but that's hard to get terribly excited about too. So then Monday arrived.
Outside my office window, the neighbors have parked a lawnmower. It's maybe thirty or forty feet from where I'm sitting. Black and red, on a snow-white background. It's as full-daylight as you can get on a totally overcast day. And I have been intermittently unable to see the lawnmower.
So this is kind of awesome.
I'm still not nuts about the plunging temperatures, but this is a totally acceptable blizzard. Four out of five stars. (I'm withholding the fifth star because I can, after all, still see the lawnmower. And also two inches of snow is not very much. For five stars, you need at least 12 inches / 30.5 cm of snow.)


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Kierland Dental Center's Gift of Giving
Kierland Dental Center is revving up for a memorable weekend of volunteering for the Arizona Mission of Mercy. Last year Dr. Thompson, Melinda, and Hillary volunteered their time and professional skills for the first ever AzMOM. It was such an inspirational and rewarding experience we are all looking forward to helping again December 13-14. If you know anyone in need of dental treatment and cannot afford proper care please spread the word.
AzMOM is a large-scale dental clinic where dental treatment is provided at no cost to individuals who cannot access and/or afford dental care. This event is completely volunteer driven and strives to help on a first come first served basis. There are over 1,500 volunteers signed up this year.


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Jack Darby graduated from Central High School in 1951 where he lettered in baseball and basketball. He pitched four no hit games and played semi-professional baseball for several local teams in the 1950's. He was offered a professional contract with the Cincinnati Reds but opted to sign with the University of Alabama on a baseball / basketball scholarship. He averaged a strikeout per inning while in high school and played for the American Legion Post 11 during the summers. Darby pitched two no hit games for the Legion Team in 1950 as he helped his team make a run to the state tournament. Tragically, his career was cut short in 1953 when he died in an automobile accident while on a weekend pass from the United States Army. Each year his legacy continues with the presentation of the Jack Darby Memorial Trophy, which goes to the most outstanding athlete at Central High School.


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With Halloween two weeks away, it may be time to make your trick-or-treat plan of attack. Luckily, the nation's capitol is among the top cities to go trick-or-treating.
Zillow, an online real estate company, released its latest rankings and D.C. came in at number eight. That's up two spots from last year.
Baltimore, Md., claimed the number 19 spot followed by Virginia Beach, Va. San Francisco, Boston and Honolulu took the top three spots.
Here is a look at the top five neighborhoods in the District:
- American University Park
- Chevy Chase
- Georgetown
- Woodley Park
- Friendship Heights
Zillow took into account a number of variables to make its annual ranking of trick-or-treat hot spots, including home values, crime data and the walk score for the neighborhoods.


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Jug Bridge was originally built in 1808-1809. In 1944, after a section had collapsed two years prior, the bridge was replaced. In 1955, a second bridge was built to carry travelers east, while the 1944 bridge carried travelers west. The 1944 bridge was closed permanently in 1985. The Jug Monument dedicated to the bridge builders was removed and relocated to its current location along Maryland Route 144, east of Frederick in 1965.
During the Confederate Raid on Washington, a battle had erupted at a place called Monocacy Junction on July 9, 1864. It was at this battle where less than 7,000 Union soldiers stubbornly held back a 15,000 man Confederate army under the command of Lieutenant General Jubal Early and saved Washington. It was along the river banks of the Monocacy River where Union soldiers, some veterans along with 100 days men bought the necessary time for the defenses of Washington to be reinforced.
As visitors today learn about this important Civil War battle, they don't realize that the first or last shots of the battle occurred a few miles to the north at a place called Stone (Jug) Bridge. Jug Bridge was important for the Union defenders to hold, as the National (Baltimore) Road transverses there was going to be used in case of retreat. It was also the extreme right flank of the Union defenders at Monocacy. Major General Lew Wallace noted there were two areas of importance that needed to be held. One mile north of Jug Bridge was Hughes' Ford and one mile to the south was Crum's Ford. If the Confederates attempted to ford in either of these two places, they could turn the entire Union right flank. Situated between the two fords was Jug Bridge.
Holding the Baltimore Road since sunset of July 8, were seven companies of the 149th and three companies of the 144th Ohio National Guard, under the command of Colonel Allison Brown. He was deployed on the western side of the Monocacy River along Reich's ridge. He also protected Hughes' Ford, a mile to the north. The following morning, the 144th Ohio National Guard was ordered to Monocacy Junction. Captain Edward Lieb, commanding a detachment of the 159th Ohio Mounted Infantry would take its place.
