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Radio Free Yugoslavia
Laura Silber and Veran Matic
Last winter Serbian opposition leaders called on Slobodan Milosevic to respect their parties' victories in the local elections held in November. Milosevic ignored them, and announced that the politicians loyal to him would remain in office. Night after night protesting crowds assembled in Belgrade chanting "Democracy." While the government stations paid little attention to the demonstrations, Radio B-92, a small independent FM station, broadcast them live; no one doubts that B-92 had much to do with keeping the demonstrations going. Intent on stopping the antigovernment protests, Milosevic banned B-92. The government charged that the station was operating without a license and disconnected B-92's transmitter.*
The station, whose signal hardly reaches beyond Belgrade, was organized in 1989 by Veran Matic, one of the present writers, as a politically independent alternative to Belgrade's radio and TV stations, which are largely controlled by Milosevic and his allies. B-92 regularly broadcasts reports on the corrupt and dictatorial practices of the Milosevic regime, and Milosevic was waiting for a chance to close it down. By using the Internet, however, the station was able to fight back. Not only in Belgrade but throughout the world listeners could find B-92's website and hear its broadcast in Serbian or English through the software program Real Audio, which makes it possible to hear reports on the Internet. "Virtual" protesters kept the non-violent demonstrations alive, even pelting cyber-eggs at state-run web pages.
International radio broadcasters augmented the domestic protest. The Voice of America, the BBC, and Radio Free Europe, all of which already had Serbian or local language services of their own, rebroadcast the reports carried on B-92 from transmitters abroad. The local Belgrade radio suddenly could be heard across Serbia.
Immediately after the station was banned, Ivor Roberts, the British ambassador, showed his support by visiting its offices on the fifth floor of a run-down socialist-style building in downtown Belgrade. Carl Bildt, then the international High Representative in charge of the civilian side of the Dayton peace agreement in Bosnia, the US State Department, and Kati Marton of the Committee to Protect Journalists also made protests on behalf of the station.
Internet technology and international pressure proved to be effective weapons against Milosevic. After two days he withdrew his edict forbidding B-92 to broadcast. It seems likely that he was convinced that lifting the ban would win Western praise and deflect international attention from his electoral fraud. Immediately afterward, B-92 was able—through funds provided equally by the BBC, the British Foreign Office, USAID, the European Union, and George Soros's Open Society Foundation—to gain access to a satellite that linked twenty-eight independent local radio stations, covering 70 percent of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which is now made up of Serbia and Montenegro. Its broadcasts by satellite continue.
B-92 is now also starting a television network linking the small private TV stations that have been broadcasting throughout the former Yugoslavia. It will again make use of a satellite, the easiest way to hook up remote TV stations in mountainous terrain, for example parts of Kosovo or Bosnia. (There is currently no independent station in Serbia's southern province of Kosovo, mostly inhabited by ethnic Albanians.) Since it was founded in 1989, B-92 has tried to encourage peaceful democratic change by linking independent media, local nongovernment organizations, and international institutions in support of the antiwar movement, and by calling attention to the plight of refugees. The station has also provided air time for minority and women's organizations, and for many arts and literature programs.
In the former Yugoslavia, television is today more powerful than military weapons. And it is the one weapon the Balkan warlords who now preside over the temporary peace have refused to surrender. The NATO commanders showed they realized this when on October 1 they seized the Bosnian Serb television transmitters controlled by Radovan Karadzic. This bold act will amount to little, however—and will seem a foolhardy risk of soldiers' lives—unless the Western nations pursue a coordinated and sustained policy to support independent radio and television not only in Bosnia but, just as important, in neighboring Serbia and Croatia.
Almost two years since the signing of the Dayton peace agreement, a consistent US or NATO policy supporting independent television has yet to emerge. Independent newspapers and magazines are sold in the former Yugoslavia but they are expensive and hard to distribute, and even where they are available, there is no strong tradition of an independent press. Newspapers and other publications have had only a marginal part in forming public opinion. Most people depend on television for information. A Western policy supporting independent radio and television would give the former Yugoslavia a much better chance of establishing democracy; if the people there do not have access to accurate information, efforts by Washington and its European allies to build a peace will probably be futile.
Even more than the police, the state-run station Television Serbia has been central to Milosevic's career. It was by taking control of state television from a rival faction in the Communist Party that he came to power in 1987. By skillfully using television, this colorless party apparatchik was able to transform himself into a fiery nationalist leader. Shrewd and inflammatory use of television was crucial for preparing for the wars in Croatia and Bosnia. Program after program stirred up hatred against non-Serbs, while denouncing those Serbs who refused to follow the Milosevic line and were calling for peaceful change.
At Belgrade's first mass opposition rally, on the eve of the war in 1991, protesters demanded without success that Milosevic relinquish his control of state television. Two of the demonstrators were killed by the police. In 1995 Milosevic took over Studio B, Serbia's biggest independent television station, after its journalists had either resigned under pressure or been bought off by the regime's own television station.
Last winter, after three months of demonstrations against Milosevic, Studio B broke away from control of the bureaucrats he had installed to run it and became independent. That situation has since changed, partly as a result of Milosevic's success in destroying the coalition that had organized the demonstrations against him. The coalition, known as Zajedno—Together—was led by Zoran Djindjic, the Democratic Party leader who became mayor of Belgrade after Milosevic yielded and honored the local election results, Vuk Draskovic, the nationalist leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement, and Ms. Vesna Pesic, a liberal legislator and former human rights activist. Milosevic recently succeeded in breaking up their alliance by making a deal with Draskovic, and then forcing Djindjic out of office as mayor. Studio B has meanwhile reverted to control by the tactical (but unofficial) coalition between Milosevic and Draskovic.
In Croatia, the Tudjman government used television constantly to create support for its war against the Serbs. Croatian state television is slicker and more refined than Serbia's, but it serves the same function: the nightly news broadcasts extol the regime and its leader, and openly advocate his policies, including an ethnically pure Croatian state, which two years ago meant the expulsion of Serbs living in Croatia. In the Croat-controlled part of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croats in charge of television circulate lies and slander to defame their Muslim countrymen. It does not matter that such practices violate the Dayton principles, and have been specifically banned by subsequent agreements.
