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Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Santiago and All Chile
Orthodox Archdiocese of Santiago and All Chile
The Orthodox Archdiocese of Santiago is a Metropolia of The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch with jurisdiction over all the Republic of Chile. Its Current head is the Metropolitan Archbishop Sergios Abad.
Brief History
The Great Migration of Christian Arabs from Lebanon, Palestine and Siria to different parts of the Americas during the late XIXth Cetury and early XXth Century, brought the Orthodox Faith to Chile.
In 1910 the first Orthodox Presbyteros arrives to Chile from Siria. The 24th of October of 1917, the Saint George Cathedral is innagurated, being the first Orthodox temple in Chilean territory.
In 1978, His Beatitude Elias IV, Patriarch of Antioch visits Chile with a delegation of Bishops.
In 1984, Chile receives the visit of His Beatitude Ignatius IV, Patriarch of Antioch and a delegation of Orthodox bishops.
In 1996, after being a Patriachal Vicary since 1951, the Orthodox Church in Chile was raised to the level of Metropolia, being elected His Most Reverend Emminence Sergios Abad as its first Metropolitan Archbishop.
Current Situation
The Archdiocese has 6 parrishes today, and counts on 7 priests, four of them having a degree in Theology. Services are conducted in Spanish, since most of the people that attend the church are practically Chilean despite their Arab ancestry. There is also an increasing number of non-Arab Chileans that are joining Orthodoxy.
External Links
Official Site of the Archdiocese (Spanish)


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Saaremaa [2] [3] is the largest Estonian island, situated on the west coast of Estonia. It's also relatively inexpensive to visit. The capital (and only city) in Saaremaa is Kuressaare, covered in a separate article.
The territory of Saaremaa has been inhabited for about eight thousand years. The people of Saaremaa have seen many battles and been ruled over by Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Russia.
Saaremaa has retained its uniqueness due to its location and isolation. In the villages there are still stone fences and houses with thatched roofs. Dolomite, windmills and the famous local home-brewed beer are the symbols of Saaremaa.
The islanders' life has always been bound to the sea and the resilience of their womenfolk, kept busy toiling the land while their men were at sea.
The people of Saaremaa love jokes - especially the ones which are about their neighbours - the people of Hiiumaa. The jokes of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa folk may be lost on other Estonians, just as is British humour is sometimes not appreciated "on the continent".
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Buses arrive to Kuressaare from Tallinn, Tartu and Pärnu. Bus schedules and journey planner can be found at Bussireisid.
By sea
There is a ferry [4] connection to the mainland from the island of Muhu, which is connected by a bridge to Saaremaa. One can also take a ferry to the nearby island of Hiiumaa and the Latvian city of Ventspils.
By plane
Kuressaare Airport (IATA: URE, ICAO: EEKE) [5] operates regular flights to Ruhnu, Stockholm and Tallinn.
Get around
A lot of the attractions on Saaremaa are located in the city of Kuressaare.
There are many peninsulas, bluffs, lakes and villages worth visiting both in Saaremaa and the nearby islands and islets. The most notable places are Koguva village, on Muhu Island, which is Estonia's best preserved village, and Sõrve peninsula.
Vilsandi national park is located on the western coast of Saaremaa and counts within its territory nearly a hundred little islets and their surrounding sea. It's a well known place by bird watchers.
Music Festivals
The official Estonian tourism website provides an extensive list of options for accommodation in Saaremaa.
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Get out
The beautiful island of Muhu [11] is located east of Saaremaa. There is a bridge between these two islands.


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Anthony Fiore, MD, a medical epidemiologist at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said today during a Health and Human Services Web telecast that seniors and organizations assisting them shouldn't let their guard down, even though the biggest infection burden is falling on younger people. He said pandemic flu can still strike older people this season, as can seasonal flu, which typically leads to 36,000 deaths each year, 90% of them in seniors.
Older people should get their seasonal flu shots now, as well as a pneumococcal shot if they are due for one, Fiore said. Though the first doses of the pandemic H1N1 vaccine are earmarked for high-risk groups, when the vaccine becomes available in larger quantities, seniors can and should receive the shot, he added. "But don't wait for the pandemic vaccine—the others are important to get right now," he said.
Kathy Greenlee, assistant secretary for the HHS Administration on Aging, said advocacy groups that are working to reverse health disparities have flu vaccines in their sights. People of color are less likely to get seasonal flu vaccines, but the pandemic vaccine campaigns offer another chance to improve uptake in these groups.
James P. Firman, EdD, president and chief executive officer of the National Council on Aging (NCA), said senior centers are on the frontlines of getting the vaccine message out and are often the site of vaccine clinics. Senior centers can also help protect older adults by following good hygiene steps and making sure staff, especially those who transport people and work in kitchens, stay home when they're sick.
Organizations that provide Meals on Wheels services should have backup drivers and plans in place if absences due to the flu threaten food delivery schedules. For example, some groups plan on delivering frozen meals to seniors if driver shortages occur.
A key goal for the NCA and other organizations is to provide flu and vaccine information to seniors who don't normally come to senior centers and activity sites. "That's our collective challenge: Don't be satisfied by reaching just those who come to us," he said.
Sandra Markwood, chief executive officer of the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging, said fall health fairs can offer a timely springboard for getting pandemic flu and vaccine messages to seniors.
Firman said one way to promote seasonal and pandemic flu shots to older people is to appeal to their frugality. "You can help people get over the hump if you tell them 'It's free,'" he said. Flu vaccines are free for those in Medicare, though others may need to pay for a doctor's visit. He said seniors can minimize the cost by requesting the shot during other medical appointments or by getting vaccinated at a flu shot clinic, where there is typically no charge for immunization.
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An activist investor is pressuring Juniper Networks to cut costs. Is this a spin in the right direction for investors? Heard on the Street's Dan Gallagher discusses on digits. Photo: Juniper Networks.