Situated a mile to the south, at Crum's Ford, between Jug Bridge and Monocacy Junction were companies B, G and H of the 1st Maryland Potomac Home Brigade. They were commanded by Captain Robert Bamford, and were positioned at the center of the Union battle line. Located behind the 1st Maryland Potomac Home Brigade was a portion of the 3rd Maryland Potomac Home Brigade protecting the flanks of the 1st Maryland Potomac Home Brigade. They had taken up two positions located on the high hills overlooking Crum's Ford. Covering the right flank was companies C, D, and E and covering the left flank was companies A, B, and K. The remaining companies F, G, H, and I of Colonel Charles Gilpin's 3rd Maryland Potomac Home Brigade was detached elsewhere. Positioned to their left was the 11th Maryland Infantry, commanded by Colonel William T. Landstreet. They had taken position on a high ridge that overlooked the Monocacy Junction.
On July 9, at 6:00 a.m., the Confederate army advanced into Frederick. Major General Stephen D. Ramseur's division was the first to move through the city. Major General Ramseur ordered Brigadier General Robert Lilley's Brigade to move through the city on the Baltimore Road and picket the area. About a mile from the city, Brig. Gen. Lilley deployed his skirmishers and began attacking Colonel Brown's command.
Guarding Hughes' Ford was one company of the 149th Ohio National Guard under the command of Captain Charles McGinnis. He had orders to hold that ford at all costs. If the Confederates attempted to forded there, the route of the Union retreat to Baltimore may be cut off or the Union right could collapse.
About a mile to the north of Hughes' Ford, at Worman's Mill (Route26), was where Brigadier General Bradley T. Johnson's cavalry brigade had bivouacked for the night. He was ordered to raid Baltimore, and if practical, move to Point Lookout and free several thousand Confederate prisoners there. Upon hearing the sounds of battle committing the Union army at Monocacy, he was ordered to proceed with the plan.
As Lilley's Virginians skirmished, by 10:00 a.m., Colonel Brown saw Confederate cavalry closing in on Hughes' Ford to the north. Colonel Brown quickly sent a dispatch to his brigade commander Brigadier General Erastus Tyler for additional troops. Colonel Brown then ordered Captain Thomas Jenkins' company of the 149th Ohio National Guard to Hughes' Ford to reinforce Captain McGinnis. Captain Lieb and his detachment of the 159th Ohio Mounted Infantry had been ordered from Monocacy Junction to Jug Bridge. From there, he quickly moved to Hughes' Ford and helped to repel the Confederate attack. The Confederate cavalry fell back and remained in skirmish formation.
At around 11:00 a.m., Confederate Major General Robert Rodes' Division marched into Frederick. Rodes' Division was ordered to relieve Brig. Gen. Lilley's position so they could rejoin their division along the Georgetown Pike. Upon relieving, Brig. Gen. Lilley, Major General Rodes' was ordered to keep pressure on Colonel Brown's position at Jug Bridge to force Major General Lew Wallace at Monocacy Junction to send reinforcements away from the Union center.
Major General Rodes quickly orders his sharpshooters to deploy, freeing up those skirmishers from Brig. Gen. Lilley's Brigade. The sharpshooters deployed about 500 yards from Colonel Brown's main position along the crest of a hill. While under fire, Rodes' will begin deploying his division. As the sharpshooters went to work, Union Lieutenant Edward Goldsborough recalled "So accurate was their fire that it was dangerous for our men to even show their heads above the hilltop."
Confederate Brigadier General William Cox's Brigade deployed on the left of the Baltimore Road, and Brigadier General Philip Cook's Brigade deployed on the right of the road. The remaining brigades of Brigadier General Bryan Grimes and Brigadier General Cullen Battle's Brigade, commanded by Colonel Charles Pickens, were kept in reserve.
At 11:30 a.m., Maj. Gen. Rodes launched his first attack, increasing the pressure on Colonel Brown's line. Brigadier General Cook's Brigade attacked the Union left, pushing them back to within 100 yards of Jug Bridge. Colonel Brown received the three companies of the 144th Ohio National Guard just in time. The Confederate sharpshooters who had taken position earlier in the morning in Simpson's log house still pinned down the Ohioans.
At 12:00 p.m., the 149th Ohio National Guard, Company B was ordered to charge the Confederate skirmishers in an attempt to regain lost ground. The charge was repulsed. Colonel Brown, then ordered the three companies of the 144th Ohio National Guard to attack. This attack pushed Rodes' skirmishers back, and the Ohioans managed to retake the ground that had previously been lost. Colonel Brown wrote "During this charge my loss was quite severe owing to the fact that the enemy was posted behind a fence, while my men were compelled to charge across an open field, up the hill in Fairview, and within short range of his guns." Colonel Brown immediately began extending his line along Reich's ridge.
Between 4:00 – 5:00 p.m., Maj. Gen. Wallace had ordered Colonel Brown to his position "to the last extremity." The road that lay east of the Jug Bridge was to be used for the retreat of the Union defenders at Monocacy. Once Colonel Brown had bought enough time, he would then abandon his position on Reich's Ridge. Shortly after being ordered to hold his position, Colonel Brown could hear the sounds of the battle dieing to the south.
