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FREEPORT — Residents gathered Wednesday at the Freeport Public Library to hear from a medical marijuana company looking to set up shop in Stephenson County.
The MedFarm hosted the 6:30 p.m. open forum at the library. More than 60 residents attended the two-hour event. Company executives discussed their plans for the cultivation facility, including the would-be greenhouse, potential jobs, security system and the benefits of their product.
Multiple attendees voiced personal stories during the Q&A portion of the forum, praising the benefits of the treatment for ailments such as pediatric epilepsy. None of these stories were more stirring than that of Melanie Miller.
The Freeport resident was diagnosed with cancer in December 2012 while living in New Mexico, where medicinal marijuana is legal with proper certification. Her doctor recommended cannabis for the pain throughout radiation and chemotherapy treatments. Miller is now in remission, but she said the medical marijuana relieved her "excruciating" pain.
Miller shared her story and passion for the treatment and received a round of applause from the audience.
"This is not the same kind of cannabis that you would buy on the street," Miller said. "It's much safer, and you're safer because it's legal. The benefits far outweigh the risks."
The MedFarm executives echoed those thoughts, emphasizing community involvement and education as a way to ensure their product would be used correctly.
"This is a medicine," said Jeff Basler, executive director of The MedFarm. "We think that if it ever becomes something other than that we need to step in."
Medical marijuana has been a hot-button issue in Illinois since it became legal in the state in January. Illinois approved guidelines for a four-year pilot program for the treatment July 15, but the state has yet to grant licenses for up to 21 cultivation centers and 60 retail stores. Only one cultivation center will be allowed per police district. Stephenson County shares district 16 with Boone, Jo Daviess and Winnebago counties.
Winnetka-based The MedFarm is one of three medical marijuana companies that have signed a purchase agreement with Stephenson County to buy land for a cultivation center should they obtain district 16's license. Wyoming-based Deerpath Development LLC and Ottawa-based In Grown Farms LLC also hope to obtain a lot in the county's 147-acre parcel of undeveloped land south of the Titan Tire Plant on U.S. 20 known as Mill Race Crossing.
Basler reiterated The MedFarm's intent to bring 35 positions with a $36,000 minimum salary and benefits to the area.
The MedFarm officials said they expect the state to begin allowing applications for the cultivation centers in approximately one month, with permits being issued near mid-November. Should The MedFarm receive district 16's permit, Basler said construction would start on the greenhouse immediately.
Even with the potential jobs, Miller said the main reason to get excited about a medical marijuana cultivation center coming to Stephenson County is the opportunity to help people.
"If you take cannabis delivered in a way that is healthier, not like smoking, versus the narcotics on the market, I'll take cannabis over that any day," Miller said.
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|*July 5 - 11
|"All Things to All Men":
Paul Preaches to the World
Read for This Week's Study:
Memory Text:
"I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some" (1 Corinthians 9:22, NKJV).
Key Thought:
|The apostle Paul, seeking to bring the gospel to the world, gives
us an example of how we need to learn to adapt the way we present our message,
depending on the context and culture in which we are witnessing.
Adventist missionary pioneers quickly learned that they needed to present our present truth message in as culturally relevant a way as possible. Today the Global Mission initiative of the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church sponsors study centers around the world that explore ways to build bridges to people of other religions and cultures. Before we can effectively communicate with other people, we need to understand their culture and ways of thinking.
This week we explore what it means to adapt our message to people in different circumstances. And we do so by looking at the various ways in which the apostle Paul, a firm and uncompromising believer in truth, tailored the message of Jesus for specific audiences. What can we learn from Paul that will better enable us to reach people with present truth?
*Study this week's lesson to prepare for Sabbath, July 12.
|July 6
Paul Encouraged for Mission
After Paul's Damascus-road experience, some of the apostles were not convinced that he was a true disciple (see Acts 9:26). Perhaps they feared he was sent as a spy to infiltrate the church and cause further problems. At that time, Barnabas stood up for Paul and defended him (vss. 27, 28).
Barnabas was "a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith" (Acts 11:24, NIV), and he was a tremendous help to Paul as he began his ministry.
Read Acts 11:19-24. How did the church begin in Antioch? How successful were the missionary endeavors?
The leaders of the church in Jerusalem heard about the new group of believers in Antiochone of the three leading cities of the Roman Empire at that time. Immediately they sent the highly respected Barnabas to help establish and build up the church.
Read Acts 11:25, 26. Why do you think Barnabas chose Paul to help him?
Acts is full of surprising events: Saul, the persecutor, becomes Paul, the missionary; the gospel of salvation becomes good news for all, not just for the Jews; and now Paul ministers to a church established indirectly as a result of his persecution.
For a year Barnabas and Paul taught the people. As the church grew in strength, it developed a spirit of compassion and ministered to others. The new church members sent financial help to their brothers and sisters in Judea, who were suffering from a severe famine (Acts 11:28-30). Thus, they were not going to hoard their own blessings; when a need came, they were ready to help.
The church in Jerusalem, hearing about Antioch, sent Barnabas to work with it. And Barnabas, knowing about Paul's calling, brought Paul to help. And that church, hearing about the needs in Jerusalem, sent aid to it.
|What lesson can we learn about helping others with the things that we ourselves have been blessed with?
|July 7
All Things to All People
"I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some" (1 Cor. 9:22, NIV).
What does Paul mean when he says that he has "become all things to all [people]?" We can be confident that whatever his meaning, the apostle is not advocating compromise. He is not talking about changing the gospel, the doctrines, the ethics, or any of the truth of God's Word. He is talking about making these things as attractive and understandable as possible for different cultures.
Paul modeled this approach by using different methods to reach different people.
For example, in attempting to reach Jews, Paul would arrive in a city, visit the synagogue, and teach (see, for example, Acts 9:19-22, 13:14-16).
Read Acts 13:16-42. In his sermon, where does Paul's short overview of biblical history begin and end? To what authority does he appeal to prove that Jesus is the Messiah? What does this tell you about Paul's approach to Jewish people?
Read Acts 14:8-18. How does the way Paul talks to the paganswho did not believe the Old Testamentdiffer from his speeches to the Jews?
Paul makes no appeal to Scripture as an authority (he does allude to the Old Testament in verse 15, but in the way he might quote a poet, not as an authority). Rather, he appeals to the natural world and the evidence that nature gives of a Creator God. And he points out the futility of worshiping idols.
|How far should we be willing to go in trying to reach people in their own culture? How can we avoid the dangers of going too far; that is, of compromising truth in our attempts to spread it?
|July 8
A Witness to the Philosophers
One of Paul's most well-known missionary endeavors occurred in Athens, home of some of the world's greatest philosophers of antiquity, such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. And yet, how interesting: Even with all the philosophy and all its appeals to reason and logic, the city was still "wholly given to idolatry" (Acts 17:16). What a testimony to how, in the end, philosophy cannot answer basic human needs.
Read Acts 17:18-34. What approach did Paul take in trying to reach these people? What does he not use? How successful were his efforts?
Epicureans taught that happiness comes from living a good life with modest pleasures. The Stoics, on the other hand, urged people to be content with what they had. Together, Stoic and Epicurean philosophers heard Paul in the marketplace and started to argue with him, calling him a "babbler" (Acts 17:18, NIV).
Despite ridiculing Paul, these philosophers invited him to speak at a meeting of the Areopagusa group of philosophers that assessed new teachingson what we know as Mars' Hill.
In his speech, Paul shapes his message to his pagan audience (vss. 22-25) by connecting with their culture. He refers to a statue they had built to the unknown god and identifies Him as the Creator God.
At no stage does Paul refer to the Scriptures, as he would with a Jewish audience. Rather, he again points to the natural world with which they are familiar and connects it to the supernatural. And though Paul did not use the Scriptures, his message to them was, clearly, very scriptural.
|In what ways do the things of nature speak to your heart about God? How could you better cultivate an appreciation of our Creator through the things of nature?
|July 9
The Message on Mars' Hill
Read again Acts 17:18-34. Look through Paul's discourse. Where do you find these basic doctrines: creation, redemption, and judgment? In what ways does it sound like our message, as Adventists?