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... I ... welcome to Digits I'm Steve Ursillo an activist investor is sniffing around Jupiter Networks but even if the network gear company implements more shareholder friendly policies they won't change the law long-term challenges facing the company ... WSJ's Dan Gallagher explains from San Francisco dad ... so explain to what's ... what's going on here with Juniper what's the latest ... well I did come under target by Elliott Management Pty in part you know the stock is ... still ... my radically and are for me over the last three years ... aam was half what was in early two thousand eleven ... on it's it's private its sales slowed ... um ... but it's also the melodic cash to one of largest tech companies in the Essen P five hundred that ... aam does not currently a dividend ... I in terms of tech hardware companies so there's a lot of exposure here ... that I think nine activists like Elliott says Kate there's there's cachet of the key to getting back to share with older is ... a Waltzing I'm still investing in new products ... and so the stock is popping on this news today of about ten percent as we saw but Annie says Africa and nine point four percent rate now ... but still that then you say that even if ... the company once in a given somewhat Elliott is demanding here this is a given change ... some of the structural and long term issues that are facing Juniper is is that accurate ... yet I mean there certainly face senior they have a lot of competition are facing a half to keep you get Cisco with Huawei ... IND competitors were also working really hard in the States ... and ... if the if they cut down in the teacup don't Spending Emilia makes a pretty persuasive case in my opinion that Juniper Isbitts Penny on why they are more than fifty percent of their operating expenses ... I'm sorry I didn't spend about fifty percent of revenue ... on operate expense which is higher than you see companies like Cisco ... ALM so they're already spending a lot of the still haven't seen a good revenue growth over the last several quarters ... so it's the BR for them to make the case that he we keep all this cash to stand ... because they haven't shown a good track record of spending their cash wisely to in a way that improved driven us to ... be seen this trend for awhile now with big name activists coming in and demanding changes whether the call icon in Apple Bill Ackman in a number of different names what what's the sense here that you're getting ... is Juniper could be receptive of all to let Elliott is saying ... by the company said very little on that so far other than them that ... they can deceive and you expect that the lessons all shareholders ... aam I personally think they're gonna hafta give in to some pressure here Cyber said their performance ... on the is has not been great over the past couple years and there's a pretty strong case be made that they should consider ... doing a dividend and buybacks of my pinion is that those things are going to be short-term in nature or Intel the kind of address the main problem of ... of of getting back to revenue growth in until they do that I think these other math it's ... um Hurley get to be temporary and short term and and small solutions for sure ... why would Juniper not implement them in as it does for the reason he just said that they are short term ... solutions rather than really want some fixes at this point ... well I think most cited as the companies in general to come in particular don't like to get pressure from from Chile or sian activists try to tell them what do ... you know that's that's that's a pretty common thing ... aam but also you know Juniper's on you know their new CEOs in nearly two weeks into the job ... of the just wants a major of non engineer went over to a rival ... ALM so they're kind of there in this process right now we're their existing management team is still the flux still figuring out the business ... all the same time they're getting a lot of pressure from a major shareholder to ... I'd use specific change so I I got a few on the cob we'll try to bide its time as long as I can ... so its existing its new management team can figure out what they wanted to ...


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The Bird Is the Word
The Tierney Sutton Band finds the mystic in the Great American Songbook
Gender has nothing to do with cojones. Anybody can have them. Two-time Grammy-nominated vocalist Tierney Sutton has 'em. That's how she explains her performance of "It's Only a Paper Moon," the opening track of her latest, excellent recording, Desire.
The song, written in 1933, has been inducted into the Great American Songbook by subsequent generations of singers, all of whom have, to one degree or another, crooned the lyrics in a state of lovesick dreaminess. Sutton's take has something else going on, though, something more pained than dreamy.
When asked to whom she is singing the song, she says apprehensively: "Well, I'm singing it ... I'm singing it to ... This is really going to sound really crazy and probably sound pretentious, but I'm singing it in the person of God singing to people." She laughs. "I thought that showed a little cojones to start my record as the voice of God."
Throughout the album, the Tierney Sutton Band—pianist Christian Jacobs, bassists Kevin Axt and Trey Henry (singly or together), and drummer Ray Brinker—does what Sutton calls a "meditation on materialism," exploring the spiritual subtext of desire and attachment in great American songs. Thursday night, they'll bring their signature cohesiveness (with Axt on bass) to the Outpost to continue the meditation, cojones and all.
The group meditation showcases the band's astonishing musical interplay. The sixth sense they seem to share may not be surprising, given that they've been playing together for 17 years, but it is dazzling. Arrangements are credited to the entire band, whose five members are incorporated partners.
At the suggestion of other members of the band, Sutton had been exploring the use of spoken word and prayer over music, an approach that she uses on Desire, with texts taken from The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh, written by the founder of the Bahá'i Faith.
For Sutton, a Bahá'i member, the core message in The Hidden Words is basically: "You are a spiritual being, you are not a material being." That viewpoint informs the band's take on Desire's material, and in her research for the album, Sutton used texts from the world's major religions to establish a context for each song.
The spiritual context takes nothing away from the carnal delights of the music, but it does cast a strange and wonderful light on some very familiar tunes—"My Heart Belongs to Daddy," for example. "That song at its core is a very dark song," says Sutton. "It's not a happy little song. It's about a kind of prostitution."
"Skylark" is positively transformed by the band's approach, taking on a stained-glass ache of spiritual longing. A Bahá'i poet friend once told Sutton that Johnny Mercer's lyrics echo the mystical imagery of Hafez, Rumi and other Middle Eastern poets. They used skylarks and nightingales to represent "the manifestations of God, the beings who tell us we are spiritual beings," Sutton says, ticking off the names of Jesus, Mohammed, the Buddha and others.
"If you're thinking that the heart of the human being is saying, Oh, skylark, have you anything to say to me? Can you tell me where my love can be?—so the person speaking is the heart, and the love is God—it absolutely alters the course of the song," she says.
"As far as I'm concerned, that's what the song means, even if Johnny Mercer was not conscious of it. He tapped into it, because the imagery is word-for-word perfect. Otherwise, what are you singing about? You're singing about a bird? What is that?"


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A new book about serial killer Anthony Sowell is being released, and it includes explosive comments from death row.
Anthony Sowell killed 11 women and kept the bodies in and around his home on Cleveland's east side.
Last summer, Sowell was sentenced to death.
Local author Robert Sberna covered the trial, and he wrote House of Horrors. Sberna says he spoke to Sowell on death row 6 times by phone.
Sberna told 19 Action News, "I said Anthony, how did these bodies end up in your house? He said the pressure just built up."
"Unable to take responsibility for these actions. A multitude of reasons why he committed these crimes from his childhood in which he says he was abused, to his health, to his break up with his girlfriend." Sberna also said.
Sowell calls himself a "god-fearing" man. He also says he is prepared to die.
The book portrays Sowell as someone who stills plays with secrets about the case. The author asked him about the missing body of a woman whose head was found in a bucket. He said he couldn't talk about it by phone. Instead Sberna says Sowell asked for $300 in electronics like an MP3 player in order to have a meeting about the body. The meeting never happened.