At 6:00 p.m., Maj. Gen. Rodes launched his final attack on Jug Bridge, attacking the left flank. Soon, word came that Maj. Gen. Wallace had already made his escape and that Confederate infantry had already penetrated into the woods and were making their way toward the Baltimore Road. Reports of Maj. Gen. Ramseur's division moving from the south, upstream to the rear of Colonel Brown's position were also heard.
Colonel Brown and his Ohioans were on the verge of being cut off from their retreat. As soon as Rodes' artillery opened on the Ohioans, they quickly began to abandon their positions, and make a dash for the bridgehead. Shells came thundering down, and with rumors of the Confederate movement from the south, the soldiers began throwing down their weapons and loosing their accoutrements as they ran across the bridge.
Colonel Brown was able to rally 300 men before the total collapse of his line. He was able to stall Rodes for a short time, but was forced to give up the bridge, as the Confederates overwhelmed the position. Colonel Brown retreated to New Market.
Captain Leib's detachment of 159th Ohio Mounted Infantry tried to hold the bridgehead. But soon afterward realized that his position was being cut off, and he was forced to retreat northward along the western banks of the Monocacy River to Hughes' Ford, where he forded the river. There, Captain Leib directed Captain McGinnis' company of the 149th Ohio National Guard to the best route to use for the retreat. They took the Linganore Road to Mount Pleasant.
The ridge line has been developed, but the fields still exist. A golf driving range is located on one side, and the Maryland National Guard is located on the other side. It would be great to eventually see interpretive waysides explaining this portion of the Battle of Monocacy, or even having this portion of the battlefield preserved as part of the NPS unit or a regional park.


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LONDON — The sniper arrived at sunset with infrared binoculars and a silencer in his tennis bag. He set up his .22-caliber rifle in the back of a Victorian townhouse, cracked open the glass door and pointed the shrouded barrel toward the far corner of the narrow garden. Then he waited, his right eye glued to the scope, as the last light leaked away.
It took less than an hour. A shadow crept out of the dark and into his field of vision. A crack, barely audible amid the roar of rush hour, and the target collapsed into a lifeless heap of ginger-colored fur.
"Baby scores again," the sniper said, patting his rifle. He turned to his client, a 37-year-old mother of two who had come in from the kitchen: "Do you have a bin bag?"
Britain has the world's highest known density of urban foxes, the result of their self-colonization in cities here since the 1930s. There are now more foxes in London than double-decker buses: an estimated 10,000 roam streets and gardens, often in plain view.
Like the raccoons and coyotes that bedevil American city dwellers, foxes mate noisily, leave smelly droppings, dig up flower bulbs, rifle through trash and occasionally attack pets or people. They have been vilified for killing penguins and flamingo chicks in the London Zoo, and, once, for biting off a baby's finger.
"They may appear cuddly and romantic, but foxes are also a pest and a menace, particularly in our cities," Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, said after the finger incident last year. When his own cat appeared to have been mauled by a fox, Mr. Johnson got so angry, he said he wanted to "go out with my .22 and blaze away."
The subject rouses great passions in a country that invented modern fox hunting in the 18th century, but also has the world's longest tradition of animal rights. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded in 1824, nine years before the British Empire abolished slavery. Today a donkey sanctuary in Devon attracts more donations per year than the three most prominent British charities dealing with violence against women combined.
Clare, a lawyer with three children who also had the foxes in her garden shot, did not want her last name published, saying "there are probably more people who want to shoot people who shoot foxes, than people who want to shoot foxes."
That is why Phil the fox sniper also asked that his last name not be published. "I don't want anyone to do my tires or firebomb my house or, you know, dig up my granny," he said, referring to a 2004 campaign against a farmer breeding guinea pigs for medical research, which included the disinterment of his mother-in-law.
Shooting foxes is controversial, but legal. Phil, 63, first considered it three decades ago, after a fox ripped off the head of his daughter's guinea pig, which was kept in their garden. A plumber who likes to hunt, he has 10 guns in his bedroom safe. He tied a pillow around the barrel of one as a makeshift silencer and waited, but the fox never showed up. Then a friend's two dachshunds were attacked, and he "cracked" a couple of foxes in her garden. "From there, it just snowballed," he said.
His clients include tennis clubs, schools, urban farms and families, typically with small children or pets. (One woman hired him to avenge her Chihuahua after a necropsy found fox bites on its neck.)
He charges 75 pounds, nearly $120, for the first fox and about £50 for every fox after that, disposal included. The cadavers go to a friend's maggot farm, where they are turned into chicken feed. "Poetic justice," Phil calls it.
But foxes have at least as many fans as enemies here. Some Londoners feed them regularly. Others wire up their gardens with night vision and cameras to stream videos online. Facebook pages like Urban Fox Defenders ("A page for those who are sick of the reckless and mindless demonization of our town foxes") have thousands of likes.
When 9-month-old twins Lola and Isabella Koupparis were hospitalized with face and arm injuries after a fox had entered their North London bedroom in 2010, their mother received so many online threats for giving foxes a bad name that she was provided police protection.
