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GOP Candidates Turn Attention To South Carolina
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CONAN: Every Wednesday Political Junkie Ken Rudin joins us to recap the week in politics. He's at New Hampshire Public Radio in Concord, which played host to both of us last weekend. And the big surprise is no surprise. Next door neighbor Mitt Romney wins big and early. Ron Paul seems set for the long haul and everybody else faces major questions as they head toward the Palmetto State.
In a few minutes we'll speak with former Representative Bob Inglis about the primary there, plus a shakeup at the White House congressional resignations in California. The Supreme Court hears arguments on Texas redistricting and we'll remember conservative gadfly Tony Blankley. Later in this hour, hour-long Junkie, New York Times columnist Bill Keller on that much-rumored, loved, hated, unlikely Obama-Clinton ticket. But first Political Junkie joins us today from Concord and we begin, as we always do, with a trivia question. Hey, Ken.
KEN RUDIN, BYLINE: Hi, Neal. As they say up here, I came, I saw, I Concord .
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RUDIN: Yeah, OK. Well, I thought I'd try that one. OK. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm much funnier in Washington than I am...
CONAN: You are. Yeah.
RUDIN: Yes. OK. The trivia question is, who was the last person - since we're looking ahead to South Carolina - who was the last person to win the South Carolina primary but not be his party's presidential nominee?
CONAN: A state with a reputation for picking winners. The last person to win the South Carolina primary but not be his party's presidential nominee. If you think you know the answer, give us a call 800-989-8255. You can also zap us an email, talk@npr.org. Of course the winner will get a fabulous Political Junkie no-prize t-shirt.
And Ken, we waited till 3:00 in the morning to get the results from Iowa. Not so much drama last night.
RUDIN: No. I think NPR called it at 8:00 and 30 seconds. It was disappointing for those of us junkies who love protracted and exciting nights, but it was an interesting night nonetheless. I mean there was always the question about Mitt Romney and the expectation game. Would he win by as much as he should have won? Did his win convince people, those who had doubts after the close race in Iowa? And I think Romney got out of New Hampshire what he wanted.
He got a convincing win. He is clearly, I mean, here we go again, but he is clearly the frontrunner. And with polls have him leading in South Carolina on January 21 and Florida January 31, there are some people who think that this nomination battle could be ended by the end of the month. And another thing we also learned about Iowa is the fact that we've seen in the past social conservatives do very, very well there, as Rick Santorum did, as Pat Robertson did in '88, as Mike Huckabee did last time. And all three did not so well in moderate-leaning New Hampshire.
CONAN: Well, you talked about Mitt Romney re-established, if there was any doubt at all, as the frontrunner. And for the most part, in New Hampshire and last night in his victory speech, running as the presumed candidate, not against his rivals we'll hear more about that a little later in the program - but against the president.
MITT ROMNEY: He promised to bring people together. He promised to change the broken system in Washington. He promised to improve our nation. Those were the days of lofty promises made by a hopeful candidate. Today we're faced with a disappointing record of a failed president.
CONAN: A failed president. And that's going to be a theme he's going to continue. He can afford to raise his sights, if you will, while others are going to be sniping at him.
RUDIN: Well, to be honest with you, that's been Mitt Romney's strategy from almost - from the onset, that he has almost ignored or decided to ignore his fellow Republicans and go after President Obama at every opportunity. He did that throughout most of the debates. It wasn't until they started going after him - Rick Perry was one of the beginners - where Romney not so much would respond in kind, but he would have these super-PACs that would do the dirty work on his behalf.
We saw that in Iowa when his super-PAC virtually demolished Newt Gingrich with negative ads, and of course Newt Gingrich is going to try to return the favor in South Carolina. But for the most part, Romney's strategy's always been - the domination is not so much mine but the real target should be President Obama.
CONAN: In the meantime, there is a credible second place finisher and that is Ron Paul. He, of course, called to congratulate his rival, Mitt Romney, but then took a dig at the conservative establishment.
RON PAUL: I wanted to thank the Union Leader for not endorsing me.
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CONAN: Pretty enthusiastic crowd there at Ron Paul headquarters of the union leader - of course the Manchester union leader a long time a kingmaker. In New Hampshire this time around they endorsed Newt Gingrich.
RUDIN: Well, yes, you could say it's very influential and it is very influential. When it endorsed Gingrich, it was filled with anti-Romney broadsides, but if you go to the history of the Union Leader endorsement, Steve Forbes in 2000, Pat Buchanan in 1992, Pete DuPont - you remember President Pete DuPont, right?
CONAN: Of course. Yes.
RUDIN: In 1988. John Ashbrook against Nixon in '72. So yes, they're very influential. Yes, they are a large conservative voice in New Hampshire, but kingmakers, not always.
CONAN: And anyway, Ron Paul was saying he is the challenger to the Republican establishment.
PAUL: But I sort of have to chuckle when they describe you and me as being dangerous.
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PAUL: That's one thing they are telling the truth, because we are dangerous to the status quo of this country.
UNIDENTIFIED CROWD: President Paul, President Paul, President Paul...
CONAN: President Paul, the chant there at the end, and boy, you take out the new voters that Ron Paul brought to the caucuses in Iowa, and if you take out the new voters that Ron Paul brought to the primary in New Hampshire, Republican turnout is lower than it was in 2008 in both places.
RUDIN: And that is surprising because everybody thought that the Republicans were on the defensive, in a funk, in 2008, on the defensive over President Bush, the war in Iraq, the faltering economy. And yet here it is, 2008, when they're supposedly on the ascendancy. They have the backing of the Tea Party, which has put new dynamism into the party, and yet the numbers aren't that much different than 2012.
But one thing about Ron Paul that we learned. First of all, of course he's not going away, nor should he go away, but we always thought that his strength would always be in the caucuses and the fact that he was organized, his supporters very fervent true-believers, but not do as well in the primary. Yesterday in New Hampshire we show that - we saw that he could be very strong in both.
CONAN: We have some people on the line who think they know the answer to this week's trivia question, and that is the last person to win the South Carolina primary and not get his party's endorsement for president of the United States. 800-989-8255 if you'd like to weigh in. Email talk@npr.org. We'll start with Catherine. Catherine with us from San Antonio.
CATHERINE: Yes. I thought that it was going to be John McCain his first time around.
CONAN: Ken?
RUDIN: Well, that is true. John McCain did not win the South Carolina primary the first time around, but he was also not the nominee the first time around in 2000; that was George W. Bush.
CONAN: Nice try, Catherine. Let's see if we...
CATHERINE: It was worth an effort.
CONAN: Sure. It's always worth the effort. Ken's wrong half - no, he's not wrong half the time. Let's see if we...
RUDIN: Some, some...
CONAN: Some of the time. Let's see if we go next to – this is...
RUDIN: I came, I saw, I Concord.
CONAN: ...Scott. Scott's on the line with us from Birmingham.
SCOTT: Yeah. Was it Hillary Clinton?
RUDIN: Hillary Clinton did not win the South Carolina primary. As a matter of fact, that was a big Barack Obama victory, and Bill Clinton caused a lot of controversy back then when he said, well, you know, you know, other people have won the South Carolina primary, it's not a big deal.
But Barack Obama did win it.
CONAN: Scott, thanks very much for the call. Here's an email from Joe: Lyndon Baines Johnson.
RUDIN: Lyndon Baines Johnson is an interesting answer. There was no South Carolina primary back then.
In '64 or '68.
CONAN: Troy's on the line from Iowa City.
TROY: Elizabeth Dole.
CONAN: Liddy Dole.
RUDIN: Liddy Dole, well, she's from North Carolina but also Liddy Dole who tried for the Republican nomination in 2000 never lasted that long to make it into the primaries.
TROY: I think she won South Carolina.
RUDIN: No, no, no. She was elected to the Senate in North Carolina but by the time the South Carolina primary happened in 2000, she was out of the race. As a matter of fact, I think she was out of the race in 1999.
TROY: I think it was '88.
RUDIN: Elizabeth Dole didn't run for president in 1988.
CONAN: Troy.
TROY: OK.
CONAN: Thanks very much.
RUDIN: I'm sorry.
CONAN: That's OK. Lisa's(ph) on the line calling from Chapel Hill.
LISA: Hi. I'd like to guess John Edwards from 2004.
RUDIN: John Edwards is the correct answer.
CONAN: Ding, ding, ding.
LISA: Oh, yay.
RUDIN: I was waiting for the ding, ding, ding. Nobody – no Republican has ever – every Republican who has won the South Carolina primary has gone on to win its party's nomination but on the Democratic side John Edwards beat John Kerry in 2004 but did not get the nomination.