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A book launch and signing will take place Oct. 29 from 6-9PM at Strongsville Old Town Hall (18825 Royalton Road).
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There are millions of books in the world written by hundreds of different authors, each with a distinct style and voice of their own. No two books are alike and that leaves readers with countless options. This is also good news for writers. Since there are a variety of genres in literature, there is always a new book just waiting to be written.
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By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans
Recently published images of two drones that fell near the village of Ruveysli near Kasab and Arafit near Jisr al-Shughour in the Lattakia Governorate on the 20th of July 2015 reveal that either Russia has supplied the regime with state-of-the-art unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or that Russia has embarked on a small-scale drone surveillance programme over Syria. If the latter turns out to be the case, it could be part of their greater intelligence programme to provide the Syrian regime with up-to-date information on the rebels' status and strength, which first became known to the world after the capture of the Центр С - المركز س - Center S SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) facility near al-Hara, Daraa Governorate.
The UAV that crashed near Ruveysli, believed to be a yet unnamed variant of the Orlan-10 reconnaissance drone, is nearly identical to a previously seen type in the Ukraine, were at least one crashed in Ukrainian-held territory in May 2014. The basic Orlan-10 was also seen over the Ukraine, and several other types were also recovered after having crashed. The new variant of the Orlan-10 drone found in the Ukraine was sighted for the first time, and its technical details therefore remain yet unknown.
While the introduction of this type of UAV and its subsequent crash is noteworthy by itself, stunning coincidence has it that another recently acquired type of UAV crashed nearly forty-kilometers away just moments later. The second UAV, a Russian-made Eleron-3SV reconnaissance drone, was damaged by an onboard fire and crashed near the JaN-held town of Arafit, and despite the fire-damage was still relatively intact.
The extent of involvement of the Russians in this new Syrian drone programme is open to debate. Although one could argue that the Syrian Armed Forces or one of the Syrian Intelligence Agencies are operating these drones, Russian involvement in operating these UAVs should not be ruled out. First and foremost, it seems implausible the regime would acquire two completely new and expensive platforms, requiring extensive training to operate them and to process the acquired data into useful information for the forces on the ground, when they can already deploy Iranian-delivered and operated Mohajer, Yasir and Shahed 129 drones currently present in Syria to the Lattakia Governorate with little effort. Secondly, Russia's involvement in the Syrian intelligence field continues to be greatly underestimated, the sudden discovery of Center S last year serving as a testament to that fact. Thirdly, the fact that both drones have been produced post-2010 for the Russian military and subsequently used over the Ukraine makes it seem unlikely they were exported to Syria this quickly, not in the least because it would mean exposing some of their newest technologies in the UAV field.
Center S, jointly operated by the Russian Osnaz GRU radio electronic intelligence agency, Iranian and Syrian Intelligence Agencies, was to provide Syria and Iran with situational awareness of the Middle East and Israel in particular, but focussed increasingly on Syrian domestic affairs shortly after the revolution and start of the Civil War. Center S became responsible for recording and decrypting radio communications from rebel groups inside Syria, providing the Syrian Arab Army (SyAA) with up-to-date information on the strength and upcoming offensives of rebels, and the Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) with information on rebel meetings. Center S was thus at least partially responsible for the series of killings of rebel leaders by SyAAF airstrikes. Unsurprisingly, its loss to the fighters of the Free Syrian Army served the regime a heavy blow.
It is therefore highly likely that Russians are involved one way or the other in operating the recently delivered Orlan-10s and Eleron-3SVs in Syria. The establishment of an UAV unit with Russian equipment and specialists as opposed to the Iranian-led UAV units might have been offered to the regime after the recent loss of Idlib Governorate, which if progressed further, could seriously have threatened the regime's heartland: Lattakia.
The ever rising death toll and the indiscriminate use of banned weaponry including chemical ordnance evidently serves as no deterrent for Russia to continue delivering anything from small arms to tanks, multiple rocket launchers, spare parts for the SyAAF's fleet of fighter-bombers and now unmanned aerial vehicles.
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During recent election cycles, the turnout of early voters at Carroll County's only early-voting polling place, the Westminster Senior Activities Center on Stoner Avenue, was at times so light that the campaign volunteers and poll workers easily outnumbered voters.
Not so this time around. At around 11 a.m., on Oct. 31, the parking lot at the center was nearly full, and spaces were at such a premium that motorists entering often had to wait for someone else to leave to get a space.
Inside, the line to the voting snaked around from the lobby, down a corridor, then back to the lobby again, nearly doubling back on itself.
At mid-afternoon, the scene was much the same. Traffic was still snarled coming in and out of the senior center, and casting a ballot meant a 20- to 30-minute wait.
"This is beyond what I've ever seen in any election," said Joann Nicholls, of Woodbine, a local campaign volunteer for Mitt Romney and Republican senatorial candidate Ben Bongino.
"But people have told me that today, even though it is crowded, is nothing compared to Saturday. They said that over the weekend they had lines all the way out of the building, and the weather was nasty."
An election judge, who said he was not permitted to give his name to a reporter, agreed, saying, "This is the most I've ever seen. It's been steady since we opened at 8 a.m. There hasn't been a break in the line.
"We're probably getting a lot more people because early voting was canceled Monday and Tuesday (due to Hurricane Sandy passing through the area), and also because the governor has extended the voting hours."
The poll worker said more than 2,000 votes were cast at the senior center on Saturday, but did not yet have a running count for Wednesday, when the polls reopened after the two-day closure. The early voting period was extended after the storm — giving people until Friday, Nov. 2, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., to take advantage of the practice.
Laura Jones, of Sykesville, said Wednesday was her second attempt to vote.
"I came here Saturday and the line was out the door, so I thought I'd try it again today," Jones said. "Even though the line is still long, it seems to be moving pretty fast.
"Also, I thought I better come now and vote early, because what's it going to be like on election day?" she added.
Another voter from Eldersburg said she was pleasantly surprised by how fast the long line was moving. "It only took me 25 minutes to vote," she said.
One poll worker who was busy directing foot traffic and helping voters locate the elusive back of the line, observed that even with the relatively long wait, it's all relative when it comes to early voting. She said casting a ballot in Westminster was a breeze, compared to the ordeal faced by her mother in Garrett County. Up there, she said, they were just dumped on by 30 inches of snow.
General Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 6. On that day, voters must vote at the polling place to which they are assigned.
Voters can find their assigned precinct by looking at their voter notification card from the Carroll County Board of Elections, or by going to http://www.elections.state.md.us. Polling places will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
For more information, voters may contact the Carroll County Board of Elections at 410-386-2080 or the State Board of Elections at 1-800-222-VOTE (8683).


