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Anyone wanting to ride home from school with Daniel Walker knows to put on a seat belt or find another way home.
Dawson County High administrators were pleased earlier this year when the school's graduation rate hit 84.4 percent.
From college students and retired teachers, to builders and county officials, they all think they are smarter than a 10-year-old.
The Dawson Adult Learning Center of Lanier Technical College will be hosting a free College/Career Seminar from 4-6 p.m. on Oct. 19.
Spencer Wright has received numerous accolades over the years as chorus director at Dawson County High School.
Members of the Dawson County 4-H club recently competed at an area Forestry Judging Contest at Wahsega 4-H Center in Lumpkin County.
Dawson County voters will have the opportunity to extend a current one-cent sales tax for the Dawson County school district for the next five years.
Girls of all ages should start practicing smiling, waving, walking in heels and wearing a pageant gown for next month's event.
The drought may be over in Georgia, but the message from Georgia 4-H remains clear: Water conservation is important each and every day.
Dawson County resident Karen Armstrong knows the importance of a solid education for the county's children, as well as the importance of parent and community involvement within the school system.
September is Library Card Sign-up Month, and Chestatee Regional Library System wants to make sure that all children in Lumpkin and Dawson counties have the smartest card of all - a library card.
Chick-fil-A has awarded more than $25 million in scholarship awards to restaurant team members to help them reach their educational goals and has recently awarded its national Leadership Scholarship to Desiree Ulmer from Dawsonville.
According to Sandy Lipkowitz, reading is not just a hobby, but rather an important aspect of life on which everything is based.
Logan Porter, a senior at Dawson County High School, attended the National FBLA Conference this summer in Anaheim, Calif., where he represented Georgia in the competition for electronic career portfolio and placed sixth overall in the nation.
Harrison Summerour, an eighth grade student at Dawson County Middle School, participated in the summer students program for academically gifted students conducted by the Duke University Talent Identification Program.
Students on summer vacation enjoyed a soot-covered and wet time during the recent junior fire academy.
The Dawson County Board of Education set the budget for the upcoming fiscal year at $33.9 million during a meeting Monday night.
The Dawson County Board of Education has announced its list of Teachers of the Year for 2015.
The Georgia Department of Education is rolling out a new set of tests to replace the old methods of assessing students.
The Dawson County Board of Education has announced the sole finalist to become the next principal of Dawson County High School is a veteran educator from neighboring Hall County.
The Forsyth County Board of Education announced Monday afternoon that Keith Porter will serve as interim superintendent of the school system until the position is filled in the fall.
Dawson County's new school superintendent is ready to pick up where his predecessor left off.
The Dawson County Library is gearing up for a summer full of shows for all ages.
Since its opening in 2010, students at Riverview Elementary have noticed one particular problem with their otherwise great school. Shade.
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Congratulations to Mayor Bob Coburn who will serve a second term after he didn't draw an opponent during municipal filings.
The Jan. 14 ballots will feature races in the four wards that are up for election.
We have one message for the elections, which are less than 60 days away: Turn out and vote.
This is a significant and historic election in Muskogee, because it will be the first election to feature ward voting, meaning voters only can vote on the candidates who will represent their ward.
Voters approved the ward voting change in 2012, when a mere 17 percent of voters turned out.
That number is terrible. It needs to get better.
If you don't vote, you are throwing away your most basic freedom. It appears we are letting that freedom erode.
Maybe ward voting is the change that will make the difference. With ward voting every vote truly counts for your representative.
Prove you're appreciative of this basic freedom and do your part. Vote.
Key dates
Dec. 20: Voter registration deadline.
Jan. 8: Absentee ballot application deadline.
Jan. 9-10: In-person absentee voting.
Jan. 14: General election.
March 4: Runoff election if required.

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Birthday - Captain America
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My son, Nicky, loves Captain America and the Power Rangers - so I combined the 2 into one party using red, white and blue. We made it a costume party as well. Happy 4th Birthday to my little man. We all had a blast! Please enjoy the pics!
Party display was inspired by American and Asian influences - Captain America in the red, white and blue and Asian/Samurai in the fan banner and font.
Party Highlights
Captain America and Power Rangers cake
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Captain America & Power Rangers favor bags with samurais, captain america cups, little ninjas, marvel book, avengers hand wipes, etc as well as candy bags!
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Nancy Self - Balloon Artist/face painting and glitter tattoos, bounce house and blow up swords
What People Ate
Power Rangers Pizza, Marvel-ous snack bags, fortune cookies & awesome cake!
What People Drank
Power punch, soda, water and capri suns
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Adult costume contest!
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The Unit: BMX Ripper Josh Harrington Charges North Carolina, Rocks Camera Skills
Josh Harrington's forte may be crushing it on two wheels. But make no mistake, he can hold his own behind the lens. Oakley's BMX Team ripper recently teamed up with Dan Foley in Greenville, N.C. for a few intense sessions at "The Unit" – taking turns with the camera and shooting each other for your viewing pleasure. Check it!


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FARTHING. HA'PENNY. HALF A CROWN. By Jo Walton. Corsair. 316pp. $19.99 each.
Richard Flanagan on Man Booker longlist
Richard Flanagan is the sole Australian writer on the longlist for this year's Man Booker Prize, the first time the prize has been open to writers of any nationality.
Kristina Olsson wins Kibble Literary Award for Boy, Lost
Brisbane author Kristina Olsson is a deserving winner of the Kibble Literary Award for women's life writing, awarded to her family memoir, Boy, Lost, a heartbreaking but finely controlled investigation into the theft of Olsson's half-brother from their mother.
A spotter's guide to Canberra book clubs
From boozers to work friends, there's a group for everybody.
Pro Hart: Reconciling his life and his art
A new book on Pro Hart is set to continue the debate - pop culture icon or true Australian artist?
Take three, with Colin Steele
Colin Steele delves into the fantasy genre with three book reviews.
Litbits: July 19
A comprehensive guide of what is happening in Canberra's literary scene.
No feud with publisher, says d'Alpuget
Blanche d'Alpuget goes it alone; high praise for Australian novel from Bill Gates
How the State Library landed Victor Hugo's 'mythical' Les Miserables manuscript
Tim Young reveals how an Australian delegation scored an unlikely coup, convincing France to bring one of its greatest literary treasures to Melbourne.
Author John Clanchy reveals why he wrote Six
Writer John Clanchy dissects his writing, discusses his new short story collection Six and reflects on how literature is evolving.
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Amy `ready and raring to go' ahead of pursuit
Helping hand for West
Price of healthy food too high for households: study
Hardy off to flying start in new sport
Railton five join state at nationals
Devonport Jazz 2014| pictures,photos
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Afghan Journal
Lifting the veil on conflict, culture and politics
In the U.S.-Pakistan fight, India an anxious spectator
Pakistan and the United States are in the middle of such a public and bruising fight that Islamabad's other pet hate, India, has receded into the background. A Pakistani banker friend, only half in jest, said his country had bigger fish to fry than to worry about India, now that it had locked horns with the superpower.