CONAN: Well, congratulations, Lisa. Stay on the line. We'll collect your particulars and mail you off a Political Junkie no prize t-shirt in exchange for your promise of a digital picture of yourself thusly attired that we can post on our Wall of Shame.
LISA: Will do. Give my love to Ron Elving, please.
CONAN: We will.
RUDIN: Ugh. Why? OK, I'm sorry.
LISA: Love your broadcast.
CONAN: Thanks very much. And we also have to note Kurt Fredrickson(ph) – this bulletin just handed to me – sent us an email winner from Renton, Washington. So we have two Political Junkie no prize winners this week. He had the correct answer: John Edwards. Of course, arriving at that answer a real trial. In any case, as we move ahead...
RUDIN: Do we know how Kurt – do we know how Kurt feels about Ron Elving?
CONAN: I think probably we do but we're not going to discuss that on this program. In the meantime, there were some other candidates, of course, and we can throw out Rick Perry. He did not compete in New Hampshire. He goes right on to South Carolina. We're going to get to South Carolina in a couple of minutes. But Rick Santorum, as you mentioned, has to be very disappointed. Newt Gingrich thought he could maybe recover some of that momentum he lost. Not so much.
RUDIN: True. And although neither Santorum nor Gingrich put that much money into New Hampshire, the feeling from the beginning – I think one of the reasons why New Hampshire primary didn't get as much notice as in previous cycles is a lot of people thought that Mitt Romney had it won for the longest time and only when it got close did the candidates start to appear. But nobody really competed in New Hampshire other than Romney, Paul, and Jon Huntsman.
CONAN: Jon Huntsman came in out in third position and this is what he had to say.
JON HUNTSMAN: And here we sit tonight, ladies and gentlemen, with a ticket to ride and to move on. Here we go to South Carolina. Thank you all so very much.
CONAN: Well, he may not feel so good about that when he gets there. We're going to talk more about South Carolina and how the candidates will fare there when we come back after a short break. Of course, Political Junkie Ken Rudin will stay with us. We're also going to be talking with Bob Inglis who represented South Carolina's 4th Congressional District for 6 terms.
And we'd like to hear from you as well. Those of you in South Carolina, what questions do the candidates have remaining that you have not heard answered? Give us a call 800-989-8255. Email us, talk@npr.org. Stay with us. I'm Neal Conan. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
CONAN: This is TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. I'm Neal Conan in Washington. It's Wednesday, Political Junkie day. Ken Rudin is with us today from the studios at New Hampshire Public Radio in Concord. And Ken, do we have a ScuttleButton winner this week?
RUDIN: We actually do. We actually do and it's not Jon Huntsman. It is Brad Bergman of Apple Valley, California. The last puzzle was Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. I'll explain some other time how we got to that puzzle.
CONAN: OK.
RUDIN: But Brad Bergman is the winner.
CONAN: If you'd like to see this week's ScuttleButton puzzle or read Ken's column, you can go to npr.org/junkie. Mitt Romney's campaign has been crafting, and some might argue perfecting the aura of a general election candidate. By and large he's been laser focused on the president.
ROMNEY: President Obama – President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial. In the last few days we've seen some desperate Republicans join forces with him.
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ROMNEY: This is such a mistake for our party...
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: It is. Yeah.
ROMNEY: ...and for our nation. The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy.
CONAN: In other words, an attack on me is an attack on the Republican Party as well as capitalism. Just try to take me down in South Carolina. That state votes 10 days from now on a Saturday. It's the first primary in the south with a more conservative electorate than New Hampshire for sure, and has a history, as we mentioned, of picking winners.
We'd like to hear from those of you will vote in next week's contest. What questions still need to be answered by the candidates? 800-989-8255. Email us: talk@npr.org. You can also join the conversation at our website. That's at npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION. Joining us by phone from New York is former representative Bob Inglis, a Republican who represented South Carolina's 4th District in Congress for 12 years.
Nice to have you back on TALK OF THE NATION.
BOB INGLIS: Great. Thanks for the opportunity, Neal.
CONAN: And Mitt Romney has won the first two primaries. Will South Carolina make it three in a row?
INGLIS: My guess is probably so, although I'm sure that Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have different plans in mind for that. But I would assume that Romney is in the lead.
CONAN: Yeah, we don't see him as a natural fit for what we always hear is a more military, more conservative, more evangelical Republican electorate.
INGLIS: Well, I think that that may be true, but on the other hand, I think people are looking for – Republicans are looking for someone who can win and so you've got somebody in Mitt Romney who's already won two contests and perhaps that sets him up with some look of inevitability. And so I think what takes over is mostly the desire to win against President Obama.
CONAN: Have you endorsed anybody?
INGLIS: Have not. I don't want to hurt him. You know, I lost a primary in 2010, so it might him if...
INGLIS: ...if I supported him.
CONAN: Be the Union Leader of South Carolina.
INGLIS: Exactly.
CONAN: So avoiding being the kiss of death, if you had a druther, might you lean one way or the other without issuing an endorsement?
INGLIS: Well, I think that what needs to happen here, as a Republican and a guy who's very committed to a pro-growth kind of free enterprise, kind of answers, is we as Republicans need to aim at solutions and realize that at some point the scapegoat hunt will not be very effective, that if we just focused on beating Obama without a message about what we would do if we were elected, I worry about that as a successful governing strategy.
I think, you know, my idea of a great president, Ronald Reagan, came in with a real clear vision about what he wanted to accomplish and I hope that that's the posture that we would take to the White House if we were successful in retaking the White House, is go in with a message rather than, gee, we just weren't that guy that we just beat.
RUDIN: Congressman Inglis, you're talking about the general election, but before we get there, we also have, obviously, the South Carolina primary on the 21st and in the past, the history of South Carolina has always been that of a mud bath or a cesspool or whatever you want to call it. Four years ago – no, wait, I'm sorry – eight years ago in 2000, John McCain was – there were anonymous fliers that said that he had an illegitimate black child out of wedlock.
It's rough and dirty in South Carolina and they expect that, you know, with the super PACs going on down there you're going to see more of the same come the 21st.
INGLIS: Yeah. Unfortunately, we've developed quite a reputation, haven't we? But it is a place where some key kind of contests have been decided because it's first in the South. I surely hope we'll avoid those kind of things this time around. But the key will be – I think South Carolina is looking for electability but also sort of split with this notion that, no, we want somebody that's truly conservative and truly reflects our values.
So the question is which one of those wins come Saturday. Is it the let's pick a winner, somebody that can win not just in South Carolina but elsewhere, or do we want somebody that we really would choose as somebody to enter into a business partnership with, somebody that we can actually agree with on most of their points?
CONAN: And starting with the second of the debates over the past weekend, I think Mitt Romney's rivals tried to pin him with, wait a minute, we really don't agree with you on any number of points. And we're just going to play an excerpt from an ad that Newt Gingrich is running in South Carolina.
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UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: What happened after Massachusetts moderate Mitt Romney changed his position from pro-abortion to pro-life? He governed pro-abortion. Romney appointed a pro-abortion judge, expanded access to abortion pills, put Planned Parenthood on a state medical board but failed to put a pro-life group on the same board. And Romney signed government-mandated healthcare with taxpayer-funded abortions. Massachusetts moderate Mitt Romney. He can't be trusted.
CONAN: Bob Inglis, is that going to sting in South Carolina?
INGLIS: Yeah, that's a stinging commercial for sure. Massachusetts moderate is a – let's just say that those are not positive words in South Carolina among Republicans. So – and it does remind of some of the likening people to Ted Kennedy Democrat.
INGLIS: And so Massachusetts moderate is sort of like that at times and with that heritage of loving to hate Senator Kennedy. So, yeah, that's a pretty effective commercial. It's also effective because abortion really does matter to many in the Republican primary electorate.
CONAN: Ken Rudin, I wanted to ask you, Newt Gingrich has just gotten an injection of $5 million from one of his supporters, a casino mogul from Nevada. He is promising to expend those sources in South Carolina. Is this going to be his last stronghold?
RUDIN: Well, it looks like it. You wonder if Newt Gingrich is now thinking whether he wants to win the nomination or he just wants payback against Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney ran those, you know, his super PACs ran the anti-Gingrich ads in Iowa and Gingrich has shown – says he's going to show no hesitation going after Romney and his tenure at Bain Capital in South Carolina, although Rick Santorum has not followed that model.