Paul not only knew pagan literature; he quoted parts of it from memory. First, he quotes a Cretan poet who wrote, " 'In Him we live and move and have our being' " (vs. 28, NIV). And second, the pagan Cleanthes, whose love poem to the god Zeus contained the line " 'We are his offspring' " (vs. 28, NIV). In each case, Paul takes something from their culture and connects it to the truth he wants to teach them.
"With hand outstretched toward the temple crowded with idols, Paul poured out the burden of his soul, and exposed the fallacies of the religion of the Athenians," writes Ellen G. White. "The wisest of his hearers were astonished as they listened to his reasoning. He showed himself familiar with their works of art, their literature, and their religion."The Acts of the Apostles, p. 237.
Ellen White adds: "Paul's words contain a treasure of knowledge for the church. . . . Had his oration been a direct attack upon their gods and the great men of the city, he would have been in danger of meeting the fate of Socrates. But with a tact born of divine love, he carefully drew their minds away from heathen deities, by revealing to them the true God, who was to them unknown."The Acts of the Apostles, p. 241.
Paul understood that before we can lead people to where we want them to be we must first meet them where they are. That means focusing on their needs, their interests-and shaping our message in a way that connects with them. This does not mean watering down the message. It is just an issue of communication-talking to people in terms and in language they can understand.
|What was the one aspect of Paul's teaching that caused the most dissent in this environment? Why? What should this tell us about the limits of trying to explain rationally all that we believe?
|July 10
Paul's Method of Church Planting
Read Romans 15:18-23. How could he claim that "I have fully preached the gospel of Christ" (vs. 19, NIV), when obviously most of the population were still not Christians? What does the answer tell us about how we are to determine what success is?
Paul chose to start new congregations in strategic cities throughout the region. He chose places that were major transport hubs-on major Roman roads or seaports-and that were important commercial, trading, or administrative centers. He thus established strategic lighthouses throughout the area, planning that the new groups of believers would take the good news to the areas surrounding these centers. Although Paul's work was finished, the task of outreach had only begun for the new believers.
On his second missionary journey, Paul, with the help of Timothy and Silas, established a Christian church in Thessalonica, the largest city in Macedonia. It was
located at the crossroads of two important Roman highways and was the major seaport for the entire region. A strongly established group of believers in this city would provide a center from which other church plants could grow throughout that area.
This is exactly what happened. Paul says, "You became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia. The Lord's message rang out from you not only in Macedonia and Achaiayour faith in God has become known everywhere" (1 Thess. 1:7, 8, NIV).
This church was a model for others. Interestingly enough, the Greek word for church (ekklesia) was not a specifically Christian word. It was used for any gathering of people in various settings. However, the Christian ekklesia was called to specific functionsnot just to worship together but to reach out to their communities with the good news that they themselves had received.
The church did not exist solely to feed its own members. What is your own attitude? Do you go to church seeking only to get your own needs met, or do you go hoping to give even more than to receive?
|July 11
Further Study:
|"Thus [Paul] varied his manner of labor, shaping his message to the
circumstances under which he was placed."Ellen G. White, Gospel
Workers, p. 118.
"There are some who will not be convinced by any presentation of the truth. The laborer for God should, nevertheless, study carefully the best method, in order that he may not arouse prejudice or stir up combativeness in his hearers."Ellen G. White, The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, November 25, 1890.
"They [God's workmen] are not to be one-idea men, stereotyped in their manner of working, unable to see that their advocacy of truth must vary with the class of people among whom they work and the circumstances they have to meet."Ellen G. White, Gospel Workers, p. 119.
"By cheerful, patient kindness and Christian courtesy, he won the hearts of the people, quieted their prejudices, and endeavored to teach them the truth without exciting their combativeness. All this he did because he loved the souls of men, and desired to bring them to Christ that they might be saved."Ellen G. White, Sketches From the Life of Paul, p. 162.
Discussion Questions:
| How would you best communicate what we as Adventists believe
to an atheist university student? A person from another religion? Someone
who believes the Bible but is not an Adventist? A former Adventist? someone
who seems totally indifferent to the whole question of faith or God?
No matter how different our approaches might be, what are some of the common things that must always accompany our witness to others? That is, what things should always be front and center of our witness, regardless of the circumstances?
How mission centered is your local church? What can you do to help your church get more involved in outreach to your local community?
Communication does not take place if the listener cannot understand what is being said. Paul provides many examples of how in our witness we must translate the good news into terms that people can understand.
|I N S I D E Story
|Jesus' Helper
by OMAR REYES TORRES
I wanted to be a civil engineer, but God had other plans for my life. I had studied in Adventist schools until I entered the state university in Puerto Rico. I soon discovered the difference between Adventist education and public education. Several teachers were atheists and made it a point to undermine my faith.
When an exam fell on Sabbath, the teacher refused to allow me to take it another day, saying that if there was a God, He would understand why I needed to be in class that day. In this university the teachers are kings, and the classroom is their kingdom.
Eventually I transferred to Antillian Adventist University to finish my studies. As I compared the teachers and the school atmosphere, I realized that the Adventist school had something that the public schools could never havea Christian atmosphere. While not everyone on campus is an Adventist, the teachers are very committed to their students. For them it's a calling; they believe in what they are doing.
I'm now teaching at this same university. It's a privilege to teach here where I can integrate Adventist beliefs into my class and no one forbids me to talk about God. I feel the atmosphere change when I invite God to come into the classroom.
In this school we don't strive to make Adventists of every student; instead we strive to draw them closer to God and to understand what God wants and who He is.
If I can help one student see the Lord in a different way, understand God in a more mature way, then I have done my job well. I wanted to be an engineer. But I wouldn't have had the influence I have now as a teacher in an Adventist school.
One day a student came to me and said, "You had a worship that changed my life. I was having problems with drugs, but your worship helped me to quit drugs. Thanks." Another boy told me that his mother had died. A worship talk on death helped him work through his feelings of grief and meant a lot to him. I know that God was speaking through me. And it changed this boy's life.
I don't think of myself as a teacher; Jesus is the Teacher, and I am His helper, preparing young people for eternity.
Your mission offerings help support Adventist education around the world. It's an investment we can never take for granted. Thank you for giving so that our children can learn in a Christian environment.
OMAR REYES TORRES is a professor of mathematics and statistics at Antillian Adventist University in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
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Tech Marketers Tout the Wrong Value
A few months ago I got one of those semi-spam e-mails from a market research company acting on behalf of a major auto manufacturer (not named, but it was clearly GM) asking me to participate in a survey about some aspect of engine technology. It turned out that they wanted to know if the use of overhead valve technology, instead of overhead camshafts, would influence my decision on buying a car. Duh? What do I care? I buy a car as a means of transportation, with the critical selection criteria being safety, ease of operation, value and style. I could care less if the engine uses OHV, OHC or rubber bands, so long as it works as advertised, whenever I need it. What I'm interested in is a safe, reliable, cost-effective transportation platformand if it's fun to use and looks good, so much the better.
One of the most pronouncedbut not necessarily best understoodshifts in the current information technology landscape is the steady evolution away from a focus on product and toward the idea of a "platform." For most of the history of corporate IT, CIOs and their staffs have been asked to acquire, assemble, deploy and support a growing portfolio of products of various typeseverything from mainframes, servers, PCs and storage systems to multiple layers of software and attendant management utilities. Fifty years of rapid innovation have given CIOs plenty to choose from, and the slower, but steady, evolution of standards has promoted improved interoperability and eased integration efforts. Even so, the results of generation after generation of product evolution in hardware and software, and the integration architectures each generation has spawned, aren't exactly pretty. Complexity and fragility are common companions in the resulting business automation infrastructure.
There have been periodic and partially successful attempts to fix this. The major technology vendors have tended to work to make their products either "bundled"the vendor does the integration prior to purchaseor better aligned so that assembling the components after you buy them is straightforward. "Configurators" make sure that all the right components are ordered, and that the specification is (at least approximately) appropriate to the need. Components come together to form subsystems; subsystems combine to form systems; systems link to form "solutions." And solutions integrate to form a cohesive business automation footprint. What's not to like?