But more seriously, India itself has kept a low profile, resisting the temptation to twist the knife deeper into its neighbour when it faces the risk of isolation. Much of what Pakistan stands accused of, including the main charge of using violent extremism as an instrument of foreign policy, is an echo of what New Delhi has been blaming Pakistan for, for two decades now. Even the language that America's military officials led by Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, and diplomats have employed such as "proxy wars" , "cross border raids" or terrorism central to describe Pakistan is a throwback to the 1990s and later when India and Pakistan were dueling over Kashmir.
"What Mullen has said with regard to the role of certain forces in Pakistan, is also something which is nothing new to us. In fact when we were the first to flag this issue earlier, the world didn't believe us," the Press Trust of India quoted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as telling reporters on board his plane on the way home from the UN General Assembly meeting in New York.
But the tone and tenor of the Indian response to Pakistan's predicament, including on the Hindu right, has been remarkably restrained. This, as former Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran wrote in The Indian Express on Thursday, is hardly the time to gloat over Pakistan's situation.
US-Pakistan ties : bleeding America in Afghanistan
U.S.- Pakistan ties are entering an even more dangerous phase, going by the language that the two sides are employing ever since a public airing of differences over covert U.S. activities in Pakistan
It's a game of smoke and mirrors and some of it could be bluff and bluster, but there is little doubt that Pakistan and America are stuck in an unhappy relationship, attacking each other as much as the militants they joined forces against ten years ago.
An American in Pakistani custody
Who exactly is Raymond Davis, the main at the centre of a flaming row between the United States and Pakistan that threatens to derail ties altogether ? It's an obvious question to ask given the lengths the Obama administration has gone to secure the release of Davis held in Pakistan for shooting and killing two men who he said were trying to rob him. As Reuters reported this week, Washington had put on hold some bilateral engagements, and even hinted that a $7.5 billion civillian aid package could be jeopardised if Islamabad continued to hold Davis disregarding his diplomatic immunity. The New York Times and the Washington Post said a much-sought after state visit by President Asif Ali Zardari planned for the end of March was on the line now. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cancelled a meeting with Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi at an international security conference in Munich late last month, the Post said.
The Americans are saying Davis is a diplomat and hence arresting him is a violation of international norms and the Vienna Conventions. The U.S. embassy had initially identified him as a staff member of the U.S. consulate in the eastern city of Lahore where the incident occured.


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Following the onslaught of cars that brought traffic to a standstill in much of New York City Wednesday, the city is requiring Manhattan-bound cars to have at least three passengers for the next two days.
"The streets just cannot handle the number of cars that have tried to come in," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon.
Only vehicles with three or more people will be able to cross the Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg and Queensboro bridges between 6 a.m. and midnight on Thursday and Friday on the Manhattan-bound side.
The mayor said the city would try to set up spots for drivers to pick-up passengers before going over the bridges.
The city is also restricting the lower level of the Manhattan Bridge in both directions for buses Thursday and Friday and the DOT plans to set up bus-priority lanes on major traffic arteries in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
In other transit news:
- Subway Service to Resume Thursday Morning
- Alternate side parking rules will be suspended on Thursday and Friday, but meters regulations are back beginning Thursday morning.


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Does anyone have any articles or books to suggest about components of online help and printed user guides for software applications? We all seem to have different points of view of what should be included, and I know it depends upon the type of information, delivery, and audience, as well as other factors.
I have a subscription to www.safaribooksonline.com and skimmed through these:
· Read Me First! A Style Guide for the Computer Industry, Third Edition
· Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications, Third Edition
· Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works
· Other books referenced on the Technical Editing SIG
I'd like to see something like this with the various possible components of the documentation for a user guide for software applications (not necessarily in this order):
· Copyright info
· Table of Contents
· Introduction
· Overview
· Concepts
· Examples
· Tutorials (multimedia)
· Tasks (separated by basic and advanced)
· Reference
· Troubleshooting
· FAQs
· Index
· Glossary
I'd also like to see the components of a quick start or getting started guide. Essentially I want to make sure that the users get a good overview of concepts and examples up front, tasks in the middle, and references at the end. I tend to write to teach, being a former educator and instructional designer. But I'm not trying to write a training guide. I hope someone out there has some suggestions. Thanks!
I have placed a link to my M.S. Thesis at my author spotlight. Please let me know if you'd like to collaborate on an eBook. The taxonomy that you are searching for is given on page 30 of the thesis. Here is the link to the spotlight:
--Gloria Reece
I really appreciate all of this information. I just sent you a message with my contact info. I definitely think a book would be a good idea, since there seems to be missing current resources on the Web on the subject.
Yes, there is an error in the compiled PDF file. I am in the process of creating a better PDF document. There is a taxonomy in the thesis that might be very helpful to you.
And, yes, you are correct, Bloom's Taxonomy may not be highly helpful to you for this task. If you need more information on Bloom's Taxonomy, please let me know. Currently, there are some changes being made to it. Bloom's Taxonomy is useful for framing objectives and outcome statements for teaching and learning tasks.
As for the taxonomy in the thesis, I can send you a print copy of the original that is a bound archival copy--the same product that you'll find in a library's special collections. If you would like for me to send this material to you, please let me know. I will also check my original files and add this missing material to the PDF file. It is a pretty good taxonomy that took a good bit of time to research, design, and write.
If you would like to team with me to write a new book from this material, I'd be happy to discuss the project with you. It seems like there's a really good match with our backgrounds and experiences. So, let me know your thoughts on this possibility, too.
You might also check some material on object-oriented programming. I like to read material by Grady Booch. Books on UML are also helpful. Sometimes you can derive taxonomies from these types of explorations. There are also some good products for object oriented programming. Checks of evaluation copies for these products might also be helpful.
When I delve into these areas, I generally like to have a specific problem that I want to solve in mind. For example, in your case, it would not be to define a taxonomy per se. Rather, it might be to complete a familiar transaction and then see what results from that task with regard to a taxonomy. So, I guess what I'm saying is that I do lots of mental elaboration (uses Bloom's Taxonomy at a higher level) and then take copious notes. Then, I do lots of creative blockbusting as i discuss in the M.S. thesis. (There's a chapter on Creativity in the book, too.)
So, just let me know if I can send you any additional materials. I do have a web version of the HCI bibliography. And, it has previously been housed by ACM.--Gloria Reece
I read "Writing Software Documentation: A Task-Oriented Approach" by Thomas Barker in college (I was lucky enough to be taught by him as well), and I still use it as a reference today. Here's the link to the book's Web site: http://www.writingsoftwaredocumentation.com/index_old.html
It does cover some basic items, but there are a few chapters, like chapter 10 - Designing for Task Orientation, that might cover some of what you're looking for.
Thanks very much for the information. I was actually searching for ways to organize the components of online help and user guides such as concepts and FAQs. It's not the content that I'm lacking. It's just the best way to organize it. (I apologize for not being more specific.) I was also limiting my search to post 2005 (or so) to make sure Web 2.0 and social media were included.