So far the biggest display of civic mass protest in Croatia, which took place this winter at the same time as the demonstrations in Belgrade, was against Tudjman's attempt to assert control over Radio 101, Zagreb's most popular independent radio station. Tens of thousands of people rallied in support of the station as it was about to be taken over by Tudjman's party. The station has kept its independence, but it may not be able to do so for long.
In Communist Yugoslavia, state television was not just a means of propaganda. For most people it simply was a basic fact of life. After the wars in Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia, the respective state channels have enormous influence over public opinion. As Milos Vasic of the independent Belgrade weekly Vreme remarked about the ways that Television Serbia had helped to raise tensions before the war, if the Ku Klux Klan had seized control of the US media, Americans, too, would become racists and nationalists.
The Western nations, including the US, still lack a long-term strategy for encouraging democracy in Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia. They should be helping independent radio and television by making it possible to set up transmitters and other equipment and to obtain programs made abroad. (International attempts to create an independent Bosnia-wide television network so far have failed to have much effect. A project to do so, proposed by American and European officials and partly supported by foreign aid funds, has had trouble carrying out ideas that were too loosely and grandly conceived and that turned out to be impractical.) Only a sizable independent station—one that does not appear imposed from the outside—could rival state television for the attention of the public.
The Clinton Administration should adopt a new policy of promoting support of independent television stations by Western governments, as well as by private companies committed to the free circulation of information. TV news executives such as Ted Turner could, with little investment, contribute to technical support for such stations. Since the Internet is central to the operation of B-92, computer executives such as Bill Gates could appropriately support the use of the new technology to foster democracy. (George Soros is already the biggest private contributor both to supporting independent media in former Yugoslavia and to building a civil society there.)
Independent radio and television should be treated as seriously as the other elements on which the fulfillment of the Dayton peace agreement depends, such as arms control and freedom of movement. Questions bearing on the future of radio and television should not be relegated to commanders of SFOR, the NATO-led force keeping the peace in Bosnia.
American policy in Bosnia has often seemed a somewhat frantic attempt to catch up with events just when the situation is about to get out of hand. NATO commanders seized the TVtransmitters controlled by Karadzic and turned them over to Biljana Plavsic, the President of Republika Srpska, whom they are trying to support, privately arguing that it was legitimate for them to take equipment from an indicted war criminal and allow her to use it to reach the Bosnian (Serb) public. But such measures should be accompanied by aid to the independent television and radio stations that will allow different opinions to circulate throughout Bosnia's two halves.
If steps are not taken to spread information and to increase democratic participation in the politics of Bosnia and elsewhere in former Yugoslavia, the Dayton accords will fail; the entire region, which now must be seen as including not only most of the successor states of former Yugoslavia but Bulgaria and Albania as well, will become even more unstable. Western investment in the training, technology, and other assistance needed by independent radio and television stations will not by itself resolve the tragic conflict in former Yugoslavia. But it could greatly help in doing so and it would be far less costly than a renewed war, or than maintaining NATO soldiers in Bosnia indefinitely.
Laura Silber
Laura Silber is a reporter for the Financial Times and the coauthor of Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation. (November 1997)
Veran Matic
Veran Matic is editor-in-chief of Belgrade Radio B-92. Before co-founding the Radio in 1989, he worked as an independent journalist and he has also started a publishing house. (November 1997)
The station's frequency is 92.5, but the name also refers to the phone number for the police and to the year inaugurating a single market for Europe. ↩
Gail Pressberg
Israel and the Occupied Territories: An Urgent Appeal by the ICRC
Amnesty International on Argentina
October 11, 1979 issue
On the Bombing of Aleppo
The world is witnessing a humanitarian catastrophe of historic proportions.
To a Western Peace Activist
Ludvik Vaculik, translated by Barbara Day
The Czech Party
Jean-Francis Held
Valery Panov
A Statement By Valery Panov
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
A Letter of Resignation
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Story Contest 2017 #2 - Outstanding Stories (Junior) » The Solitary Tigress
"The Solitary Tigress" is one of the outstanding stories of the second biannual International Short Story Contest 2017 written by Zara Moretto, France.
The Solitary Tigress
Silence hung like a light veil on the misty mountain, muffling all sounds. The wind tickled the trees and snow fell in thick snowdrops, blanketing the rocks and powdering the treetops. A tigress was standing proudly on a jutting outcrop of rock, her figure silhouetted against the dying sun. When she roared it stabbed at the peaceful silence and filled the mountain with a cavernous echo. Her eyes hunted through the smooth rocks of the mountain, searched among the trees in the forest, scanned through the valleys unfolding like a map under her fierce gaze, looking for something, urgently. Seemingly having found her quarry she leapt off her rock. Snowflakes settled on her thick coat and she left light pawprints on the soft snow as she descended the mountain looking for whatever she needed to find.
The tigress found the thing she was looking for, a cave in which she could give birth. She introduced her head into its dark interior, and much to her surprise saw another tigress curled up in there. A menacing growl emanated from deep inside her throat as the other tiger pulled her lips up over her shining teeth and arched her back, ready to attack this intruder for trespassing on her domain. However, as the other tigress prepared resolutely to attack, she noticed three shivering cubs lying in the corner of the cave, only skin and bones, huddling together for comfort and yelping pitifully at the sight of this imminent danger. Pity seeped through her cold exterior and, giving a final growl, she backed out of the cave into the growing snowstorm.
The snow whirled around the tigress' head. She was having trouble finding a new cave to use, when she saw one hidden between some fir trees. She padded across the snow and ventured inside. It was perfect; warm, comfortable, uninhabited and the pine trees offered protection from the biting wind. She sat down on her haunches at the back of the cave, curled her tail around her to keep out the cold, licked her soft pelt and waited for her time to come. However, it was only when the moon shone through the thickening snow, bathing the cave in a soft silvery glow that she gave birth. Four cubs breathed their first breath that night in the small cave.
They tottered towards their mother on fragile legs, buried their faces in her striped fur and drank the tangy milk that their mother was providing. Within ten minutes the cubs were asleep and the mother curled around them, licking their fur with her rasping tongue. Her eyes twinkled in the moonlight and she seemed to smile down at the cubs as she laid her head down in front of the cave's mouth to protect her new-borns from the freezing touch of the falling flakes. The snowstorm whirled around them, but that didn't disturb the new family; the rocky walls of the cave muffled the howls of the wind and the only sound that filled the small cavern was the five tigers' deep breathing.