The good news is that we are moving steadily toward a focus on what's possible from a business sense, and away from a technocratic "speeds and feeds" mentality that focuses on the (often impressive) technical characteristics of the things we buy. The bad news is that many vendors still push speeds and feeds (which they are comfortable with) ahead of business capability and potential (which are often foreign to their sales forces and marketing departments, among others).
Before the hate mail pours in, let me state that this relentless technocratic voice manifests itself in different degrees in different sectors of IT. It's most common among smaller vendors whose founders are excellent technologists and justifiably proud of what they have built. But it manifests itself in larger vendors, too. Just look at the fascinating shifts in message mix that have taken place in technology advertising over the last few years, as exemplified by sustained campaigns from Microsoft Corp. ("Your potential. Our passion" supplementing Windows and Office product ads), SAP ("The best-run businesses run SAP"), IBM Corp. ("e-business" and "On Demand" evolving into the very clever "Help Desk" series) and Hewlett-Packard Co. ("Invent"). IBM, in particular, has become somewhat confused in its mix of hardware/software focus and business capability focus as it tries to grow away from its hardware and software roots.
And then there is arguably the most successful and sustained technology brand exercise of the past 50 years"Intel Inside." That's ironic in many ways, because Intel Corp., as much as anyone in the technology industry, has been at the forefront of the steady shift away from "components" and toward platformsfrom the bottom up. Microprocessors grew to subsystems, to systems on a board or to systems on a chip, thus allowing Intel to capture more and more of the total value and, not accidentally, to accelerate the take-up of new technologies. Even though Intel doesn't make every kind of subsystem and system, it does develop and publish comprehensive reference designs and promote standards, both of which allow its OEMs and channel partners to get sophisticated products to market faster.
Now let's take a spin through the world of _the CIO and the businesses they serve. CIOs of the largest companies have become extraordinarily pragmatic over the past few years. Their core mission is to make the technology they oversee disappear from the thoughts of their users (and their management teams, boards of directors and shareholders) as fast as possibleto create what I call "invisible infrastructure" that "just works," anywhere, all the time. CIOs in smaller companies, who are generally better served by the mainstream product mindset of their vendors, aren't there yet, but signs are they are heading that way, too. The root cause driving this shift is, in my view, the tenuous correlation between IT investment and business value. And for consumers, the shift is even more markedand best typified by the (so far farcical) attempts to promote a ubiquitous digital home infrastructure.
Vendors undertaking this evolutionary shift face a number of hurdles. First and foremost, they must reconstruct their messages to the market. They have to figure out a whole new message strategyand economic modelif they are to maintain traction within a market that just doesn't care about the internals, only about what the internals make possible. They have to turn their message aroundtell the story from the customer's viewpointby creating recognizable, relevant scenarios that their offerings can satisfy. There are some early and interesting _examples of this (UPS's "What Can Brown Do For You?" comes to mind), but most attempts are less than encouraging.
Second, and almost as difficult, vendors have to figure out what will differentiate their offerings from everyone else's in a platform world. What will be the key buying differentiators when speeds and feeds don't matter? Reputation, reliability and quality, interoperability, adherence to open standardswe can already see new differentiating characteristics and potential brand values opening up.
And third, there can probably only be a few successful platforms if these new differentiating characteristics take hold. Just as the global auto industry has a glut of generally undifferentiated brands, IT has a glut of undifferentiated "product families" at all levels of the business automation stack. We can see that both J2EE and .NET have platform characteristics at the lower levels of the stack, but what's going to emerge above them? SAP, with NetWeaver, clearly has ambitions in this direction, as does Microsoft with MBS. Will everyone else have to pick a platform to be part of? Or will it be possible to actually become a platform in your own right if you see the user's need clearly enough (as RIM is trying to do with BlackBerry, and Palm arguably has failed to do with the PDA)?
However this comes out, the shift to platform looks inevitableand necessary if we are ever to get to "it just works" in business and at home. The train is leaving the stationif you're not on the platform, you are in danger of missing it.
John Parkinson is chief technologist for the Americas at Capgemini. His next column will appear in August.
This article was originally published on 06-05-2005


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Facebook and Twitter users help come up with ideas for the latest attraction at Bluestone National Park Resort to open this Easter.
Here at Bluestone we listen intently to our guests and visitors as we're always keen to know what they think, what they like and what they don't like.
Last year we asked our Twitter and Facebook fans to tell us what they would like to see at Bluestone. And true to the "free range" spirit at Bluestone, we listened and as a result a new Treehouse adventure area is being built-in time for the Easter holidays, complete with walkways, towers, climbing area and much more close to the centre of the village, near the shops, pub and restaurants.
Bluestone believes everyone of all ages should be able to have "free range" adventures or relax within the 500 acres of countryside comprising the luxury short break destination within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.
"The Trehouse idea is just one way our free range philosophy works. We ask the people who matter what they want and we do our best to deliver. We'll be tasking them with more ideas and offers in 2013 as we see the power of social media develop even more at Bluestone," added Yvonne.
Bluestone combines exhilaration with relaxation, offering families and couples the chance to choose the type of break they want. Enjoying everything from the heart-pumping activities, to the treatments and pampering at The Well Spa, relaxing environment within the luxury accommodation, or fine dining at its Carreg Las restaurant, as well as over 100 free range, all-year and all-weather activities.
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As a father of three, my girls cannot believe how I managed to survive going on holiday in the late 80's and early 90's.
It's that time of year again – another fantastic summer is slowly drawing to a close. The nights are drawing in and the prospect of autumn is looming. We're all hoping for a long Indian summer with warm days that last into September so we can keep our coats firmly at the back of the wardrobe. Back to school nostalgia that will never leave your memory even in adulthood which is why we love this time of year.


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I always thought that she was beautiful. In a pinched, strained sort of way. Like something was holding her back, gnawing at her insides.
Now I know. I know because sometimes, I feel it, too.
Atleast my cruel mirror doesn't talk back to me. Instead, I bear my pain in sapphire silence.
My poem, "Snow White's Stepmother," is now in Spudgun Magazine. You can read it here (see pages 30 and 31).


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The following is a daily arrest report provided by the Gaston County Sheriff, and Gastonia and Gaston County Police departments. An arrest does not imply someone is guilty of any alleged wrongdoing. These arrests occurred from 12:01 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. March 15. Juvenile arrests (younger than 16) are not included.
City of Gastonia Police Department
Aiken, Barbara Bell Burgess, 49, 1144 Essex St, Gastonia, 4:19 p.m., prostitution, 2100 W. Poplar St.
Blanton, Rebecca Lynn, 42, 510 Cherokee St., Kings Mountain, 4:40 a.m., fraud-false pretenses/swindle/confidence game, S. Broad St. and E. Fourth Ave.
Branigan, Brian Keith, 22, 1103 Boyd Rd., Gastonia, 7:20 p.m., larceny from motor vehicle, 325 N. Marietta St.
Carter, Kelly Lynn, 35, 1270 W. Mauney Ave., Gastonia, 9:19 p.m., prostitution, 2100 W. Poplar St.
Conner, Holly Jenna, 16, 690 Red Cedar Rd., Gastonia, 5:50 p.m., larceny-shoplifting, 3000 E. Franklin Blvd.
Dossett, Melissa Rose, 39, 7:30 p.m., sex offense
Long, Andrea Dawn, 31, 930 W. Patterson Ave., Winston Salem, 3:43 p.m., prostitution, 1000 W. Mauney Ave.
Oliver, Connie Marie, 43, 205 S. Liberty St., Gastonia, 1:21 a.m., robbery�business, 800 W. Franklin Blvd.
Williams, Shamariah Jaaken, 19, 690 Red Cedar Rd., Gastonia, 5:50 p.m., larceny-shoplifting, 3000 E. Franklin Blvd.
Winstead, Joshua Michael, 31, 4612 Marthas Ridge Dr., Charlotte, 3:02 p.m., burglary-commercial-forced entry, 1243 W. Franklin Blvd.