Maybe a better term of what I'm looking for is "taxonomy", which I just realized by looking over your thesis. There's a reference to Figure 5. An Expected Taxonomy of a Content–based Information Structure in a Dual–delivery Project (page 87) in the Figures list, but I can't find the figure in the PDF. I just found a blog post entitled Bloom's Taxonomy in Technical Writing by Sujoy Dutta which is close to, but not precisely what I'm trying to find ( http://technicaldocument.blogspot.com/2010/10/blooms-taxonomy-in-technical-writing.html). I'm trying to make the case of structuring online help and user guides to cover these components (e.g., explaining the concept in a user-centric way -- not software-centric where the writer describes "what this button does", but what problem the software can solve for the user).
It would be great to see your thesis evolve into a book!
I'll respond based upon my experience with single-sourcing for multimodal delivery for a large-scale product development engineering organization.
One of the best ways to approach the development of this sort of content is to involve the developers and stakeholders in some way. One way is to place your ideas for content on sticky notes in an accessible location and allow others to give you feedback. Once you give folks a manipulative (the sticky notes), then, it gives them something to move around and think about--mental elaboration. Once they can see the structure visually, then, they get new ideas and start annotating the chart. It's really amazing to watch this process occur!
Once things get stabilized, I'd recommend moving to an electronic method for providing the results. Then, that can be edited very easily.
Another way to get content is to use the strategies of a journalist and search through the comments in computer code or design documentation. Sometimes comments in computer code can be descriptive enough that you can extract some content for these areas from that material. Of course, this sort of technique requires access to the code.
Content guidelines for the product may also have most of the material that you need. When I managed a documentation department one of the first things that I did was to write four documents: Formatting Guidelines, Content Guidelines (included legal approvals), Production Guidelines, and Directory Structure (configuration management) Guidelines. The content guidelines provided the information that you are seeking here.
Anyway, I'm hopeful that this information is helpful to you. My M.S. thesis was on a single-sourcing topic. It's a free download here: http://www.lulu.com/partners/ekn. It also has an extensive bibliography that covers several disciplines. You may find something there that is helpful.


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By Jeremy Begbie
On my office wall I keep two photos together in a single frame. They show two teachers who inspired me more than any others—my first theology teacher, James Torrance (1923–2003), and next to him the American conductor, composer and pianist, Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990). The former gave me an unforgettable vision of what to teach. But the latter (whom I met only once) gave me a vision of how to teach, of what teaching could be.
Composer of the ever-fresh West Side Story, music director of the New York Philharmonic for many years, prolific to the point of manic over-activity, and prodigiously talented, Bernstein's influence on the twentieth-century musical world was incalculable, a seismic impact whose reverberations are still being felt. His letters have just been published, and demonstrate well what he always insisted himself: that before anything else he was a teacher, an educator par excellence. As his son once said, "his brain was on fire with curiosity," and there seemed to be nothing he learned that he didn't also teach.If you went to see him conduct, it was as much an education as a performance, a kind of sonic seminar. You simply had to listen, as detail after detail was meticulously delivered to your ears. It was as if he was constantly prodding: "Do you hear this…?" But it was when the music was intertwined with words that his real uniqueness as a teacher shone out. When put in front of a TV camera (and he was made for television), most striking of all was the sheer breadth of sources that he could effortlessly sweep into a lecture: every kind of music, poetry, art, linguistics, anthropology, Baudelaire and Beethoven, the Psalms and Freud, Lewis Carroll, biology, Russian literature, astrophysics. The range was breathtaking. The focus was musical, undoubtedly: as a musician, few could touch him, then or now. But the wider vision was an intellectual feast which—like the symphonies of his beloved Mahler—seemed to have no limits.
It is tempting to think of Bernstein as an extreme exception, the ultimate "one-off," the kind of multi-gifted phenomenon who appears only once in a lifetime, comet-like across the sky of history. But that would be too easy. For he poses a discomforting challenge to any who dare call themselves educators. He seemed to be driven not simply by an ability to relate disparate topics, but by a tacit conviction that apparently unrelated fields of knowledge could and should be related. To him that was obvious. In the contemporary educational climate, it is not. Why not? At root, we can only assume, because the view that things are or can be connected, that Mozart might actually have something to do with politics, that solar physics might throw some light on Plato, depends on believing at some pre-theoretical level that we inhabit a universe and not a multiverse, that human culture is not the accidental conglomeration of zones of interest but is capable of at least some measure of unity. Could a teacher like Bernstein ever appear today? It is hard to imagine how, given that our schools and universities so often present a sorry picture of fracturing and specialisation which seems to mask a deep despair of ever believing that our lives together on this planet could have any kind of coherence.
Inevitably, this pushes us towards the realm which my other teacher inhabited, theology, whose place in the modern academy is, at the very least, to keep the question of the unity of knowledge alive. I don't know what Bernstein would have made of that suggestion. But I do know that he stares at me from my office wall as a disturbing witness, testifying to a vision we are losing at our peril.
Jeremy Begbie is Thomas A. Langford Research Professor in Theology at Duke University and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge. He specialises in the interplay between theology and music. He is author of Music, Modernity, and God: Essays in Listening.
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Image credit: Leonard Bernstein in rehearsal of his 'Mass', 1971. By Marion S. Trikosko. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
2 Responses to "Bernstein's disturbing vision"
Isn't "boundless curiosity" redundant? Give me capacious theology and curiosity without the bounding outline. Give me sunlight through barn slats. Give me a good mule and an acre of books.
Steve Whitlock, even if you do have a masters in English from UNC, I don't understand the complaint, nor do I see the supposedly-offending phrase appearing in the piece above. And surely this is beside the point, right? The question is whether your 'acre of books' coheres as a unified piece of land, or whether it is just a random collocation of scattered fragments of rubble from a building that no longer exists and cannot be rebuilt.


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2008 NFL Mock Draft with Fantasy Impact [Final Take]
by Jacob • April 25, 2008 • College Football • 0 Comments
With just 24 hours to go until the draft happens, I present my final mock draft. This draft presumes that we get some great fantasy football value out of the first round, but it's likely that many owners will play it safe or take big risks on some talent in the first. Here's how...Read more →


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Steady veteran Zach Johnson opened his 2014 campaign with a victory at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions at Kapalua.
Starting the week with rounds of 66 and 67 placed Johnson atop the leaderboard at the halfway point of the tournament. He struggled to a 74 during the third round, falling out of the lead with only the final round to play.
With strokes to make up, Johnson birdied three holes on his outward nine. Adding four more birdies on the inward nine gave Johnson a one stroke lead. No one could match his 19 under par total, giving Johnson the win!
Johnson relied on DryJoys Tour and StaSof during his winning performance.
The is Johnson's 11th career PGA Tour Victory.
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You may have been following this issue for the past two years, and then again you may not have. If you haven't, the city of Novato's Draft Housing Element was the result of two years of hard work by community, city staff and Novato City Council. Its changes to city zoning ordinances and site selections for affordable housing were designed to bring the city into compliance with California's housing laws and housing quota system as interpreted by the Department of Housing and Community Development.
Everybody piled on right after the document was sent to HCD in October in order to influence the state's decision about certifying Novato's housing element. The public record document for all third-party letters regarding Novato's Draft Housing Element is attached (Editor's note: I looks like it's blank, but there are 67 pages of letters there).