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|System: Wii, PSP
|Review Rating Legend
|Dev: Locomotive Games
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: THQ
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: Feb. 25, 2008
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
|5.0 = The Best
|Players: 1-2
|3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
|ESRB Rating: Teen
|3.5 - 3.9 = Good
by Amanda L. Kondolojy
August 6, 2007 - The Destroy all Humans franchise is a pretty short lived franchise, and has only been around for about 2 years. But nonetheless, the franchise has garnered a huge following, and will soon be unleashing its 3rd and 4th entries early next year. So how did this game garner such amazing popularity? Perhaps it's the opportunity to play as the "badguys" who want to destroy your home planet or maybe even the cynical wit of said aliens. Maybe it's the fact that you can blow up anything and everything. And then there's the probing guns . Eww!
Well, reasons aside, it looks like the Destroy All Humans franchise is here to stay, and they're proving it by releasing a third and fourth entry in the series, both due early next year. They're going to be completely separate games and chronologically follow each other. The first game, Destroy all Humans! Big Willy Unleashed, is going to center around the aliens Crypto and Pox and a failed attempt to garner fresh brain stems using a fast food chain. However, instead of taking their losses and moving on as most humans do, these aliens decide to take their frustrations out on those puny little humans!
Instead of taking place in the peace and love era during the 60s, Destroy all Humans! Big Willy Unleashed takes place in the first half of the turbulent seventies. So this one will definitely not have the same feel or look as the previous two, but I think it's a good move to keep the story moving forward chronologically. I, for one, am really excited for when they get to the big hair eighties!
Now you may be wondering about the title and, as you might imagine, the "Big Willy Unleashed" portion of the title refers to the mascot of the fast food chain. Think Big Boy meets Satan. And would you believe it, it's also a mecca that you can use to execute your destructive purposes. Some of Big Willy's attacks include a very large belcher and laser cannon eyeballs. There's even a flatulence attack. Imagine that!
There's not too much specific to know about how this game will function differently on the PSP vs. PlayStation 2 vs. the Wii version. What we do know is that the Wii version of this title was "built from the ground up," so hopefully any Wii-centric facets of the game will be smoothly integrated as opposed to just tacked on.
Overall, the third entry in the Destroy all Humans games looks to be shaping up rather nicely. The Destroy All Humans franchise is pretty young, but I think with their double release early next year they're looking to prove that they're sticking around for quite some time! And like alien invasions, they don't easily go away!
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PHILADELPHIA – Edwin Jackson is looking to find his form again.
The Cubs right-hander struggled through 4 2-3 innings, giving up Jimmy Rollins' Phillies-record 2,235rd career hit, and Chicago lost 7-4 to Philadelphia on Saturday.
Jackson (4-7) allowed seven runs — six earned — and eight hits with two strikeouts and two walks.
"I did a bad job of executing my pitches," he said.
After three strong starts to begin May, where he went 1-1 with a 1.80 ERA, Jackson is 1-4 with a 7.56 ERA in his last five outings.
"I have to go back to finding my rhythm and keeping the ball down," Jackson said. "I have to go back to the basics and make pitches."
Justin Ruggiano, Luis Valbuena and Mike Olt homered for Chicago, which was trying to win consecutive road games on the same trip for the first time since last Sept. 10-11.
Domonic Brown and Chase Utley homered for Philadelphia, which has won four of five following a dismal 1-8 stretch.
The Cubs trailed 4-3 entering the bottom of the fifth when Rollins set the table for a three-run inning by lacing Jackson's 3-1 pitch to right to pass Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt as the Phillies' all-time hits leader.
"It was very cool," Rollins said.
Schmidt, a Phillies TV analyst for Sunday games, retrieved Rollins' bat and greeted the 2007 NL MVP with a high-five and hug at first base. The entire Phillies team then came out from the dugout to offer congratulatory hugs and handshakes.
After the Phillies went back to their dugout, Schmidt took Rollins' hand and held it in the air. Fans cheered and gave the duo a standing ovation as fireworks erupted from the large video board in left field.
"I told him, 'Congrats, it couldn't happen to a better guy," Schmidt said later in the game. "I'm glad I was here. My heart is pounding."
Upon leaving the field, Schmidt was stopped in the dugout by the slumping Brown, who asked for a hitting lesson. Schmidt said he told Brown to drive through the ball with his left hand.
Minutes later, Brown broke the game open with a three-run homer to right, his fourth of the season after hitting 27 last year, that put Philadelphia ahead 7-3 and chased Jackson.
"It just wasn't his day," Cubs manager Rick Renteria said. "The one inning kind of got away from us. He battled in that inning. He was one strike away. Once again we came up short."
David Buchanan (2-3), in his fifth start for injured lefty Cliff Lee (elbow), allowed three runs and six hits in five innings.
But the day belonged to Rollins.
He made his debut with the Phillies on Sept. 17, 2000, and has played his entire career in Philadelphia.
"To be the all-time hits leader, that speaks for itself," Philadelphia manager Ryne Sandberg said. "It was well worth it. Fourteen years of effort with one uniform in a lot of ways that's old school."
Said Renteria: "He's put together what is potentially a Hall of Fame career. He's a credit to Philadelphia and the Phillies. I think he's admired all over."
Schmidt had doubts that any player would break his hits record in notoriously tough Philadelphia and in the era of free agency. But Rollins' mentality on and off the field, Schmidt says, allowed him to do it.
"He's very comfortable in his own skin," Schmidt said. "He's got a nice, short stride and stays relaxed (at the plate). He's a great clutch hitter, tremendous.much better than me. One of the great compliments you can pay a hitter is (to) say I want him up when the game is on the line."
Schmidt said Rollins should get "definite consideration" for the Hall of Fame right now and believes Rollins could land in Cooperstown with continued solid play for three or four more years.
"He knows talent, that's pretty cool," Rollins said.
Rollins received strong ovations when he came to the plate his first two at-bats, but he grounded out to first base in the first inning and lined out sharply to first in the second. He finished 1 for 4.
Jonathan Papelbon pitched a scoreless ninth for his 15th save in 16 chances.
Utley put Philadelphia in front with a solo shot in the first, but Olt answered in the second. It was the 10th homer in 22 hits for the Cubs rookie.
Ben Revere and Carlos Ruiz had RBI hits, along with Junior Lake's fielding error in center field, in the bottom of the second helped Philadelphia take a 4-1 lead.