Gaston County Police Department
Cook, Dustin Reid, 20, 610 E. Chestnut St. Ext., Stanley, 11 p.m., assault-intimidate/harass, 610 E. Chestnut St. Ext.
Hood, Justin Eric, 26, 212 E. Washington Ave., Bessemer City, 2:09 a.m., OFA contempt of court/perjury/court violation, N. 12th St. and Sunset Lane
Lowry, Joseph Darnel, 29, 833 Churchill Dr., Gastonia, 11:03 p.m., traffic-license violation, traffic-registration violation, and revoked license, South I-85 and North Chester St.
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Franklin, John Boyd, 36, 120 Chum Rd., Bessemer City, 12:54 p.m., OFA contempt of court/perjury/court violation, 425 N. Marietta St.


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Free TV on the iPad: Lots of "Lost," but No "CSI," "Simpsons" or "30 Rock"
Want to watch free TV shows on your iPad? Hope you like ABC's programs.
The network is the only one of the four broadcasters offering much programming on Apple's device at launch Saturday. As previously reported, the Disney (DIS) unit is offering about 20 of its shows, including "Lost" and "Grey's Anatomy," for free via a new app.
But that's about it. Come Saturday, CBS (CBS) will only be streaming full episodes of "Survivor" at its iPad-friendly site. And News Corp.'s (NWS) Fox and GE's (GE) NBC aren't streaming any full-length shows at all. If you want to watch "CSI," "The Simpsons" or "30 Rock" on your Web browser this weekend, you'll need to use something other than an iPad.
CBS says it will offer more shows over time, but NBC and Fox aren't even promising that. When the Hulu app arrives, those two networks' shows will be available there, but under current plans, they'll be available only to paying subscribers.
The holdouts' logic is that the iPad is a mobile device. And while the networks are basically okay with streaming their stuff for free on the Web, they think that mobile is a different ballgame, and one they can charge for (though even that's confusing — NBC does stream full-length shows for free to the iPhone, but won't do the same for the iPad).
But if that's the reasoning, why is ABC, which joined up with Hulu a year ago, putting up its stuff for free on the iPad? The fact that Apple (AAPL) boss Steve Jobs is Disney's largest single shareholder can't be the only reason.
ABC may be able to thread the needle here because it is only making its shows available via Wi-Fi streaming, not over AT&T's (T) network. But that kind of "windowing" is going to seem awfully arbitrary to most casual users, and those are the ones both Apple and the networks are supposed to be targeting here. So something's going to have to give. Stay tuned.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 10, 2012) – U.S. middle blocker Russell Holmes was named most valuable player as his Polish PlusLiga team Jastrzębski Węgiel defeated Lotos Trefl Gdańsk on Feb. 4
Holmes scored 12 points on five kills (71.4 kill percent, .571 hitting efficiency), a match-high five blocks and two aces.
U.S. setter Brian Thornton (San Clemente, Calif.) also plays for Węgiel, but was not on the roster for the match. Węgiel is in fifth place in the league.
U.S. outside hitter Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.) and Asseco Resovia Rzeszow defeated ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle, 25-27, 25-21, 25-19, 25-14 on Feb. 4.
Lotman substituted in the first set and started the next three, scoring seven points on seven attacks (46.7 kill percent, .400 hitting efficiency). He was also credited with 20 receptions, 80 percent positive.
Resovia Rzeszow is in third place in the league.
Tourcoing, the French league team that includes U.S. setter Jonathan Winder (Irvine, Calif.) and outside hitter Jayson Jablonsky (Yorba Linda, Calif.) needed five sets to defeat U.S. middle blocker David Smith (Saugus, Calif.) and Tours, 25-23, 19-25, 18-25, 25-21, 15-13 on Feb. 4.
Jablonsky scored 13 points on 11 kills, one block and one ace. Winder substituted in the first three sets and started the final two. He scored four points. Smith finished with 11 points on six attacks, two blocks and three aces.
Tours is in second place in the league while Tourcoing is seventh.
To view photos of the match, click here.
U.S. outside hitter Robert Tarr (Cape Canaveral, Fla.) and Cannes defeated Lyon, 25-16, 21-25, 25-20, 28-26 on Feb. 5. Tarr finished with 14 points on 11 attacks, two blocks and one ace.
On Feb. 10, Cannes defeated Toulouse, 25-22, 21-25, 25-21, 25-17. Tarr finished with 14 points on 11 kills, one block and two aces.
U.S. middle blocker David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) and his Russian Super League team Dinamo Moscow are in second place in the league's West Division and defeated Lokomotiv Charkov, 25-19, 19-25, 25-18, 21-25, 15-10 on Feb. 4.
Lee finished with nine points on five attacks, three blocks and one ace.
U.S. setter Lloy Ball (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and his Russian team Ural Ufa are in third place in the East Division after defeating Guberniya Nizhny Novgorod, 25-22, 25-19, 25-19 on Feb. 4.
Ball scored one point on one attack and also set his team to a 52.3 kill percent and a .453 hitting efficiency.
The Berlin Recycling Volleys, the German league team of U.S. outside hitter Scott Touzinsky (St. Louis, Mo.) and setter Kawika Shoji (Honolulu, Hawaii) swept league-leading Generali Haching on Feb. 5, 25-18, 25-21, 25-23.
Touzinsky scored five points on five attacks. Shoji started all three sets and scored three points on two kills and one ace. He also set the team to a 53.0 kill percent and a .500 hitting efficiency.
Berlin is in third place in the league standings.
U.S. setter Donald Suxho (Korce, Albania) and Sisley Belluno, his Italian Serie A league team, defeated M. Roma Volley, 25-21, 25-18, 33-35, 22-25, 15-11 on Feb. 5.
Suxho scored two points on one kill and one block and also set his team to a 46.3 kill percent and a .397 hitting efficiency. Sisley Belluno is in second place in the league.
U.S. outside hitter Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.) and Casa Modena scored a 25-21, 25-20, 25-21 sweep of Fidia Padova on Feb. 5.
Anderson finished with 13 points on nine attacks (40.9 kill percent, .364 hitting efficiency), one block and three aces. Modena is in fourth place in the league.
U.S. opposite Murphy Troy (St. Louis, Mo.) and Andreoli Latina defeated U.S. outside hitter Sean Rooney (Wheaton, Ill.) and Acqua Paradis Monza Brianza, 25-22, 23-25, 21-25, 25-21, 15-11 on Feb. 5.
Troy played as a substitute and scored two points on two attacks. Rooney started the first two sets and scored five points on four attacks and one ace. Monza Brianza is in fifth place in the league while Latina sits in ninth.
U.S. middle blocker Max Holt (Cincinnati, Ohio) and Copra Elior Piacenza swept Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia, 25-20, 25-23, 25-16.
Holt scored three points on three kills. Piacenza is in 10th place in the league.
U.S. middle blocker Theo Brunner (Ridgefield, Conn.) and CMC Ravenna fell to Marmi Lanza Verona, 25-15, 25-22, 22-25, 25-22 on Feb. 5
Brunner scored 14 points on six attacks, a match-high five blocks and three aces. Ravenna is in 14th place in the league.
U.S. coach Shawn Patchell is the head coach for the Lausanne University Club in the Swiss league and has three U.S. players on his team: middle blocker Andy Hein (Carol Stream, Ill.), outside hitter Andrew Stewart (Sandy, Utah) and opposite Evan Romero (Miami Lakes, Fla.).
Lausanne is in sixth place in the league. On Feb. 4, it swept Lutry-Lavaux, 25-18, 25-20, 26-24.
In the 12-team playoff round of the Champions League, U.S. middle blocker Matt Denmark (Edmond, Okla.) and his German team VfB Friedrichshafen defeated host David Smith and Tours, 25-20, 20-25, 15-25, 27-25, 16-14 on Feb. 8.
Denmark played as a substitute and scored one point with a kill. Smith started all five sets and scored 12 points on three attacks, a match-high five blocks and four aces.
To view photos of the match, click here.
Friedrichshafen advances to the six-team playoff where it will face the Russian team Zenit Kazan with U.S. outside hitter Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.).
