tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54337664747061310462023-06-10T06:11:01.466-04:00LensFocusTHE MEDIA PORTFOLIO BY ADAM NIEMIAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16841117766239703504noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433766474706131046.post-92205335484885037852013-05-03T21:28:00.000-04:002013-05-03T21:30:11.436-04:00If I Were a Designer...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is a two-part assignment I completed for my Journalism 302: Introduction to Design and Visual Communications class. Just something to add to my body of work on here. I still have a lot to learn.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16841117766239703504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433766474706131046.post-25041778002104110462013-04-30T16:55:00.000-04:002013-04-30T16:55:00.052-04:00Before CMU's Exam Week, Sounds of Squeaking Sneakers and Bouncing Basketballs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There was $18 on the line. That was a lot in 1974, when 18 kids gathered into a 3-on-3 basketball teams to play for the money on a driveway.</span><br />
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Scott McNeal expanded the tournament and traveled to five cities in 1987. More than 10,400 players played the tournament that year and propelled Mr. McNeal's brand — <a href="http://www.macker.com/">Gus Macker</a>.<br />
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At <a href="http://www.cmich.edu/Pages/default.aspx">Central Michigan University</a>, where Scott McNeal graduated from in 1979, Gus Macker closed a street adjacent to the library on April 27 and 28. Amidst the sounds of bouncing basketballs, squeaking sneakers and cheers, Mr. McNeal speaks into the microphone at the Dream Court.<br />
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"There's Puke with the shot," Mr. McNeal said, referring to a player's nickname, "and it's too strong off the rim."<br />
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The Gus Macker was somewhat branded this year by CMU — it became the only college in the country to facilitate the tournament completely with students. The students said it was a semester project for a Recreation, Parks and Liesure class, a culmination of planning, coordination and planning the physical layout of hoops and court space.<br />
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Mr. McNeal donated $10,000 to CMU for the Dick Parfitt Gymnasium, a multi-sport practice facility near McGuirk Arena.<br />
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Today, Gus Macker tournaments are held in 75 cities in which nearly a quarter-million players participate. The tournaments, nationwide, draw nearly two million spectators. All-time, according to the Gus Macker website, it has drawn 2.2 million players ages 7 to older than 50, and 23 million spectators.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The tournament drew 174 teams in various age groups. Each team, according to Gus Macker rules, is guaranteed to play three scheduled games. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16841117766239703504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433766474706131046.post-72816890097361372342013-04-26T07:00:00.000-04:002013-04-26T07:00:05.663-04:00The Threads Fashion Show: Ooh's, Ahh's and Applause<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The 15th annual Threads Fashion Show at Central Michigan University featured theme-based designs from movies like The Dark Knight, Black Swan and The Lion King.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Twenty-four C.M.U. students designed for the show on April 13 in the university's Warriner Hall. A collection of movie trailers at the beginning of the show introduced the audience to the themes used in the designs.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://kristinaopaldesigns.com/index.html">Kristine Opaleski</a>'s designs based on The Lion King were among the more talked about designs from the show. Her peers gave her more awards than the other designers. It was her third year designing for the show, <a href="http://www.cm-life.com/2013/04/14/students-mix-film-with-fashion-at-threads-fashion-show/">she told Central Michigan Life</a>.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I was inspired by The Lion King,” Ms. Opaleski told Central Michigan Life. “I find the movie itself very majestic. It’s extremely moving. There (are) incredible themes I never caught on to as a kid, and every kid watches that movie and loves it, and when you get older, you love it for different reasons and that’s what I wanted to personify.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">Opaleski created six designs that she spent about $400 to make, along with some sleepless nights, </span><a href="http://media.cmich.edu/pr/cmu/cmu-students-create-movie-themed-244665.aspx" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">according to an interview with C.M.U.</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;"> Some students paired together to work on designs from a theme.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16841117766239703504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433766474706131046.post-57106750381227171712013-04-20T21:58:00.001-04:002013-04-20T21:58:10.325-04:00Election Day, Through the Eyes of a Candidate<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">When state Rep. Kevin Cotter, R-Mount Pleasant, woke up Tuesday on the day of his re-election, he wasn't nervous. He was hungry, not only for breakfast, but for a second term in office. He met at Stan’s Restaurant, 220 E. Broadway St., with his campaign strategist, Matthew Golden, and his campaign manager, Grand Rapids senior Ben Greene.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“If you’re nervous on Election Day, that means you didn’t do your homework,” Mr. Cotter said. “It’s like trying to finish a book report the day it’s due.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mr. Cotter, 35, was projected by many people to defeat Adam Lawrence, the Democratic challenger for the 99<sup style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</sup> District.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The first priority of the day was breakfast – two eggs, over-easy, with buttered toast and a coffee with no milk and sugar. With a few other patrons eating and talking in the restaurant, Mr. Cotter and his staffers spoke about the growing lines at local precincts and news about long lines for voting in Detroit and Miami.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He shook hands with other patrons in the restaurant. They wished Mr. Cotter luck in the election.“I’m sure you’ll win,” a man said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The Cotter campaign took what could be described as a laid-back approach to his re-election campaign. Mr. Greene said they “knocked on a lot of doors” but they kept themselves from an “in-your-face” approach. Mr. Cotter said his previous term brought him recognition in the 99</span><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 0px;">th</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> District, which has traditionally been heavily Republican.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mr. Greene began at CMU as a broadcasting major. His interest in politics shifted his major to political science, and he soon became involved in local campaigns. He developed the campaign plan with Mr. Cotter, a CMU alum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“It’s tough to get away from the ‘bug,’ ” Mr. Greene said. “That’s what I call it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Regardless of projections, predictions and popularity, Mr. Cotter knew thorough campaign work had to be done.“I think the hardest part of our job is prioritizing,” Mr. Cotter said, about executing the campaign plan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mr. Golden usually works in Lansing but he took vacation time to stay in Mount Pleasant with Mr. Cotter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I’m just here because I’m a nerd,” Mr. Golden said. “I love this stuff.