When the snowstorm ceased and the fallen snow covered the mountain in a snug blanket, the weak sunlight infiltrated itself through the trees and shone on the untidy pile of sleeping tigers. The tigress was already awake, tenderly licking the sleeping cubs' heads. When she was sure that none of the cubs would wake up anytime soon she pulled herself up and noiselessly padded out of the cavern. Her entire kingdom was covered in a thick layer of snow, the tree branches were sagging under their burden and the light grey of the rocks that ruled the mountain in summer had been blotted out completely by the crystal white of the snow.
The tiger swept the horizon with her gaze, picking out the slightest movement with her acute vision. She hadn't had food for a week before the cubs' arrival and she needed it desperately. She saw a shadow flit between the trees and she tensed: a deer was picking its way through the forest that grew at the foot of the towering mountain. It was making its way towards a small pool which the cold hadn't frozen yet. The tiger leapt soundlessly down the mountain, stalking her deer who was now sipping at the crystalline water of the pool. Crouching low behind a tree, tail swinging from side to side, the predator readied to pounce. The deer sensed something was wrong; it was scared, flicking its ears nervously and gazing from side to side with large coal-black eyes.
The tigress crouched low among the trees, fixing her gaze on her prey. She had to act now or the deer would run away. When she was close enough to her quarry she leapt into action. A ripple of muscle ran across her body and she was power impersonated as she leapt onto the surprised deer's back. The attacked animal bucked and plunged trying to throw the tiger off balance but the attacker was too strong and the deer sank into the snow. The tigress plunged her teeth into the deer's neck and finally got the first meal she had had in days. She dragged the prey up the mountainside to the cave where the cubs were waiting for her, exploring their home, bumping into the borders of their small lives. They watched with bright eyes as their mother dragged the dead deer into the cave. She was settling down to eat it when a deep growl resonated outside the cave.
The tigress leapt up and pushed her cubs behind a sheltering rock and hesitantly stepped outside to face the danger that awaited her. But it wasn't a surprise to her when she saw a towering tiger standing outside the cave. She had been dreading his visit ever since she had become pregnant with the cubs and she was right to be afraid of him. This male was the most powerful tiger in her area and he wanted to mate with her because she was one of the strongest tigresses; however, she had mated with another, and now this male was here to kill the offending cubs. But the mother wouldn't let him. She growled and bared her teeth as he advanced towards her, intent on gaining entry into the cave. He was about to succeed when, in an act of pure desperation, she leapt onto him and pinned him to the ground. The male tiger growled and scratched at her forepaw, leaving a large gash, but she roared deafeningly and the male, intimidated by her fierce attack, leapt up and ran off, his pride crumbling beneath him. The mother limped into the cave once more and her cubs pressed their trembling bodies against her in search of comfort, but they had no need to be afraid, for that was the last that they would ever see of that tiger.
Winter shifted into summer like clouds flitting across the sky. The ice thawed, the snow melted and the dark clouds cleared from the sky. The mother's cubs were older now, they had learned to hunt and were ready to take care of themselves. She had known that this day would come but she was still saddened as one by one her cubs left the cave and padded down to the forest or over the mountain to go and fend for themselves. By the end of the summer the only cub that was left was the runt of the litter, but the day came for him too.
As the sinking sun cast its last beams of light onto the mountainside, the tigress laid her head on her paws and watched with faint pride as her last cub disappeared through the trees. She had managed what most tigresses failed at, she had raised all four of her cubs through infancy and had had the chance to watch them follow their own destinies, reassured that they would survive. She picked herself up off the forest floor, turned around and jumped from rock to rock to the top of the mountain. The mother lay down on the rocky peak and watched the world unfold before her eyes: the trickling streams, the sparse trees, the rocky cliffs and the grassy hills, ready to continue her life as a solitary tigress once more.
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Venice > Local transportation > Water buses
Venice ACTV water buses
How to use public transportation in Venice, Italy.
ABOVE: A Line 1 vaporetto (left) arrives at the Accademia ACTV stop on the Grand Canal. On the right is a private water taxi.
In Venice's centro storico or historic center, which is made up of more than 100 islands, water buses are the equivalent of buses and subways on dry land.
ACTV, the public-transportation authority in Venice, operates vaporetti and other water buses around the clock, with a fleet of 150 boats and routes that extend into the far corners of the Venetian Lagoon.
Venice is a small city, and you can walk nearly to nearly any street, square, monument, or hotel within the historic center in 30 minutes or less. Still, there are times when you'll want to take a water bus, such as:
If you're staying outside the center on an island such as the Lido di Venezia or La Giudecca (site of the Venice Hostel);
When you want to visit the islands of the Lagoon, including the glassmaking island of Murano;
When you want to spend 45 minutes or so cruising up or down the Grand Canal on the No. 1 vaporetto line;
When you're tired after a day's sightseeing and you're willing to pay a premium for a ride back to the neighborhood where you're staying.
In this article, we'll describe the different types of vaporetti, motoscafi, and motonavi in Venice's ACTV fleet.
We'll also tell you how to board and use the boats, how to avoid crowds during high season and holiday weekends, and what you need to know before boarding a water bus with luggage.
For even more information (including routes, fares, and tourist passes), please click the links in the "Also see" menu at the bottom of each page.
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The College during World War II
Student War Board Scrapbook
Even before the official start of World War II in September, 1939 with the invasion of Poland by Germany, Sarah Lawrence students paid close attention to the events leading up to the war as they unfolded. Almost every issue of the student newspaper, The Campus, contained editorials and/or articles on Hitler, fascism, and the developing hostilities in Europe. When the United States entered the war in 1941, the seriousness of the hostilities hit home at Sarah Lawrence College. As with other colleges and universities, in particular, other women's colleges, World War II had a profound effect on the role of a Sarah Lawrence education and altered the path of the College's history forever.