Kazan won its second Champions League playoff match over France's Stade Poitevin Poitiers, 25-12, 25-23, 25-19 on Feb. 8. Priddy did not play in the match.
U.S. middle blocker Ryan Millar (Alpine, Utah) and his Russian team Lokomotiv Novosibirsk will also advance to the six-team playoff after two straight wins over Germany's Generali Unterhaching. On Feb. 8, Novosibirsk won its second match against the visiting German team, 25-19, 25-19, 25-16. Millar finished with five points on two kills and three blocks.
Novosibirsk will play Turkey's Arkas Izmir, which includes U.S. setter Kevin Hansen (Newport Beach, Calif.) in the round of six playoff.
Arkas Izmir advanced with two victories over Poland's Zaksa Kedzierzyn-Kozle. On Feb. 8, host Izmir defeated the Polish team, 25-23, 25-16, 25-18.
Hansen started all three sets and scored three points with three blocks. He also set his Turkish team to a 30.1 kill percent. To view photos from the match, click here.
Champions League matches are broadcast live at www.laola1.tv and can also be viewed after they are played.
In the challenge round of the CEV Cup, all three teams with U.S. players advanced to the semifinals.
Sean Rooney helped Acqua Paradis Monza Brianza to a second victory over Romania's Remat Zalau, 25-20, 25-12, 25-20 on Feb. 9. Rooney finished with 11 points on nine attacks, one block and one ace.
Monza Brianza will play David Lee and Dinamo Moscow in the semifinals.
Moscow advanced by taking two victories over Greece's Iraklis Thessaloniki. On Feb. 8, Moscow defeated Thessaloniki for a second time, 25-18, 25-21, 25-21. Lee scored eight points on three attacks and a match-high five blocks.
Paul Lotman and Asseco Resovia Rzeszow made it to the semifinals thanks to a 25-23, 23-25, 29-27, 25-23 win over Turkey's Fenerbahce Grundig Istanbul on Feb. 8. The victory tied the teams and Resovia Rzeszow won a golden set, 15-12.
Lotman started the final three sets and scored nine points on seven attacks (53.8 kill percent, .538 hitting efficiency) and two aces.
Resovia Rzeszow will play Slovenia's ACH Volley Ljubljana in the semifinals.
To view photos from the CEV Cup matches, click here.
In Challenge Cup play, Lausanne, which is coached by Shawn Patchell and includes Andy Hein, Evan Romero and Andrew Stewart, advanced to the quarterfinals despite a loss to Estonia's Selver Tallinn in the final match, 25-19, 27-25, 22-25, 23-25, 15-12.
The teams played a golden set, which Lausanne won, 15-12, sending it to the quarterfinals against Belgium's Prefaxis Menen.
Spain's Unicaja Almeria, which includes U.S. outside hitter Jeff Menzel (Santa Barbara, Calif.), had the gold set work against it in a match versus Poland's Tytan AZS Czestochowa.
Almeria won the match on Feb. 8, 18-25, 25-23, 25-22, 21-25, 15-12. However Czestochowa won the golden set, 16-14.
To view photos from the match, click here.


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So, did you see it? I honestly didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Or where to look – at the TV screen or my Twitter timeline, which was buzzing with talk of nothing else!
One of the things that got me growling at the telly was the indiscriminate use of terms like 'shabby chic', 'vintage', 'retro' and 'upcycling'. I honestly felt that kind of cringing you get when your grandad says the word 'sex'. By the time it got to the boardroom and Lord Sugar was saying "upcycling" (in a tone that suggested invisible airfinger speech marks) every 30 seconds I was actually wincing and had my hands ready to cover my ears.
But from an academic perspective the thing that got me thinking most was those on Twitter who were getting angry and upset that The Apprentice candidates were making a mockery of people who sell and upcycle vintage furniture for a living. To me, they're getting the wrong end of the stick. Those candidates went into the task thinking as I suspect many people do… "this is easy, anyone can do it." However, what they managed to prove is that no, you can't. Sure, anyone can stencil a Union Jack onto something (anything) or write Shabby Chic on a luggage tag and hope for the best, but to make something that's genuinely desirable and covetable you need creativity, skill and a sense for good design.
So, for today I thought I'd post some examples of upcycled pieces that I find inspiring and innovative. Saying that, I think we definitely need a new word to describe this… every time I type upcycled I can feel my fingers tensing up!
I really like this lampshade made from vintage rulers from Roost Living. I think it works because it takes items that are already nicely designed but not overly useful (at least, not once you've left school) and turns them into something that's still nicely designed but useful in a different way. No extra faff or bling – just simple and charming.
{via Apartment Therapy}
You might already be sick of the whole wooden pallet thing, but I think this pallet plate rack is still really clever. It's a completely new use of a genuinely redundant object and fits into the room in a way that doesn't shout about its old purpose or feel particularly contrived.
Am I on shaky ground with this one? I'm going to argue for it because I think it's clever, it costs almost nothing and it does something practical. No, I don't think you should pay a single penny for someone to make it for you but I think it's a great idea.
A good quality, functional but probably not too attractive wardrobe updated with good quality, attractive but not very functional wallpaper offcuts. Symbiotic upcycling at its best!
Of course, I'm not saying there aren't some shocking examples out there – I was tickled that one tweeter suggested last night's episode of The Apprentice should've been sponsored by Regretsy – but of course, I wouldn't be bitchy enough to point out any bad examples.
Hang on, what's that?
Oh. It appears that I am.
And I've made a special Pinterest board of the best (worst) I could find. Sorry… couldn't help it.
Please do comment with other pieces (good and bad) and tell me what you think of the whole upcycling thing!


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Well, someone has to fill the post-Oprah void, right?
The Hollywood Reporter is claiming that reality star Bethenny Frankel has taped a pilot for a planned talk show on Bravo.
Frankel has made no secret of her desire to break out beyond her reality TV niche, and has already amassed a fortune believed to be around $120 million from her SkinnyGirl drink brand, books, and other endeavors.
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"I would like a daytime talk show because my conversation with my fans right now is through social networking, and my TV show communicates what I'm doing, but it isn't really a dialogue or a conversation," Frankel said in an interview with PopEater last February.
Frankel has called in some seasoned help for the pilot. Seasoned talk show vet Ellen DeGeneres revealed during a guest appearance by Frankel on her show that the two were working together. Frankel's show is being produced by Telepictures, through which DeGeneres has a production deal.
No word on when Bravo plans on airing the show.
Selected Reading: The Hollywood Reporter, PopEater, TV Guide


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I promise to keep this short!
If you're covered by the Blood of Jesus you need to say so! Don't hesitate. When people have a prayer crisis; I sometimes want to ask them: "Who are you?" You see whatever the answer is…will tell me why they are in that situation. Even the people of God. Many have lots of scriptural equipment and weapons; but they only want to pull them out at church.
Not knowing who you are or doing what you're supposed to do; being watchful, praying without ceasing, drawing nigh unto God, tithing and giving offerings unto God. Many people want to skip the last two and just run the risk of asking for an override when a crisis occurs.
If someone were to ask me who I am; I'd say:
I'm God's child and He comes first. I'm Blessed. I'm redeemed of poverty, sickness and spiritual death. I'm in right standing with God. God orders my steps. He is Alpha and Omega! The Spirit if God lives inside of me! I'm surrounded by God's favor like a shield. I wear a faith shield and it can quench every fiery dart of the wicked one. Whatsoever I bind on earth is bound in heaven and whatsoever I loose on earth is loosed in heaven. It doesn't matter which way my enemy comes at me because they will flee seven ways. I can do all things through Christ the Anointed One. I'm thankful for His mercy and unmerited favor. I love God with all my heart, all my mind and strength. I'm in Covenant with the true and Living God. I'm an overcomer. I'm the redeemed. I have victory over the devil who by the way is under my feet. I have the power to tread on serpents and scorpions. I'm a believer; I lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. My job is to spread the Good News of the gospel and I do that with joy. I have great peace because I know that God wants His best for me. I hear God and a strangers voice, I won't follow. I know God's promises and they are yes and amen. I'm heavenly bound. I'm protected, loved and walking worthily of my vocation. I'm deserving of God's reward! I've earned the right to eat the good of the land. I can go on and on. Think about who you are and start writing it down and saying it!