Some Britons have never entirely gotten over the 2004 ban on fox hunting, the kind where horseback riders in red blazers give chase with a pack of dogs. After some 700 hours of debate, Parliament chose the animals' rights over a very British tradition. The hunting lobby claims fox numbers have exploded since.
Stephen Harris of the University of Bristol, a self-described vulpophile who has studied foxes for four decades, says there is no evidence of that. He blames the tabloids for making people believe that urban foxes are now "as big as Alsatians" and their numbers are "out of control." As far back as 1973, a British newspaper warned that eventually a fox would kill a baby, he wrote in The Guardian. "It hasn't happened."
Indeed, fox numbers are believed to be roughly what they were in the 1980s, he said. If they are more visible today, it is mainly because humans have encouraged them.
On the same day that Phil was aiming his rifle down the garden, Sandra Reddy and Terry Woods were nursing three injured foxes at a sanctuary an hour's drive south of London with the aim of returning them to "their" neighborhoods. Charlotte, Carl and Beau, all presumed victims of dogs, cars or mites, were recuperating on a diet of dog food and homeopathic anti-mange pills. Apart from the foxes, everyone there is vegan.
"Killing animals is cruel; I wouldn't do it to Terry any more than I would do it to a fox," said Ms. Reddy, 53, who runs a fox help line and South London ambulance service.
"It's also pointless," Ms. Reddy continued. "For every fox you kill, another one will move in."
The evidence suggests she is right: Research by Mr. Harris shows it takes an average of four days until a new fox takes over vacated territory. "To reduce fox numbers significantly, you would have to kill 70 percent of them every year," he said.
Five years ago, Mr. Woods and a partner set up Fox-A-Gon, a company that offers "humane deterrence." Among other things, he uses a spray that imitates fox urine "so the fox thinks a dominant fox has taken over his territory." His most important advice: "Don't leave out food."
The trouble is that friends and foes of foxes live side by side.
At Phil's recent job, the family said it had locked away the barbecue, eliminated the compost and sealed the trash cans. But three neighbors put out nightly treats for the foxes. "These foxes have no boundaries anymore, and who can blame them?" asked Colin, the 52-year-old husband.
One came into the house through the cat flap and knocked over a vase. Another wandered in as his wife was having a cup of tea and stole a towel. They have punctured the children's pool, stolen Colin's flip-flops and attacked the family's cat, Sparky. Sophia, 8, no longer dares go to the back of the garden by herself.
One afternoon, her younger sister, Charlotte, then 5 months old, was asleep outdoors in a carriage when her mother dashed inside. She came back to find a fox staring at the child.
Phil, in his army trousers and camouflage jacket, comes every 18 months. "Rambo," Colin calls him. Sometimes he kills four foxes in one night; this time it was only one. "It's always sad when an animal dies," Phil said as he grabbed the hind legs of the vixen he had just shot between the eyes and slid into a black trash bag.
And even a sniper has limits. "I could never shoot a badger," he said.


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The Joshua Circle Bulldogs have beaten the odds and brought home one of the state's top honors.
On Tuesday, Joshua Circle Elementary School was one of 239 named a 2007-2008 Title I Academic Achievement Award winner. Other High Desert schools receiving the award were Braddach Elementary in Adelanto and Sixth Street Prep and Excelsior Education Center in Victorville.
"The dedicated staff here is one of the reasons this award came here," Principal Lois Reaber said Friday afternoon.
The award doesn't signal a change in teaching methods, she said, but rather the "steady application of what we believe is right for these students."
This year, Joshua Circle's Academic Performance Index scores went up 25 points over the year before, to 766. But the award focuses on Adequate Yearly Progress scores, which measures how individual subgroups, such as English language learners and economically disadvantaged students did. And that's where Joshua Circle shined.
Joshua Circle has more students from poor families than any other Hesperia Unified School District elementary school, but they doubled their improvement goal for students in the lower socio-economic bracket.
"And this comes with, of course, support from the district office, support from folks in speech [therapy], all the way through," Reaber said.
There's an award ceremony in April in Century City, and Reaber is hoping that the teaching staff can participate, not just the school's principal.
"This is a solid staff that's stayed together, except for retirement, through the years," she said. "They need to be honored."
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LETTER: Group questions alignment with Oliver North
To the Editor:
Speaker Betsy Briggs, co-founder and steering committee member of Indivisible Mohawk Valley, issued the following statement regarding the activities of Rep. Claudia Tenney (NY-22) on Monday, Oct. 29:
"Rep. Claudia Tenney will spend Monday, Oct. 29, in the company of Oliver North, who will headline fundraising for Tenney's campaign at events in Broome and Oneida County.
"Oliver North was a key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal of the late 1980s. He was involved in the illegal sale of arms to Contra rebel groups in Nicaragua, an action expressly prohibited by Congress under the Boland Amendment.
After he was indicted on 16 felony counts, he admitted to having lied to Congress. He was convicted on four felony counts, including obstruction of a Congressional inquiry.