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After breakfast, Mr. Golden drove behind Mr. Cotter to the Union Township office to vote. He waited in line for 12 minutes to complete and cast his ballot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mr. Cotter met at his campaign headquarters in an office space, 113 W. Broadway St., where his campaign signs were secured to the large window-front. In a back room, he spoke with Mr. Golden and Mr. Greene about Election Day events and made plans for preparing his victory party at Hunter’s Ale House, 4855 E. Blue Grass Road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Throughout his first term, Mr. Cotter said he voted 53 times against his own party on various issues. He posted the results of each vote on Facebook, along with explanations for why he voted the way he did. Transparency and accountability for his official conduct was as much of a priority, he said, as meeting with constituents. During the campaign, he made it a point to avoid negative campaigning against Mr. Lawrence.From the headquarters, Mr. Cotter left to sit in on meetings regarding his official work as representative. Then he prepared for the evening, and had dinner with his family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 20px;">Mr. Cotter met with supporters, took an interview with a local TV news station and spoke briefly about his hope for Republican victories in the local and national elections. After spending about a half-hour there, he headed back to Mount Pleasant for his party at Hunter’s Ale House. There, he greeted his family and friends, spoke to the gathering and then met with supporters as Mr. Golden continually updated the results numbers of his election, along with the presidential race and other local elections on a 200-inch screen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mr. Cotter’s supporters, expecting a victory, were more relaxed than in 2010, when he was elected to the House for the first time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He was ahead of Mr. Lawrence by about 2,700 votes with just a few precincts left to report. Mr. Golden calculated the votes and made sure that the remaining number of votes were negligible in determining the winner. When Mr. Golden saw that the math guaranteed a majority of votes, he gave Mr. Cotter the thumbs-up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mr. Cotter’s wife, Jennifer, and his father, Bob, congratulated him after he declared victory at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He left Hunter’s Ale House at about 2 a.m. and stayed up until 3:30 a.m. with his laptop, keeping tabs on state and national elections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mr. Cotter’s hunger for re-election was satisfied. Mr. Cotter said his dad’s congratulations meant a lot to him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“He congratulated me and told me to keep up the good work, and he was especially proud of the way we ran this race,” Mr. Cotter said. “He’s always been against negative campaigning, and said he was proud of the way things were run. That makes me feel really good.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>When I went home</b> for spring break, I stopped in Negaunee, Mich. in Michigan's Upper Peninsula for a state hockey tournament that my hometown's team played in. Five years ago, it was the arena where I played my last hockey game in 2008, on the same team.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I rented a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Canon-70-200mm-2-8L-Telephoto-Cameras/dp/B00006I53X">Canon 70-200mm f/2.8</a> for break. Hockey games are a great way to use the lens. I was guaranteed three games to shoot and I didn't have to worry about credentials or limited photographers' space. Free reign, for a photographer, is hog heaven.</span><br />
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I drove from Mount Pleasant and arrived in Negaunee in time for Ontonagon's first game. After staring out my windshield all day, it was great to see friends. And hockey. I stayed in nearby Marquette with a friend, and then spent a night at a hotel with my grandfather, Stan, and my sister, Audrey.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Following hockey through a long lens, however, is difficult. Try following a hockey game with one eye through binoculars. You get the picture. The work of shooting hockey is not following the game, it's framing the game in the image, and anticipating where the game is going on the ice. I played hockey for 12 years, but my knowledge of the game did not make anticipating with a camera any easier. It's much easier to anticipate as a player than photographer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Last year, Ontonagon competed</b> for a state championship in Alpena, Mich. The team, more or less consisting of the same players as the year before, had another chance to win. Unfortunately for them, they lost. Their story ended the same as mine: Their last game together as a team was in Negaunee.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Central Michigan University sophomore Mackenzie Guest, left, and freshman Natalie Scalabrino, right, anxiously</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">browse the list of things to photograph Oct. 16 during the 60-minute Gold Rush event. Photos were sent via</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As much as other industries that have looked to try the internet and its immediacy for delivering information, so has the operating of homecoming activities and events.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.cmich.edu/Pages/default.aspx">Central Michigan University</a>, the shift towards internet-based activity has not only become prevalent, but also essential to appeal to a generation of students affixed to absorbing information held online.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As C.M.U.'s homecoming week got underway this week, numerous events have been exacerbated by the services of instant information communications. During these events, like the well-known C.M.U. gold medallion hunt, a need has developed among competitors to communicate on an immediate basis to try and gain an edge over opponents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Gold Rush event coordinator Will Damian, left, checks for incoming Instagram photos from the Gold Rush scavenger</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">hunt </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">with </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Megan Ellinger, center, and Kelly Wright.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Meredith Vedder, center, waits for the final photo of the hour-long competition with her teammates.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The internet has also become a forum with which events have been run. In the first-ever 'Gold Rush' event at C.M.U., the structure of the game was to work on a checklist that gave clues about where teams had to go to take certain photos, which were sent via<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://instagram.com/">Instagram</a>, the photo-sharing social media platform.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I had a lot of people come up to me and say that this was one of the best homecoming events they had ever gone to," said Will Damian, a C.M.U. senior and event coordinator for Gold Rush. "It just warmed my heart. I'm really happy with it and I think a lot of other people are, too."</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Integrating social media and the internet has been an ongoing effort by C.M.U. to make events appealing to students. Damon Brown, assistant director for the Office of Student Life, said the <a href="http://www.cm-life.com/2012/10/17/students-alumni-hunt-for-medallion-during-homecoming-week/">medallion hunt</a> has been integrated with the internet for several years. The hunt is a clue-fed scavenger hunt for a medallion that results in points for the C.M.U. homecoming Maroon Cup. The goal of the homecoming activities is to connect students with each other and to the university.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"It's creative. We're trying to find new ways of doing things," Mr. Brown said. "Social media </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">– everyone's using it </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">– so it's a great way to connect and allow them to be a part of the homecoming event in an avenue that they're used to using."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">It is a national movement towards disseminating homecoming on the web. The University of Delaware notified its students and alumni that they can use a "#UDHC" hashtag on Twitter for sharing their experiences during homecoming week. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 18px;">The Gold Rush event is an example of a rejuvenated attempt at connecting to a college generation that predominantly uses social media more so than others.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 18px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">"Will just kind-of came up with a good idea with Instagram and with locations and being able to use that as a means of having people spread out and not still being able to track everything that they were sending in," said Julia Moerman, program associate for the C.M.U. Office of Student Life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />Ms. Moerman said one of the objectives of aiming for students on social media was to increase attendance for the events, which has so far been successful. During the medallion hunt, groups of students from different residence halls gather their laptops and set up a headquarters in the residence hall lobby while others go out with cell phones or walkie-talkies and wait for instruction as the headquarters attempts to solve the clues about the medallion's location. Mr. Brown has made an effort to send the clues via Twitter as well as on the Office of Student Life website.