NOTES: The Cubs lost an eighth-inning challenge when replays upheld first base umpire Kerwin Danley's decision that Nate Schierholtz was out at first base. The delay was 2 minutes, 17 seconds. . Jackson fell to 0-5 in five regular-season starts at Citizens Bank Park. . Chicago dropped its NL-worst road record to 12-25. .. . Cubs left-hander Travis Wood (6-5, 4.95) opposes Phillies right-hander A.J. Burnett (3-5, 4.41) in the series finale at 1:35 Sunday.


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If you are new to Marble then you want to check this page. We list a few things you can do which are easy tasks and introduce you to Marble development. You can possible find some Junior Jobs at KDE's Bugzilla.
"Marble KDE" results of the last 24 hours
for interesting news items related to Marble. Then post these news to our Marble "Marble Facebook group". In the next step update our "Marble Website" accordingly.
We want our Marble source code to look good. The documentation should be concise and helpful and the comments shouldn't have spelling errors. Also it shouldn't have any obvious "formal" bugs. Help us to improve our code quality. This is an easy job that helps you to get familiar with the source code. It's the first thing that absolute beginners usually want to look at. We list a few important issues that need to be checked for regularly:
If you come across a problem don't hesitate to ask us (there are no stupid questions, just people who are afraid of asking for stupid reasons ;-) If you want to send in your patch for review, please send it to our mailing list firstname.lastname@example.com.
This section deals with junior jobs that require basic C++ skills:
In marble/src/KdeMainWindow.cpp use
to create an open recent menu entry for the KDE version of Marble. Adding the same functionality to the Qt version of Marble is a bonus task.
Marble's plugin API lets plugins define an icon which is shown in the menu for activating plugins. Only a few plugins use icons so far however. Please locate appropriate plugin icons (chances are high the oxygen project already has some) and add them. A good start would be the Photos Online Service Plugin.
Level of difficulty: EASY
Marble is using the CIA World Factbook for displaying country information. Have a look at the python script
and use it to compile the latest information from the latest version of the Factbook:
Once done you need to do some extensive testing to see whether the information got properly applied.
Level of difficulty: EASY
Marble's Photos Online Service Plugin currently displays photos downloaded from Flickr. As 23 also provides flickr API, it should be possible to display images from 23 as well.
Level of difficulty: HARD
See Bug 232098 for more information.
Level of difficulty: MEDIUM
The KDE version of Marble has a nice progress bar in the statusbar that shows the progress of tile downloading. Users of Qt Marble don't see any progress indication. Please change that: Have a look at MarblePart::setupDownloadProgressBar() in marble_part.cpp (part of the implementation in the KDE version) and integrate a similar progress bar feature in QtMainWindow.cpp, the Qt version of Marble. The feature can be tested using View => Redisplay for example, which triggers a re-download of tiles on the screen.
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Poetry Dispatch No. 199 | November 1, 2007
It's the Dream by Olav H. Hauge
It's the dream we carry
that something wondrous will happen
that it must happen
time will open
hearts will open
doors will open
spring will gush forth from the ground–
that the dream itself will open
that one morning we'll quietly drift
into a harbor we didn't know was there.
from Borealis (March/April 2002), translated from the Norwegian by Robert Hadin
November 2, 2007
I am resending yesterday's Poetry Dispatch (#199) for another look (please open/see) because Monsieur K. has already archived it, transforming the whole dispatch considerably with an astounding black and white photograph of this great Norwegian poet who lived quietly all his life in the western part of Norway, worked as a gardener, died in 1994, and in his solitary way contributed considerably toward bringing Scandinavian poetry into the forefront of modern, world literature. I will have more to say about him and his work in the near future.
I would also add, that many of you who have commented on the beauty of the archived dispatches and notes (thanks to the considerable talent and good-eye of Monsieur K himself in seeking and finding the right image for each poem and piece) might consult his small ad at the bottom, lower right-hand corner of the page (Your Web Page…)
This is not a commercial on my part so much as an appreciation of the man's talent and energy, something I wish to pass on to others the way one passes on a great poem, story. or book to a friend. So what we have here is a recommendation from me to you or friends of yours that here is someone who knows how to make a web page sing. Open any of the poems he has archived for Poetry Dispatch. The proof is on the page. For further proof–highly recommended–check out (open 'category') what he did for imakito oku's poem, "Watermelon Way". But any page/poet will do. Norbert Blei


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North Carolina owes much of its success today to women who participated in extension "home demonstration clubs," working to improve the well-being of families and their communities.
This year, North Carolina's Extension and Community Association celebrates 100 years of home demonstration and community development across the state.
In Henderson County, the Extension and Community Association (ECA) clubs are active in their communities today. Through the educational guidance and research-based information provided by N.C. Cooperative Extension's family and consumer sciences agent and specialists based at N.C. State and N.C. A&T State universities, ECA is a grass-roots institution that has actively addressed the needs of families in their communities for 100 years.
Today ECA clubs are still involved in their communities, encouraging healthy lifestyles, supporting community literacy and providing for our state's military personnel.
Henderson County has at least four active ECA Clubs that support many organizations and agencies. Some of them include MainStay, Open Arms, Interfaith Assistance Ministry, local fire departments, the Linus Project and more.
In 1911, Jane S. McKimmon, North Carolina's first female home demonstration extension agent, convinced 14 county superintendents of education to employ home demonstration agents to support the girls' tomato club program. Tomato clubs were the girls' counterpart to the boys' corn clubs that taught rural youth valuable skills for life on the farm.
By 1913, the mothers, who had learned to can so well that they were canning leaders in their communities, began to ask for clubs of their own where they might learn other skills for the home. Thus home demonstration clubs for women were organized in 14 counties.
Home demonstration work began in Henderson County in 1918 when Annie Mae Baker served as home agent, along with farm agent Frank Fleming.
About 1923, McKimmon, a state home agent, came to the county to encourage groups of homemakers to organize themselves. They were encouraged to grow tomatoes, to can these for home use, and to sell them to others to add to the family income.
A meeting of homemakers was held at the home of Gladys McKinna in the Etowah community, where they were encouraged to consider ways of making their kitchens more functional and their homes more attractive. As part of this special project, McKinna's husband made a small tea cart for her.
In 1924, Rachel Everett served as home agent for a year. She was one of the supporters of the formation of the Curb Market, which is now on Church Street.
In 2010, the Curb Market celebrated its 85th anniversary and still organizes Old Timey Days with displays of many arts, crafts, food and plants.