One of the most profound changes at the College with the onset of World War II was the altered curriculum. In January 1942, President Constance Warren, along with Director of Education Beatrice Doerschuk, attended a meeting of college administrators and government representatives "to discuss the part which the colleges should play in the war." Warren writes in her 1942 President's Report that the meeting was concerned "much more with men's than with women's colleges but men and women alike were urged to complete their college courses whenever possible." This set the tone for the education of women on the homefront for the duration of the war.
Sarah Lawrence's "flexible education" allowed for courses to focus on the needs of the war. Already existing courses found new purposes. For example, "psychology courses train students to care for children in times of stress and particularly in nursery schools where women may leave their children while working in war industries. Students in the social sciences are being prepared... for positions as junior economists and statisticians." In addition, the College added regular courses, such as Science in Wartime, and extracurricular courses to help train women for war related work. "The need of industry for women with laboratory training in physics is growing rapidly and we are planning to meet it at the College [with]... extracurricular courses in typing, stenography, photography, [and] recreational leadership" (President's Report, May 1942). Courses such as Nutrition, Recreational Leadership (training students to work with children in community centers as leaders for games, stunts, and dancing), Motor Mechanics and First Aid became very popular. As the war progressed, the training needs for war work changed. Interest waned for Red Cross, nutrition and recreational leadership courses, while demand increased for training in "hospital recreational work," occupational therapy, and the Recreational Occupations Workshop where students learned to teach "card weaving, square knotting, clay modeling and block printing" to patients in hospitals. (President's Report, April 1944)
The curriculum was also affected by the rearrangement of the college calendar. Beginning with the 1942-43 year, the College reduced the academic year from thirty-four to thirty-two weeks to provide "a longer period in the summer for students who plan to take jobs or to attend summer school." (President's Report, December 1942) The calendar changed even further when the College began a summer session in 1943. As a result of much discussion between the administrators of women's colleges and government representatives, "it was evident that this coming shortage [of young people with a college education] was a source of worry to the large war industries... We became convinced that the trend of the times was toward summer sessions by which a student could cut down the time required [for] the A.B. degree." (President's Report, May 1943) The New York State Board of Regents announced that, for the duration of the war, 120 weeks would be considered sufficient for a Bachelor's degree in New York. Therefore, the College established its first summer session. This accelerated program, consisted of two terms of sixteen weeks each and one more term of eight weeks during the summer allowing a student to graduate in three years instead of four. The summer session specifically centered around the war and post-war problems.
Constance Warren expressed concern over the lack of attention given to women's colleges during the war, particularly by the government. Her concern extended to the place of women's higher education as well as the possibility that liberal arts education would fall to the need to train men and women for industry. In her December 1942 President's Report, she writes:
Up to this time the concern of our government with education and its relation to the war has been with men, not women. There is confusion and lack of direction in national policy concerning the education of women... the leaders of colleges educating women are puzzled... There is serious danger that vocational courses may crowd out the liberal arts entirely or place the teaching of such subjects as literature, philosophy, history and the arts in the category of 'fills and furbelows,' obliged to apologize for taking what little room is left for them.
Despite the lack of government interest in women's liberal arts colleges, Constance Warren recognized the importance of the war in opening up the working world to women. She continues in her 1942 report:
Never has there been a moment in the world's history when so many doors of opportunity were open to women or so much assumption of responsibility was expected of them. A college education must count. For that reason I am not in sympathy with spending too much time in training college women for jobs which can as easily be performed by any high school graduate. I think we should expect more of our students and train them for more, both for work connected with the war and for the responsibilities of living in the post-war period.
While Warren saw how valuable the war could be to furthering women's roles in the United States, she also reminded the Board of Trustees that "At the same time we must not forget that we are educating women who still look forward hopefully to a day when they may have homes and children."
Another aspect significantly affecting the curriculum was the constantly changing faculty due to opportunities for war work as well as the draft. Constance Warren noted the effect of this early on in the war in her May 1942 President's Report: "Not only has the war affected the enrollment of students but it has also depleted the faculty." However, Warren was quick to express the dedication of the faculty that remained at the College. "I can pledge the devotion of the faculty to these objectives as our contribution to the war effort."
A number of special programs and projects resulted from the changed curriculum during the war. These included the publication of the "Nutrition Notes" songbook in 1943, the United Nationalities Round Tables with community members focusing on race and ethnicity, and the establishment of the Committee on Information on Children in Wartime. These special projects provided students with opportunities to become a part of the larger community outside of the College.
The onset of World War II dramatically altered the life of students on campus beyond changes in the curriculum and faculty. In contrast to the expected decline in enrollment, applications of women for admission to college increased. President Warren, in her April 1944 President's Report attributed this trend to four causes:
more money in circulation and fewer luxuries to buy with it;
most parents are relieved of the cost of educating their sons;
an increasing realization of the importance of training women to be self-supporting in an uncertain world;
an increasing realization of the importance of training women to contribute to its betterment.
In addition, students were informed of the "call" of the "war effort... for greater emphasis than ever before on 'keeping fit,' both in preparation for war services and to spare overworked doctors." Constance Warren wrote in her May 1942 President's Report that the College intends to "cooperate fully" in this program of "keeping fit."
The most drastic effect of the war on student life came as a result of labor shortages, food rationing, and supply rationing. As many employees left Sarah Lawrence to work in the defense industry, the College felt the strain of the labor shortage particularly in the various services on campus including in the dining room, kitchen, and janitorial staff. Before students returned to campus for the 1943-44 year, the College informed them that they "must be prepared to give the College the equivalent of an hour a day of service." (President's Report, November 1943) Constance Warren saw this "pitching in" as a type of war work. "This is a type of war work which all of us should be able to take in our stride." (President's Report, May 1942) Instead of being served in the dining rooms, the buffet style service or "cafeteria" style dining was employed. When students were served, it was by other students who waited on tables without pay to take the place of waitresses who left for war industry jobs. By the end of the war all dining was cafeteria style.
The war also affected the campus social life. Traditionally, many Sarah Lawrence students left campus on weekends to go home or to visit other larger universities such as Princeton and Yale. There were very few weekend activities to hold their interest on campus. Constance Warren saw this as an opportunity; "Because of war conditions there has been less temptation to the students to take week-ends away... therefore there is more opportunity to plan week-end entertainments." (President's Report, April 1944) When the new president, Harold Taylor, arrived in 1945, he recognized the enhanced social life on campus. "During the current year, a new sense of unity amongst all students has begun to develop, due partly to increased campus recreational and social life during the period of the war." (President's Report, November 1945) Director of Education, Beatrice Doerschuk also recognized the change in her report to President Taylor in November 1945. The students "themselves report a noticeably more wide-spread interest on the part of the student body as a whole in what their student government is doing, with a more general readiness to participate."