He said, look, is our own party going to be attacking capitalism? And then a lot of people are saying what Newt Gingrich is doing is an anti-capitalist kind of strategy. Now, Congressman Inglis is talking about a moderate for Massachusetts may be dirty words in South Carolina, but that doesn't mean that the South Carolina electorate will buy it, because I always feel that South Carolina is more of an establishment state.
If Iowa is evangelical, if New Hampshire is independent, maybe South Carolina's the one who says, look, this is the guy we need to right our party and if that's the case, then Romney should do better than expected.
CONAN: There is also – you mentioned Bain and this is a super PAC which supports Newt Gingrich with a 30 minute documentary about Romney's time at Bain Capital.
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UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Their greed was only matched by their willingness to do anything to make millions in profits. Nothing was spared, nothing mattered but greed.
CONAN: And Bob Inglis, Mitt Romney counters, hey, Bain created 100,000 jobs, a claim has come under some scrutiny, but nevertheless, he says this is capitalism. This is the Republican Party.
INGLIS: Yeah. It's interesting what Ken was just saying there. It really does reflect a sort of a new kind of discussion that's going on, really, it's been the last – it's certainly the case in the 2010 cycle but if you – and it is in this cycle – the conversation between the Libertarian weighing at the Republican base and the more traditional Republican base, and it's going to be very interesting to see how much Ron Paul polls in South Carolina.
In more normal economic times, I think that that slice is a lot smaller. In these very difficult economic times, the Libertarian plus I'm just mad as heck and I'm not going to take it anymore kind of feeling drives those numbers higher.
CONAN: And South Carolina hit more strongly by the recession than either Iowa or New Hampshire. Let's see if can get a caller in on the conversation. We want to hear from those of you in North - in South Carolina, excuse me. What questions left do you have for the candidates before you decide? Kevin's on the line, calling us there from Charleston, South Carolina.
KEVIN: The question I have that they're really not addressing is: What are they going to do about Social Security and Medicare? I have an older parent, and she's dependent on that for her livelihood. And, you know, they don't have a really good reputation of wanting to sustain those programs.
CONAN: And, Bob Inglis, we've not heard a lot about this since, I guess, Newt Gingrich described the Ryan plan as rightwing social engineering.
INGLIS: Yeah. Well, Kevin's onto something very important, and that is in order to fix a structural deficit, you have to address Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. And the thing that I'm disappointed, really, in the debate we've had thus far in the Republican presidential primary is very few are willing to address that directly. We sort of have heard a lot of blame about the Obama health care package, and we sort of tie in with that anger about that. But we haven't seen many people rising to the occasion of being able to say to folks that are very upset about the Obama health care package that it's really Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security that it is a long-term structural deficit.
So figuring out a way do that while making sure that Kevin's relatives there that are needing Medicare and Social Security, their needs are met, that's a real challenge. And it takes some courage to address it. Thus far, we haven't seen a great deal of courage in that way.
CONAN: Kevin, thanks very much for the call.
KEVIN: Thank you.
CONAN: And Congressman Inglis, I wanted to ask you, you mentioned earlier you hadn't endorsed anybody. Isn't it curious that so far, Jim DeMint, the senator from South Carolina who's, well, been something of a kingmaker - or aspiring to be elsewhere - he hasn't endorsed anybody, either.
INGLIS: Yeah. I think it is unusual. It seems, to me that the natural pick for a lot of South Carolinians who would follow in sort of Jim DeMint's kind of train would have been Rick Perry. He's a, you know, cut their pay and sent them home, so it ties in with the Tea Party thing. He's an evangelical, so he clearly ties in shared faith. But his entry was very spectacular. But then also the face plants that followed were equally spectacular. And the result is that what looked like the guy that was going to sweep South Carolina, I really thought two weeks after he announced that he was going to clearly be the one that would win in South Carolina. And now that's part of the reason this is so sort of confused, I think, is Rick Perry's rather dramatic fall here.
CONAN: We're talking with Bob Inglis, a former congressman from South Carolina. Of course, Political Junkie Ken Rudin is with us. You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION, from NPR News. Ken?
RUDIN: Congressman, it seems - kind of seems that when Rick Perry announced shortly after Iowa that he was going home to Texas to reassess his candidacy, it seemed to send a signal that perhaps South Carolina was his last gasp, and any candidate who's approaching a last gasp, it's hard to support him. But going back to Newt Gingrich for one second, you were elected to Congress in 1992. You were there, the rise of the Republican majority. You watched Newt Gingrich up close. Some of them think of - some people think of him as, you know, brilliant, and some of them think of him as infuriating. What was your relationship with the speaker?
INGLIS: Back then, I'd go to Republican conferences and try to take notes on what Newt said. It was always fascinating to hear him speak. And then you'd go out and you'd try to say it half as well as Newt had said it. He's just a fascinating fellow to listen to, an idea an hour, and most of them back then were pretty good. Maybe one in a 24-hour cycle needed to be discarded quickly, but, you know, things go on and maybe those percentages have changed around a little bit.
But it used to be about 23 out of the 24-hours cycle where that 23 ideas were good. And so - and then, of course, he's had some reversals since then on - that caused people, I guess, to wonder about the stability there, but - the stability of his ideas and the stability of his commitments. So I think that will surely haunt him, but a very interesting fellow and very thoughtful, particularly back in that time when we were first taking control after 40 years of Democratic control in the House.
CONAN: We just have a couple of minutes left. Do Governor Perry and former Senator Santorum have much hope of going on after South Carolina, do you think?
INGLIS: I think it depends on how well they do. Obviously, if - and, of course, Rick Santorum has the benefit of having a brother who lives in South Carolina who's a fine fellow, who helped me in a Senate race in 1998. Dan Santorum was on Hilton Head. And so he's got some connections there, and he does have - I think he will attempt to take up the Rick Perry mantle to the extent that Rick Perry is, as I said, has had these spectacular face plants. It does raise a - that the challenge for Rick is that he's sort of at odds with Jim DeMint over earmarks, and that's becoming a front-page-news item in South Carolina at this point, because that's been such a topic for us.
So that's where there are a lot of interesting crosswinds in this primary. It's a - I think Ken had it right earlier. Typically, you'd expect South Carolina to pick the business expert, but then there's - in this economic time where there's dislocation, there are people that are mad, and they might just pick somebody that expresses that anger in a way that - maybe that business guy would not.
CONAN: Bob Inglis, thanks very much for your time today. Appreciate it.
INGLIS: Good to talk with you.
CONAN: Bob Inglis represented South Carolina's 4th District for six terms and lost a primary to a Tea Party rival back in 2010. He joined us on the line from - on the phone from New York. When we come back, well, Political Junkie Ken Rudin will stay with us. And Bill Keller of the New York Times has a modest proposal: Mr. President, trade Joe Biden in for Hillary Clinton. He thinks it's just the ticket. Stay with us. He joins us after a quick break. It's the TALK OF THE NATION, from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Wood wins women's division at Cereal City Triathlon
Bill Broderick
Running, swimming, biking a few miles, that's just the normal weekend for the Wood family - longtime former owners of Team Active, before selling the downtown bicycle shop recently.
So it made sense that Maggie Wood would come across the finish line to finish first in the woman's division in the 2016 Cereal City Triathlon on Sunday in and around Goguac Lake and the Lakeview area in Battle Creek.
"I am from a triathlon family so I like to do this one every year, it's my favorite one," Wood said. "There were a lot of good people here, I didn't think I'd win, I was just looking to have fun."
Wood, 16, will be a junior on the cross country team at Lakeview in the fall. She finished the race in 1-hour, 7.14-minutes to take first in the women's division and ninth overall.
"When I was on the run, my dad said I had a chance to win this, so I just decided to start knocking people off," Wood said. "I went out to try and catch one person at a time and tell them good job as I passed them to try and keep my own spirits up."
While Wood was running in her hometown, the overall winner came all the way from Montana to win the title in the Cereal City Triathlon, which is a sprint triathlon that features shorter distances than the basic triathlon with a 500-meter swim, 12-mile bike ride and a 3.1-mile run.
Andrew Drobeck, from Missoula, Montana, was in Michigan to get ready for upcoming Michigan Titanium in Grand Rapids, and used the Cereal City Triathlon as an early workout.
"I race all over the country and I happened to be close by and this looked like a well-run race and it's always fun to do a new race," Drobeck said. "The shorter distances is a different kind of challenge. Sometimes it's harder because you have to keep your pace up the whole time."
Drobeck finished in :54.21 to take first with Randall Wood taking second in 57.40 and Brandon VanOosten third in 59.40.