Sometimes a person can learn as much from analyzing the lineup for a baseball team or the roster for a football team as from watching the game itself. Rather than reading the entire stack of comment letters, you might just want to read what follows, a summary and a lineup of players for/against the Novato Draft Housing Element.
Then test your memory with this Novato Patch article about the HCD response to the Housing Element to see if you recognize any familiar plays.
All third-party letters except one were critical of the Housing Element, particularly of the five opportunity sites. The one positive letter was from the Novato Community Alliance. By way of disclaimer, I am a former president of NCA, and NCA supports the Housing Element.
The critical third-party letters were from affected neighbors of the opportunity sites, a part owner of one and nonprofits. Several letters came from Clausen Court neighbors. The most accusatory letter, signed by Michael Hooper of the Campus Property Group, was from part of the group that owns the site by Black John Road, asking that the entire site be rezoned for development — kind of an all-or-nothing approach. His was the one letter from the owner or part owner of a site.
Michael Hooper serves his own neighborhood in Central Marin very ably on the Larkspur Station Area Planning Citizens Advisory Committee regarding transit-oriented development, advocating a growth control plan making development dependent on the availability of mitigations for accompanying congestion. He seems to be on the opposite side of the table in Novato.
Many of the nonprofits alluded to Novato's supposed responsibility for subsidizing housing for allegedly 8,900 in-commuters earning less than $40,000. I have omitted analysis of the 13-page Public Advocates letter in the list below in the interest of brevity. The nonprofits' underlying premise appears to be that it would be a good idea for every low-income Novato in-commuter to live in Novato to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution.
This idea is NOT the basis for the RHNA numbers, however. Although the nonprofits may give a tepid endorsement for rezoning for the RHNA or for the affordable housing overlay, the writers then launch into a litany of criticisms. "Too small" and "too remote" were the most commonly repeated descriptions of the five opportunity sites, followed closely by "not dense enough," all eventually resulting in "not feasible."
The $64,000 Question: Too small and too remote and not feasible for whom?
The sheer number of groups weighing in underlines how Novato's business has been made the business of a much broader network that is following the progress of at least every jurisdiction in Marin County but most particularly San Rafael and Novato where developable land still exists.
Scan the list below; see if you recognize any player in the lineup. Stay tuned for the score for 2007-2014, but remember that the game never ends.
Stephanie Reyes, Program Director
Greenbelt Alliance
Not enough sites, sites listed "of questionable viability", 20 units/acre not dense enough, Site #3 is a greenfield site.
Dianne Spaulding, Executive Director
Nonprofit Housing Association of Northern California
Inadequate sites "according to many of the affordable housing developers in our membership" and opposition to the density of 20 units per acre.
Specific request to assemble for 7506 Redwood Blvd. (near Trader Joe's) and 1905 Novato Blvd. (Senior Access) with adjacent sites to make them more 'feasible'.
Refers questions to MCHAI Program Manager, Melody Lopez.
Sam Tepperman-Gelfant, Senior Staff Attorney
Public Advocates
13 pages of detailed arguments and citations worthy of an article all their own.
Margy Eller, President
League of Women Voters of Marin County
Links the 20 unit per acre density to crime hysteria. Suggests that Novato has not capped market-rate zoning at 20 units per acre and is therefore discriminating against affordable housing developers.
Marge Macris & Mike Daley, Co-chairs
Marin Environmental Housing Collaborative
Sent twice
Questions the calculation of unmet RHNA
Suggests careful review of five sites for feasibility
Lists MEHC participants:
- Ron Albert
- Juliette Anthony
- Roy Bateman (Marin County Community Development Agency)
- Gordon Bennett (Sierra Club Conservation Committee chair)
- Margot Biehle
- Greg Brockbank (Marin Law Center, former SR councilmember)
- Katie Crecelius (Novato Housing Coalition, SUNN)
- Mike Daley (EAH Housing)
- Kathleen Foote (a Trustee of Marin Community Foundation from 1994-2002)
- Robert Hickey (NPH)
- Carol Hovis (Marin Interfaith Council)
- Mayme Hubert
- Wendi Kallins
- Susan Kirsch
- Majorie Macris (former Planning Director for Marin County)
- Annette Rose (former Marin County Board of Supervisors)
- Mary Kay Sweeney (Executive Director of Homeward Bound of Marin)
- Todd Steiner (SPAWN)
- Sallyanne Wilson (former Marin Community Foundation staff, 17 years)
- Tom Wilson (former Canal Alliance and Canal Housing Alliance executive directors)
Stand Up for Neighborly Novato
Arguments reproduced with same word choice in multiple other letters
Suzanne Walker & Deacon Bernie O'Halloran, Co-chairs
Marin Organizing Committee, partnering with SUNN
"Community both needs and deserves more…."
Donn Davy, VP
Sustainable Novato
Too small, too remote
Nancy Kenyon, Executive Director
Fair Housing in Marin
More sites, too small and too remote
Michael Hooper
Campus Property Group (owners of Black John Road site)
No infrastructure existing
Extra restriction: 40% Very Low and 60% Low
Wants to rezone entire 44.5-acre property plus one more acre of the adjoining Wright property
Wants the 4-acre site to not be a fixed location
Says error to assume mixed retail and residential use
Asserts cannot develop the affordable housing without developing the entire property
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I write about video games: the industry and the culture.
Deep Silver's Zombie Bait edition of 'Dead Island: Riptide' has stirred up controversy, but does it reflect poorly on the video game industry?
Paul Tassi took some very harsh flack for his post on Deep Silver's "Zombie Bait" edition of Dead Island: Riptide which comes with a controversial torso statuette (which you can see on Tassi's post) of a rather gruesome female torso.
That flack was, unsurprisingly, over the top in ways that only commenters on the internet can dish out flack: neither helpful nor conducive to a sober discussion of, uhm, zombie torso statuettes.
Deep Silver apparently received quite a bit of negative feedback on the statue, and has issued this statement:
"We deeply apologise for any offense caused by the Dead Island Riptide 'Zombie Bait Edition,' the collector's edition announced for Europe and Australia. Like many gaming companies, Deep Silver has many offices in different countries, which is why sometimes different versions of Collector's Editions come into being for North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.
"For the limited run of the Zombie Bait Edition for Europe and Australia, a decision was made to include a gruesome statue of a zombie torso, which was cut up like many of our fans had done to the undead enemies in the original Dead Island.
"We sincerely regret this choice. We are collecting feedback continuously from the Dead Island community, as well as the international gaming community at large, for ongoing internal meetings with Deep Silver's entire international team today. For now, we want to reiterate to the community, fans and industry how deeply sorry we are, and that we are committed to making sure this will never happen again."
Tassi argues that the statue "is just fodder for those who claim that games A) are way too violent and B) treat women like objects" noting that "there's a difference between making a splash and embarrassing your entire industry."
He may have a point, especially with regard to the perception of violence in video games.
After all, we're already seeing the government push for a review of violent video games in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting, and it's not as though congress hasn't tried to clamp down on free speech before, even if the Supreme Court has made it quite clear that violence in video games is protected speech.
That being said, I'm not convinced that this reflects poorly on the video game industry itself.
That I personally find it distasteful (and I do) may be beside the point. The fact is, this gruesome bust is very much in keeping with a long history of slasher-horror kitsch and memorabilia that's disgusted and delighted fans and detractors of slasher films and video games for decades.
Take this movie poster for "Slumber Party Massacre II" from way back in 1987. It's a pretty good example of the genre and its marketing.
Sure, it's absolutely tasteless, and borders that uncomfortable line between horror and porn, but it's still very much of a distinct over-the-top style—a style that Deep Silver is certainly emulating with its zombie torso.
Now you could argue that the entire sexualized slasher genre is degrading to women, and that sex and violence should not be mixed so gratuitously, and you'd have a very good point. But I'm not certain at all that it reflects badly on the video game industry as a whole. Zombie and horror movies and video games are a niche of their own, and should be critiqued and judged independently of the film or video game industry writ large.
For my part, I think a better reaction from Deep Silver would have been to release a second bust, this time of a muscled, six-pack boasting and fully dismembered male torso.
If we want equality in video games (and I am a firm believer in sexual equality in video games and elsewhere, and do agree that the industry has a very long ways to go in its treatment and representation of women) than we should ask for—nay demand!—dismembered mannequins of both sexes.
After all, that's what we can expect from the game itself.
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There's nothing here that's even implied sexism. It's just a woman. If it were a man's torso, it would also have to be sexist, otherwise neither are.
I'm going to have to agree here. If we can say that a male torso would be perfectly fine, then there's really no argument to be made that a female torso is sexist. You can make the (fairly weak) argument that only having a female bust as opposed to a choice is sexist, but even then the issue with this should be a matter of taste, not one of sexism.
But it isn't a man's torso… I don't see how that point can be glossed over. Is it truly accidental that they choose a woman in a bikini? That's simply naive.
If, if if. There is no if, there is what was actually created.
It would not be sexist/sexism if you used a man's torso. Hell, it's more sexist that they ONLY include a woman's torso.
We're glossing over nothing. It's overblown for sensationalism.
But they didn't use a man's torso. That's like saying Duke Nukem wouldn't be sexist if he was a woman and all the strippers were men.
There is no if here. There is only what was actually done.
What was actually done was a creation of a piece of art, which while it might be tasteless, has nothing to do with the degradation of women or proving the superiority of men.
The if is a logical statement. If there was a man's torso instead of a woman's, does that make it sexist?
Well if the male torso had a bow tie on, Chippendale style… then you'd be in sexist territory.
So you're comparing male erotic dancing wear to normal female beach wear?
That type of talk is just wilfully ignorant. The thing in itself might not be necessarily sexist, but if you try to look at why they released it as it is, you can't help but think there was a reason why there's no male version. Maybe in an ideal world we could believe that they only had money for one kind of statue and a random-generator decided it will be a woman in a bikini, but not in real life. I don't think there was any hateful reason behind it, but even something relatively innocent like "a dude torso would be, like, totally gay" or "I guess the majority of people interested in this game are guys" is still sexism.


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Suzanne Collins' young adult novel, "The Hunger Games" makes its way to the big screen this weekend and if the advance audience tracking polls are to be believed, it's poised to become one of the biggest films of the year. I'm talking "Harry Potter" and "Twilight" big. That's okay by me because the film also happens to be pretty good.
The story takes place in a dystopian, post-civil war future. The country has disintegrated into a series of conquered districts struggling to survive. As a mark of dominance, the ruling government demands that each district send a young boy and girl to the Capitol each year for a televised fight to the death known as The Hunger Games. It's like "Survivor," except that the other contestants kill you rather than vote you off the island.
The story follows a girl from District 12 named Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence). She volunteers to compete in the games in place of her younger sister, who was initially selected. Along with the baker's son, Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) the two underdog contestants head to the Capitol to get some last minute lessons in fighting tactics and charm. In order to impress the TV audience, and thus increase their chances of survival, they pretend to be young lovers. The problem is that Katnis is already in love with a hunky boy back home (Liam Hemsworth). Things get complicated when the pretend romance starts to feel real. Remember, nobody is allowed to leave the Hunger Games arena until everybody else is dead.
That makes for a rather complex setup to the story. There were several moments during the screening of the film when I wondered if I would have been able to follow along if I hadn't read the books earlier. Collins' fans will also notice that there are many details that get glossed over because of the film's time constraints, but that's always the case when a popular novel is adapted for the big screen.
The film spends its time with the important stuff. The characters are well-drawn and Jennifer Lawrence, in particular, is superb playing the timid young heroine who catches fire and becomes a deadly force to be reckoned with. The love triangle gives us a genuinely heart-wrenching dilemma as we root for all of the young lovers. Finally, the arena gets half of the film's somewhat bloated running time, so there's plenty for action fans to cheer about.
Most of my critiques fall into the category of the film not matching the images that I had in my head. That's obviously a bit unfair to the filmmakers, although I do think that the production design of the Capitol is a bit silly. It's almost as if Dr. Seuss had been hired as the city's fascist, day glow stylist. Other than that, I am happily thrilled by this movie. "The Hunger Games" is fast-paced, exciting and filled with believable characters that will have you cheering. Most importantly for Lionsgate Films, this is a thrilling movie that left me hungry for the next adaptation of "The Hunger Games" trilogy.
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I'm flying by myself, so best if they are in crates. I can ship crates back to you. Landing at CA35 (San Rafael) but can deliver nearby, or land and drop off if needed.
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Once a network starts to grow beyond cozy boundaries, it becomes difficult to keep track of all its elements. And, it really doesn't matter whether you use DHCP to assign your addresses or do the job manually, which is not unusual on server networks.
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Push Process Wins Video Of The Year
On Friday September 12th during the 5th Annual Wakeboarding Magazine Wake Awards show, Push Process was victorious. After winning wakeworld.com's video of the year earlier in the month, the team was restless for the next step. And an answer to a question the production team asked themselves all year long. "Will we win movie of the year?"
Oakley wakeskater and Video Section of the year Winner Danny Hampson had this to say about the best video award. " Everybody worked so hard on this project and we saw our fair share of injuries. But the team stuck together and made it happen for each other. We did it"
Working with 2-time Video of the Year Director Justin Stephens was a treat for the riders. Since the inception of the idea to make a team movie, Justin was the number one requested filmer from everyone. It worked to their advantage as many of the riders landed new tricks for the 1st time ever.
The result was a timeless wakeboard, wakeskate, and travel film about eight of the most diverse riders in the industry. Featuring Keith Lyman, George Daniels, Danny Hampson, Amber Wing, Andrew Adkison, Dallas Friday, Jack Blodgett, and a standout performance by Aaron Rathy.
1242 Productions want to thanks its partners on the film: Alliance Wakeboard Magazine, MasterCraft Boat Company, CWB, and Video Action Sports distribution company.
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Push Process – Oakley / 1242 Productions
Director: Justin Stephens
Executive Producer: Matty Swanson
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WASHINGTON -- The bad news just keeps piling up for Obamacare.
For example, in today's top read, The Washington Post tells us that healthcare.gov is unlikely to be fixed this month after all.
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As the nation waits to learn how its political leaders will respond to a call to arms issued by President Barack Obama against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, one Jacksonville resident has issued his own call: Stay out of Syria.
On Sunday, Eric Alvarez – whose family fled the upheaval in their native El Salvador in the 1980s, when he was just a toddler – led a peaceful protest against the proposed war, saying there is no definitive evidence of the recent weapons attack in Damascus allegedly made by the Syrian government.
"They haven't given us details on the other hand, we have other sources that are giving us more detailed accounts and that it was actually the Syrian rebels that are the ones who set off the bombs," he pointed out as a handful of protesters marched in front of the Jacksonville Public Library, located on S. Jackson St.
Spurred by the effect of the Salvadoran Civil War on his own family, Alvarez said that over the years, he's "been doing a lot of reading about American involvement abroad," and as someone knows first-hand "of what happens when the United States government gets involved in internal affairs of other countries," he's wary of talk of war.
"My family emigrated because of the regime in El Salvador in the '80s, which repressed, brutalized and terrorized the population," he said.
The Salvadoran Civil War lasted from 1979 to 1992, a conflict between the Central American country's military-led government and a coalition of several left-wing guerilla groups. The United States provided aid to the military faction, which, according to the website www.novaonline.nvcc.edu, operated "death squads which killed anyone who looked Indian or may have been supporting the uprising. The killing became known as La Matanza (the Massacre), and left more than 30,000 people dead."
Studying the history of the Middle East, including Syria, "you see the same patterns (of internal conflict in that area) going on again and again," he pointed out.
"The big problem with Syria at the moment is that the government is funding Islamist fundamentalists who are pillaging churches – they're burning them, they're decapitating clergy, they're trying to impose Sharia law in places they've already captured, to a point where people can't speak openly abut their faith, they can't practice it openly," he said. "The biggest shame is that our government is now on the same side as Al Qaeda, the same ones that we were supposedly fighting against in Iraq.
"It's a slap in the face of all the soldiers, especially those who were killed (during Operation Operation Iraqi and Operation Enduring Freedom) – we are now giving (Islamic rebels) money, giving them arms so that they can turn around and someday use them on us again. It's just an insanity that the President is doing this," he said.
Particularly when recent polls reveal Americans are not in support of going to war.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll held in late August revealed that "most Americans still do not want to intervene in Syria's civil war" – a mid-month poll found that 91 percent did not want the U.S. to take action, but that number dropped to 80 percent, according to an Aug. 30 Reuters report.
Support "increased since the suspected chemical gas attack near Damascus," the report read.
The poll "speaks volumes," Alvarez said. "In general, we're tired of all these wars, we can't afford these wars. We've spent trillions of dollars in the course of 10-15 years, and we just don't have the money to do it."
And, like with the intervention by the U.S. government in his homeland, "we'll just create more problems than we'll solve," he said. "We try to put in people that we think that are better to our interests, but they end up wanting to do their own thing, and we have to go in and take them out, so there's another conflict. It's a cycle of violence that never seems to end."
"The last thing we need to do is get (involved in) it," said Huntsville resident Ivan Brooks, who carried a placard bearing the message "NO U.S. Intervention In Syria."
"We fought too many of these wars … the idea of nation-building, that we would go in there and change things … Afghanistan should have been a short, sharp lesson to the Taliban, instead in we tried to do what no conqueror has ever been able to do – from Alexander the Great to Ghengis Khan – we tried to remake the country," said Brooks, who served from 1997-2001 as part of the Seventh Marines.
By getting our country involved in Syria "will turn a relatively stable dictatorship into chaos," he added. "Libya is a good example of what will happen if we go into Syria."
Both he and Alvarez encouraged citizens to encourage their government leaders to vote against going to war.
"A lot of people think they can't do anything about it," but they can, Brooks said. "In the upcoming week, this is a chance to reply to our representatives and let them know how we feel. Show them what the polls are saying, and that the American people who oppose this war aren't wrong. More than any other war we fought, the rebels are so obviously the people we've been fighting the past 10 years."
"We do applaud the president's desire to have Congress vote on it (after it returns to work on Sept. 9), but I don't appreciate the fact that he has made a lot of statements that were either untrue or they didn't have enough evidence to be definitive, so seems like he's trying to lead the nation on in a certain direction without having some real facts," Alvarez said. "Write to your Congressman: Write to Jeb Hensarling and to our representatives; write to Senator Ted Cruz, to (John) Cornyn that we don't want this war."
While the desire to rush to Syria's aid with a show of military might is appealing to some, people need to look beyond an immediate answer and consider just how that country – and the Middle East – will be affected by U.S. Intervention, they added.
"The tragedy of it all is that (El Salvador) is now in complete shambles," Alvarez said.
"I was only two when my family left, but I have dozens of cousins who have come through here, (and hearing) the stories of why they left, it all just confirms my belief that American involvement in these countries only leads to poverty, to strife, to violence … it never solves the problems they set out to try to solve, but only creates more problems. War doesn't solve anything."
Brooks' wife is a native of Jordan, the daughter a retired brigadier general with Jordanian AF.
The situation in Syria "drives her crazy," he said, because of the instability that it has created. "Right now, two of her siblings have migrated to Canada, and we're working on citizenship for her parents here, just in case it does come to war."
Because "family has always supported the royal family, if there's a revolution in Jordan, people like (her parents) will be targeted," he said.
"I don't know … it's really going to be a mess."
Protesters decry US involvement with Syria
As the nation waits to learn how its political leaders will respond to a call to arms issued by President Barack Obama against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, one Jacksonville resident has issued his own call: Stay out of Syria.
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It's fifteen minutes before show time, and INXS guitarist Tim Farriss strolls over to a visitor in the band's dressing room at the Municipal Auditorium, in New Orleans. "Eric Clapton dies, right, and goes to heaven," he says, moving close to his listener and grinning expectantly. "He meets Saint Peter at the gate. Saint Peter says, 'Come on in. I'll show you around.' So Clapton is looking around, and he sees a group of three people together. He asks Saint Peter, 'Who's that?' Saint Peter says, 'Why, that's Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon . . . and Bono.' Clapton looks at him, amazed, and says, 'But Bono's not dead.' Saint Peter says, 'Shhhhh. That's God – he just likes to pretend he's Bono!' "Farriss crumbles into delighted laughter.
INXS has been on the road in the States for about a week now, and this joke has been making the rounds among the members of the band and their entourage. While not exactly a candidate for an updated edition of Freud's Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, the story it tells is nonetheless revealing.
Just four dates into the tour, it has become clear that eleven years after the band originally formed in Sydney, Australia, INXS is the newest Next Big Thing. The band's sixth album, Kick – powered by steamy, insinuating hits like "Need You Tonight" and "Devil Inside" – has been riding high on the charts since it was released last fall, and the band's audiences have been larger and more frenzied than ever before in this country.
But as INXS prepares to seize its moment, the group's relentless good times are haunted by a gnawing anxiety. The latest chapter in the six-man band's steady rise has been accompanied by – and is, in part, dependent on – the emergence of singer Michael Hutchence as a sex symbol and media personality, a first-rate crotch throb sought after by fashion magazines, film directors and a universe of teenage girls. Hutchence's starring role in the film Dogs in Space – albeit as a heroin user whose primary activity is crawling around a ramshackle house – lent further credence to the perception of him as a talent independent of the band.
The members of INXS – in addition to Hutchence and Tim Farriss, the group consists of keyboardist Andrew Farriss, guitarist-saxophonist Kirk Pengilly, bassist Garry Gary Beers and drummer Jon Farriss – came together in high school and have remained a tightly knit and unchanging unit ever since. All the members of the band write songs, though Hutchence is the primary lyricist and Andrew Farriss writes most of the music. Tim, Andrew and Jon are brothers – the band's original name was the Farriss Brothers – so at an elemental level the group's ties are bred in the blood. Toughened by years together on the road and blunt in a distinctly Australian way, the boys in INXS don't give much play to airs or pretense. So beyond saying something about the burgeoning success of INXS, the joke also seems an indirect message to Michael.
A few days later, the band plays a date in Dallas. Although plagued by sound problems, the show is a triumph. Reunion Arena is packed with well-scrubbed youths, who respond with deafening enthusiasm to the band's twenty-four-song set. So the postconcert mood on the bus is high-spirited, with beers being cracked open, Bryan Ferry's Bête Noire pumping out of the sound system and the band planning a celebratory night on the town.
Amid the revelry, Hutchence unfurls and passes around a handsome drawing of him that was done by a female fan – and takes a good-natured, though pointed, ribbing. "What a wonderful picture of Jim Morrison," Kirk quips, noting the resemblance between the slender, leonine Hutchence and the Lizard King of an earlier generation – a comparison the singer finds embarrassing. "And look, she's even given him muscles!"
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Rectus muscle and visceral peritoneum closure at cesarean delivery and intraabdominal adhesions
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of the rectus muscle and visceral peritoneum closure at cesarean delivery on adhesions.We performed a secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study of women who underwent first repeat cesarean delivery. Surgeons scored the severity and location of adhesions. Records were abstracted to assess previous surgical techniques.The original cohort included 173 patients. Rectus muscle closure was associated with fewer combined filmy and dense adhesions overall (27.5% vs 46%; P = .04) and fewer dense adhesions overall (17.5% vs 46%; P = .001; adjusted odds ratio, [aOR], 0.24; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.09-0.65), particularly from fascia to omentum (aOR, 0.08; 95% CI, 0.007-0.82). Visceral peritoneum closure was associated with increased dense fascia-to-omentum adhesions (aOR, 15.78; 95% CI, 1.81-137.24).Closure of the rectus muscles at cesarean delivery may reduce adhesions, and visceral peritoneum closure may increase them. Surgical techniques at cesarean delivery should be assessed independently, because they may have opposite effects on adhesion formation.
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Cloud Atlas, the much anticipated sci-fi epic from acclaimed filmmakers Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, and Andy Wachowski, opens nationwide today. In West Des Moines, it's showing at the multi-plex theater at Jordan Creek Town Center.
The film – which features A-listers Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant and Susan Sarandon among its ensemble cast – explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future.
Once you've seen the movie, give us a short review in the comments. Worth the hype?
Critics are raving, if somewhat mystified. A Wall Street Journal blogger said "the movie is something else, although exactly what is tricky to say …" A headline on Huffington Post said, "Cloud Atlas Says Little But Does So Beautifully."
Roger Ebert gave it 4 stars:
"... What a film this is! And what a demonstration of the magical, dreamlike qualities of the cinema. And what an opportunity for the actors. And what a leap by the directors, who free themselves from the chains of narrative continuity. And then the wisdom of the old man staring into the flames makes perfect sense."
Century 20 Jordan Creek and XD has daily showings at 11 a.m., 2:45 p.m., 6:45 p.m. and 10 p.m.


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Dorian Harper, the Monroe man charged with child abuse after a boy under his care was found bound to a porch with a dead chicken tied around his neck, has been fired from his job as an emergency room nurse.
Harper, 57, no longer works at Carolinas Medial Center-Union, said Kevin McCarthy, a spokesman for Carolinas HealthCare System, which owns the Monroe facility. McCarthy declined to give other details Tuesday.
Harper was arrested Nov. 7. A Union County sheriff's deputy found an 11-year-old handcuffed to the porch of a farmhouse owned by Harper and Wanda Lawson, a former child-abuse investigative supervisor for the county's Department of Social Services. Lawson was not at the house when the boy was found.
DSS fired Lawson last week, accusing her of violating her public duties to protect children, including the ones in her home. In his firing letter to Lawson, Richard Matens, the county's executive director of Human Services, described the conditions at the home "appalling."
The boy handcuffed to the porch was wearing a T-shirt and jeans when he was found. Temperatures were in the mid-20s at the time.
Authorities removed five children, ages 7-14, from the home. Four of those children had been adopted by Lawson. Harper and Lawson were the 11-year-old's legal guardians. All five children remain under the care of the Davidson County DSS and were interviewed by investigators last week.
The incident has caused an international sensation and set off several investigations on how Union and Gaston counties, which both placed children in the Harper/Lawson home, operate their foster care and adoption programs.
Meanwhile, Union County Sheriff Eddie Cathey said Tuesday that the 3-week-old case continues to draw up to 10 members of his staff each day. Cathey said he and his department leaders were to meet Tuesday afternoon, with the goal of possibly releasing a report after Thanksgiving.
Cathey said the focus remains broad, including how all five children in the house were treated.
"We're looking at the events of the morning, the events of the past, all those things that led up to our officer finding that boy," he said.
Harper and Lawson, who were licensed foster parents for more than a decade, appear to have been given custody of the 11-year-old seven or eight years ago.
Michael Harper-Lawson, 27, an adopted son of Lawson who lives in South Carolina, says he lived under the same roof with the 11-year-old for about two years. He described the boy as emotionally disturbed, abusive to the family's animals and prone to threats.
Harper-Lawson and relatives of the boy's biological family speculate that the child was forced to wear the dead chicken because he had been accused of killing it.
The boy's biological mother, who lives in Charlotte, said Lawson often blamed her son for "repeatedly" killing animals. She said Lawson once sent her a photograph of her son holding up a dead turkey that Lawson said he had killed. She said her son, who was crying in the photo, later told her he didn't do it.
"I told Wanda, 'If he's such a bad kid and he's killing all these animals, why is he still in your house? Why isn't he getting help?'"
Day-to-day supervision
Harper and Lawson received their foster home license in 1998. Like all applicants, they had to take 30 hours of training and prove they could support themselves without relying on the monthly foster payments.
Both Lawson and Harper underwent background checks. Their house had to be inspected for safety, and every child had to have a bed.
Union County DSS oversaw the foster home until 2003; Gaston County DSS took over supervision until the couple's license expired in 2010.
According to state records, foster care monthly payments today range from $475 to $634 a child, depending on age. Children adopted through the state program qualify for the same payments.
In 1998, Union County placed Michael Harper-Lawson and his sister under the couple's care. Lawson adopted them two years later. Harper's name doesn't appear on the adoption decree; Lawson is listed as a single mother.
A total of four other kids placed in the home as foster children eventually were adopted by Lawson in 2002, 2005 and 2009. Michael Harper-Lawson said at least six other foster kids came into the home while he lived there. They were either returned to their families or DSS custody.
According to state law, DSS inspectors must make monthly visits to foster homes to check on children and quarterly inspections to ensure foster homes are in proper condition.
According to the state, the last foster child left the Harper/Lawson home in May 2009. The couple's foster license expired in December 2010.
In the 12 years Lawson and Harper served as foster parents, the state said "no adverse licensing actions occurred."
The Observer asked Union and Gaston counties for a range of information pertaining to the case, from the number of foster children placed in the home to DSS reports from any visits.
Union spokesman Brett Vines said much of the information requested is covered under the state's privacy laws pertaining to foster care and adoptions.
Asked if Union County DSS had any indication that Harper and Lawson sought psychological help for the boy or requested that he be removed from their home, Vines said the agency would not be in the position to know.
Gaston County Health and Human Services spokeswoman Shannon Clubb said her agency had sent the Observer's request to the attorney general's office to see what the county could make available. She said she had not heard back by late Tuesday afternoon.
Meanwhile, Union leaders pledged to take a stronger hand in overseeing the county's DSS.
"No one is more outraged about this than the board of county commissioners," said Jonathan Thomas, a member of the county's governing board, in a video placed on You Tube.
Next month, he said, the commission will vote to dissolve a DSS advisory board set up to serve as a liaison between commissioners and DSS. The goal: to give commissioners closer day-to-day links to the agency's operation.
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Today is Tuesday, October 23, the 297th day of 2012. There are 69 days left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:
1596 - Turks under Mohammed III defeat Austrian Archduke Maximillian's forces near Erlau, Hungary.
1641 - Great Irish Massacre occurs after discovery of conspiracy against British.
1764 - Hector Munro's British forces defeat Nawab of Oudh at Buxar, Bengal.
1917 - U.S. troops see first action in World War I near Luneville, France.
1942 - British Eighth Army attacks Axis forces to begin Battle of El Alamein in Egypt during World War II.
1944 - Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
1953 - Federal Constitution of Rhodesia and Nyasaland goes into effect.
1954 - Britain, France, United States and Soviet Union agree to end occupation of Germany.
1956 - Anti-Communist revolution breaks out in Hungary. It is crushed by a Soviet invasion on November 4.
1958 - Soviet Union approves loan for Aswan Dam in Egypt.
1962 - Soviet Union warns that a U.S. blockade of arms shipments to Cuba may risk a thermonuclear war.
1969 - Laotian officials report that fresh North Vietnamese troops have reached the Plaine des Jarres and clashed with government troops on their border.
1973 - Israeli military command announces that Israel and Egypt have agreed to new cease-fire in Middle East war.
1983 - Suicide attackers blow up U.S. Marine headquarters building at Beirut Airport, Lebanon, and nearby French headquarters with bomb-laden trucks, killing 241 U.S. Marines and 58 Frenchmen.
1988 - Long-awaited Soviet election reform calls for choice of candidates but limits sharply what they can advocate.
1989 - Tens of thousands of Hungarians demand end to communism on anniversary of 1956 uprising.
1991 - The four warring factions in Cambodia sign a peace treaty in Paris paving the way for the return of refugees and democratic elections.
1992 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces the Vietnamese government will turn over all documents, photographs and personal effects of U.S. personnel it collected in the Vietnam War.
1993 - Irish Republican Army bomb kills 10 people in Belfast.
1994 - A Tamil rebel suicide bomber at an election rally in Colombo, Sri Lanka, kills at least 50 people, including Gamini Dissanayake, opposition candidate for president.
1995 - After a meeting in New York, Russian President Boris Yeltsin announces accord with U.S. President Bill Clinton that Russian troops would help enforce peace in Bosnia.
1996 - A historian reveals that the Swiss bank accounts of presumed Holocaust victims were used to settle Switzerland's postwar compensation disputes with Poland and Hungary.
1997 - South Africa's Nelson Mandela receives a hero's welcome in Libya, and calls for the United Nations to lift sanctions that are harming "our African brothers and sisters."
1998 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat agree on a breakthrough land-for-peace West Bank accord after eight days of negotiations in the United States.
1999 - Illinois' George Ryan pays the first visit to communist Cuba by a U.S. governor since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution, declaring he has come "to build bridges between people."
2001 - Indonesia's parliament passes a bill granting the rebellious province of Irian Jaya sweeping autonomy, a greater share of resource revenues and a new name — Papua.
2002 - British police detain Abu Qatada, a fugitive Muslim cleric who allegedly was an influential supporter of the al-Qaida terrorist network.
2004 - Suspected Islamic militants kill 16 people heading to a soccer match in a pre-dawn ambush south of Algeria's capital — the first bloodshed since the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
2005 - Hurricane Wilma punishes Mexico's Caribbean coastline for a second day, ripping away storefronts, peeling back roofs and forcing tourists and residents trapped in hotels and shelters to scramble to higher floors. At least seven people are killed.
2006 - Police in Hungary fire tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons to disperse protesters in anti-government demonstrations coinciding with the nation's commemoration of the 50th anniversary of its uprising against Soviet rule.
2007 - NASA's space shuttle Discovery and a crew of seven rocket into orbit in pursuit of the international space station, where a formidable construction job awaits them.
2008 - A Paris court convicts nine people of charges linked to financing and associating with a terror group, including Safe Bourada, a French-Algerian who admitted forming an Islamic group that called for armed jihad in France.
2009 - Top NATO and United Nations officials signal they may request more international troops to join American forces in Afghanistan as the top U.S. defense official said President Barack Obama is still weeks away from deciding on a shift in war strategy.
2010 - A U.S.-born spokesman for al-Qaida urges Muslims living in the United States and Europe to carry out attacks there, calling it a duty and an obligation.
2011 - Cries of panic and horror fill the air as a 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes eastern Turkey, killing at least 138 people as buildings pancaked and crumpled into rubble. The death toll was expected to rise as rescuers sifted through the rubble and reached outlying villages.
Today's Birthdays:
Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader (1844-1885); Johnny Carson, former U.S. "Tonight Show" host (1925-2005); Pele, Brazilian soccer star (1940--); Michael Crichton, U.S. author (1942--2008); Ang Lee, Taiwanese film director (1954--); Weird Al Yankovic, U.S. musical parodist (1959--).
Thought for Today:
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack — Voltaire, French author and philosopher (1694-1778).


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CONNEAUT — Geraldine M. "Gerry" Davin, 81, of Conneaut, died Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012.
Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated 11 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 20th, at St. Mary Catholic Church, 480 State St., Conneaut, with Father Philip Miller officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery.
Friends may call at Marcy Funeral Home and Cremation Center, 208 Liberty St., Conneaut, on Monday, Nov. 19th, from 5 to 8 p.m.