Sacrifices came in various forms. The College cooperated with the government request to relieve transportation difficulties during the holiday season by agreeing to a four-week holiday vacation and no spring vacation. In order to give students a break from the long period between January and June, students and faculty created Interim Week in the Spring during which students remained on campus but regular classes were suspended. For example, in February 1942, a five day conference at the College on Vocations and Defense was held covering job opportunities in various fields of interest. Other sacrifices included the cancellation of reunions at the request of the government, and student participation in maintaining the campus grounds. "The students have been most helpful this winter in saving light and heat, have raked leaves in squads, and got up early to shovel paths when there was snow." (President's Report, April 1944)
War Board and War Activities
Students acutely felt the need to assist in the war effort. The first order of business was the establishment of the Student War Board. Established in Spring 1942, under the direction of Ruth Lee, the War Board was in full swing for the beginning of the Fall 1942 semester. The Board organized students through a registration system in which students filled out cards indicating what they were interested in pertaining to war work. All requests that came to the College went through the War Board which parsed out the various jobs to different students. By November 1942, 257 of 291 students had registered with the War Board. "The Board interviewed each student registered and began placing them through the Office of War Activities... The list [of placements] includes only independent volunteer work, not work students are doing in either curricular or extra-curricular courses." (President's Report, December 1942)
The War Board created various committees to handle all the aspects of war work. The committees included Bond and Stamp, Knitting, Tea Dance, Salvage, Poster, Publicity, and Registration. The Bond and Stamp Committee organized to sell defense stamps and bonds, at which they were very successful.
Other types of work assigned by the War Board, included aiding in hospitals and caring for children. In addition, 64 students took air raid warden training, 192 faculty and students attended Red Cross courses in first aid, motor mechanics, home nursing and nutrition either on campus or in Bronxville. Much of the work revolved around entertaining and teaching midshipmen from Columbia University's Naval Training Program, and wounded GIs at Camp Shanks and Fort Slocum rehabilitation hospitals.
Despite the decline over the years in the numbers of student participants, overall the War Board was deemed a success. The Board was particularly successful early on in the war which prompted Constance Warren to write in her April 1942 President's Report, "War work and allied community activities are developing so rapidly at the College that it is impossible to enumerate all of them." A sign of the Board's significance was the move to the Alumnae House in the summer of 1943. Now the Communitea House, the Alumnae House was at the very center of campus and the War Board occupied that prominent space. The Board maintained its "active services" in Westchester County and New York City throughout the remainder of the war. Their work allowed the College to become "more closely identified with our community through the services which we have been able to contribute toward its wartime needs." (President's Report, May 1943).
At the end of the war, the Student War Board saw the need to continue the various volunteer and community activities organized during the war. Immediately after the war ended, the War Board changed its name to the Community House and functioned out of the same office, then called the Community House, with the same aims of carrying on in the community with post-war activities.
Overall, Sarah Lawrence College became a new college during World War II altering some of its focus to meet the needs of the day while maintaining its commitment to an individualized liberal arts education. As a result of the war, the role of the College appeared to change in relation to women's lives. Harold Taylor, in his first President's Report in November 1945, articulates the changes well:
"In reviewing the general effect of the war upon student life at the College, it can be said that this generation of women students has become more conscious of the variety of roles which women can play in society than ever before. This is reflected in an increased concern by our students for adequate vocational guidance. An even wider variety of interests has been introduced, - vocational, intellectual, political, - and a new independence has grown.
In view of this change, women's education must help with the problem involved in a changed pattern of family life, where conflicts between the duties of motherhood and the enjoyment of independent interests are often strong enough to destroy successful marriages... "


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The release date of LG G4 will be around early June this year. For the model with a leather back the phone price will be around 699 USD and for the plastic back panel model then this phone will be 649 USD. The former come with a spare battery cover that is made of plastic. Among them South Korea, over 180 countries will buy the LG G4 smartphone. The spare battery cover comes in either white, gold, and gray/silver colors while the leather back comes in shades of different variety including black, blue, drown, and red.
The display of LG G4 is curved slightly, not as much as LG G Flex 2. But with this slight curve, you will have added a sort of nice look that will make the device to look great. Whereas the carbon optic detailing makes it to appear really nice, the leather versions might show scratches and scuffs easily when exposed to hard objects like car keys. But don't mind, with care the phone is as great as it sounds- this is a common feature of leather but not the manufacturers fault. For the plastic version of the LG G4, the plastic cover isn't that plain, as there are diamond patterns across the mantle of this phone's plastic surface. This makes the phone to look even great when compared to LG G Flex 2 which has a polished look.
In terms of the screen display, the LG G4 stands at 5.5-inch with a QHD (2,560 x 1,440 pixel) IPS LCD, featuring Quantum Dot Technology and has been sandwiched under Gorilla Glass 3. The screen is very bright and comes with a natural color reproduction. All the viewing angles are stable where all these colors will remain great from any angle of viewing.
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// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.

using System;
using System.IO;

namespace Microsoft.SqlServer.TDS.SSPI
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Token that carries client's SSPI payload during login sequence
    /// </summary>
    public class TDSSSPIClientToken : TDSPacketToken
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Data length
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        private int _length;

        /// <summary>
        /// Current offset at which inflation occurs
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        /// <summary>
        /// SSPI payload
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        /// <summary>
        /// Default constructor
        /// </summary>
        public TDSSSPIClientToken(Stream source, int length)
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            // Save the length to enable inflation
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}


Groton has welcomed nine new teachers this fall. Their subjects range from art to English, and with interests spanning from running to music production. The Circle Voice has profiled them – along with two familiar faces who will take on new roles on the Circle – below.