"You never know what the strengths will be of the other people you are competing with and you have to know they might catch you at any time so I was prepared for that," Drobeck said. "But overall, you compete against yourself and look for a good time and today was one of my faster times for this kind of race."
Other finishers in the top 8 included Matt Stinson (1:03.35) in fourth, Patrick Farrell (1:03.55), Tommy Shaw (1:04.43), Joe Wood (1:06.17), Andrew Meyers (1:07.13).
Following Maggie Wood, Kelly Slagh was second in the women's division in 1:07.14.
The Cereal City Duathlon was also held with Marshall Randall taking first in 1:04.25 and Jack Greenman second in 1:12.26.
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Nevertheless my heart is filled with deep sadness and I think of my elder brother with deep love, respect and gratitude. I will share these thoughts with the German community of the Himalayan Institute.


Ed Rice, agricultural education teacher at Montezuma-Cortez High School, is retiring after 28 years in education.
Awards and certificates adorn Ed Rice's office wall.
Agricultural education teacher Ed Rice's office was covered in awards and thank-you notes from students as he prepared a monthly meal for his students on Friday morning.
He usually cooks for his students on the last Friday of the month, but it was the seniors' last day of school, so he made an exception: breakfast burritos.
"When I start in the fall, I always have them write five expectations of me and what they want out of me, and that was one of the things that came out of that – they wanted me to cook every day for them," Rice said.
The students compromised at one meal a month.
Rice is retiring from teaching after 28 years in the profession and 18 years at Montezuma-Cortez High School. He spent eight years in administration and will be replaced by Logan Garrett, who will take over the program after being a student-teacher with Rice for two years.
He said he also likes teaching agriculture because he gets to interact with students. He said the students know that he will help them out.
Rice also said he enjoys that he has taught generations of families.
In fact, he taught Garrett's mother in school in Dove Creek.
Rice decided to retire because he feels it is time to move on.
Rice is originally from Montana. He graduated from Colorado State University and immediately began teaching in northeast Colorado. He took a break for about 10 years, then moved to Southwest Colorado to teach at Dove Creek High School. He transferred to M-CHS in 2000.
Rice and his wife of 41 years, Robin, have four children.
He was recently awarded a lifetime achievement award from the Agriculture Teacher's Association. He will accept the award at the conference in June.


Julian Assange's seven years of asylum ended dramatically Thursday with the scraggly-bearded WikiLeaks founder being taken from the Ecuadoran embassy in London in handcuffs and hustled into a police van.
The question now is what happens next — and specifically whether Assange will be extradited to the United States. It could be years before that is resolved, though experts say it's more likely than not that he will wind up in a U.S. courtroom one day.
Ecuador handed Julian Assange over to British authorities Thursday, ending a standoff that left the controversial WikiLeaks founder holed up in the Ecuadoran embassy in London for nearly seven years.
If a meeting took place between Paul Manafort and Julian Assange, to what extent did the pair discuss the 2016 election campaign?
Edward Snowden, the fugitive NSA whistleblower whose 2013 flight from U.S. authorities to Russia sparked an airport manhunt and worldwide headlines, the future grew slightly murkier on Wednesday, as Russia extended his right to live in the country until 2020 — a time when he could theoretically apply for citizenship.
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So important are these beds in China, that had geology originated in that country, the Mesozoic might have been our age of coal.
We do not strike our roots down deep into the geology of long-gone ages.
Geology was the subject which occupied him longest and absorbed him most.
I acknowledge that these are but slight glimpses of the geology and chemistry of other worlds.
1735, from Modern Latin geologia "the study of the earth," from geo- "earth" + logia (see -logy). In Medieval Latin, geologia (14c.) meant "study of earthly things," i.e. law, as distinguished from arts and sciences, which concern the works of God. Darwin used geologize as a verb.
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Tupelo Press Announces Sunken Garden Chapbook Poetry Award
Tupelo Press is especially delighted to announce that our judge, Kimiko Hahn, has selected Why Misread a Cloud by Emily Carlson of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as winner of the 2022 Sunken Garden Chapbook Poetry Award.
Emily Carlson is a mother, a teacher, and the director of Art in the Garden, a liberatory, anti-racist, LGBTQA+ welcoming, and joy-centered program that addresses the impacts of childhood adversity and trauma. She's the author of two chapbooks, Symphony No. 2 (Argos Books, 2015) and I Have a Teacher (The Center for Book Arts, 2016). Her poems have appeared in Aufgabe, Bloom, Denver Quarterly, Fence, jubilat, and other journals. With friends, she runs the Bonfire Reading Series. Emily lives with her partner and their three children in an intentional community centered around an urban garden in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Here's what our contest judge, Kimiko Hahn, had to say about the winning chapbook:
In brief paragraphs that are neither prose nor prose poems, we meet a witness. A speaker who is not in her country of origin. A woman living in the air of violence. Militarization. And very occasionally, a mundane gesture–adding sugar to tea. The spareness creates a poetics that is, at once, elegantly stark and akin to journalism. We read between the lines because what is unsaid, makes this a poetry of image and association. What was once a broom for sweeping a kitchen, is used by a woman to sweep propaganda leaflets off the street. I find myself engaged in a place–to a place, really–where there are ballistic helmets. Yes, strange and strangely familiar. This is how art and dreams work: with the familiarity of knowing and the dissassociation that can allow insight.
Our sincere congratulations to Emily Carlson, whose book will be out in time for her debut reading this summer at the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival.
This entry was posted in Poetry Festival News, Press, Trending Stories on March 25, 2022 by Hill-Stead Museum.
2021 Fresh Voices Winners
Congratulations to the 2021 Fresh Voices Winners!
Enjoy reading more about these talented students. Then, please join us at Hill-Stead on June 23, 2021, for Young Poets Day to experience their poetry in person. These impressive poets will open for author and award-winning national poet Chen Chen!
Eve Brouillard is currently a senior at Rockville High School, the trumpet section leader of the marching band, and a Humanities scholar. Eve spends a lot of time reading and writing, as well as creating more stories with friends through Dungeons and Dragons and other tabletop games. They love to seek inspiration by walking through outdoor trails as well as museums, taking photos along the way. Eve won an honorable mention in the 2019 Scholastic Art and Writing Contest and had two works published in the Connecticut Student Writer 2020 magazine. This year, they received the gold key in the Scholastic Awards for poetry. In the future, Eve hopes to continue writing and publishing their original poetry.
Nora Holmes is a rising senior at Hall High School where she also runs track and cross country. She has been recognized by NCTE, The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, The New York Times, and the Connecticut Student Writers project. When she is not writing or running, you can find her laughing at her own jokes and starting debates in her history classes.
JaMara "Mara" Jean is a rising senior who currently attends The Westover School. Mara has been writing poetry since she was in the 5th grade. During some time in the 7th grade, Mara was handpicked by a teacher to write, memorize, and perform at a Slam Poetry Show. When she began high school, she took part in her first production ever, Much Ado About Nothing. Since then, she's acted in seven productions at her school and is currently the First Drama Head. She can thank her theatrical knowledge and ability to the many productions she has been in thus far and her poetic ability to both her teacher in 7th grade who encouraged her to write slam poetry and Thomas Juvan, who taught her everything she has learned about poetry at Westover.
Valli Pendyala is a sophomore at South Windsor High School. She is a member of her school's mock trial and Model United Nations teams, and she is the president of the Sexuality and Gender Alliance. Valli is also a member of South Windsor Future Leaders in Politics. Over the summer, Valli plans to attend the National Student Leadership Conference Political Action & Public Policy program. Valli is passionate about participating in the political process and advocating for issues she is passionate about, both locally and nationally. In her spare time, Valli enjoys reading, spending time with her sister, and learning about history. She is currently working for her Gold Award, the highest award in Girl Scouts, and has previously earned her Silver Award. Valli plans to major in political science and economics.
Cindy Truong is a senior at Platt High School in Meriden and the Educational Center for the Arts, where she studies creative writing. She will be attending New York University this upcoming fall and plans to major in English. Cindy finds inspiration in her Vietnamese heritage and culture along with her Vietnamese-American experience. She'd like to give her biggest gratitude to her teachers and workshop at ECA, for being the place that nurtured her and allowed her to find her voice.
This entry was posted in Haystacks, Poetry Festival News, Trending Stories on May 27, 2021 by Hill-Stead Museum.
2021 Fresh Voices Winners!
THANK YOU to all the students who participated in the 2021 Fresh Voices Poetry Competition, and to the teachers and parents who support them!
We are immensely grateful to this year's Fresh Voices Judges: Frederick-Douglass Knowles II, Luisa Caycedo-Kimura, and Sophie Spaner.