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"That's the part that we like about it is the fact it gets people connected, and that's really what we're trying to do is connect students to each other, to offices, to services and more importantly, connect them to C.M.U. If we get them connected, they're probably going to stay here," Mr. Brown said. "At the end of the day, that's what we're really hoping is they come here, get connected, participate and graduate."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In his deep, rumbly Southern baritone voice, Herman Cain asks me, "What part of Michigan are we in, here?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The former Republican presidential candidate barely garnered a crowd at Plachta Auditorium in Central Michigan University's Warriner Hall. </span><a href="http://www.cm-life.com/2012/09/25/herman-cain-to-cmu-this-economy-sucks/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Central Michigan Life reported that an estimated 300 people</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> attended Cain's speech, which lasted for about a hour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The same number of people were </span><a href="http://www.cm-life.com/2012/09/13/ross-outlines-past-present-future-of-cmu-in-state-of-the-university-address/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">reported to have attended CMU president George Ross' State of the University Address Sept. 13</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“The economy sucks,” Mr. Cain said to the audience. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“We have the ability. Our (gross domestic product) … is one-fourth of the world’s GDP. If you get the GDP growing faster, it will be better for us, and it will be better for the rest of the world.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">The decline of Herman Cain's prominence as not only a prominent candidate for presidency but respect for his political views, has been realized in the past year. As allegations surfaced and surrounded Mr. Cain at a time when his candidacy was seriously vetted by politicians and voters and led President Barack Obama briefly in polls, his campaign stumbled.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">Mr. Cain could do nothing but stumble on out of the campaign race to become the next president. In an interview with media after his speech, he signified a degree of importance with which the Republican party regards him. Mr. Cain is on tour, the College Truth Tour. In a seemingly experimental ploy to win young votes and generate conversation among young voters, the tour not only involves the political rhetoric, but musical notes. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">The band Quietdrive performed before and after Mr. Cain's speech.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">Then, when Republicans have a chance, they ask Mr. Cain to be their eyes and ears.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">"Mr. Romney and I have met several times," Mr. Cain said. "Each time he asks me, 'What are you seeing out there? What are people saying?'"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It wasn't only left for the professional politicians to venture into the merky waters that the sexual allegations against Mr. Cain have created. None of the allegations have been proven. The </span><a href="http://www.cm-life.com/2012/09/25/college-democrats-college-republicans-spar-over-cain-appearance/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">CMU chapters of College Republicans and College Democrats debated</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> the virtues of inviting Mr. Cain to speak on campus.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">“I think it is disgraceful that the College Republicans would invite a sexual predator onto CMU’s campus,” said Alex Middlewood, president of CMU College Democrats about the allegations that led to the disruption of Mr. Cain's candidacy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Megan Gill, president of CMU College Republicans, defended her decision to invite Mr. Cain to speak on campus.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">“Obviously, there has been allegations against Cain which prohibited him from continuing his presidential campaign,” said Gill, a Traverse City senior. “But I think Cain brings a valuable perspective as a business man and a presidential candidate. I think we need to bring important politicians and important speakers to campus, so students can observe for themselves and make their own judgements. We shouldn’t let allegations stop students from forming opinions for themselves.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">Yet applause from the audience during Mr. Cain's speaking points revealed something: he still had opinions that the majority of people could agree with.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">"The economy sucks," Mr. Cain said, which was followed with applause.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">Mr. Cain also encouraged students to vote and be responsible about making their choice while voting in November.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">"Stupid people are ruining America," Mr. Cain said. "Don't be among the stupid."</span></div>
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</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Twenty-three thousand people died 150 years ago today in the Battle of Antietam.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">People have relived the Battle of Antietam, among others, through today. Even in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGLceQp8i8U">Russia, the battles, soldiers and uniforms</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>are reproduced.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The rustic, adventure of fighting a battle as some soldiers' families visited them at their base is just one element that sparks curiosity and intrigue within re-enactors and those interested in Civil War history. Families, ever-attracted to the sound of gunfire, picnicked on hills that overlooked the battlefield and watched both sides fight each other to oblivion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Civil War was also one of the last battles in the world to be fought using battle line tactics. The technological advancements introduced in the Civil War hinted at a change in future warfare: the rifled barrel, repeater rifle and machine gun. These and other developments introduced changes in the tactical strategies of the way battles were fought. The <span style="background-color: white;">Franco-Prussian war in 1870-1871 and the </span>Second Boer War (1899-1902) are thought to be the last wars using battle line tactics. This change in technology and tactics, among other changes in America impacted by the war, lead many historians to believe the Civil War to be the first modern war in American history.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Civil War reenactments preserve the vivid history of tactics, technology and lifestyles that have been obsolete for generations. The reenactments, in a sense, create a portal between the late 19th Century world to the world of immediately available information and general ease of living.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Apart from technological developments changing the nature of warfare were other developments that changed the future of industries, especially in medicine. Journalism was forever changed with the development of the inverted pyramid </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">— </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the method of presenting most important news at the beginning of news articles and broadcasts. Civil War journalists covering the war worked with shoddy electrical connections as battlefields between their telegraph post and news headquarters were bombarded with artillery. Journalists began to deliver the most important facts first in their telegraphs in case of a break in the connection. Consequently, the industry learned it was also the most effective way of presenting news to their readers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A Civil War encampment at Deerfield Nature Park six miles west of Mount Pleasant, Mich. presented a chance for locals to question the details of Civil War life, both as a civilian and soldier on Sept. 15 and 16. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Visitors to the encampment of authentic tents and equipment asked questions regarding anything from culture to card games of the time period. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Apart from the history, re-enactors live history for simple reasons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I enjoy the camping and the night life," said re-enactor Tony Osterburg, a 17-year infantryman in the 2nd Kentucky Infantry Regiment. "Once my wife and I picked up the equipment and started doing this, we haven't looked back."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Osterburg served in the Gulf War and upon leaving the military, he longed for the military life. Even if its culture, clothing, weaponry and battle tactics were 150 years old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Everybody has a lot of reasons and purposes I'm sure," Mr. Osterburg said. "Not the same as mine, but I missed the flare of the military. We gave our modern equipment to our kids, the Coleman stoves, tents, all that. It all went to them.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"The Civil War defined us as a nation, as a character, who we are now," Mr. Osterburg said.</span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Chandler Fountain, center, fires his rifle at Union soldiers during a battle reenactment in Deerfield County Park near Mount Pleasant, Mich. on Sept. 15, 2012.</span></b></td></tr>
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</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The smell of deep fried dough and sugar wafts through the air with the slight breeze. A thunderous roar of machinery is followed with deathly screams. Upbeat organ music echoes eerily through the rows of buildings, tents and campers. The sun feels warm on the skin.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The fair was $1,500 short of last year's revenue, according to U.P. State Fair officials.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16px;">“We didn't quite hit our expectations and it's primarily due to the weather on Thursday and on Saturday,” said Vickie Micheau, Executive Director of the Delta County Chamber of Commerce in an interview with WLUC TV-6. “And of course, Saturday is probably the highest day of interest. So it was a little bit disappointing of course."</span><br />
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During the course of the fair, there were concerts, live animal births, thrills and spectacles. A team of trampoline acrobats bounced as high as 20 feet. Bands such as the Eli Young Band, Tesla and Thompson Square played before large crowds in the grandstand in the U.P. State Fairgrounds.</span><br />
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Live animal births happened in the Miracle of Life building where spectators saw cows, sheep and pigs give birth. There were also horse shows featuring barrel racing and other races. People showing their livestock participated in auctions and traded advice and stories about farming.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A rustic village with old-style storefronts was occupied with a quilt maker, blacksmith, barber, cornmeal mill, a small sawmill and ice cream shop. The storefronts overlook a square with a tall windmill in the center. The smell of fresh-cut wood blew around this village as volunteers sawed logs with a saw running off of a 1900 train engine, fed by a eight-inch-wide belt. The boards are later sold.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Department of Natural Resources' Pocket Park in the northwest section of the fairgrounds features a pond in the shape of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and 6,000 hybrid bluegills for people of all ages to catch and release.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A steady stream of lines filled the fairgrounds for one of the most popular features of the fair each year: the food. Various stands featured a range of food from teriyaki chicken to italian sausages, onion blooms, burgers, barbecue sandwiches and elephant ears.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A late-morning rain and short afternoon rain on Aug. 15 slowed activity in the fair, but lines lengthened shortly after and rides filled up as a rainbow bent across the downtown district of Escanaba.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"It's amazing," Mr. Steiner said. "It's a spiritual thing, you know?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mr. Steiner is a member of the Marine Corps League, Keweenaw 1016 chapter. He honors memorial services and ceremonies with fellow Marine Corps. League members at veteran memorials and funerals, including the Memorial Day burial ceremony of a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://adamniemi.blogspot.com/2012/05/pfc-arthur-leiviska-missing-for-61.html">Korean War soldier who was previously declared MIA for 61 years</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On Wednesday, Mr. Steiner traveled to Houghton to honor the original date of Memorial Day, May 30 at Hancock County Veterans Memorial Park. There were veterans of wars from the Korean War to the current war in Afghanistan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The veterans trade stories about their deployments and trade advice about navigating a variety of veteran service programs for health and wellness issues. While the day is meaningful to veterans in honoring their fallen comrades, it also aggravates bad memories that they have worked through their lives since to get past. The veterans relive a sense of the comraderie that they experienced in their old units.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Korean War veteran James Moehrke said he vividly remembers his role in the war. He was in the 19th Ordinance Direct Support and participated in Operation Glory, recovering dead soldiers from battlefields, and Operation Big Switch, a mass exchange of prisoners of war.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"We had to go out and get the corpses off the field," Mr. Moehrke said. "And boy did they reak. Oh, boy. Did you ever hear of the Black Death over there? The rats would feed on the corpses and the mosquitos would bite the rats. Then the mosquitos bit you and if you had contact with this virus, you had about 10 days to live. There weren't many people who made it past 10 days."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The plaque also listed two names of Copper Country natives who were killed in the war, including staff sergeants Paul Johnson, of Calumet, and Thomas Christensen, of Atlantic Mine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mr. Johnson, 29, was a squad leader in Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C. He was killed Oct. 20, 2003 during a mounted patrol when the vehicle he was in hit an improvised explosive device near Fallujah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mr. Christensen, 42, was killed Dec. 25, 2003 when his unit's living area came under a mortar attack in Baquba, Iraq. Also killed in the attack was Staff Sgt. Stephen C. Hattamer, 43, of Gwinn, Mich.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Shortly after the blessing of the plaque, nine M-1 Garands were fired three times in cadence to honor Mr. Christensen and Mr. Johnson, along with all of the fallen soldiers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mr. Steiner, among other veterans, celebrated two memorial days in three days. Memorial Day, which used to be called Decoration Day, originated after the American Civil War to commemorate Union soldiers who died. Sometime in the 20th Century, the holiday was extended to memorialize all American soldiers who have died.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Congress enacted the Uniform Monday Holiday Act on June 28, 1968 that rescheduled four holidays, including Memorial Day, to a specified Monday, to create a three-day weekend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Soon after the ceremony, Mr. Steiner and Iraqi War veteran Joe Tormala — who was wounded in the same attack that killed Mr. Christensen and Mr. Hattamer — spotted a bald eagle soaring.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Again," Mr. Tormala said, watching the eagle. "It's amazing that this has happened after every ceremony. It really makes you think about what's out there spiritually </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">— you just don't know</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The sighting invoked an experience Mr. Tormala's mother, Mary, had at a Native American Memorial Day service she attended. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">CALUMET, Mich. -- A tear streams down the cheek of James Moehrke as he stands next to the hole and coffin of his friend, Pfc. Arthur Leiviska, a Korean War soldier who was captured during a patrol in early 1951. Mr. Leiviska's remains were recently identified and transported here for burial.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"We went to the teen center," Moehrke said, pointing towards downtown Calumet a few miles away. "We used to chum around together in our teen years."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He said the burial ceremony of Mr. Leiviska on Memorial Day didn't bring any closure for himself.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"It was a war that we fought and we didn't accomplish anything," he said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mr. Moehrke said Mr. Leiviska volunteered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"I knew that he wanted to join the service," he said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mr. Moehrke was drafted into the U.S. Army and arrived in Korea six months after Mr. Leiviska was captured. He said he was a part of Operation Glory, a mass exchange of military war dead and Operation Big Switch, a mass exchange of prisoners of war.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mr. Moehrke said that because his papers were lost in Seoul, now South Korea's capital, he overstayed his deployment by 38 days.</span><br />