Throughout the last century, home demonstration clubs, later renamed Extension Homemakers and today known as ECA clubs, have been involved in helping North Carolina become the progressive state it is today. From the earliest days, women organized efforts beyond their own homes to support their communities.
During the 1918 flu pandemic, home demonstration clubs provided food for those who were ill and even helped run emergency hospitals. Home demonstration clubs launched efforts to feed schoolchildren, a precursor to today's school lunch programs.
In times of economic hardshipsuch as the Great Depression, curb markets, such as ours on Church Street, were started by home demonstration clubs and provided much-needed family income. The markets provided a place where women could earn money selling eggs, butter, garden produce and canned goods.
Home demonstration clubs supported war efforts during World War II, conducting scrap drives and even selling war bonds to outfit the Larkspar as a military hospital ship.
Clubs encouraged literacy in their communities, first by borrowing books from the state library in Raleigh and later developing book-lending programs that led to the establishment of county public libraries.
The Henderson Extension and Community Association will have its 100-year celebration at a county picnic in June at Bullington Gardens. If you were a past member, we invite you to join us to help us celebrate. We'd love to hear from you and your experiences. Call me for more information.
Henderson County ECA members are also selling raffle tickets for an antique quilt, made by Jeanette Ledbetter, an Edneyville member who passed away a few years ago. This quilt was donated by Pat Boozer, also an Edneyville member. Tickets are $1 each or six for $5. If you'd like to buy a ticket or see the quilt, drop by the Henderson County Extension Center in Jackson Park.
West District ECA will celebrate 100 years of ECA at its annual Spring Day this month at the Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center in Mills River. Members will participate in a fashion show featuring fashions from the past decade. It is sure to be a fun-filled day.
If you'd like more information about Henderson County's Extension and Community Association, or information about attending either of the two events mentioned above, call Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Agent Renay Knapp at 828-697-4891.
ECA clubs celebrate 100 years
North Carolina owes much of its success today to women who participated in extension "home demonstration clubs," working to improve the well-being of families and their communities.


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I'm really fond of my fabric napkins. I used to have just one kind, but recently I've made a few different kinds. I really like this! I can just pick one that suits my mood at the moment.
Ironing isn't really my thing…
I've rummaged flea markets for the materials, and you can really find great fabrics there for cheap. The white with black pattern I made from a dressing gown, the black from a sheet (good for greasy or messy food), the white polka-dotted are from a night gown (I'm a bit afraid to actually use these) and the striped from a man's button down shirt (my favourite!).
There are a lot of nice patterns in men's shirts, I think a set of different kinds of plaid patterns would be wonderful!


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Study Abroad Scotland Story
Scotland is home to medieval castles, kilts, the Loch Ness Monster — and JMU's first study-abroad program focused on earning general education credits.
The Office of International Programs has partnered with University Studies to offer JMU students a unique opportunity to study in Scotland over the summer. Program participants will spend four weeks in Edinburgh and four weeks in St. Andrews while receiving 12 credits in general education courses.
"This program is meant to benefit JMU students by increasing the study abroad opportunities for them, especially those with a fairly rigid curriculum who often have trouble incorporating a semester abroad into a four-year undergraduate program," said Dr. Linda Halpern, dean of University Studies at JMU.
During the eight-week program participants will learn from traveling JMU professors, as well as faculty from the University of Edinburgh and the University of St Andrews. "[We chose] Edinburgh and St. Andrews because they are two of Europe's best and most prestigious universities," said Dr. Bernd Kaussler, the program's director, who received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of St Andrews. "Having a general education program offered abroad really is the icing on the cake for our students."
This new program is open to all majors and grade levels, but is geared toward rising sophomores. Dr. Raymond "Skip" Hyser, professor of history, said that at the recent study abroad fair the Scotland program drew interest from nursing, pre-med and music students "because it would allow them to have a study abroad experience and fulfill general education requirements, while not impeding on their progress in their major or program."
Program participants will visit Stirling, Glamis Castle, Palace of Holyroodhouse, the Scottish Parliament and Dunnotar Castle, as well as attend a ghost tour of Greyfriars Graveyard, hike the Scottish Highlands, visit the Isle of May and more. In addition, students will have their weekends free to explore other parts of Europe.
The general education courses being offered during the summer 2014 program are Scottish literature, physical geology, global politics and micro-sociology. Admitted students will also enroll in a one-credit, eight-week course during the spring semester. This course will provide a time for students to meet, prepare academically and plan travel arrangements. In future years, the Scotland program will always offer students courses that satisfy requirements for Clusters 2, 3, 4 and 5, but the courses being taught may change from year to year.
By Katie Casey ('13), JMU Public Affairs
Published: Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 9, 2018


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When Pardee Hospital first opened its doors, the emergency room had only one treatment table.
Dr. William Lampley, one of the hospital's first surgeons, shared the hospital's history Friday at Pardee's 60th Anniversary Celebration.
When Pardee Hospital first opened its doors, the emergency room had only one treatment table.
Dr. William Lampley, one of the hospital's first surgeons, shared the hospital's history Friday at Pardee's 60th Anniversary Celebration.
"I remember well this day, Nov. 15 in 1953," Lampley said. "We had looked forward to it for a long time."
Patton Memorial had served its purpose for many years, Lampley recalled, but the needs of the community had grown to be too great.
He was among the group of roughly 20 doctors to make the transition to Pardee when it opened. Lampley said he is the only member of the original hospital staff still alive.
"On Christmas Day, I was (caring) for a young man with severe burns... when Dr. Raiford burst through the door carrying a young child which was limp, blue and not breathing," Lampley said, "I looked around a second, told the burn patient to sit up and with the child across the end of the table, I made an incision and rapidly got a breathing tube in place."
The child began breathing again, but Lampley said it had become quite clear that Pardee would need more than one treatment bed.
Despite their limited emergency room space, Lampley said everyone was well taken care of. As the need in the community need increased, the hospital continued expanding.
"As things progressed, so did the needs progress," Lampley said. "Today, we have 32 beds in the emergency facility."
In August, Pardee earned the highest rating for surgical care by Consumer Reports.
"There were two hospitals to receive those red dots, us and a specialty hospital in Durham," Pardee surgeon Dr. Stuart Glassman said. "We were above Duke, we were above Chapel Hill, all of them; we were No.1 in the state — that's astounding."
Glassman said the biggest change that he has noticed at Pardee since he started in 1987 is that they are now able to offer many of their surgeries as out-patient procedures.
"I think the community is very fortunate to have the best hospital in the country and certainly a surgical care facility that is second to none," Lampley said in closing.