On May 12, Fresh Voices finalists read their poetry for this prestigious panel of judges. At the conclusion of the readings, the following winners were announced:
Eve Brouillard Rockville High School
Nora Holmes William H. Hall High School
Jamara Jean Westover High School
Valli Pendyala South Windsor High School
Cindy Truong ACES Educational Center for the Arts
What's next for the winners? On Wednesday, June 23, they will participate in a Young Poets Celebration. Better yet, these impressive young poets will open for author and award-winning national poet Chen Chen!
Fresh Voices Judges
Sophie Spaner
Frederick-Douglass Knowles II
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura
This entry was posted in Poetry Festival News, Trending Stories on May 13, 2021 by Hill-Stead Museum.
Fresh Voices 2021 Finalists Announced
Hill-Stead proudly announces the 2021 Fresh Voices Poetry Competition Finalists!
Their work represents a collective of young creatives of the region. We are honored to have received so many extraordinary poems and grateful to all the teachers and parents who supported them. Our heartfelt congratulations to the following finalists:
Prisca Afantchao, Windsor High School
Caroline Bartolotta, Rockville High School
Julia Baun, William H. Hall High School
Madeleine Brouillard, Rockville High School
Sara Cove, Rockville High School
Nora Holmes, William H. Hall High School
JaMara Jean, Westover School
Kevin Delgado Manea, Weston High School
Lexi Mays, Westover High School
Violet McCabe, Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts
Katrina Melnik, Avon High School
Cali Miville, Rockville High School
Valli Pendyala, South Windsor High School
Eleanor Polak, ACES Educational Center for the Arts
Cindy Truong, ACES Educational Center for the Arts
Hill-Stead Museum also wishes to thank this year's Fresh Voices readers, Barbara P. Greenbaum and Victoria Nordlund. Thank you for your thoughtful read and review of each submission and for selecting these finalists to present their poetry in front of a live panel of judges on Wednesday, May 12 at 5 pm.
This year's Fresh Voices Judges will be Frederick-Douglass Knowles II, Luisa Caycedo-Kimura, and Sophie Spaner.
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Wednesday, May 12 @ 5 pm
The Fresh Voices finalists will read before a panel of judges; we will announce four to six Fresh Voices winners that evening. *
Young Poets Celebration featuring the Fresh Voices winners. These impressive young poets will open for author and award-winning national poet Chen Chen! *
Please note: *Fresh Voices winners must be available to participate in this performance!
Fresh Voices finalists will be given complimentary passes to the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, held September 10-12, 2021.
The Fresh Voices winning poems will also be featured in our online publication of Theodate, Hill-Stead's poetry journal. And, for the first time, each winner of the Fresh Voices adjudicated reading will receive a monetary prize award!
On behalf of everyone at Hill-Stead, we look forward to sharing your Fresh Voices and celebrating poetry together!
Thank you to our sponsors and donors who make Fresh Voices possible
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This entry was posted in Poetry Festival News, Trending Stories on April 19, 2021 by Hill-Stead Museum.
Fresh Voices 2021 Judges Announced
Meet our Fresh Voices Judges
Hill-Stead is delighted to announce our 2021 Fresh Voices judges, Frederick-Douglass Knowles II, Luisa Caycedo-Kimura, and Sophie Spaner. The judges will review the poems by this year's finalists. Please enjoy their incredible bios.
Frederick-Douglass Knowles II (left) is an educator and activist passionate about achieving community augmentation through literary arts. He is the inaugural Poet Laureate for the City of Hartford. His works have been selected as finalists for the New England Association of Teachers of English (NEATE) Poet of the Year Award. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, has received various poetry awards, including the Nutmeg Poetry Award and the 2020 Connecticut Arts Fellow in Artist Excellence for Poetry/Creative Non-Fiction. Knowles holds a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from Eastern Connecticut State University and penned BlackRoseCity, a poetry book. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of English at Three Rivers Community College in Norwich, CT.
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura (center) is a Colombian-born writer, translator, and educator. Her honors include a John K. Walsh Residency Fellowship at the Anderson Center, an Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Fellowship at Ragdale, and a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, she has received various poetry awards. A former attorney, Caycedo-Kimura left the legal profession to pursue her passion for writing. She holds an MFA from Boston University. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Sunken Garden Poetry 1992-2011, RHINO, Diode, Shenandoah, Mid-American Review, Nashville Review, The Night Heron Barks, Louisiana Literature, among others. Currently, she is an Assistant Editor for the Connecticut River Review.
Sophie Spaner (right) is an 18-year-old writer, singer-songwriter, and artist from Deep River, Connecticut. She was a Fresh Voices Poet in 2017. She is currently taking a gap year and will be attending Yale University in the fall, where she plans to major in Film and Media Studies. During her gap year, she has been working as a quality control consultant for both foreign and American independent films with the international film distributor Kino Lorber. In her free time, she enjoys learning new instruments and expanding her artistic practice.
This entry was posted in Poetry Festival News, Trending Stories on March 30, 2021 by Hill-Stead Museum.
Announcing the winners of the 2020 Fresh Voices Poetry Competition
Congratulations, Poets!
The winners are:
Haneen Alkabasi, Avon High School
Alicia Chiu, William H. Hall High School
Jake Colangelo, Joel Barlow High School
Olatunji Osho-Williams, Westminster School
Maggie Munday Odom, The Grove School
Charlotte Watts, Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts
For the first time, the Fresh Voices readings were performed live via zoom. Many things were missing from the event—the historical and beautiful setting, the applause of the crowd, live music, and contemplative silences between each reading. Zoom can never replace live art. But even virtually, the students' poetry was transcending. For one evening, these young poets created a community through their creativity, intense curiosity, and commitment.
Hill-Stead Museum is grateful to all the Fresh Voices Finalists for their efforts and willingness to participate. We are immensely appreciative of the Fresh Voices Judges, who had a challenging task this year! Thanks, too, to parents and teachers who supported our poets! A special thanks to Hill-Stead Museum's sponsors and donors, especially the Ellen Jean Goldfarb Memorial Charitable Trust, our members, and our amazing interns and volunteers.
A video compilation of the Fresh Voices Poetry Competition reading will be coming soon for everyone to enjoy!
Please join us at the opening of the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival on Sunday, August 9. Winners will read their poems in person at Young Poets Day featuring acclaimed spoken word poet and activist, Mahogany L. Browne.
Learn more about the Fresh Voice Poetry Competition
This entry was posted in Hill-Stead News, Poetry Festival News, Press on June 12, 2020 by Hill-Stead Museum.
2019 Fresh Voices Finalists Announced
Hill-Stead is honored to announce the finalists for the 2019 Fresh Voices Poetry Competition:
Riley Arellano – Naugatuck High School
Emily Benoit – Westover School
Sophia Ciraldo – Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts
Elizabeth Cook – Westover School
Danny Diaz- Villafane – Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts
Emily Fisher – Rockville High School
Liza Freeman – Westover School
Stella Georgian – East Lyme High School
Krista Mitchell – Stafford High School
Fiona Mucaj – The Ethel Walker School
Autumn Munsell – Granby Memorial High School
Jillian Potter – Naugatuck High School
Camden Robertson – Granby Memorial High School
Abigail Tyrrell – Rockville High School
Ava Varano – Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts
This entry was posted in Hill-Stead News, Poetry Festival News, Press on April 24, 2019 by Hill-Stead Museum.
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Jamie Masthay
Elliana Branchesi
Ellis McGinley
Adena Ajike
Abigail Tyrrel
Lauren Dionne
Molly Galusha
Kennedy King
Molly Alexander
Kimberly McGuire
Daniel Diaz-Villafane
Alex Nordlund
Youssef Mezrioui
Rachel Justice
This entry was posted in Hill-Stead News, Poetry Festival News, Press on April 6, 2018 by Hill-Stead Museum.
WINNER ANNOUNCED FOR THE 2018 SUNKEN GARDEN POETRY PRIZE
Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that Major Jackson has selected Chaun Ballard as the winner of the 2018 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize!
Chaun Ballard will be reading at the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival on July 11, 2018. For details, see our Calendar.
Flight by Chaun Ballard
Chaun Ballard was raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and San Bernardino, California, and has an MFA from the University of Alaska, Anchorage. For eight years now, he and his wife have been teaching in the Middle East and West Africa. Chaun Ballard's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in ANMLY (FKA Drunken Boat), Columbia Poetry Review, Frontier Poetry, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Puerto del Sol, Rattle, and other literary magazines. His work has received nominations for both Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize.