Why Claudia Tenney, a member of Congress who seeks re-election to Congress, has decided that someone who lied to and obstructed Congress is an appropriate companion for her fundraising schedule in her district tomorrow is beyond the comprehension of her decent, law-abiding constituents.
"Indivisible Mohawk Valley encourages our members to engage in constructive and peaceful activities that counteract hatred and division within their communities on Monday, Oct. 29th, and to observe a respectful commemoration of the lives that have been lost in recent days to hate crimes and gun violence."
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My motivation for attending PDTSI arose from my background regarding the informatic field, with focus on Software Engineering and Information Systems. Thus, attending a program in a long-time recognized excellence teaching institution as Universidade do Minho, in the fields of computer science and information technology was a natural motivation for this application. The Teacher's vast scientific curriculum and experience in R&D projects, and the several partnerships of the DSI with industry and enterprises were also beneficial.
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While searching for an experience at the international level, I chose the Doctorate in Information Systems and Technologies at Universidade do Minho, for it being a prestiged institution at a national and international level.
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During the San Antonio Fire Department's 9 a.m. roll call Tuesday morning, firefighters did more than just tone up their radios, as usual, to check in with dispatch.
"WE LOVE YOU TOMMY!" "Thank you, from the citizens, too," and "Enjoy retirement, Chief Thompson," were some of their exclamations after learning that Battalion Chief Tommy Thompson was retiring after 34 years.
Thompson, 56, joined the department in 1975 after a coworker in the parts department of a local car dealership suggested the two men take the entry test together. After progressing through SAFD ranks, from firefighter to EMS to paramedic to EMS Lieutenant, he became a captain.
"It's been a very exciting, rewarding and fulfilling career," Thompson said. "I can't imagine anything else that I could have done that would give me this much satisfaction."
In 2000, Thompson became SAFD's first public information officer, just in time for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Before the position was created, designated firefighters were responsible for PIO work in addition to their normal duties.
"For the next year-and-a-half after 9/11, that job became so overwhelming," Thompson said. "There were so many things SAFD was being asked to do, not only from the emergency side, but from the public side — people wanted to show their appreciation for the firefighters and the fire department."
Another challenge, he said, was addressing a barrage of calls about white powder during the anthrax scare that immediately followed the 9/11 attacks. The department took each call seriously, and still does, sending the powder to crime labs for further investigating, but none was ever connected to a terrorist threat.
"People were looking for anything and everything," he said. "We were trying to keep the public from being alarmed unnecessarily, but it was really difficult to keep things under control."
In 2003, Thompson left the administrative building downtown and returned to the Northeast Side's Station 38, in the 6000 block of Distribution, where he spent a total of 18 years during his firefighting career. His fire station coworkers, along with the area's residents, now form his secondary family, he says.
"You get used to a place, and you get to know the people," he said. "The people are what I'm going to miss the most."
Tuesday night, the station will host a farewell dinner for Thompson, an SAFD tradition. Afterwards, he'll leave the station one last time, but don't expect him to give up emergency response work altogether.
He'll stay active on the boards of the Burned Out Survivors Fund and 100 Club of San Antonio, he said, and won't rule out part-time work.
"I don't consider myself old by any means, and I know I could continue to do this for a few more years, easily," Thompson said. "But I think it's time to give someone else a chance. It's time to let go, and spend time with family."


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To the west of Kenmare, Tuosist and Lauragh are bounded by mountains and sea and offer a spectacular setting for walking, cycling and driving. The Ring of Kerry Golf & Country Club and the spectacular 19th century neo gothic Dromore Castle are located nearby in the small village of Templenoe.


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Plans for £25m school and £46m Banwell bypass
PUBLISHED: 07:00 16 August 2018
A new £25million school and a long-awaited Banwell bypass top an £80million council wish list, as Weston prepares for major growth in the coming years.
North Somerset Council is bidding to the Government's Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF) for tens of millions of pounds to bolster infrastructure ahead an anticipated boom in population in the coming decades.
Locking Parklands will be home to the secondary school, which was revealed after North Somerset Council shed more light on its plans to build a near-£50million road around the often-clogged centre of Banwell.
Estimates suggest the bypass project, including the acquisition of land, would cost £46.3million and a £24.5million chunk of the funding would be spent on the creation of the school, with land already secured from an agreement with developer St Modwen.
North Somerset succeeded at the first stage of the bid process in March, and is now developing a business case – which will be submitted in either December or March – to convince the Government to grant the funding.
If the cash reaches the council's coffers, the authority would go some way to satisfying the growing calls for improved infrastructure as the population of Weston and the surrounding villages increases.
In addition to the whopping spend on the bypass and school, £3million will be spent improving roads and cycle routes, and £6million will be invested in flood defences and utility networks like water and gas.
Around 25,000 homes will be built across North Somerset by 2036 as part of the Joint Spatial Plan, including 'garden villages' on the edges of Banwell and Churchill of 1,700 and 2,700 homes respectively.