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Jennifer Aniston: Artists for Haiti Dinner with Susan Sarandon!
Jennifer Aniston flashes a smile at the Artists for Haiti Dinner to benefit The Stiller Foundation held at Almond on Friday (September 23) in New York City.
The 42-year-old actress was joined at the charity event by pal Susan Sarandon!
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The night before, Jennifer and her boyfriend Justin Theroux attended an art auction benefiting Artists for Haiti.
Last month, Ben Stiller, who founded The Stiller Foundation, made a spoof video where he announced the foundation would actually be called the Jennifer Aniston Naked Foundation!
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First, a huge thank you to all my race sponsors. Together we were able to raise a total of approximately $3,000 for children's charities in the USA and UK. I am so proud of us all for that ;0)
NSPCC in the UK GBP 712, plus 121 Gift Aid = GBP 834
Thompson Child & Family Focus in the USA $1,690
The race day was incredible. I lined up with 55,999 of my newest friends, did a half-hour mass warm-up, then set off on the trek to the start line about 20 minutes down the road we were lined up on. Just moments after I crossed the start-line and started running, the Red Arrows flew over on their way to the Tyne Bridge. The Red Arrows are the RAF's aerobatic team who perform at various large events and always at the Great North Run. That was a really fantastic and emotional start to the race.
There were large crowds running around me the whole way round the course, as you would expect with that many competitors. The mass of runners obscured my view of the hills and inclines, and there were so many things going on at the sidelines; bands playing music, supporters shouting and clapping, and charity cheering squads, that those difficult parts hardly registered.
I ran almost the whole 13.1 miles. I had to take a bathroom break around mile 8, then a short walk at mile 10. I had only been walking a couple of minutes at mile 10 when I saw the Red Arrows again, performing their main display over the coast road. That gave me the strength and inspiration to start running again.
Around mile 12 there is a steep decline down to the coast road, then a turn onto the final road to the finish line, which lines the cliffs at South Shields. After the decline is a final uphill which I had been dreading. I made it though and only had that last mile to run. I am so proud of myself for running it. The run numbers you wear have your name printed on them and the crowd read and shout them out loud, giving massive encouragement in that final stretch.
I crossed the finish line with a time of 2 hours, 52 minutes and 1 second. I remember the very first Great North Run in 1981 and thought I would never be able to do something like that. I am happy beyond belief that 32 years later I have done it and all to honour my brother, David.
When I got back to base, I made a spreadsheet of all my knitter donations and allocated draw numbers based on when and how much was donated. There were 186 numbers from the knitsters donations of $880 and GBP 55. I then used this random number generator to pick the winning number:
So, our lucky winner is "Seattlesparkle" on Ravelry. Congratulations to her. We are in touch to arrange how she'd like me to finish the blanket and I'll post update photos as and when I progress with that.
Thank you all so much for joining me on this incredible journey, it has been a blast. Tune in to find out what my next challenge is going to be...
Disco xoxo


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Today we're traveling around the world to show a Middle Eastern or Armenian favorite.Sini Kufta. Kufta are yummy and creative little meatballs, and very easy to assemble, when you make them in a tray or casserole like we're doing today, they're called Sini Kufta. D
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Today I was lucky enough to record a Beers Blokes & Business podcast with Wil Anderson – about funny business. Turns out the business side of comedy has a lot of similarity with entrepreneurship. Comedians are, certainly in their early days – solopreneurs. Wil was amazingly honest and generous with his insights and story, but there was one thing in particular which stood out to me. While I can't remember the quote verbatim – it went something like this.
Some people are not lucky enough to hate their job. Their job is not quite bad enough for them to pack it in and leave. So they get stuck there doing something they don't like for years. They miss their chance.
My interpretation – this is one time when hating is good. If you're in a job you hate – remember sometimes it's the pure pain and divine discontentment which is really required to take the leap. You can listen to the entire podcast here: Funny Business with Wil Anderson
You can subscribe to our Beers Blokes and Business podcast right here. But more importantly be sure to go see his Comedy Festival show Wiluminati.


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First, let me say this officially, Happy Anniversary Beverly Hills 90210!
Now back to regular blog hop programming. Is it 2018 yet? At the rate it's going 2017 will be over in a blink of an eye, pardon my cliche. But that means another year of coming together. And offering each other support in our tight knit writing community. As always, thanks for gathering us together goes to ninja extraordinaire Alex Cavanaugh!
And thanks goes to the awesome co-hosts posting today: Olga Godim, Chemist Ken,Jennifer Hawes, and Tamara Narayan!
Interested in joining us? Click on the badge above. Our Twitter hashtag and handle are #IWSG and @TheIWSG.
What's going on with me this month?
Finished plotting out the last five chapters and epilogue of The Soul Traveler. The epilogue is set five years after the events of the story. And left it open ended for a possible sequel with an older, none too wiser and still sassy MC, Kyna Lynn James.
But I've been dragging my feet on finishing it. It's like you're reading the last book in the series. And you don't want to finish it because then it means it's really over. And you're lamenting and cursing yourself on why you had to read through the series so fast. So if you've been following the story on Wattpad and anxious to see how it ends, feel free to join my muse in poking me. In jabbing and clobbering me upside my head to get a move on to finish the final eight chapters already.
On another note, I've moved my notes and files for my NaNo novel and sequel. Not Dreaming of You has moved out of my 'story idea' folder and into a new sub-folder under my 'Novels' folder! Trust me, this is cause for celebration. I store all my WIP stories in my 'Novels' folder. It's equal to getting out of the slush pile.
Been working on a game plan for NaNoWriMo, which this time I'll definitely follow. I'm going to start from the middle, the most troublesome spot for me. And write my way to the beginning. First, I'm starting with a zero draft. And breaking the novel into three acts to outline. I'll also roughly sketch out some important (done that). Novel length would be at most twenty chapters. I'm also following @Prep_tober on Twitter to better plan a workable draft. And engage with other WriMos.
NaNoWriMo here I come!
I've also finished plotting all four novellas in the Foreseen romance series. Each story highlights four friends who have mystical/paranormal gifts. Layla and Bea, two fortune tellers, Jenna the empath and Felicite` is a psychic. For now, the novellas remain in the 'story idea' folder. Will travel along Layla, Bea, Jenna and Felicite` HEA stories later.
Here's a slideshow of my leading ladies, left to right, and their leading men:
October 4 question – Have you ever slipped any of your personal information into your characters, either by accident or on purpose?