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Emily Jungmin Yoon chosen as winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Poetry Prize
Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that Maggie Smith has chosen Ordinary Misfortunes by Emily Jungmin Yoon of Chicago, Illinois, as winner of the 2017 Sunken Garden Chapbook Poetry Prize.
Emily will perform her work in at Hill-Stead's Sunken Garden Poetry Festival on Wednesday, July 19. For tickets, visit Sunken Garden Poetry Festival 2017.
I'm completely taken in by these poems, how they deftly balance lyric and narrative, history and the present, body and mind. These are poems of violence–against women, and against Korean women in particular–but they are also poems about the pain and pleasure in language itself: 'pear in Korean is a homonym for ship or boat'; 'A homonym for apple is apology.' Ordinary Misfortunes is a remarkable collection.
—Maggi Smith
Emily Jungmin Yoon's poems and translations appear or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Offing, The Literary Review, and elsewhere. For her poetry, she has received awards and fellowships from Ploughshares' Emerging Writer's Contest, AWP's WC&C Scholarship Competition, The Home School in Miami, the Aspen Institute, New York University, and the University of Chicago. She is the Poetry Editor for The Margins, the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and is a PhD student in the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department at the University of Chicago.
This entry was posted in Hill-Stead News, Poetry Festival News, Press on March 24, 2017 by Hill-Stead Museum.
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Reese Witherspoon Weds Jim Toth!
Hello there, Mr. and Mrs. Toth!
Reese Witherspoon married Jim Toth early Saturday evening at her 6-acre ranch in Ojai, Calif., a rep for the actress confirms to UsMagazine.com.
Wearing a custom-designed Monique Lhuillier gown, the actress, 35, exchanged vows with CAA agent Toth, 40, in front of 150 family members and friends (including Renee Zellweger, and Alyssa Milano, and Tobey Maguire) in the front courtyard of the Ojai house.
There was no wedding party, but Witherspoon's kids with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe — daughter Ava, 11, and son Deacon, 7 — took part in the ceremony. The Oscar winner's young nieces served as flower girls.
The "Tennessee Waltz" was the processional music for Toth and the kids, while Witherspoon walked down the aisle to "Here Comes the Bride." The 20-minute ceremony was officiated by Reverend Jimmy Bartz, founder of Thad's church in Santa Monica, where the couple have been attending weekly Sunday services. The duo exchanged wedding bands designed by jeweler William Goldberg.
Located 90 miles north of Los Angeles, the Ojai ranch — where the star gardens and keeps horses, donkeys, pigs, goats and chickens — has been Witherspoon's rural escape for years.
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The star's rep confirmed their engagement to Us on Dec. 28, 2010. "They are extremely happy," the rep said.
About a week later, Witherspoon debuted her engagement bling — a 4-carat, $250,000 Ashocka cut diamond ring from William Goldberg — at a Laker's Game.
Sources close to the newlyweds tell Us they're the perfect match. Says one pal of Toth, who's bonded with her kids: "He's a very confident guy who takes care of her."


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Chess set made by Boy Scout at Sinquefield Invention Lab
now on display at World Chess Hall of Fame
A metal and wood chess set designed and built by a Boy Scout at the Sinquefield Invention Lab now is on display at the World Chess Hall of Fame in St. Louis.
Chandler Francis, a 17-year-old who lives in Blue Springs, MO and is a Life Scout in Troop 49 in Nelson, MO, made the set during the summer of 2018 to earn his Metalworking merit badge.
The Sinquefield Invention Lab, which is located at the Great Rivers Council's Lake of the Ozarks Scout Reservation near Laurie, MO, was established in 2017 "to facilitate hands-on education and invention of new ideas and technologies, while utilizing problem-solving skills, creativity, and imagination in a team environment."
The Metalworking badge requires learning about alloys, metalworking techniques, and safety. The Scout chooses one of four options – sheet metal mechanic/tinsmith, silversmith, founder, or blacksmith – and then must complete a project.
Francis (pictured) used the Invention Lab's Epilog laser to create the wooden board for the set, and, with the assistance of camp counselor Justin Tattich, made the metal pieces at the reservation's nearby blacksmithing pavilion.
While the badge requires Scouts to forge two objects — one with a decorative twist and one with a hammer-riveted joint – Francis created all 32 pieces needed to make a complete set using a variety of forging techniques.
"We congratulate Chandler on being featured at the World Chess Hall of Fame," says Doug Callahan, Scout Executive of the Great Rivers Council. Callahan says the camp and council are "proud to have helped him in this endeavor, and we hope his creativity inspires other Scouts."
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During the past decade, the issue of women's health gained increasing attention from the public health community. As a result, specific efforts focused on improving the health status of women, raising public awareness of women's health concerns, achieving technological advances in the diagnosis and treatment of disease, understanding how various diseases uniquely affect women, and identifying and reaching women at risk for conditions such as cancer, alcohol and drug abuse, osteoporosis, and depression. In the 1980s the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS), through its Coordinating Committee on Women's Health Issues and its Task Force on Women's Health Issues, conducted comprehensive, nationwide assessments of the health concerns confronting women and recommended actions that could be taken in order to improve women's health status.
The decade of the '90s presents new opportunities for women, and the PHS has renewed its resolve to focus on women's health. The report, PHS Action Plan for Women's Health, presents a comprehensive, agencywide plan that includes specific goals and actions PHS will pursue in promoting women's health. The plan focuses on crosscutting issues that can best be addressed through the combined efforts of the various PHS agencies and offices and is expected to produce results within the next two years. The plan, which builds upon previous PHS efforts and upon the recommendations of Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives, is designed to provide the necessary leadership to improve the health status of American women.
This plan, developed at the request of the Assistant Secretary for Health with the assistance of the PHS Coordinating Committee on Women's Health Issues, is a framework that includes initiatives in the areas of research, prevention, treatment, health education, training, services, policy, and data collection and analysis. Some of the areas targeted by the Action Plan include substance abuse; mental illness; health services research; the prevalence of smoking among women; breast and cervical cancer; HIV infection in women and children; health professions trainees' knowledge of women's health issues; research on conditions such as osteoporosis, cancer, and sexually transmitted diseases; health concerns of minority women; and immunization.
The newly established PHS Office on Women's Health within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health oversees implementation of the Action Plan. Dr. Agnes Donahue, Director of the Office on Women's Health, can be reached on 202-245-7650. Copies of the plan, #1624.1, are available from PIC.
COMPREHENSIVE CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM--A NATIONAL FAMILY SUPPORT DEMONSTRATION
Historically, human services systems for low-income families have been criticized as being fragmented because they have focused on achieving singular objectives and have attempted to serve some, but not all, family members. Three decades of research on early intervention programs have shown that these programs work best if they begin at or before the child's birth and continue until entrance into school; if they focus on the child's intellectual, social, emotional, and physical development; if they include all family members as program participants; and if they coordinate service delivery with agencies already serving the community. The Comprehensive Child Development Program (CCDP) accomplishes all of these goals.
Established in 1988 with the passage of the Comprehensive Child Development Act, CCDP provides low-income children with intensive, comprehensive services such as health care, early childhood education, developmental screenings and assessments, and nutrition services from the time of the child's birth until enrollment in school. These programs also serve parents by providing them with prenatal and postpartum care, training in infant and child development, mental health care, vocational training, and substance abuse education and treatment. The ultimate goals of the program are to enable families to become economically and socially self-sufficient and to reduce welfare dependency.
The report, Comprehensive Child Development Program -- A National Family Support Demonstration, assesses how well the CCDP demonstration has been implemented after the first 18 months of funding and addresses management issues regarding CCDP operations. The process evaluation involved reviewing management information system (MIS) data and visiting 12 of the 24 CCDP grantees.
The analysis shows that the projects initially had difficulties recruiting the targeted number of families by the enrollment deadline. Grantees had, however, established linkages with clinics, medical centers, mental health facilities, and drug and alcohol treatment centers to provide clients with routine health care, individual and family counseling, substance abuse treatment, and other services. Case management was a key aspect of CCDP, allowing the projects to build relationships with families and to coordinate the delivery of services. The 12 grantees visited had developed a core of qualified staff who were committed to the program.
Additionally, the process evaluation reveals that the projects that were most successful in implementing CCDP generally had strong management teams; attempted to phase in program operations and start-up tasks, rather than undertaking many activities simultaneously; and had ready access to community resources.
The report concludes that, although the first year of CCDP was a challenging one, the projects were already having a positive impact upon the families being served. Staff members had already begun to see changes in families' attitudes toward life and in parents' feelings of self-esteem and efforts to become self-sufficient.