This year, Jake Kohn will be teaching Third and Fourth Form English, and will serve as assistant coach for the boys cross country and track and field teams. Originally from the West Coast, he earned his B.A. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University. Last year, Mr. Kohn completed a teaching fellowship at Philips Academy. He thoroughly enjoyed his time there, and now looks to continue his career in education at Groton. Mr. Kohn recalls loving his visit to the Circle, and said, "Everyone I met seemed not only diligent but also friendly and genuinely enthusiastic about their classes." He is excited to learn from Groton students, see the autumn colors and try Dining Hall food. Outside of the classroom, Mr. Kohn's most serious hobby is running – he was formerly a member of the Stanford Running Club – and he also enjoys music and video production.
After graduating Groton in 2002, Michelle Brito earned a bachelor's in history from Middlebury College and a M.Ed. from Emmanuel College. She worked for nine years variously as a teacher, administrator and principal at Mother Caroline Academy, a school in her native Boston for economically disadvantaged girls, and has now decided to return to the Circle, where she will work in inclusion outreach in the Admission Office. She will also be a faculty co-advisor for the Cultural Alliance. "Groton shaped the way I view education and was instrumental in my learning," Ms. Brito said. She especially recalls the supportive teachers, adults and friends who helped and nurtured her during her formative years. She said that the school instilled in her the philosophy "with great wisdom, comes great responsibility", a principle she has exemplified throughout her career. Outside of teaching, Ms. Brito enjoys running and looks forward to doing so on the Triangle again.
While Assistant Director of Admission Carolyn Chica is new to Groton, she is no stranger to our headmaster. Indeed, the Maqubelas' presence was among Ms. Chica's reasons for coming to Groton – Headmaster Temba Maqubela was her science teacher and advisor in her high school years at Phillips Academy, and English teacher Vuyelwa Maqubela was her house counselor. "I have always looked up to them as educators and as individuals," she said. She was also attracted to the close-knit nature of the Circle, and especially enjoyed seeing student chapel talks on her visit. Ms. Chica has been a middle school science teacher, and has taught at public, charter and independent schools in different boroughs of New York City. She is looking forward to Groton's "back to school electricity", her first St. Mark's Day and Surprise Holiday. In her free time, Ms. Chica enjoys traveling.
To many, Michael Gnozzio's presence on campus is not unfamiliar. He graduated from Groton in 2003 and has worked with the Debating Society for many years. This year, Mr. Gnozzio will teach math and continue to work with the debate team. He will also coach boys junior varsity hockey. Mr. Gnozzio earned his bachelor's in computer science from Williams College, which he says he chose due to its similarities to Groton. He described his experience on the Circle as "fantastic," and said that much of his worldview was shaped by classes and discussions here. After graduating college, Mr. Gnozzio worked as a software developer for Cogo Labs, a startup incubator that focuses on online advertising. Through his ten years there, he saw the company grow and thrive, and eventually came to head engineering operations across the organization. Mr. Gnozzio's decision to return to teach at Groton was sparked by a conversation with the debate team. On the bus ride back from a tournament, students were discussing the cases they had argued earlier that day, and he was struck with a feeling of pride. Mr. Gnozzio realized that "spending time with [students] is almost certainly going to be more rewarding than working in online advertising." Mr. Gnozzio is excited to teach precalculus and return to math topics that he hasn't thought much about in recent years. In his free time, Mr. Gnozzio enjoys playing board and video games; attending classical music concerts; and discussing politics, religion and philosophy.
Matthew Reichelt will teach Latin and Greek, and will serve as assistant coach for the boys cross country and track and field teams. Before coming to Groton, he earned a B.A. in Classical Studies from Trinity College. He says he chose Groton because of the "wonderful academic environment and the strong sense of community among both the students and the faculty." In the upcoming year, he looks forward to meeting everyone in the community and beginning his courses. Outside of teaching, he enjoys hiking and camping.
Melissa De Jesus will be a new member of the art department, teaching Visual Studies, Ceramics and Drawing Workshop. She will also be working with the costume design team in the theater department. Ms. De Jesus has had extensive experience with art and teaching. While completing her Masters in Art Education at Pratt Institute, she worked with elementary school students on the autism spectrum at the Learning Spring School in Manhattan. She also worked at The American Folk Art Museum teaching high school students alongside the Museum Educator and oversaw an Art Portfolio Prep class at a public school in Brooklyn. Ms. De Jesus cites Groton's "expansive art program, student body, supportive faculty and perhaps most importantly its institutional focus on inclusivity" as her reasons for coming to the Circle. In her free time, Ms. De Jesus enjoys creating art, traveling, visiting museums, listening to music, and dancing.
Christopher Wade will teach Third and Fifth Form English this year. After studying at Wesleyan University, he started his teaching career at Match Public Charter High School in Boston. After that, he served as a teaching fellow at Phillips Academy, and he went on to teach at Northfield Mount Hermon. In addition to teaching English, he has coached soccer and also served as a house counselor in boys dorms. Mr. Wade is passionate about education: "I got into the teaching game because, more than anything, I love to learn – about books, about my students, about what makes us human." He is eager to join Groton's tight-knit and rigorously intellectual community, and he looks forward to meeting and working with students and faculty. In particular, he is excited for "the collaborative learning and exploration" of new texts with his students. Apart from teaching English, Mr. Wade will head an Upper School boys dorm and help coach the boys varsity soccer and track teams. Outside of teaching, Mr. Wade enjoys playing video games and walking his dog, Mochi.
Last year, many students had the privilege of getting to know Jessica Brownfeld through the yoga classes she offered on weekends and to sports teams. This year, she will join us as a dorm head while continuing to lead yoga classes. Outside of the dorm, she works as the director of communications at The Fessenden School in West Newton, Massachusetts. Prior to moving to Groton last August, she spent over five years in communications and marketing in New York City. She was also a group fitness instructor in New York, and has been teaching yoga for nine years. She describes the Groton community as "incredibly welcoming," and has enjoyed getting to know students through yoga classes and dorm duty with her fiancé Mr. Spierer in Spring's dorm. She and Mr. Spierer are excited to run a dorm, and are looking forward to getting married this November.