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IMAGING MOLECULAR TRANSPORT ACROSS AND NANOMATERIAL INTERACTION WITH LIPID MEMBRANES by Su Li A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (CHEMICAL ENGINEERING) May 2013 Copyright 2013 Su Li
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Stop Watching Us.
The revelations about the National Security Agency's surveillance apparatus, if true, represent a stunning abuse of our basic rights. We demand the U.S. Congress reveal the full extent of the NSA's spying programs.
Dear Members of Congress,
We write to express our concern about recent reports published in the Guardian and the Washington Post, and acknowledged by the Obama Administration, which reveal secret spying by the National Security Agency (NSA) on phone records and Internet activity of people in the United States.
The Washington Post and the Guardian recently published reports based on information provided by an intelligence contractor showing how the NSA and the FBI are gaining broad access to data collected by nine of the leading U.S. Internet companies and sharing this information with foreign governments. As reported, the U.S. government is extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person's movements and contacts over time. As a result, the contents of communications of people both abroad and in the U.S. can be swept in without any suspicion of crime or association with a terrorist organization.
Leaked reports also published by the Guardian and confirmed by the Administration reveal that the NSA is also abusing a controversial section of the PATRIOT Act to collect the call records of millions of Verizon customers. The data collected by the NSA includes every call made, the time of the call, the duration of the call, and other "identifying information" for millions of Verizon customers, including entirely domestic calls, regardless of whether those customers have ever been suspected of a crime. The Wall Street Journal has reported that other major carriers, including AT&T and Sprint, are subject to similar secret orders.
This type of blanket data collection by the government strikes at bedrock American values of freedom and privacy. This dragnet surveillance violates the First and Fourth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, which protect citizens' right to speak and associate anonymously, guard against unreasonable searches and seizures, and protect their right to privacy.
We are calling on Congress to take immediate action to halt this surveillance and provide a full public accounting of the NSA's and the FBI's data collection programs. We call on Congress to immediately and publicly:
- Enact reform this Congress to Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the state secrets privilege, and the FISA Amendments Act to make clear that blanket surveillance of the Internet activity and phone records of any person residing in the U.S. is prohibited by law and that violations can be reviewed in adversarial proceedings before a public court;
- Create a special committee to investigate, report, and reveal to the public the extent of this domestic spying. This committee should create specific recommendations for legal and regulatory reform to end unconstitutional surveillance;
- Hold accountable those public officials who are found to be responsible for this unconstitutional surveillance.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
So far as I post this
Signatures so far
Go HERE to send your letter off to your Members of Congress.
For locations of Protests Go HERE
Be sure to pass this on to all Americans.
For Updates on the protests Go HERE
Haven't found anything on the US main stream media yet, (not surprised) but did find these photos
Update July 5 2013
More photos and information on the Rally's
Internet activists rally against NSA with 'Restore the Fourth' movement
"Activists Protest Government Surveillance, NSA on July 4, 2013: Restore the Fourth Amendment">Activists Protest Government Surveillance, NSA on July 4, 2013
ABC showed a small Segment.
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This is a sad day for the American people. A "Media Blackout", does say a lot about, how the Citizens of the US are kept in the dark however.
A local news station reported on the protest in Minneapolis
Look for US media reports on this event. If you find very few, don't be surprised. A Media Blackout is an indicator, of how the American public is manipulated and the truth is kept from them.Absolutely shameful.So what else is the US main stream media keeping from Americans?Then we have this loss of Freedom
Veterans on Trial for Peaceable Assembly at Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Update July 6 2013
More pictures and Video
'1984 not instruction manual': Thousands protest NSA spying across US
Once demonstrations wrapped up organizers posted a message on Reddit, saying "It's isn't over!" – calling for an as yet unspecified Step 2 of the protest. They said details will be made public on Monday.
Clapper lied to Congress
March 12, 2013- Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asks questions in Senate Intelligence Committee on warrantless geolocation surveillance and National Security Agency tracking.
At the end of this video James Clapper states, they do not collect information/data on millions of Americans. That of course is blatant lie, as we now know. Making a statement as such, under oath is a crime.
If you lie to Congress, it is a felony and you can/should go to prison for it.
On March 12 when Sen Ron Wyden questioned Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who was testifying in the Senate under oath, the senator, like any good lawyer, knew exactly what he was asking and chose his words carefully.
"Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" Wyden asked. He didn't ask whether the NSA is reading our emails or listening to our phone calls. He used the all-inclusive "any type of data at all" and he was questioning the chief intelligence officer of the United States — and man who is perfectly aware of the breadth and nuance that attaches to the term "data." Clapper doesn't need a staff member to tutor him on the meaning of metadata — that is, to explain that this too is a form of data.
In a letter to Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Clapper now claims that when he denied the NSA is collecting data on million of Americans, "my answer focused on the collection of the content of communications."
He could have said: "I gave an answer to a question I hadn't been asked."
He now says: "My response was clearly erroneous — for which I apologize."
To call it erroneous is to imply that he made a mistake rather than that he was intentionally deceptive. That admission would be a confession to breaking the law. At this point, Clapper seems to think he can brush aside accusations that he committed perjury.
Several senators are clearly unimpressed by Clapper's explanation.
"It now appears clear that the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, lied under oath to Congress and the American people," Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) tweeted.
"Perjury is a serious crime … [and] Clapper should resign immediately," he said.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said that Clapper had broken the law, comparing him to NSA leaker Edward Snowden, who has been charged with espionage.
"Mr. Clapper lied in Congress in defiance of the law in the name of security," Paul said on CNN last month. "Mr. Snowden told the truth in the name of privacy. So, I think there will be a judgment, because both of them broke the law, and history will have to determine."
Wyden, who knew about the NSA programs when he pressed Clapper on them, said that Clapper was preventing Congress from conducting oversight.
"This job cannot be done responsibly if Senators aren't getting straight answers to direct questions," Wyden said in a statement last month.
Clapper is still coming up with new lies/excuses for his lies.
He also attempted to come up with and excuse as to why no Weapons of Mass Destruction were found in Iraq.
In 2003, Clapper, was head of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ: WEAPONS SEARCH; Iraqis Removed Arms Material, U.S. Aide Says
By DOUGLAS JEHL
October 29, 2003
The director of a top American spy agency said Tuesday that he believed that material from Iraq's illicit weapons program had been transported into Syria and perhaps other countries as part of an effort by the Iraqis to disperse and destroy evidence immediately before the recent war.
The official, James R. Clapper Jr., a retired lieutenant general, said satellite imagery showing a heavy flow of traffic from Iraq into Syria, just before the American invasion in March, led him to believe that illicit weapons material "unquestionably" had been moved out of Iraq.
"I think people below the Saddam Hussein-and-his-sons level saw what was coming and decided the best thing to do was to destroy and disperse," General Clapper, who leads the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, said at a breakfast with reporters.
He said he was providing a personal assessment. But he said "the obvious conclusion one draws" was that there "may have been people leaving the scene, fleeing Iraq, and unquestionably, I am sure, material." A spokesman for General Clapper's agency, David Burpee, said he could not provide further evidence to support the general's statement.
But other American intelligence officials said General Clapper's theory was among those being pursued in Iraq by David Kay, a former United Nations weapons inspector who is leading the American effort to uncover the weapons cited by the Bush administration as the major reason for going to war against Iraq.
General Clapper's comments came as the Central Intelligence Agency prepared to defend its prewar assertions that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons and that it sought to reconstitute its nuclear program. The director of central intelligence, George J. Tenet, has written a letter to the chairman and vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence saying the agency will be ready to provide an assessment by late November.
In the letter, the contents of which were described by several intelligence officials on Tuesday, Mr. Tenet proposed that a team headed by John McLaughlin, the deputy director of central intelligence, provide a briefing for the committee after Nov. 20, when the agency's internal review is expected to be completed.
General Clapper's agency is responsible for interpreting satellite photographs and other imagery. He declined to answer a question about whether he believed that illicit Iraqi weapons material might have been smuggled into any other country. Source
One may now think, he was anything, but truthful, in his assessment.