And the Haywood Village and Locking Parklands developments are well underway and will total more than 3,000 homes when complete, meaning roads and services are set to come under increased strain from an expanding population.
Weston MP John Penrose has pledged his support to the bid.
He said: "Weston and nearby villages are growing fast to cope with our economic rebirth and it means building communities, not dormitories, for people to live in.
"New schools, or extra classes for existing ones, are a vital part of that, along with GPs, community halls and shops too."
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*gasp* let's melt some chocolate! – JD, 5
We love crafting with food – it's fun to do, pretty, and you get to eat the results. What could be better?!
Today I'm sharing four ideas for you to get crafty with food this Easter.
Cadbury's Creme Egg chocolate chicks
We love making these chicks at Easter and tend to get started as soon as Creme Eggs appear on the shelves. They're great fun to make with the kids and were featured in Prima Magazine this month!
Get the step-by-step to making these cute Creme Egg chocolate chicks.
Kinder egg chick in a wheaty chocolate nest
This craft could make a great centrepiece for your Easter get together and the best bit is that that whole thing is edible, so there's plenty to go round!
Get the step-by-step guide to making this Kinder chick and a wheaty chocolate nest.
Easter bunny sugar paste cake decoration
No tutorial for this one, sadly, but it was sent in by the lovely Little Rascal Reviews and I think you'll agree it's a fabulous idea for an Easter cake.
We'll definitely be giving it go – how cute is that bunny??
Make your own Easter egg
Lakeland kindly send us some egg moulds, a melting pot, spoon mould and chocolate this weekend, and we had a wonderful time brushing chocolate onto the moulds, layering it up and ultimately producing two perfect Easter eggs!
I'd thoroughly recommend trying it for yourself. There's a trick to getting the chocolate to layer up perfectly: let the chocolate cool and thicken a bit before you start brushing it on. As long as it's cooled a little and you do it in thin layers (we did 5), allowing it to fully set between each layer, and then leave it in the fridge for 20 mins, it should pop out perfectly!
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"Take hold of your own life. See that the whole existence is celebrating. These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious. The rivers and the oceans are wild, and everywhere there is fun, everywhere there is joy and delight. Watch existence, listen to the existence and become part of it. Then you become a Baul, then you become a lover — because love can exist only with a deep respect for fun, with a deep respect for delight. Love cannot exist with a serious mind. With a serious mind, logic is in tune. be non-serious. I'm not saying not to be sincere. Be sincere, but be non-serious. Sincerity is something else; seriousness is totally different. Be sincere with existence, then you will be true; you will become part of this cosmic LEELA, this cosmic play." ~ OSHO
"Only when we love everything and everyone can we truly become free. Some people are easy to love; others are not so easy. It is easy to love your new lover. It is difficult to love the ex-lover who betrayed you. It is difficult to love the father that mistreated you or that unpleasant person that keeps on bothering you. But this is the invitation: to love everyone, even the one that hates you and wants to hurt you. This is the only way for you to be free."
Sri Prem Baba ~ 4/29/18
"If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change". ~ Michael Jackson
It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.
~ Margaret Fuller
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Pray with your woman, sing with your woman, play with your woman, dance with your woman, with no idea of sex. Don't go on thinking, 'When are we going to bed?' Forget about it. Do something else and get lost into it. And some day love will arise out of that being lost, suddenly you will see that you are making love and you are not making it. It is happening, you are possessed by it.
Then you have your first Tantra experience – possessed by something bigger than you. You were dancing or you were singing together or you were chanting together or you were praying together or meditating together, and suddenly you find you both have moved into a new space. And you don't know when you have started making love; you don't remember either. Then you are being possessed by Tantra energy. And then for the first time you will see a non-technical experience.
~ Osho by Sacred Intimacy
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Dracula was published in 1897 by Archibald Constable and Company of Westminster, UK. It was released in the US in 1899 and ran as a serial in the Charlotte Daily Observer for the latter half of that year. In January 1900, Iceland's newspaper Fjallkonan began its serialization of the novel, translated by the paper's editor Valdimar Ásmundsson. He gave it the title Makt Myrkranna (Powers of Darkness), and according to The Times Literary Supplement, it was eighty-five years later before anyone noticed the significant changes Ásmundsson made to Bram Stoker's work.
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Breaking news on the LiAngelo Ball investigation, originally reported by ESPN. The three UCLA basketball players arrested on shoplifting charges Tuesday — LiAngelo Ball, Jalen Hill and Cody Riley — will not be on the team's flight back to Los Angeles following UCLA's season-opening win over Georgia Tech on Saturday, and according to ESPN, they will remain in Hangzhou for "a week or two" longer.
Ball, Riley and Hill were questioned for allegedly stealing sunglasses from a Louis Vuitton store near the team's hotel in Hangzhou earlier this week, where the team stayed before leaving for Shanghai on Tuesday. They were arrested Tuesday and released on bail early Wednesday morning, but have been staying at a lakeside hotel as the legal process continues to play itself out, forcing them to miss Friday night's season-opener.