This year, Alison Hamlin will be teaching Second Form Science and Chemistry, and will also coach girls varsity field hockey in the fall. Upon earning a B.S. in Chemistry from University of Rochester, Ms. Hamlin spent eight months in Armenia writing educational materials for two environmental organizations and tutoring students at the American University of Armenia. After returning to the U.S., she worked at a scientific publishing company, and then spent a year as a teaching fellow in chemistry at Phillips Academy. She was struck by Groton's "tight-knit feel" and looks forward to being part of a small-school community. Ms. Hamlin is also excited to design her own curriculum for Second Form Science. She loves hiking, and is an amateur birdwatcher. If she is free on Sunday afternoons, she parades through the streets of Cambridge with the School of Honk brass band.
Upon graduating from Wellesley College in May, Sonja Cwik came to Groton as a physics intern. This year she will teach two sections of Advanced Physics and serve as a coach for the girls cross country team and the track team. When Ms. Cwik was a teacher at a public high school, she found that she could not connect with her students there due to the large class sizes. She was thus drawn to Groton's small classes, sense of community and the many ways to connect with students outside the classroom. Outside of teaching, she enjoys to run, bake, hike and play board games.
Kate Machan moved onto campus with her husband, Associate Director of College Counseling Mark Machan, in 2014, and joined Groton's Alumni Affairs and Development Office in 2015. She will now assume a position as the director of Groton Affordability and Inclusion (GRAIN) affairs. Prior to Groton, Mrs. Machan worked in alumni affairs and fundraising at many other schools, including St. Mark's. Throughout her years on the Circle, she has helped with Machan's dormitory, and looks forward to becoming more involved with the dorm this year as well as working with advisees and having more frequent contact with students. In her free time, Mrs. Machan enjoys spending time with her two young children, Teddy and Biz, and visiting museums and parks.


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Pleas relating to Delhi violence reach SC & HC, hearing on Wednesday
The pleas relating to the north-east Delhi violence, which has claimed 10 lives, reached the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court on Tuesday and they will hear the matter on Wednesday. The first plea was mentioned in the apex court on behalf of former Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah and others who sought direction to the police to lodge FIRs on complaints regarding the ongoing violence over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
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Delhi police on Friday said around 123 FIRs were registered and 630 arrests were made in connection with violence in north-east areas of Delhi. Delhi Police PRO MS Randhawa said the police is monitoring social media and the situation closely. Police has been conducting flag marches in...
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Akshay Kumar contributes in construction of Ram Temple, urges countrymen to do the same
Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar on January 17 appealed countrymen to participate in the construction of the Ram Temple by donation. Akshay very gracefully turned his storytelling mode on and narrated a chunk of a story about Ram Setu and urged people to contribute in the construction of Ram Temple. Last year, the Supreme Court gave its historic decision on Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case. The Apex Court gave its judgment in favour of Ram Temple. After that time, the route of construction of Ram Temple was cleared.
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'Farmers won't participate': Protestors reject SC order for talks with panel
In the latest episode of In Focus, Avik Saha, National Convener, Jai Kisan Andolan, said that the protesting farmers will not participate in talks with the panel formed by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the implementation of Centre's three farm laws. The apex court said that it is forming a four-member committee to resolve the impasse between Centre and farmers. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde said that it will pass an order to this effect. The committee will look into the farmers' grievances against the three new laws. SC also sought the cooperation of the protesting farers on the issue. Watch the full video for more.
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In belated honor of National Poetry Month, which was April, I offer you not poetry about law or by lawyers, but observations about the relationship between poetry and law. Some of the quotations are poetic in their own right.
"The law is not the place for the artist or the poet. The law is the calling of thinkers."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., "The Profession of the Law"
Ouch. That is a startling and extreme sentiment, especially from Justice Holmes, a noted crafter of words and the son of a noted poet.
"'The law, like poetry, is the final resort of the lame, the halt, the imbecile, and the blind. I dare say Caesar invented the law business to protect himself against poets.'"
This takes some parsing, as does much of Faulkner. Poets and their art must indeed be powerful if law, an exercise in power, had to be invented to counter them. Faulkner, or at least one of his characters, was not saying that people with limited physical and mental abilities enter the law. "The final resort" may mean that law protects imbeciles and the disabled- that it's their last chance.
"[P]oets ... are the institutors of laws, and the founders of civil society. ... Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
<*R><f"TimesNewRomanPS-Italic">- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Defence of Poetry"
Wow. Who knew? But who am I to argue with Shelley? Or should I say, "Senator Shelley, world legislator"?
"The authoritative opinions of philosophers, physicians, and poets are to be adduced and regarded in causes."
Just what constitutes an "authoritative opinion" of a poet? Is it a poem? Black's includes no citation to that maxim, and no cases cite it. However, court decisions do cite and recite poetry. For decades, judges quoted Bob Dylan, thinking that they were quoting folksong lyrics. When Dylan received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, dozens of decisions retroactively were citing poetry. Nunc pro tunc.
"The Socratic spark . set insatiable fires where no flame was ever seen before. . But beyond the spark? Beyond the spark a vision - the vision of mental time, of the interminable journey of the human mind, the great tradition of the intellectual past which knows the bearing of the future. No one, not the most erudite or scholarly man [sic], who has failed to see that vision can truly serve the art of poetry or any other art, and by no study better than the study of the law can that great sight be seen. The law has one way of seeing it. Poetry has another. But the journey is the same."
What do you think now, Justice Holmes?
I move for reconsideration of your opinion.
Ken Bresler is a lawyer in Boston, the principal of ClearWriting.com, and author of "Poetry Made Visible: Boston Sites for Poetry Lovers, Art Lovers & Lovers."


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DFLer Tim Walz will face GOP's Jeff Johnson in November to be Minnesota's next Governor
Tim Pawlenty outspent Johnson mightily, but couldn't pull it off
Tina Smith, Ilhan Omar hold off challengers in DFL contests
Attorney general: Ellison and Wardlow will face off in November
Story: 'Unusually high' voter turnout in Tuesday's primary election | Photos: Record primary turnout
Key races: Minnesota's August primaries: a field guide
State House: Hold on, who's running in the primary?
Minnesota polls open for primary election
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota voters are confronting their busiest primary election in recent memory, with races for governor, both Senate seats and three congressional seats all on the ballot.
The biggest unsettled question may be the Democratic primary to succeed Gov. Mark Dayton. U.S. Rep. Tim Walz, Attorney General Lori Swanson and state Rep. Erin Murphy all had a path to victory.