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Mr. Leiviska was officially declared missing on January 21, 1951, the day after a patrol he was a part of was attacked by elements of the North Korea People's Army, according to a <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5jNlUmd0vAXbFgyNEhUODVxeEU/edit?pli=1">Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command report on Mr. Leiviska</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mr. Leiviska was a private at the time. He was in L Company, 3rd Battalion,
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Mr. Leiviska's remains landed at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport just after noon, May 26. On Memorial Day, Leiviska was laid to rest in Lake View Cemetery, six decades after he was officially declared missing in action by the U.S. military.</span><br />
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Mr. Leiviska's unit operated near Yangyon-ni, Republic of Korea. According to the JPAC report, Mr. Leiviska's patrol was two kilometers south of the 3/17 Inf. position when it engaged in a firefight with a "small group of NKPA soldiers with small arms and automatic weapons fire." The patrol advanced further south, to Ping-gol, where it was ambushed by a larger NKPA contingent. The patrol suffered 19 casualties before returning to friendly lines. Three survivors of the patrol reported later in the day at Yangyon-ni that Mr. Leiviska was missing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The United Nations Command repeatedly requested the NKPA and Chinese People's Volunteer Forces to provide lists of American and allied servicemen held in their custody throughout the war. Mr. Leiviska was not on any prisoner of war list given by the NKPA or CPVF.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It was later found that Mr. Leiviska was captured and transported to the Suan Bean Prisoner of War camp complex in what is now the North Hwanghae Province, about 40 miles southeast of North Korea's capital, Pyongyang. According to the report, Mr. Leiviska died on April 20, 1951 and was buried there. He was 18 years old.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"It has been 60 years since he went missing in action," said Melissa Huuki, whose mother was Mr. Leiviska's sister. "I am at peace knowing he is back home to rest in peace where he belongs."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">According to the U.S. Department of Defense, more than 7,900 Korean War soldiers are still unaccounted for. In total, nearly 390,000 people went missing during the war.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Korean War was a full-scale military conflict that lasted for 3 years, 32 days. Since no peace treaty was signed along with the cease-fire agreement, the last 58 years have been regarded by some as a low-level war. Tensions between North and South Korea <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/world/asia/24korea.html?ref=asia">have come to light in the recent past</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"We heard about the positive match a week before Christmas, 2011," she said. "I wish my mother were here to celebrate with us."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My dad, Jesse, and I hiked in to Mirror Lake for a day adventure. It was the first time I'd ever been to Mirror Lake, an elongated body of water with two fingers of land jutted into the water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's a body of water one would never know existed unless one looked closely at a map of one of the most isolated areas in Michigan. Local residents know of it, but few know exactly where it is and how to get there. But of course, to know where all lakes and rivers sit and wind through the nearly 60,000-acre <a href="http://porcupinemountains.com/">Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park</a> would require extensive map studying and hiking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It was about 60 degrees (F) during our hike and arrival to the lake. Over the course of the four hours we were there, the temperature dropped 10 degrees and brought with it rain clouds that dropped occasional sprinkles. It felt like dew falling off a tree in a breeze.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's a 2.5 mile hike to Mirror Lake from the parking lot, which takes about an hour to accomplish. The first half-mile of the hike from the parking lot is uphill -- hiking up the same escarpment that makes up Summit Peak, the highest point of the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park. Even on the trail to the lake there are hills to ascend and descend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In essence, the hike is literally a grandpa's saying -- uphill both ways.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Because we heard before we left that there were already people staying in a cabin on the lake, we planned to go off the trail and fish from somewhere across the lake from the cabins. This part of the hike led us into swamps and muddy terrain. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It was about 60 degrees (F) during our hike and arrival to the lake. Over the course of the four hours we were there, the temperature dropped 10 degrees and brought with it rain clouds that dropped occasional sprinkles. When the warm weather left, so did the bugs. I would always rather deal with the cold than to deal with the bugs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dad wouldn't like if I disclosed the specific spot he cast from. He did say that he never saw the lake conditions that we experienced -- waves -- which are usually small on Mirror Lake, if any develop. The waves in the late afternoon were cresting, or "white capping." Usually the lake is near flat, like a mirror.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It was a great way to experience the start of summer, despite catching a splake too small to keep, and getting nothing beyond bites after that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>From Silver City: </i>Highway M-64 turns into 107th Engineers Memorial Highway. Turn left onto Forest Highway 117/South Boundary Road for about 12 miles. There will be a sign for Summit Peak and Mirror Lake.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Our main objective is not the rally itself, it's to talk with students coming through here," Mr. Blom said. "(Student loan debt) could be the next debt bubble that could drive the economy further into recession."<br /><br />Allie Young, a senior at CMU, is about to enter into her student loan payments, which are typically about $338 per month for the first 10 years.<br /><br />"My dad is a union representative in Detroit and so I know what rallies are like, and how important it is to go," Young said.<br /><br />Ms. Young said she does not believe current students realize how student loan debt will affect the direction of their lives after graduating college.<br /><br />"I don't think (students) realize our lives are going to be on hold because they won't be able to afford starting a family, having a house and a car," Ms. Young said. "They won't be able to get married and have a house because they'll be paying student loans."<br /><br />Mr. Blom said the amount of student loan debt is more than credit card debt. As universities increase the cost of tuition, students increasingly need loans, but consequently face increasing difficulty repaying.<br /><br />U.S. House Bill 3826 is the legislation that would double the interest rate on Stafford loans beginning July 1. The <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303990604577368342067907150.html?KEYWORDS=student+loan">Wall Street Journal reported</a> that maintaining the current interest rate would result in a $6 billion loss of federal revenue.