Something to ponder on for a while.
As we all well know, the war in Iraq was based on lies.
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It's been a few hundred years since the Third Amendment was written to keep King George from quartering British troops in American homes, but a lawsuit just filed in Nevada suggests it's as relevant as ever.
The framers of the Constitution ratified the Third Amendment to ensure citizens would never again have to accommodate soldiers, but a few centuries later it's become more-or-less an antiquated law that's rarely referenced in federal court. That changed recently when a family from Henderson, Nevada accused the local police department of constitutional violations after officers of the law allegedly took residence in two neighborhood homes.
According to a legal filing first obtained by Courthouse News Service, a handful of Henderson Police Department officers and the city itself are being sued for an array of charges — including Third Amendment violations — over an incident that mirrors the making of the American Revolution.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs say police officers demanded they be allowed to occupy two homes owned by their clients on the city's Eveningside Avenue in 2011 in order to conduct an investigation involving a neighbor's residence. When the owners refused to comply with the request, they were reportedly arrested for obstruction and brought to jail.
Police were investigating an incident at 363 Eveningside Avenue that July when Officer Christopher Worley called up the occupant of a neighboring property, Anthony Mitchell, and said he'd need to use his house in order to gain a 'tactical advantage' over the neighbor's residence. Mitchell reportedly made it clear that he did not want to get involved in the probe and told Worley he would not be able to offer assistance. According to the lawsuit, Officer David Cawthorn, Sgt. Michael Waller and Worley all then "conspired among themselves to force Anthony Mitchell out of his residence and to occupy his home for their own use."
"It was determined to move to 367 Eveningside and attempt to contact Mitchell. If Mitchell answered the door he would be asked to leave. If he refused to leave he would be arrested for Obstructing a Police Officer. If Mitchell refused to answer the door, force entry would be made and Mitchell would be arrested," the report determined.
Moments later, the officers "arrayed themselves in front of plaintiff Anthony Mitchell's house and prepared to execute their plan," after which they "loudly commanded" they be let inside. Seconds later, Mitchell's door was knocked down with a metal battering ram and the police entered his home.
"As plaintiff Anthony Mitchell stood in shock, the officers aimed their weapons at Anthony Mitchell and shouted obscenities at him and ordered him to lie down on the floor," the suit alleges.
As the police moved into the home, Mitchell was reportedly called an "asshole" by the cops, ordered to crawl on the floor and then shot several times with non-lethal 'pepperball rounds' from close range. He was then arrested for obstructing an officer while the cops combed through his house without permission, but not before they also opened fire at the plaintiff's dog, prompting it to howl "in fear and pain."
At the same time, officers approached Anthony's parents down the block at 362 Eveningside and asked father Michael Mitchell if he'd accompany them back to a local 'command center' to assist with negotiating the surrender of the neighbor suspected of domestic violence. When he got there, though, he became concerned that the cops had tricked him into leaving so they could try to gain access to yet another home. Michael Mitchell then tried to head back home, but when he left the command center he was arrested, handcuffed and placed in the back of a cop car.
Attorney for the family say there was no reasonable grounds to detain Michael Mitchell, nor probable cause to suspect him of committing any crime. That didn't keep officers from holding both him and his son Anthony for nine hours, however, before they were ultimately released after posting bond.
All criminal counts against the Mitchells were later dismissed with prejudiced, but the family has now lobbed charges of their own. Their attorney is asking for a trial by jury to hear the case and ideally award his clients punitive damages for violations of the Third, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, assault and battery, conspiracy, defamation, abuse of process, malicious prosecution, negligence and emotional distress. Source


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Not only will it be unexpected and unique, but it will also be FREE.
* dingleball (?) found on the ground (shhh) with a piece of ripped fabric from a shirt the boys outgrew
*freezer ice-pop mesh bag and a punched out sentiment from a scrap of decorative paper glued onto a key tag
* rainbow pom from a skein of multi-colored leftover yarn (and technically ALL yarn in my hoard is "leftover" since I can't knit or crochet without constant supervision)
* patterned duct tape in place of ribbon and topped with a hot-glued-on flower pulled from an old Christmas pick
*shiny metal "paper" that was the OUTSIDE bag of our Thanksgiving turkey. I assure you that the actual meat was sealed within, and although the foil-y stuff has blemishes and imperfections - just like me - I say it adds character and makes me love it even more.
*a map of Texas that's been in our desk drawer since we moved here. In 2007.
Open the gates and seize the day (anybody else still smitten with that movie 20 years later?) and use it like wrapping paper, taking care to avoid any "convicted in sex scandal" headlines landing smack dab in the middle. Or not, depending on who the gift is for.
You can also make a firework/poof thingy to go on top and give your package some Spartan spirit fingers.
and then start snip snip snipping little strips, leaving the last 1/2 inch or so intact.
Grab your glue gun and get your roll on.The first strip will look kinda wimpy, but carry on.
Take your next piece and roll the first little bundle in it....and repeat....and repeat...
It'll look like those tortilla pinwheel sandwich things they serve at weddings on the bottom,
and then it'll start to resemble a super festive happy gift embellishment. If it doesn't look right, just add some more layers.
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1. The Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving. There is much debate where the Pilgrims held a harvest celebration or a time of thanksgiving. They did not refer to their three day feast as Thanksgiving as we refer to it. This feast did not become a yearly event, and it was not until the 1800s that Americans began to think about a regular Thanksgiving celebration.
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A man wanted for parole violation provoked the Montezuma County Sheriff's Office to temporarily lock down the school in Dolores on Friday.
John Finocchiaro, 30, had eluded local law enforcement for several days last week. When he was reportedly seen wearing black clothing with a purple backpack near the downtown campus about 10:30 a.m. Friday, sheriff deputies and school officials stepped into action.
"We went right into lockdown mode very quickly," said Dolores School District superintendent Scott Cooper.
The entire campus, comprised of about 750 students, was placed on lockdown, meaning the lights were turned out and the doors locked. The incident required school officials to not only address concerns from younger students, but also to adjust lunch and recess schedules, Cooper said.
There were no reports of gunshots at the school, said Lt. Det. Ted Meador of the Montezuma County Sheriff's Office, adding the lockdown was a precautionary measure. The lockdown was lifted by noon.
"No one was ever in any danger," said Meador.
Wanted on a Department of Corrections no-bond warrant for parole violation stemming from an assault conviction, Finocchiaro was found inside a residence at the Hillside Apartments on N. 15th Street, reports show. He was taken into custody without incident.
"He came walking out of a back room with his hands up," said Deputy Corbin Claxton in a written report.
Sheriff Dennis Spruell posted a warning to his Facebook page last Thursday, claiming Finocchiaro posed a threat to law enforcement. The post also advised that the parolee could be armed with a .25-caliber automatic handgun.
Reports show Finocchiaro was unarmed at the time of his capture.
Cooper said about 10 patrol cars from the sheriff's office, along with a forest ranger and a state police unit responded to the scene.
"We were well protected," he said. "We were very fortunate."


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- Yield
- Makes 6 servings
- Active Time
- 40 min
- Total Time
- 40 min
- 5 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 lb sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 3/4 lb hot Italian sausages, casings discarded and sausage coarsely crumbled
- 1 cup chopped onion (1 medium)
- 1 lb sweet Italian frying peppers, seeded and cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 6 large eggs
- Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 200°F.
- Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a 12-inch nonstick heavy skillet over moderately low heat until hot but not smoking, then cook sweet potatoes, stirring occasionally, until tender and browned, about 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, heat 1 tablespoon oil in a 9- to 10-inch heavy skillet over moderate heat until hot but not smoking, then cook sausage, stirring occasionally and breaking up large lumps, until browned, about 8 minutes. Add onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, 8 to 10 minutes, then add peppers and cook, stirring occasionally, until tender, about 5 minutes.
- Add sausage mixture, cilantro, salt, and pepper to potatoes in skillet and toss to combine, then transfer to a large shallow serving dish and keep warm in oven while you prepare eggs. (Wipe out nonstick skillet with a paper towel.)