The report was written by CSR, Incorporated, and Information Technology International under contract to the Head Start Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and Families. The study's project officer, Allen N. Smith, can be reached on 202-245-0566. Copies of the executive summary, #4426, are available from PIC.
FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME AND PREGNANT WOMEN WHO ABUSE ALCOHOL: AN OVERVIEW OF THE ISSUE AND THE FEDERAL RESPONSE>
Alcohol consumption by pregnant women has been the subject of research for 20 years and has been linked to physical and behavioral abnormalities and birth defects. In the early 1970s researchers identified Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), which affects 4,000 to 12,000 infants annually; is caused by chronic, heavy drinking among pregnant women; is the leading known preventable cause of mental retardation; and is associated with growth retardation, nervous system dysfunction, and abnormal facial features. When fetal abnormalities can be attributed to the mother's drinking but FAS has not been diagnosed, the term alcohol-related birth defects (ARBD) is used.
The report, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Pregnant Women Who Abuse Alcohol: An Overview of the Issue and the Federal Response, reviews the impact of FAS and ARBD, describes prevention and intervention strategies that aim to reduce the incidence of these conditions, examines gaps in knowledge and services, and discusses specific initiatives that federal agencies are undertaking in response to FAS and ARBD.
The study reveals that the human and societal costs of FAS are high. In 1985, the cost of treating the birth defects caused by FAS was estimated at $1.6 billion. Other costs linked to the syndrome, such as psychological costs to children, emotional costs to parents or other caregivers, and the loss of productivity, are difficult to quantify. Research also shows that a large percentage of individuals with FAS do not live with their natural families, that many FAS children eventually come into contact with the child welfare system, and that these children often experience multiple foster care placements because their needs can overwhelm foster parents.
Accordingly, a variety of strategies have been initiated to address the problem of FAS and ARBD. Primary prevention efforts, designed to avert the occurrence of the problem, include conducting public information campaigns, educating the children of alcoholics about the risks of alcohol abuse, and preventing additional alcohol-exposed pregnancies by increasing knowledge and use of contraceptives among women who drink. Secondary prevention, which focuses on treating pregnant women and women of childbearing age for alcohol abuse, employs individual and group therapy, family and marital therapy, and social skills training. Tertiary prevention attempts to minimize long-term disability and reduce the negative effects stemming from FAS. These interventions include diagnosing and reporting the condition and providing comprehensive services for infants with FAS and ARBD and their families.
The report also identifies areas in which further research is needed and describes barriers that impede services to the FAS-affected population. Specifically, policymakers need to know why some children, but not others, are affected by their mothers' drinking; how the father's alcoholism affects the development of the fetus; and which factors place the fetus at greater risk of FAS or ARBD. Additionally, improvements are needed in (1) the detection and diagnosis of FAS and ARBD; (2) surveillance and data collection; (3) prevention of alcohol abuse in pregnant women; (4) treatment and follow-up for alcohol abuse; and (5) appropriate interventions and services for individuals with FAS and ARBD across the life span.
Finally, the report provides an extensive listing of the ways in which the federal government is responding to FAS. The assessment outlines specific initiatives that HHS has undertaken in the areas of FAS research, surveillance, data collection, services, benefits, and alcohol abuse prevention and treatment.
The study was conducted by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. The study's project officer, Emily Novick, can be reached on 202-245-1880. Copies of the final report, #4423, are available from PIC.
MEDICAID EXPANSIONS FOR PRENATAL CARE: STATE AND LOCAL IMPLEMENTATION
In recent years congressional concerns about the health status of pregnant women have led to eligibility expansions for Medicaid-covered prenatal care. The impetus for the expansions stemmed from the high cost of caring for low- birthweight babies, versus the cost of providing prenatal care; the infant mortality rate; and the growing numbers of low-income women who are not insured for prenatal care.
The inspection, Medicaid Expansions for Prenatal Care: State and Local Implementation, examines state and local efforts to carry out the expansions and to overcome barriers that inhibit the provision of prenatal care. The project involved site visits to 19 communities within eight states, a national survey of the officials responsible for implementing the expansions, and interviews with Medicaid providers, eligibility supervisors, and workers.
The review determines that, to enhance women's access to Medicaid-covered prenatal services, states set their income standard at 133 percent of the federal poverty level and also implemented a number of optional eligibility expansions. Problems such as states' lack of client outreach, difficulties in recruiting providers, and lack of staffing as well as women's failure to complete the application process, however, still prevent newly eligible women from receiving the services.
The inspection also reports that states have taken additional steps to enhance the availability of prenatal care. Several states have developed comprehensive client outreach materials, while others have streamlined the application process, offered incentives to recruit new health care providers, or used case managers to provide prenatal care packages.
In order to expand pregnant women's access to these services, the report recommends that the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) develop a comprehensive outreach strategy, monitor the implementation of the expansions, develop incentives to encourage provider participation, and streamline the application process. The study also advises that HCFA develop data collection systems so that the progress of the expansions can be measured and that it establish a centralized authority that will have full responsibility for implementing the expansions.
HCFA's response to the recommendations, contained in Appendix I of the report, states that the agency could work with the Public Health Service (PHS), Administration for Children and Families, state Medicaid directors, and others to identify common elements of effective outreach efforts. HCFA could then develop guides for state agencies illustrating these elements in practice. HCFA concurs that more data are needed to assess the efficacy of the expansions and is working with PHS to develop a national data system that will link birth, death, and Medicaid claims records for infants up to age 1. The agency also has contracted for research to evaluate the expansions. Finally, HCFA agrees that recruiting and retaining providers is an important part of the initiative and is formulating regulations for obstetrical and pediatric payment rates.
The inspection was conducted by the Office of Evaluation and Inspections, Office of Inspector General. Copies of the final report, #4427, are available from PIC.
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Pandora North America shifts HQs to NYC
Pandora is moving its North American headquarters to New York City as part of a US$6 million-project, supported in part by New York state.
New year, new locale.
Danish jeweller Pandora is relocating its North American headquarters from Baltimore, Md., to New York City as part of a US$6 million-project, supported in part by New York state.
Slated to open in Times Square in early 2023, the 2508-m2 office space will create more than 130 full-time jobs across business functions, including sales, merchandising, marketing, finance, human resources, digital and e-commerce, real estate, legal, and operations, Pandora reports.
Additionally, the site will support the attraction of global talent reinforce long-term growth in North America, the company says.
"As Pandora enters its third decade of operation in the U.S. market, a New York headquarters will bolster our long-term growth ambition, with the ability to recruit world class talent and operate in one of the world's largest commercial markets," says Luciano Rodembusch, president of Pandora North America. "We look forward to establishing this new office with the support of New York State, as we continue to invest in the New York retail industry-at-large."
In the coming months, Pandora will add three new stores to its nine current locations across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.
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"Repeat Attenders", a new documentary about musical superfans, will be released on May 16
Words by Léna Fontaine
Filmed over six years, the new musical theatre documentary about superfans, "Repeat Attenders", will be released this Saturday, on May 16.
The documentary was filmed on Broadway, in the West End and in Germany and will feature show like Cats, Les Misérables, Starlight Express, Wicked and Hamilton. The movie aims to explore the lives and minds of theatre fans, their experiences and their needs when it comes to musical theatre. Described as "compelling and disturbing", "Repeat Attenders" promise to be more than honest on what it's like to be a musical theatre megafan – or obessed.
About the documentary, Mark Dooley, the filmmaker said :
"With the world's stages shut down for the foreseeable future, Repeat Attenders now plays a different role for the viewer. The film was originally created as a love letter to fans of theatre of all levels, but is now an archive of what going to the theatre used to be like, before COVID-19 put an end to being an audience member anywhere. It will be detrimental to the well-being of the human race that this experience can no longer occur.
"I hope Repeat Attenders gives comfort to those missing theatre and performing arts at the moment. It will be back, and we will be able to enjoy our passion once more. For now, hold onto those memories and treasured moments, because they can't be taken away from you."
The movie will be available on-demand on saturday 16 May. You can watch the trailer below.
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Karin Nisple joined the International Survey Team at FORS in 2014. She collaborates in the preparation and implementation of the European Social Survey and the International Social Survey/MOSAiCH in Switzerland. Her main activities include the translation and assessment of international survey questionnaires for Switzerland (TRAPD, SQP-Coding, Shared languages), the observation and documentation of media events (media claims) and the preparation of advance letters and other information materials for participants and the general public.