<br /><br />Tom Batchelder, a psychology professor at Alma College, said he knows how bad the student loan debt situation is.<br /><br />"Being a college teacher, I know the importance of this issue," Mr. Batchelder said. "The average student debt at CMU is, I think, about a thousand dollars more than the national average."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It was the <a href="http://www.cm-life.com/2010/11/01/westboro-baptist-church-member-debates-with-students-greeted-by-protesters/">second time the church had appeared at CMU</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The members came because of Tim Boudreau, a journalism professor at CMU. He invited the church to speak at the university, as a demonstration of free speech to his three classes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Boudreau said the First Amendment protects free speech, even if some of the speech is unpopular and controversial. He said the church did not ask for money to speak.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Shirley Phelps-Roper, an outspoken member of the church, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">answered questions and debated the parameters of existence, religion and God with the audience in the Charles V. Park Library auditorium.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Every dime you give (to a Catholic Church) pays a pedophile priest," Shirley said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Shirley sat in a chair on the stage alongside her brother Fred Phelps Jr., who is also Pastor at Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. Shirley's daughter-in-law Jennifer Phelps-Roper and church member Taylor Drain, a junior at Washburn University, also came.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fred said the members pay their own way to protest through their regular jobs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"I don't drink, I don't smoke and I don't chase women," Fred said. "So, I have to find something to do with my money."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In three forums, Shirley yielded questions from the audience that ranged from personal to philosophical and political. At times, the exchanges became heated on both sides. Some of Shirley's comments drew strong -- and sometimes emotional -- reactions from the audience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Boudreau held three separate forums for his three classes to attend. There were forums at 2 p.m., 3:30 p.m. and 5 p.m.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Members of the Dogma Free Society protested against the church members outside the library during the forum. At their feet was a cooler of free popsicles for students walking past.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"I just think it's wrong for people to come to campus and promote hate," said CMU lecturer Mike Evans. "I think it undermines the mission of the university to promote understanding."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">ONTONAGON, Mich. -- When asked about when his store is closing for good, Rob Chapman smiles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"> He smiles because the worst six years of his life are closing.</span></span>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"> That's saying something, because Rob Chapman has owned Chapman's Ace Hardware and Paint store since 1976.</span></span>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"> The store closing comes years after his business was impacted detrimentally by the 2009 permanent closing of the Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation paper mill.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"> Mr. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Chapman said the mill did a lot of business with him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"> "It was a triple-whammy when (Smurfit-Stone) closed," Mr. Chapman said. "They owed me money when they closed, then I lost all the business that was generated with them. Then all the guys who were laid-off after it closed didnt' want to spend that money, not knowing what tomorrow's bringing."</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> "For the last five, six years, I've been depressed, unhappy and stressed to the max," he said. "Now, I feel relieved. It's a good feeling to have all this weight off my shoulders."</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> Mr. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Chapman said he anticipates the store to close approximately the second week of May, but won't know for sure until the day before he thinks it will be ready to close permanently.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"> Before mixing paint colors for a customer, Mr. Chapman stood and looked around his store. He wiped his brow.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"> Mr. Chapman started working part-time at this hardware store the summer before he began seventh grade. That was 1968.</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">He bought it with his family in 1976 and has owned and operated the store since.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"> After mixing paint colors for a customer, Mr. Chapman took out historic photos of the building. In 1909, the building was outfitted into a movie theater, called Pastime Theater. It closed in 1917 and was then turned into a hardware store, Hecox-Scott Hardware, complete with a gas pump on the sidewalk.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"> His wife, Kathy, works in the loft above the front of the store, where the film projector was rigged in the old theater. She's worked there for the last 28 years.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"> The store has held clearance sales for the last five or six weeks, Mr. Chapman said. On April 21, he said the store will begin a 60-percent-off sale on all items. Clearance sales lately have been half-off.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"> "After that, since I've never closed a store before, I'm going to evaluate the store and see where it's at," Mr. Chapman said. "I might just start selling the departments and lots."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> He will have to get rid of fittings and furniture after the product's gone, he said.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Steve Sundberg, a seven-year cashier at Chapman's Ace Hardware and Paint, said the product has been sold-off quickly so far.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal;"> "We're pretty much out of sporting goods. You could see it comin'," Mr. Sundberg said. "There's fewer people in town than there used to be."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal;"> Mr. Sundberg said he has no specific plans after the store closes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> "Nothing in particular," he said and laughed. "Or nothing I wanna talk about."</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> Mr. Tucker, a native of West Virginia, is a vocal instructor at Central Michigan University. Although far from home, he's never far from family. Photos of his family crowd the wall behind his Macintosh monitor. More photos line the walls along a board around the room. His wife works in the School of Music office near the steps he uses to get to his office.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> On most days, his student and close friend, Adam Ignacio, sits in the recliner and has small talk with Mr. Tucker. Mr. Ignacio, a fifth-year senior, said he has known Mr. Tucker for four years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Mr. Tucker checks his emails quickly and makes a couple brief phone calls. He gets up and walks to the piano and takes a sip of water from a thick CMU coffee mug.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal;"> Mr. Tucker has conversation with Mr. Ignacio before he taps a few keys on the piano and begins warm-up voice exercises. Mr. Ignacio, a Florida native, returns emails as Mr. Tucker's voice ranges through the music scale in a deep, booming voice. He paces slowly in front of his two-panel mirror.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal;"> Mr. Ignacio has voice lessons with Mr. Tucker twice a week. Mr. Ignacio says he has 17 days left of college. He will perform in opera shows in Italy next year, before returning to graduate school to complete his education.</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">"I'll never stop being a student," Mr. Ignacio says.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal;"> He leaves the room and walks briskly down the hallway, shoes clacking through the silence in the atrium.</span></span></h2>