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As I proclaimed the other day on 9/11 out of sorrow and actuality - sadly history has shown us and time is proving out "we do forget." While understandably many people took this as a criticism of the times we live, I was expressing a much bigger picture. There are dates that should live in infamy and moments of history that should never be lost, that are relegated to the history books that nobody reads. These events live in the past that we cannot relate to or empathize with. And the further we are from them the more we have ease and tranquility, as if no such event had happened.
But what does this mean for our understanding of the past and actions in the future?
I am not the first to express such a sentiment. We can see this in one of Adam Smith's earlier works "Theory of Moral Sentiments" which he wrote around 1759. In chapter three of that book he goes on to describe the struggle of one man's empathy with two different incidents.
"Let us suppose that the great empire of China, with all its myriads of inhabitants, was suddenly swallowed up by an earthquake, and let us consider how a man of humanity in Europe, who had no sort of connection with that part of the world, would be affected upon receiving intelligence of this dreadful calamity. He would, I imagine, first of all, express very strongly his sorrow for the misfortune of that unhappy people, he would make many melancholy reflections upon the precariousness of human life, and the vanity of all the labors of man, which could thus be annihilated in a moment. …And when all this fine philosophy was over, when all these humane sentiments had been once fairly expressed, he would pursue his business or his pleasure, take his repose or his diversion, with the same ease and tranquility, as if no such accident had happened."
Now speaking of that same comfy man, but this time the news – a forecast of great personal pain – hits closer to home.
"If he was to lose his little finger to-morrow, he would not sleep to-night; but, provided he never saw them, he will snore with the most profound security over the ruin of a hundred millions of his brethren, and the destruction of that immense multitude seems plainly an object less interesting to him, than this paltry misfortune of his own." - Adam Smith Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
Is this no different than a generation that lived through a crisis that reset a cultural's thinking to several generations later that are removed from those events and live as if that accident never occurred.
One of the major consequences of this is that we not only do not remember history but we do not learn from it either. As a culture finds tragedy and a reset - that impacts a generation - it is brought together and the thinking is we shall never forget. But while history is circular, it is partly because time is linear and moves forward bringing a culture further and further from that event. Truth is as generations come and go – we do forget. We know of the life changing event of the past but it no longer changes our lives today and the lessons are softened or forgotten as well. The cost of this is that we end up repeating many of those same mistakes and drift back towards the next crisis or reset – completing the cycle.
As I proclaimed the other day on 9/11 out of sorrow and actuality - sadly history has shown us and time is proving out "we do forget."
While we are beginning to see the slight fading of the true impressions of September 11, 2001 we are also seeing the lost lessons of past cycles.
I leave you with a very brief exert from my latest book "Cultural Cycles: Examining the History of the United States – Why it Repeats Itself, and the Next Looming Reset". I hope you read it, if for no other reason to better understand what and why we see the sins of the past being relived today. Maybe just maybe we cannot fully emphasize with our past but possibly we may be able to learn something from it.
"Everyone in this era is both farthest from and closet to a Reset. Most were born after the prior Reset and – like something that is occurring clear around on the other side of the globe – you may empathize but you can never internalize. Much like the telephone game, as the history lessons get passed from one phase to the next, it loses it purposes and feeling. At the same time, there is a growing pessimism of the direction we are going and warning signs of what is to come. Sadly, though, the usual wisdom of the Sage is unheeded, and the youth are so far removed from the past that any warning signs go ignored until we are past the point of no return – and as far as history…we are doomed to repeat it." – Eric Wilson Cultural Cycles 2017
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It took me quite a lot to finish Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex (jeez, three months as I see from my Goodreads counter!), although it was not because it bored me, far from it, but because I chose to read it during my breaks at work and lately I didn't have many😫.
There were so many interesting things in this novel, covering some important aspects of any narrative, such as themes, structure, characters, styles and so on, and in each of them it could be found at least one such fresh approach that I honestly don't know where to begin. Therefore I'll begin with the beginning, with the title, that is.
Let's see: Middlesex is the name of the street where the narrator grew up and metonymically of the house of her/ his parents in this street; it is the name of the book and metaphorically of the main theme in this book – intersexuality; significantly, for the author does not acknowledge autobiographical references, it is also the name of the street in Grosse Pointe where the latter grew up.
It seems to me that just from the beginning there is this swinging between notions, the first one, between reality and fiction (the real street and the physical book with its title versus the narrator's street and the theme in the book), inviting others, this time within fiction: immigration/ American dream, nature/ nurture, male/ female, family/ incest, tragedy/ comedy and so on) with the key-word that reunites them: "middle". The structure of the novel, looking like a DNA double spiral, follows a subtle dialectic that keeps deploying the plot and intertwining its two layers: Stephanides' family saga on one hand and Callie's arrested bildungsroman on the other hand. The pattern is carefully weaved on an obvious canvas of Greek mythology by a narrator who warns the reader in an exaggerated rhapsodic voice always tempered by soft postmodern irony ("Sorry if I get a little Homeric at times. That's genetic, too.") that the journey that follows is beyond the usual regressus ad uterum, for the discovery of the self truly begins with the genetic ancestry:


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One of the current urban legends circulating about is that college students are intolerant to a diversity of views and have a selective attitude towards free speech. Epitomized by a few highly publicized cases highlighted in the media, especially conservative ones, the idea of intolerance as a feature at colleges and universities has now become part of the conventional wisdom. But, is it true?