Here's an old song of mine, "Hold Tight, My Blood" featured in the 50 Cent/Val Kilmer movie, "Streets Of Blood".
-This is NOT a trailer, it is a teaser. Big difference.
-The Song is titled "Hold Tight, My Blood" By David Newbould, Words and music © 2003 by David Newbould, 10-70 Music (ASCAP).


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11:24 am - Been a while since i did a quiz.
Which Utopia Character are you? Find out! By Sandra and velvetglitter.
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A 63-year-old Coronavirus patient from Mumbai passed away in Mumbai on Tuesday morning. With this, toll rises to three deaths due to COVID-19 in India.
The patient had returned from Dubai and was admitted to Hinduja Hospital initially and after testing positive for COVID-19 he was shifted to Kasturba Hospital in Mumbai from March 12. The patient had a travel history to Dubai, which he reportedly did not disclose at the time of his admission to the private hospital. His wife is COVID-19 positive and stable.
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The patient was among the 39 confirmed coronavirus cases in Maharashtra. The two other deaths due to the infection in India were from Kalburagi in Karnataka and Delhi, respectively. A total of 14 people have tested positive in the city so far, taking the state's toll to 40. In India, the tally stood at 114 positive cases with three deaths.
Early on Tuesday, the number of novel coronavirus cases in the country rose to 125 after fresh cases were reported from several states.
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Układ miotający broni palnej – zespół elementów broni służący do nadania pociskom energii kinetycznej.

Układy miotające broni palnej można podzielić ze względu na miejsce umiejscowienia i sposób wykorzystania ładunku miotającego na:
 lufowe - ich niezbędnymi składnikami są lufa, pocisk, ładunek miotający, i urządzenie zapłonowe. Poza tym często występują, pełniące rolę pomocniczą zamek i łuska. Układy lufowe dzielimy na:
 klasyczne, w których w momencie strzału ładunek miotający jest całkowicie zamknięty między pociskiem a tylną częścią lufy. Pocisk jest napędzany siłą ciśnienia gazów działających na jego dno. W momencie rozpoczęcia ruchu pocisku w lufie rozpoczyna się odrzut broni. Odmianami klasycznego lufowego układu miotającego są układy:
 nasadkowy - na wylot lufy nakręcona jest nasadka umożliwiająca wystrzeliwanie nadkalibrowych granatów nasadkowych.
 dwukomorowe - w których ładunek miotający spala się w małej komorze wysokiego ciśnienia, a następnie powstałe gazy przepływają przez odpowiednie kanały do przestrzeni zapociskowej (komory niskiego ciśnienia). Odmianą tego układu jest układ hiperdźwiękowy, w którym komora spalania jest oddzielona od pocisku tłokiem. Ciśnienie gazów miotających napędza tłok który spręża lekki gaz znajdujący się za pociskiem. Ciśnienie tego gazu napędza pocisk.
 bezodrzutowe - w których odrzut broni jest eliminowany przez działanie reakcji gazów wypływających do tyłu wlotem lufy.
 rakietowe - ich niezbędnymi składnikami są: pocisk rakietowy, ładunek napędowy i urządzenie zapłonowe. Ładunek napędowy znajduje się w, będącym integralną częścią pocisku, silniku rakietowym. Działanie układu rakietowego polega na powstaniu siły reakcji przeciwnej do siły powodowanej wypływem gazów z dyszy silnika. Siła ta nazywana jest ciągiem silnika rakietowego.
 kombinowane (lufowo-rakietowe):
 klasyczno-rakietowe
 bezodrzutowo-rakietowe

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You have Classic-verse Drift and Mirror-verse Drift as the legs. The RID Drift as one arm, with the Movie Drift as the Helicopter torso AND as a car arm... because Drift is so awesome and fast, he's able to keep transforming from both modes, that the naked eye sees them both at the same time.
And then you have the Arms Micron redeco of the Minicon Dirtboss (who was called Drift in Japan), as a chest piece.
I considered SG Drift as another limb, but I was hoping for different molds for each limb...not really sure why come to think about it since Takara's plan for their combiners involves a lot of repaints/minimal remolds. The chest-piece idea is brilliant though.
Either way, Hasbro is totally missing an opportunity with their choices for their Fan-built combiner. C'mon Hasbro...where's Driftotron?
I just realised, with the new RiD Drift out, that means we're only one Drift away from being able to customise a Driftotron.
Helicopter Voyager for the torso, cars for the limbs.
Hehehe... I immediately thought of this posting after seeing the Kreo display at the US Toyfair having a Bumblebee combiner and Optimus combiner that were just 5 Kreons of each character.
I think none of us would have been remotely serious about having an officially released combiner made up of just the one character... but then Hasbro comes out and does it.
Mine were like that too... They gave me a Beachcomber as a kid, and I saw on the packaging "collect them all", and they said to me, "that's your problem now"... and almost 30 years later, and I'm still not finished yet.
Man, mine swindled me with swindle. Then pulled the same stunt with nosecone.
Lucky I was more switched on and managed to get 3 out of 6 of the orange constructions a couple of years later.
I had to have every birthday/christmas event to get one combiner for Computron as a kid. Never got Scattorshot or Nosecone. Just got those now.
A 5.2 earthquake struck near Bundaberg this morning at around 2am... that's stronger than the one I felt in Japan a year ago, and the shaking of that one scared the heck out of me.
I wonder if any of our members in the area felt it?
Happy New Year... for those who go by the Lunar Calendar, or were waiting for the CNY before they could play with their YOTG Transformers.


Brilliant States, Capitals Lesson Plans, Grade Pictures - ς? use of era to play video ?V=_e2cnzilvig  collaborative organization work  use structures questioning  get admission to and examine statistics  examine media emotional/behavioral:  personalized dreams and strategies  seating close to instructor/buddy  placed in organization with humans the student works well with  behavior settlement/chart  cue phrase/movement so student knows he or she is behaving inappropriately.
The sixth station is the ipad station. The students will play an academic game on the ipad, at this internet site  that offers with the states and capitals of the unites states. ?? every institution will stay at each station for 5 mins. Guiding the practice  the students will work with their companies to complete this activity. The students will concentrate closely to all of the instructions about each station earlier than being separated into groups. As soon as the students are separated the usage of popsicle sticks, i'm able to walk around with my timer to ensure the scholars are staying on assignment and running collectively and solution any questions that are requested. As soon as the scholars entire every station and the worksheet is entire, they may flip it in for a grade. The scholars will remain of their organizations to check. Providing the impartial practice  the video at the beginning of the lesson  homework transition  station to station till each scholar completed each. ?? at the quit, the students could be assigned a niche within the room to complete the overview of the learning. Reading  elmo materials  projector era  smartboard system  computer substances  youtube video  pocket book paper  pencil  popsicle sticks  bigger maps of clean states on each desk  piece that move at each station  worksheet  ipads  whiteboards  dry erase marker  replica of teach of states  homework worksheet assessment of formal assessment the  worksheet finished at some point of the pastime getting to know/master  homework y of the casual assessment idea  notes taken at some stage in the movie  precis of the learning closure summary & review of the getting to know .


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Why The New Rangers Ownership Is Awesome
By Robbie Griffin Mar 3, 2011, 5:30pm CST
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Christopher is probably too modest to post this himself, so I will.
Today, the Rangers unveiled their 2011 promotional giveaway schedule. On June 20, against the Astros, you will see that all fans get a Nelson Cruz Walk-Off bobblehead (by the way, if you go, please put yours on eBay, and let me know when you do, thanks).
Why did this happen? Apparently because of comments on Lone Star Ball. See, way back in January, our own Mr. Fittz wrote this:
Does anyone know when the Rangers are going to release their promotion schedule? Not that I really care that much about a magnetic calendar but it seems most teams have done that ages ago and I'd like to know when I can get pick up my Nellie Cruz pointing at camera during walk-off home run bobblehead.
Rangers PA announcer and VP of In Park Entertainment saw that very comment, and suggested the idea to Chuck Greenberg. And because he can, Greenberg has made it so.
Payroll is back up, the front office that produced an AL champion was kept in place, and Greenberg's group has said all the right things. But, on top of that, they are clearly interested in -- and successful at -- keeping their fingers on the pulse of the hardcore Rangers fans to find out what ideas they can bring to the populace to bring them in to our world of Rangers love and obsession. An awesome, simple idea posted on a Rangers board was found and turned in to an actual thing. It's just a bobblehead, but that has to make you feel like they care. And have a sense of humor.
There are so many reasons to be happy about the Rangers' future, and seemingly constantly the new bosses give us another reason to be excited about their being in charge.