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16841117766239703504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433766474706131046.post-88946238063110326122012-04-15T22:20:00.004-04:002013-09-11T14:58:37.695-04:00FEATURE: Damascus, through the lens of Carole Alfarah<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal;">A photojournalist in Syria
found my blog through Twitter. When I noticed that she lives in Damascus, the
country's capital, I was interested in her perspective on a country relentlessly throttled by violence in the last year.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Carole Alfarah, a 31-year-old freelance photojournalist from Damascus,
has seen and documented the rapid change in Syria for the last five
years. Despite a year of political instability that has given rise to
violence and death, especially recently in Homs, Alfarah is insistent that
Damascus is a safe place. She said as long as the person knows where the
dangerous places are, and how to avoid dangerous situations, Damascus is safe.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Alfarah's work has been published
internationally in newspapers including the Wall Street Journal and magazines
including Syria Today Magazine, Newsweek and Time. She has published photo
essays online, both of the violence around Damascus and the everyday life.</span></span><br />
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essence, the early history of the United States. The people of Syria are
fighting to liberate themselves from a government that has grown oppressive and
tyrannical. This isn't just exclusive to U.S. history — it's a piece of history
common in the births of many countries.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Second, Syria is another Middle East country in the last year that has been part of the Arab Spring, a wave of uprising in a region that for so long was passive to violent and destructive governments. The opposition of the Syrian government mirrors similar uprisings that occurred in Egypt and Libya. The political landscape in the Middle East has changed forever as a result of the events in the past year.</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal;">Alfarah said she has not processed what's
happened in Syria. Sorting through the confusion is an emotional battle.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">"For me, it's still early to build an
opinion," Alfarah said in an email. "I know it's a year now (since
the uprisings began), but the Syrian issue is very complicated and I need more
time to analyze the events that surround me. I don't like the emotional answers
and now all is emotional in Syria."</span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>A young man cries during his father's funeral in Damascus, Syria.</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal;">Alfarah went to Contrast Photography School in
Brussels, Belgium in 2004. In 2008, she was selected as the official
photographer for the Arab Capital of Culture festivities hosted in Damascus.</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal;">Alfarah said she doesn't cover the battles
themselves. She was given press credentials on certain conditions: covering
battles, for instance, cross a "red line" that could result in her
imprisonment. Instead of conflict, she focuses her camera on the protestors
themselves, away from the scenes of bloodshed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal;">Alfarah describes the
Syrian protestors demographic, at least in the Damascus area, as mostly
college-age and expressive.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Despite reports of a dwindling population in Damascus, Alfarah said the population has grown. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal;">Since attacks in Damascus are considered rare events, families have moved there from cities in turmoil like Homs, Idlib and Dara'a with hopes of living in peace.</span></span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>A man shouts "Ya Allah" (Oh God) near the scene of a terrorist explosion in al-Kassa'a, a neighborhood in Damascus.</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: 24pt;">"The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>majority of the café habitués here are
from the enlightened Syrian class, young artists, intellectuals, bloggers and
university students; and some of the 'curious-type.' This place is
well known for being the summit point of Syrian activists, but basically it is
more like a free-platform where they can express themselves freely."</span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: 24pt;"> </span></b><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> — </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">CAROLE ALFARAH, </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.socialdocumentary.net/exhibit/Carole_Alfarah/1356"><span style="color: orange;">photo essay</span></a>.</span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Cars in ruins in front of a damaged housing complex in al-Kassa'a, a neighborhood in Damascus. The explosion, which occured at 7:20 a.m., killed 27 people and injured 140 more.</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal;">Alfarah's observations in Damascus of both the pro-government and opposition civilians are a sample of what exists in the more violent regions of Syria. Alfarah said she has not witnessed any violence. Young, college-age kids -- much like the ones she finds in cafes in Damascus -- have fueled an energetic uprising that has pressured the government into invading towns and cities, squashing protests and slaughtering their own people at the mercy of their war machinery.</span></span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i> Blood on the sink inside a house nearby an explosion in<br /> Damascus on March 17 that killed 27 and injured 140 more.</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Assad is an Alawite, a
minority sect in a country that is mostly Sunni Muslim. Much of the nation's
elite are Alawite, which make up just 12 percent of the 23 million Syrians.
Sunni Muslims make up 75 percent of the population.</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Neither violence nor diplomacy
has brought an end to fighting in the country. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Recent international
negotiations have brought a cease-fire within sight, but delegates are still
unsure about the Syrian government's intentions.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Alfarah shot photos at the
scene of a terrorist attack in the Damascus neighborhood, al-Kassa'a, on March 17 that killed 27 people and injured 140 more. There were two explosions, the first of which came at approximately 7:20 a.m. in the Rotunda of Customs. A few minutes later, a blast occurred at Tahrir Square. It is unclear whether the attacks were
religiously or politically motivated.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Alfarah, born in Damascus in 1981, has grown up with political instability in her home country. The last serious uprising came in 1982 when violent conflict with the Muslim Brotherhood convinced Hafez al-Assad to make a move. He sent troops out to kill at least 10,000 people and destroyed the old city of Hama. According to news reports, hundreds of fundamentalist leaders were jailed and many never again seen alive.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Scores of people have been murdered by the Syrian government as it worked to suppress a growing revolutionary effort. Groups either seeking prominence or showing support for the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad,</span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">have taken part in terrorist attacks that have literally shaken Syria. Even attacks in Damascus, considered rare, have rattled any lingering feelings of peace in the capital.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">The spread of Arab revolution
reached Syria on March 15, 2011, when residents in Dara'a protested the torture
of students who created anti-government graffiti. Since then, the effort of the
revolution has been made up of factions of differences in ethnic, religious or
political ideologies.</span></span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Men at al-Othman mosque during a funeral for the victims of two terrorist explosions at security centers in Damascus, Syria on March 17, 2012.</i></span></td></tr>
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has changed in Syria, forever. Before eleven months, Damascus seemed to be
stable and far from any 'spring storms.' Now, the sense of tension and change