Personal information? No per say. But I've slipped certain experiences into my characters. Like my children's antics and reactions, the things they say. In my NaNo novel, my hero and heroine will reenact some scenes of the stuff my husband and I did while touring Philadelphia.
What's going on with you this month? Planning on doing NaNoWriMo this year? Have you begun prepping? Do you outline? What's your preferred method?
Were you a Beverly Hills 90210 fan? Who was your favorite couple? Character? Did you follow the actors and actresses to other shows after BH90210's series finale? Followed Shannen Doherty to Charmed. Loved her as Pru but damnit, why did they have to kill her character!? 😦


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|"We keep the doors locked."
This morning, when the baby and I were leaving the condo on the way to school and work respectively, a guy got in to the elevator, holding at least three guns, and several duffel bags. I can only imagine what was in the bags -- ammo, more guns? Instinctively, I pulled the stroller closer to me, away from the guns. What would have happened if this guy was angry, violent, unstable? We would have had no defense.
We live in a world where merely riding in an elevator puts my daughter at risk. How are such things even fathomable? And, perhaps more importantly, how are such things preventable?
Whatever it is that we're doing isn't working. But what, exactly is it that we're doing? The conservatives/Republicans/pro-gun-advocates and the liberals/Democrats/anti-gun-advocates are busy calling each other names, lying to the people, ignoring the facts, ignoring reality. No one is talking about compromise or trying to find solutions that can and will work in real life.
The NRA just held a press conference where they said all sorts of ridiculous things. That the Newtown tragedy was the result of violent video games, and that guns are not to blame. That what this country really needs is a database tracking the mentally ill -- not, for argument's sake, a database tracking gun owners. There should be armed police officers in every school. That the cure for gun violence is more gun ownership and less regulation. I could go on, but it makes me ill to think about it.
And, almost simultaneously, there was another mass shooting taking place, this time in Pennsylvania.
Almost everything said in the NRA press conference makes my head spin because it defies logic and reason -- and statistics. There is no statistical link between violent video games and gun violence. (Note: there is, however, a link between violent video games and being desensitized to violence.) Countries with stronger gun regulations have less gun violence. More guns means more gun violence. And, compared with other developed countries, the United States is particularly violent.
"Violence begets violence." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.To be fair, I am not a particularly strong advocate for guns. Back in the days when I used to write with more regularity, I wrote about how, a billion years ago, in my last semester of law school, I worked as an intern in the office of the public defender. When I was working there, defending my clients against various misdemeanor charges, many of my friends were interning on the other side, in the State Attorney's office, and several of them thought that I needed to get a gun, or at least learn how to fire a gun, for my own safety. But I resisted. I was scared of guns in general, and wary that just by my having a gun, I would be able to protect myself. At 5'2" (in shoes) and (at that point in time) 115 lbs (soaking wet), if someone wanted to overpower me, they probably could, gun or no gun. In my mind, rightly or wrongly, the consequences of letting them get my gun were worse than my not having one at all. (Note: according to the statistics, I was probably right.)
I also wonder about the mix of guns with violence and instability, the sort of things that people don't talk about in public. But I know about that too. I have siblings, and one of my siblings had a difficult adolescence. That sibling was angry and unhappy, and often threatened violence. It was in the days before Columbine; in the days before such things were even thinkable. But there it was: many times, my sibling threatened to stab me in my sleep, threatened our parents the same way, threatened to hurt others, threatened self-harm. We all came out of it okay, thanks to therapy and the fact that adolescence does, eventually, end, and whatever it is or was seemingly became more manageable in adulthood. But when I think about it -- which I try not to -- I am glad that my parents didn't keep weapons in the house. In a rage, a gun would have made it too easy for something awful to happen. Instability, mental illness, violence -- they might be gasoline, but a gun is the lit match.
So, we're back to the guns and the violence, and whether there is anything we can do about it.
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." -- Wayne LaPierre, the chief executive of the National Rifle Association, Dec. 21, 2012.I heard him say that during the press conference and I chuckled. It may be true, but you know what? It's much easier for the good guy to stop the bad guy if said bad guy doesn't have a gun in the first place. The statistics maintain that keeping the bad guy from getting the gun is likely to stop the fiasco before it starts: "Making crime even a little bit harder made it much, much rarer."
Given the opportunity, I would want guns to disappear from the earth, or at least the country. But that's wishful thinking: guns are legal, abundant, and, as my husband said to me, "You can't put the genie back in the bottle."
That's not to say that I think all guns and gun owners are bad. For example, I don't necessarily agree with hunting for sport, but I know avid hunters, and, with the laws as they are, I have no problem with them having guns. The hunters I know are responsible gun owners. They bought their guns legally, they know how to use them, and they keep them safely locked.
Responsible gun owners know that the "right to bear arms" is not absolute:
"Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. From Blackstone through the 19th-century cases, commentators and courts routinely explained that the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose." -- District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008).(Note: I don't necessarily agree with the majority in Heller; I tend to think that Scalia's interpretation of the Second Amendment's language and meaning is a little tortured. But it is the law of the land, and it at least represents an acknowledgment from our most Conservative Supreme Court justice that the government can, in the right circumstances, enact reasonable limits to gun ownership.) Responsible gun owners realize that, with any right comes responsibility: they are not the ones buying crazy insane assault weapons, high capacity magazines, and bullets designed to tear through body armor. They are not the problem.
But what about the Newtown shooter? His mom acquired the guns legally, and shot them as a hobby. But was she a responsible gun owner? In my view -- based on the "facts" as we've learned them -- no. Forget the number or type of weapons, or the size of the magazine. She taught an ostensibly mentally unstable kid how to shoot, and did not secure her weapons from him, or at least didn't secure them well enough. She dropped the lit match on the gasoline.
And for other recent mass shootings? All of them, legal. The gunman in Oregon borrowed his weapon, which was legally purchased. The Colorado theater shooter stockpiled his guns and ammo legally. The Virginia Tech shooter got his gun from an online dealer.
This country is between a rock and a hard place. We have a society where mental health issues are stigmatized and often left untreated. We have lax gun control laws because the Second Amendment allows for gun ownership, subject only to undefined (and largely un-enacted) "reasonable" limitations. We have a weapons market that permits guns to be obtained legally obtained and used in increasingly horrific, violent crimes.
We can't ban 'em, and we can't control 'em. Gasoline and match.


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Opinion: Mali's Locals Back Jihad
WSJ Europe editorial page writer Anne Jolis on jihadists holding up the French military in Gao, Mali. Photo: Getty Images
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