- Carefully break eggs into a bowl without breaking yolks.
- Heat remaining 2 tablespoons oil in 12-inch nonstick skillet over moderate heat until hot but not smoking, then pour eggs into skillet and season with salt and pepper. Cook eggs, covered, until edges of whites are crisp and browned but yolks are still soft, 2 to 2 1/2 minutes. Slide eggs onto hash and serve immediately.
Cooks' note:
The egg yolks in this recipe are not fully cooked. If salmonella is a problem in your area, bake until yolks are completely set.


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Ma'ale Adumim (Photo: Tess Scheflan/ Activestills.org)
Today we came away stunned, shocked and almost numb from our trip to East Jerusalem with Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. And when I say we, I mean my family—my wife and two children, 19 and 21. We have spent the last 10 days trying to get into Gaza from Egypt; demonstrating against the Gaza siege and joining demonstrations in Israel at the Erez crossing and protesting the evictions in the Sheikh-Jarrah area of East Jerusalem. But nothing and I mean nothing prepared me for today and our trip through East Jerusalem and to Ma'ale Adumim, a city a few kilometers away. It was not the Palestinians we met, although each had heart breaking stories. Rather it was our seeing first hand the deliberateness of the Israeli annexation project and its seeming inevitability. If you want to be made almost speechless stand at the edge of East Jerusalem and look out at a vast construction project on someone else's land. Look out at the commission of a monstrous crime, open and notorious. As one of my children asked, "Why have the countries of the world done nothing to stop this?" I said, "It's worse, the U.S. and others have aided and abetted this crime."
Today we traveled with Jeff through East Jerusalem and to what some, at least in the media in the U.S,. refer to as the settlement of Ma'ale Adumin. It is not a settlement, but a new city of 50,000 Israeli Jews, soon to be expanded to 70,000. Ma'ale Adumim, built on a hilltop, will ultimately be, or is already, part of the expansion of East Jerusalem into a wider municipality that is called by some the "Jerusalem envelope." Before we drove through the valley to get to Ma'ale Adumim, Jeff showed us a bit of East Jerusalem. He pointed out the Israeli Ministry of Interior, the police headquarters and the courts, all now in East Jerusalem; all a means of asserting Israeli control over the area and its Palestinian inhabitants. Then we went close to the 25 foot high concrete separation wall which will ultimately lock out Palestinians from Israel, Jerusalem and many cities, towns and settlements in the occupied territories. On a knoll above that particular piece of wall we saw a prison and an interrogation center for Shabak, the Israeli internal security agency.
Jeff then drove us to a viewing site at the edge of East Jerusalem where we overlooked what is called by Israel area E1. It was a valley with roads criss-crossing it, a few houses and trees and on the distant other side, there it was, Ma'ale Adumim. While I had heard of area E1, I never understood what was meant. I think I understand it now. It is, at least the valley area I was looking at, the road system and land that will link Ma'ale Adumim to East Jerusalem and other settlements. Area E1 will also cut off Palestinians traveling north and south; they will be forced to make circuitous routes from one Palestinian area to another. And remember all of this land is in occupied territory including all of East Jerusalem. Israel's actions are in flagrant violation of the Geneva Conventions.
As we drove toward Ma'ale Adumim Jeff took us to what are known as Areas A, B and C. Area A is where there is full Palestinian control; B is where there is joint Palestinian and Israeli control; and C is where there is full Israeli control. It is in the C area of East Jerusalem where many of the house demolitions are occurring—another story for later. We also went to the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem where some 35,000 Palestinians live in poverty with no municipal services. We drove past small sheet metal shacks of Jumalat Bedouins who, like many Palestinians, are facing eviction. We saw field after field of olive tree stumps, 100 year old trees that once belonged to the Bedouins that had been cut down by the Israelis—insuring that Bedouins could not stay in or near East Jerusalem. We passed an almost completed road with a high metal wall separating two concrete strips; one side was for Palestinians and the other Israelis. Finally, we began our drive up to the city on the hill, Ma'ale Adumim.
An uprooted Palestinian olive tree now stands in the center of a traffic circle in the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim. (Photo: Interfaith Peace Builders)
What first strikes one is the color. The city is green and lush. There is grass everywhere and palm trees lining cleanly paved concrete roads. This is all in an area where water is almost non-existent and many Palestinians have no water. In the center of each of the roundabouts on the way up is an olive tree, but not just an ordinary olive tree, but a wide squat one that is perhaps 400 or even 500 years old, likely an olive tree likely taken from Palestinian land. At the entrance to the city is one of the more incongruous and Orwellian monuments to erect in this stolen city: a huge white metal sculpture of two doves with wings unfolded sheltering a globe and inscribed on its base with the word—and it seems like a nasty joke—"Peace." Peace, apparently defined, as the dismembering of the Palestinian people. As we continued our ride up we pass a suburban shopping mall with some big box stores, stores that are part of international chains that hopefully will become targets of the BDS movement.
We finally stop at the end of a street that could come out of any middle class suburb in America: neat houses and apartments with small yards. Ma'ale Adumim is called a dormitory community or as we would say, a bedroom community. Its residents work in Jerusalem. They live here rather than in Jerusalem because of price (half that of Jerusalem) and lower taxes, not because of religious ideology. It is a secular community that can shop at the mall and will be able to drive to work in a few minutes on segregated roads. We went to a lookout over the E1 area and toward Jerusalem. As we looked down the hill we saw a construction site for a huge swimming pool—a swimming pool in this parched land where only the select have water. Across the valley we saw the building of the architecture of apartheid: the segregated roads and separation walls. I could have been standing in a white only town in South Africa, but I was standing in an Israeli Jewish only town in the occupied territories.
Michael Ratner is a human rights attorney and the President of the Center for Constitutional Rights.


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After more than two years and over 2,000 posts, Environmental Capital is closing its virtual doors.
It's been, in equal measure, a fun, grueling, and educational ride.
Special thanks are owed to the folks who got it all started and kept it going—Mark Gongloff, Jeff Ball, and Russell Gold—not to mention all the Dow Jones and Wall Street Journal folks who fed the beast so well all this time.
Of course, the biggest thanks of all goes to our readers—both of you. You're what got us out of bed in the wee hours every morning. Well, that–and the paycheck.
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The Judiciary Committee enforces a three minute time limit, so you have to get to the point. I limited my remarks to just one aspect of the bill: a provision that would increase the maximum penalty for the crime of pandering when the victim is under the age of 18. I gave an example of a case where justice might have been better served, and public safety enhanced, had this been the law. The overtime warning light blinked red as I uttered my final syllable.
Back at the County-City building, I encountered a colleague, who shall remain nameless for the time being. "How'd it go?" she inquired. "Short, sweet, and simple," I replied. "You, or your testimony?" she asked.
At any rate, for those of you interested, here is the text of my testimony:
"I am here on behalf of the City of Lincoln to support LB 1145. I testified here two months ago on Legislative Resolution 243, and gave some local examples of human trafficking cases in Lincoln. Although few of these come to the attention of the police, I believe that they are more common than most people realize.
Today, I would like to focus on the primary reason I support LB 1145. The bill changes the crime of pandering from a Class 4 Felony, punishable by up to 5 years in prison, to a Class 3 felony, punishable by up to 20 years in prison, when the victim is under the age of 18. I think this change treats the crime with the gravity it deserves.
Shortly after my appointment as Lincoln's police chief, our officers became involved in a human trafficking investigation in which a 28 year old man was ultimately convicted of pandering. He had lured a girl who had just turned 16 into the sex trade. The case that led to his conviction involved arranging an act of prostitution with a 47 year-old man here in Lincoln.
The "John" was convicted of debauching a minor, a Class 1 Misdemeanor, and sentenced to two years probation. The pimp was convicted of pandering and sentenced to prison for 2-4 years. He served a little less than two years, and was released. He has since been convicted of contempt of court, assault, three additional sex-related misdemeanors, and a felony Federal weapons violation that sent him to Leavenworth for a few years.
Something just isn't right about this. Pandering, ought to be a more serious offense and the court should have the leeway to impose a more serious sentence."


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