is filling up the air.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-weight: bold;">"</span><b> </b></span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="line-height: 14px;">— </b>CAROLE ALFARAH </span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>A damaged room of a house nearby the scene of an explosion in the Damascus neighborhood of al-Kassa'a that killed 27 and injured 140 more on March 17.</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">The revolution has grown as soldiers in the Syrian military have defected and joined the opposition, mostly because they are unwilling to kill civilians. More than 9,000 people have been killed, and thousands more have displaced as a result of the fighting, according to United Nations estimates. Sunni Muslims who fled the country described the crackdown as one in which people affiliated with the Assad regime have taken arms against neighbors who oppose the government.</span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Vehicles damaged by the March 17 explosion in the Damascus neighborhood of al-Kassa'a.</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Many fear that Assad's power and willingness to kill may prevent the opposition from developing an effective uprising. The government trips are widely considered a hostile presence in much of Syria and the growing conflict has raised concern that it could become a cause for terrorist groups to rally and recruit.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Resolutions proposed in United Nations meetings to sanction the Syrian government have gained little momentum after being blocked by Russia and China, Syria's traditional allies. The lack of options for international help have complicated efforts to bring the violence to a halt. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">In early April, the government agreed to a six-point plan for a cease-fire, Syrian troops had not returned to their barracks as promised.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Syrian government announced on Feb. 27 that 90 percent of voters approved a new Constitution. Many Western countries dismissed the results as a farce. Some changes in the Constitution included ending political domination by the Baathist Party and implementing presidential term limits.</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">The United States has maintained a complex approach towards Syria. The Obama administration has worked through the Arab League and the United Nations, instead of independently, so as not to impress upon the region that it is trying to intervene in Syria. Analysts said it is also to avoid giving Iran any reason to believe it should join with Syria, its regional ally.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">On Feb. 19, two American senators, John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, expressed strong opinions that the U.S. should intervene directly in Syria, mostly by arming Syrian opposition forces.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Any intervention in Syria could be complicated by Russia's involvement with Syria.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Various reports indicate Russia supplies food, medical supplies and weapons to the Syrian government. After the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Arab Spring, Russia's presence in the Middle East has decreased. A strong presence in Syria by either the United Nations or the United States could dramatically impact Russia's involvement, if not stop it altogether.</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">The Sunni Muslim-led opposition against the Syrian government, a majority of which are Alawites, a part of Shiism, has become especially dangerous in aggravating religious and sectarian tensions. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Across the border in Iraq, a majority of which are Shiite, support is increasing for the Assad government.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">The decade-long effort of Iraq by the United States to root out the Baathist party may be undone by Iraqi Shiites' support of a Baathist dictatorship in Syria. The elimination of dictators and strongmen in the region has only strengthened alliances and identities.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">The complex changes in political and religious relationships, along with the violence, has prolonged Ms. Alfarah's opinions. is waiting until she's done with a project before she reaches a judgment on what's happening in her home country.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">"I really don't want to share my opinion because I don't know it; I'm very confused because of everything. I meet people from the two political sides every day," Ms. Alfarah said. "They both tell me their stories. I'm working on a documentary project about the Syrian victims, the real victims from all sides. When I finish it, I'll be able to then talk about my opinion."</span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A CH-47 "Chinook" rises in the sky in Mount Pleasant, Mich., headed for Camp Grayling with a chalk of CMU ROTC cadets. September 2009.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><br />As part of an online journalism class I took in fall 2009, one of our assignments was a large multimedia project. I was embedded with a CMU United States Army Reserved Officers' Training Corp unit for a weekend.<br /><br />I was armed with a camera, notepad and digital recorder.<br /><br />The weekend started with an exhilarating ride on a CH-47 "Chinook" helicopter, which flew two chalks of the CMU ROTC unit to Camp Grayling, near Grayling, Mich. The drive from Mount Pleasant to Grayling is about two hours. The flight lasted 20 minutes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">The weekend-long training included room-clearing, patrol, zodiac boat and a paintball fight in a make-up village deep in the 147,000-acre training grounds. A ROTC unit from Ferris State also participated in the weekend, dubbed "FTX," or Field Training Exercise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Days started from the barracks with a 6 a.m. wake-up, followed by a breakfast in the mess hall. Various training exercises sharpened the cadets' skills in thinking like a soldier. Some of the cadets had already completed basic training and various military training like airborne school and air assault school. Some were poised and ready for a life in the military. Some were in for the financial aid. Lastly, for some, the weekend was somewhat of a strike of a gavel, in which they realized the military life was not for them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">The instructors facilitated the weekend similar to that of a weekend of training in the Army National Guard. Some of the cadets are dual-enlisted in the ROTC program and the National Guard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Everybody was open to media following them around. Two journalists from Central Michigan Life also went -- Connor Sheridan and Neil Blake. Connor <a href="http://www.cm-life.com/2009/09/28/cadet-staff-sergeant-plans-on-being-military-chaplain/">found a great story angle into the weekend</a>, while Neil captured it visually. FTX was the first photo assignment I did. This was what opened Pandora's box.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">ROTC cadets in the "kill house" learned to move tactically through buildings, clearing staircases (left photo) and rooms (right photo).</span></td></tr>
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16841117766239703504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433766474706131046.post-88628921724421832472012-04-05T22:29:00.000-04:002012-04-12T20:22:29.785-04:00The gang of music<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The Central Michigan University School of Music performed its annual concert on Nov. 19 in Plachta Auditorium at Warriner Hall. They performed George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">This is perhaps one of the most visual assignments I've shot photos at. The symmetry of the performers sitting across the stage of Plachta Auditorium in Warriner Hall made for a unique perspective. I roamed around the auditorium — both upper and lower levels — to find different angles into the performance. Classical music is frighteningly difficult to pull off, it seems. Synchronizing so many performers to their respective notes through a long performance is no easy task. Especially with the clicking of my camera from all over the auditorium.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">The work put on by the School of Music is usually visual because of the performers. The faces of the musicians are always contorted in singing, or playing notes in their instruments. The music they play is also very old, so to hear it is to go far back in time.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A group of CMU students watch the Detroit Tigers in their Opening Day game against the Boston Red Sox on April 5 in the Bovee University Center on the campus of Central Michigan University. The Office of Student Life sponsored free food and drawings for students during the game. The Tigers won 3-2 in a walk-off single.</span></td></tr>
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