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According to a study carried out last year but published a few weeks ago by Gallup and the Knight Foundation, students' attitudes toward free speech shows support for open learning environments that protect free speech while promoting diversity and inclusion. The study was carried out by randomly surveying 3,014 U.S. college students from 39 public and private institutions across the U.S., including six historically black colleges or universities, to gain a sense of what those college students think about First Amendment issues. The results of the study challenge conventional wisdom.
For example, 70 percent of U.S. college students believe that offensive speech should be allowed for the sake of freedom of speech. That is down from 78 percent in 2016. Sixty-one percent said that their campus climate prevents certain groups from saying things because they might be seen as offensive, up from 54 percent the previous year.
But probably the most important statistic emerging from the study is that 90 percent said that protecting free speech rights is very important or extremely important, while 83 percent said promoting an inclusive society is very important or extremely important.
When it came to prioritizing, these college students ranked promoting an inclusive society over protecting free speech rights, 53 percent to 46 percent. About 65 percent of black students, Democrats and women chose a "diverse and inclusive" society over one protecting free speech rights, while 70 percent of Republican students favored free speech. Sixty-six percent of the voluntary respondents identified themselves as Democrats or Democrat-leaning.
Do comments students hear on campus in reference to their race, ethnicity, or religion make them feel uncomfortable? About 25 percent of all college students said yes, with about 43 percent of black students answering yes. This number is nearly double that of white students who answered yes. About 39 percent of all students who said that they felt uncomfortable participated in protests for diversity and inclusion in 2017.
These feelings generated different levels of reactions from students. Although most of them did not protest on their campus last year, among those who did 26 percent attended demonstrations regarding diversity and inclusivity while only 12 percent attended a protest related to free speech issues.
Interestingly enough, 61 percent of students said that they agree or strongly agree that the climate on their campus prevents some people from saying things they believe. That is up from 54 percent in the 2016 survey.
One of the factors that seems to influence the current climate about free speech is – not surprisingly – social media.. Because of the lack of face-to-face communication or simply because of anonymity, people tend to say things that they would not under other circumstances. To begin with, 57 percent of students said in this poll that discussions on political issues are taking place online instead of face-to-face.
Thus, it is not surprising that more than 80 percent of students see social media as responsible for a rise in hate speech. And that makes a lot of people uncomfortable. Sixty-six percent of college students responding said schools should restrict hate speech, with 52 percent of Republicans favoring restrictions.
That does not mean that college students are well informed about their campus policies regarding this topic. Sixty percent of them said they were unsure about whether their college had a speech code, a free speech zone or had ever disinvited a speaker.
Furthermore, 73 percent of students said that they favor campus restrictions on offensive language such as slurs against groups, while 60 percent believe that stereotypical costumes, painted faces and the like should be banned. Not surprisingly, that measure is largely supported by African Americans, women and Democrats.
In these times of "fake news" parlance, unrestricted social media sources, and attention only to media that agree with people's political point of views, it is not surprising that the American public in general have had an increasing suspicion and even disdain towards conventional media outlets. In a 2016 Gallup poll, 32 percent say they have "a great deal" or "a fair amount" of trust in media, with only 14 percent of Republicans expressing trust, down from 32 percent in 2015. Confidence in media also continues to drop among younger and older Americans.
Yet it seems that in 2017, college students were not that distrustful of traditional news sources. In fact, 50 percent of students said they had "a great deal" or "a fair amount" of trust in the news media, an 8 percent jump from the number reporting in 2016. However, it seems a factor behind those significant changes in attitudes has been the result of the last presidential elections. For example, before the 2016 elections Democrats and Republicans had similar views on the security of First Amendment freedoms. Since then, Democratic students are less likely to see those freedoms as secure in comparison with Republicans.
That may explain why a number of independent newspapers, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, have seen their circulation numbers increase in spite of the ease to which their content can be viewed online. That increase in circulation seems to be propelled by Democrats, whose trust in the news media made a gigantic jump in just a year, from 44 to 64 percent. Republicans' trust in the news media, by contrast, has declined to an all-time low of 34 percent among college students.
All these statistics seem to indicate that U.S. college students struggle to find a balance between First Amendment rights and the curtailment of hate speech. Unfortunately, not that many campuses are taking significant steps in providing guidance in this area.
Dr. Aldemaro Romero Jr. is a writer and college professor with leadership experience in higher education. He can be contacted through his website at: http://www.aromerojr.net.


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