On the Republican side, former two-term Gov. Tim Pawlenty carried big advantages in money and name recognition against Hennepin County Commissioner Jeff Johnson. County Commissioner Jeff Johnson was the party's endorsed candidate.
Other key races include Senate appointee Tina Smith trying to nail down the nomination to finish the last two years of Al Franken's term. And Keith Ellison, the first Muslim in Congress, is leaving to try for attorney general.
Polls are open to voters in Minnesota's primary election. State elections officials are reminding voters that they can only vote for candidates in one party. If you vote for candidates in both, your ballot won't count.
Minnesota has an open primary, so you don't have to register as a member of one political party or another to vote. There are nonpartisan offices on the back of the ballot which include local races. Since they aren't partisan, you can vote for any candidate. The two candidates with the most votes in those races move on to the general election.
The polls will close at 8 p.m.
by Matt Mikus, MPR News 8/14/2018 12:29:31 PM
Minnesota voters have a choice of party in open primary
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Polls are open to voters in Minnesota's primary election. State elections officials are reminding voters that they can only vote for candidates in one party. If you vote for candidates in both, your ballot won't count.
by Matt Mikus, MPR News 8/14/2018 1:07:02 PM
Elections chief: Security in 'very good shape'
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Secretary of State Steve Simon says Minnesota's election security safeguards are in "very good shape" heading into the 2018 elections even though he's been unable to tap federal money for a long-term upgrade project.
Simon says his office has worked with federal and local officials to strengthen the system and minimize any risks. He says officials now know more about efforts by "elements associated with the Russian government" to hack the state's election system in 2016, and how to prevent them again.
But Simon will have to wait until next year for legislative authorization to get a share of the $6.6 billion in federal cybersecurity money. That clearance fell victim to partisan wrangling last session.
Simon wants to use the money for upgrading the software for the state's 14-year-old Statewide Voter Registration System.
by Nancy Yang, MPR News 8/14/2018 1:46:06 PM
Sam, right, and Jen Rosenbaum vote with their daughter Ava, 3, (holding her stuffed toy Henry who, she told an election official, "can't vote yet") at the Pershing Park Recreation Center in Minneapolis. | Angela Jimenez for MPR News
Voters cast their ballot at the Pershing Park Recreation Center in Minneapolis. | Angela Jimenez for MPR News
Justin Coyne, right, with daughters Nora, 6, in pink, and Adeline, 4, in blue, votes at the Pershing Park Recreation Center in Minneapolis. | Angela Jimenez for MPR News
People arrive to vote at the Catholic Church of St. Peter Precinct 2- Ward 2 in Richfield. | Angela Jimenez for MPR News
Election judges Roger Guarino, right, and Richard Hall, center, greet Demetrius Brooks as he arrives to vote at the Catholic Church of St. Peter in Richfield. | Angela Jimenez for MPR News
This year the City of Richfield is providing both "I Voted" stickers to voters and "Future Voter" stickers to kids who accompany their parents to the polls, seen here at the Catholic Church of St. Peter in Richfield. | Angela Jimenez for MPR News
Wesley Gade locks up his bike before going in to vote at the Minnesota National Wildlife Refuge in Bloomington. He said he was just out for a bike ride in the Refuge and saw the signs - he had forgotten it was voting day so he stopped to vote. | Angela Jimenez for MPR News
People vote at the Minnesota National Wildlife Refuge in Bloomington. | Angela Jimenez for MPR News
Steady voter traffic at some polling locations
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) —Some polling places in Minnesota are reporting steady voter traffic on this primary election day.
At Peace Presbyterian Church in St. Louis Park, poll worker Roger Ruth says 87 people had already voted by 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. Ruth tells KSTP-TV that's about the number of people who had voted in total in the last couple of primaries.
He says that for a primary it's the busiest he's seen.
Races for governor, both Senate seats and three congressional seats are drawing voters to the polls. The biggest unsettled question may be the Democratic primary to succeed Gov. Mark Dayton. U.S. Rep. Tim Walz, Attorney General Lori Swanson and state Rep. Erin Murphy all have a path to victory.
Secretary of State says voters are 'fired up' about contested primaries
By Gabriel Kwan, MPR News — The Minnesota state primary elections are in full swing Tuesday, and early numbers are suggesting high turnout.
Early voting, or no-excuse absentee voting alone is showing people getting out the vote, with almost 120,000 people opting to vote early.
Secretary of State Steve Simon says voters are fired up about this year's contested ballots.
"It's across the political spectrum. People seem to be paying closer attention this year than in other years," Simon said. "A lot of reasons for that, maybe some of the very close contests on both sides of the aisle. But we're seeing a real sort of reawakening out there, at least tentatively."
The early voter count represents a 200 percent increase from the 2016 presidential election. Nearly 120,000 people cast early so-called "no-excuse" absentee ballots.
Simon said voters are figuring out the early voting system and they're finding it convenient.
"You don't have to be absent anymore to vote absentee. You can vote early or before the election for any reason or no reason," he said, "and people are flocking to that option by either ordering it to come to their homes so they can vote from home, or going to a city hall or a county building to vote anytime in a 46-day absentee ballot period."
by Sara Porter, MPR News 8/14/2018 8:29:08 PM
St. Paul resident Wayne Glass shared this selfie with us via the Public Insight Network. Glass has been active in the voting realm since he turned 18. At the polls he saw: "The volunteers/folks working at the polls were/are amazing. There were no lines and everyone was extremely helpful."
No major vote problems in Wisconsin for primary
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Elections Commission says no major problems have been reported across the state as voters cast their ballots in the primary.
The commission says statewide turnout figures for Tuesday's elections are not available yet.
Wisconsin is among four states holding primaries Tuesday. Connecticut, Minnesota and Vermont are the others.
In Milwaukee, the Journal Sentinel reports that election officials are projecting turnout to be 25 to 30 percent of the city's registered voters, which is about 75,000 people. The turnout is about 10,000 more than the 2014 gubernatorial primary.
Democratic voters are choosing among eight candidates to challenge Gov. Scott Walker in November. Republican voters are deciding between Leah Vukmir and Kevin Nicholson to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin.